An Audio Masterclass website visitor has a dilemma, and a lot of money to spend. Which loudspeakers will serve him best as studio monitors?

In theory, the phase button is a button you should never need to press. So why is it there?

Mix engineers work with music and sound, don't they? So how would a copy of the lyrics be useful?

Still monitoring on the best loudspeakers money can buy? Perhaps you need something a little more mediocre.

Are you guilty of recording cliches? Do you do things because you've seen other people doing it like that? Or do you decide for yourself what's best?

YouTube is full of advice on audio and recording. Some of it good, some of it bad, some of it adding more confusion than enlightenment.

You're trying to get a decent recording, but your singer is doing really strange things with the microphone. What do you do?

You're recording to a click track, but the drummer just can't hit the beat. What can you do?

How do you describe a microphone's position in relation to the voice or instrument it is recording or amplifying? Perhaps we need a new word in our vocabulary.

A seemingly simple question that perplexes many newcomers to audio and recording...