An Audio Masterclass website visitor wants to know how loud the bass should be, in percentage terms.

Microphones are the most inconsistent products in the whole of audio (apart from loudspeakers that is!). But why do they sound different? Isn't there such a thing as the perfect mic?

An Audio Masterclass website visitor asks what are the first and last things you should do in a mixing session? Well, that's not the average question, but we do have some answers...

Sound for theatre drama productions can be made much better through simple loudspeaker placement techniques.

Microphone pops are an unpleasant side effect of recording. It's best to avoid them in the first place, but what if someone sends you a poppy vocal recording to fix?

So you don't want to use a plug-in EQ. You want good old-fashioned hardware muscle to handle the frequency balancing labor. So where to go?

Should you judge your recordings and mixes purely on what you hear from your monitors, or would an equalizer in the monitoring chain help?