Acoustic guitar can be a challenging instrument to record and mix, especially in the home recording studio. Every music producer and engineer has their own preference for microphone placement, mic choice, and mixing technique. Getting the right acoustic guitar sound recording take loads of set up time. In this video/screencast, I’ll show you how to mic an acoustic guitar for a clear and full-bodied recording and set up your tracks in Pro Tools 8.

This screencast tutorial will show you how to run instruments from Reason 4.0 on individual tracks in Pro Tools 8. The way we do this is to use the built in Pro Tools plugin, Rewire. Rewire allows you to map the channels in the Reason interface with your tracks in Pro Tools. This is a true killer combination for music production. Using Reason with Pro Tools gives you the utmost flexibility to create, mix, and master your songs beautifully.

Here’s a video interview with David Eun, the VP of strategic partnerships at Google, talking about Google’s role in the online music world, YouTube, and partnerships with music publishers. It’s clear that video is the point where Google taps into the music industry with their control of YouTube. Check out the video below to hear about music and online video from the search giant.

Today, I am happy to introduce the first official Serve The Song video screencast. It’s a short video showing you how to convert a loss-less audio file to a high-quality mp3 file using iTunes. The goal is slim down the file size of a song file while maintaining as much sound quality as possible and encode a 320 kbps mp3 file. Included in this post is additional information on mp3 file size, and how mp3 compression works.