LUFS are a way of measuring loudness in your audio production. Let's find out why they're important.

The Link Channels feature in Cubase is a great time saver, enabling you to add inserts or change settings for multiple channels in the MixConsole, rather than individually. You can choose which parameters to link, while using a VCA fader allows you to adjust the overall volume of the linked channels, but still adjust each individually. Quick link groups is an even faster way of letting you make small changes to multiple channels. Linking channels is yet another facility for quickly and easily controlling your mix in Cubase.

In this episode, LA-based producer Eric Valentine (Queens Of The Stone Age, Slash) recreates the guitar sound from QOTSA's unique 2002 album, Songs for the Deaf. We look at every link in the chain from tuning and guitar choice through to amp settings, pedals, mic selection and post-processing.

Trouble viewing? Try on a laptop or desktop computer. Grammy-winning producer/engineer Vance Powell (Jack White, Seasick Steve, Chris Stapleton) welcomes us to Sputnik Sound in Nashville to show us how he recorded a track for rock act Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown.
Over the course of this in-depth video tutorial Vance explains his decisive production approach and deconstructs the track ‘Loaded Dice & Buried Money’, demonstrating the recording and mixing techniques employed to craft a huge rock sound from a band playing together in a room.

We meet a living legend of the audio industry, Rupert Neve. In this video, we get into some of the technical detail behind Mr Neve's iconic designs. We talk transformers, software modelling and get the story of how he created the first high-Q equaliser.

Watch producer/engineer Jacknife Lee (The Killers, U2) record Two Door Cinema Club and the London Metropolitan Orchestra through Apollo X audio interfaces and Unison™-enabled UAD Powered Plug-Ins as they perform the track, “Sun", at legendary AIR Studios in London.