Dave Pensado explains how he treats the relative level of instruments in a mix to bring out certain emotions or styles for the listener in the 38th Into The Lair segment from Pensado’s Place. Note: The examples are in mono to better hear the level changes between instruments.

An unusual and extremely powerful 3D MIDI controller from Keith mcMillen Instruments. Velocity, pressure and location sensors give you massive amounts of control potential – watch the review for more information.

Showing how to setup the new Maschine 1.8 feature that allows you to control the transport section of Logic while still in Maschine mode as a plugin.

In the 85th episode of Pensado’s Place, Dave and Herb are joined by mix master Mike Shipley! Mike was in the studio or behind the board for some of the greatest albums from acts like Queen, Keith Urban, AC/DC, Def Leppard, Van Halen, Aerosmith, Tom Petty, Tim McGraw, Maroon 5, Faith Hill, Nickelback, Green Day,…

Mixing engineer Dave Pensado shows you techniques for dealing with pads in a mix.

Checking out a very dope EQ plugin from Fabfilter called Pro-Q, this plugin is easily my favorite EQ plugin around. Very nice interface, very smooth sound, and easy to use yet still very powerful.