Jordan Mitchell

Track templates are pre-configured session files in your DAW that hold your favorite tracks, plugins, buss routing, and settings ready to go. Instead of rebuilding the same setup every time you start a new song, you load a template and start creating in minutes. I built my first template eight years ago and immediately saved … Read more

If you’ve ever heard an ugly crackle, pop, or full audio dropout during a recording session, chances are your buffer size is the culprit. I spent the first two years of my production journey blaming my audio interface, my cables, and even my monitors, until I finally understood what buffer size actually does. Once I … Read more

If your DAW session looks like a wall of unmapped tracks, you are not alone. I rebuilt my first 60-track mix from scratch twice because I could not remember what anything was routed to. That pain is exactly why learning how to organize a DAW session with buses and groups matters long before you ever … Read more

Yes, freezing a track saves CPU. When I freeze a track in Ableton Live, the software renders the entire output of that track to a temporary audio file and disables every instrument and effect on it, then plays back that rendered file instead of doing real-time processing. This single action usually drops my CPU load … Read more

If you’ve ever played a guitar or sung into a microphone and heard your own voice arrive a fraction of a second late, you’ve experienced plugin latency. I ran into this problem constantly during my first year of recording, and it drove me crazy until I figured out what was actually happening inside my DAW. … Read more