In this video I’m digging into a handful of Studio One recording settings that are kind of hidden, but can seriously change how you track audio. A lot of people just click somewhere on the timeline and hit the white record button—and yeah, that works—but Studio One has tools like pre-record, pre-count, pre-roll, auto punch, and (in Studio One 7) post-roll that make sessions smoother and help you stop missing cues. I’m demonstrating everything with my Fender Strat running through my pedalboard into my amp cab in the closet, miked with an NT2A, so you’re hearing real-world tracking the whole time. I show you how to enable pre-record audio input in Preferences (and why it can be a lifesaver if you forget to hit record), plus how pre-count lets you place the cursor exactly where you want to start and still get a lead-in measure. Then we get into auto punch using a loop region so you can fix mistakes fast without redoing the whole take—and I show how post-roll and pre-roll give you breathing room before and after the punch so it feels way less “strict.” Finally, I break down record modes like Replace vs Takes to Layers for comping, and I cover input quantize (with a correction: it applies to MIDI tracks—hit Q after recording to quantize audio).