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A Look At What People Pawn
Everyone hits a rough financial stretch at some point in their life when you need a quick infusion of cash to fend off the wolf at the door. For many, that quick cash comes by way of the pawn shop. We’ve all heard about music and audio gems that have been found in an out […]
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Remembering New York City’s 48th Street Music Row
A recent article in The New Yorker brought back a ton of memories about how cool it was to be a musician in New York (even if you were only visiting) at one time in what seems like forever in the past. That was a time when the mecca of music stores was centered at […]
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New Music Gear Monday: Updated PreSonus FaderPort Production Controller
There once was a time when an engineer didn’t feel comfortable unless there were faders in front of him or her. Those days have largely passed since now even hardened “classic” engineers are okay with a wide range of controllers. Still, there are those times when having even one fader can be useful, and the […]
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Relicing Comes To Acoustic Guitars, But Is That A Good Thing?
Taking a new electric guitar and making it look old, or “relicing,” has been around for a while and is not without controversy. Is it being done to fool people into thinking that’s it’s an original model so they’ll pay more? Is it to replicate the feel of an older instrument? It’s had a lot […]
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Download VEVA Sound’s Free SCP Studio Collect Metadata Tracking Plugin
The digital world that we live in presents a big problem for artists, labels, producers, engineers, and session players, and that’s getting paid and receiving credit for the work they’ve created. Even though a song is being streamed from the likes of Spotify, Apple Music or any of the other dozens of streaming platforms doesn’t […]
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New Music Gear Monday: Flock Audio PATCH Digital Patchbay
One of the things that most of us hate about the studio is having to connect gear via a patchbay. It’s a necessary evil that’s been with us since the phone company started about a hundred years ago, but it’s prone to corroded connections, intermittent patch cords, and general time-consuming setup on a large session. […]
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A Look Inside Some World-Class Studios With Mike Rodriguez And Spaces
It often happens that we read about a great studio somewhere in the world, and most of us are interested to see what it looks like inside. The problem is that a Google search will find us some pictures that usually don’t give us a feel for what the facility and the people that run […]
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New Music Gear Monday: Avantone Pro CLA-10 Nearfield Monitor
For about 20 years the Yamaha NS-10 was the standard monitor found in almost any studio. An untold number of hits were recorded on the speakers during that time, so it came as a major shock when Yamaha discontinued the model in 2001 as the wood pulp used in making the drivers became more difficult […]
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The Hank Marvin Multi-Head Echo Trick
Guitarist Hank Marvin has been a huge influence on top British guitar players like Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler and Jeff Beck, who in turn became huge influencers on generations of guitar players that followed them. While Hank is a great player, one of the things that separates him from everyone else is the unique ambience […]
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How A Hard Drive Stores Your Music
Our electronic lives are based around a piece of electronics that most of us take for granted until it stops working. That’s the hard drive that stores all the data that we base our music around. The hard drive is an extremely complex piece of gear both electronically and mechanically though, and just how much […]
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New Music Gear Monday: Tonestrum TRAVELER Doppler Effect Plugin
Anyone that’s ever tried to manually create a Doppler effect simulation will know that it’s way easier said than done. It seems like a little panning, automated EQ, pitch change and ambience and you’ll have it, but it’s way more complicated than that. That’s why the new Tonstrum TRAVELER plugin is so cool. It precisely models […]
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New Music Gear Monday: Slate Digital VMS ML-2 Modeling Microphone
Modeling technology has become pervasive in the audio world and has reached the point where it sounds so good that hardly anyone even blinks an eye anymore at a product that contains it. One of the last bastions for modeling has been microphones though, since that always seemed like hallowed ground by the pros. Those […]
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The Fender Jazzmaster Turns 60
Another classic instrument has flew past the half-century mark as the iconic Fender Jazzmaster celebrates it’s 60th birthday. Like the Strat and Les Paul, the Jazzmaster was once thought of as almost a product-line miss as interest was lukewarm at best. It’s now enjoying a massive revival though, and if you watch just about any […]
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New Music Gear Monday: Your Heaven Audio CloseUp Miking System
Acoustic stringed instrument players have always suffered from amplification problems in a live environment. Place a microphone on the instrument and you’ll get at least some change in tonal quality and usually a lot of leakage, regardless of the quality of the microphone that you use. Resort to a pickup and the instrument no longer […]
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My Top 10 Go-To Plugins – 2018 Edition
I often get asked what plugins I regularly use, so a few years ago I decided to share my plugin thoughts with a personal Top 10 list. Here’s my edition for 2018, which isn’t all that different from last year except that it has fewer compressors, since I’ve found myself using less and less compression […]
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