Episode 500 Celebration With Engineer Dennis Moody, TikTok Artist Accounts, And Samsung-Google Immersive Audio

Can you believe that it’s Episode #500 of my Podcast? To celebrate I have my very first guest from Episode 1, engineer Dennis Moody. Dennis is one of the few engineers who’s as comfortable in a recording studio as he is in a live concert setting. Likewise, he’s just as comfortable mixing a rock, R&B, […]

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Is The Studio Lifestyle Hazardous To Your Health?

Anyone who has worked in the studio professionally either as a musician, engineer or producer knows that the hours can be long and you can go for days, weeks and months without a break. Most of us do this willingly, at least at the beginning of a career, but there’s something that we all know […]

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New Music Gear Monday: HoRNet 80Verb Reverb Plugin

One of the interesting things about modern plugin development is that, as its become more sophisticated, sometimes it fails to duplicate the sound that we really liked back when digital technology was in its primitive stages. Take reverb for example. The original Lexicon 224 and 480, and the EMT 250 are sometimes held as the […]

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A Look At Online Ai Mastering And Its Limitations

If there’s one place where Ai has made great strides in recent years, it’s mastering. This excerpt from The Musician’s Ai Handbook takes a look at the various online Ai mastering services, as well as some of the limitations they currently have. “Like mixing, mastering costs vary quite a bit. A job by an A-list […]

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New Music Gear Monday: LANDR Mastering Plugin

If you would have asked me 5 years ago about using an online mastering service, I would have told you to dig deep into your pocket to pay for a real engineer instead. At the time, the results were okay, but not in the same ballpark. Today the services have improved greatly thanks to the […]

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My Awesome Mix Workshop Starts On Monday

My free 3 day Awesome Mix Workshop will provide solutions to your most common mix problems. It starts on Monday December 4th at 4PM Eastern. I’ll show you how to. . And so much more. Click here to register (be sure to select Register to all dates under Dates), but don’t wait too long because […]

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How Ai Music Generation Works

When I was writing my latest book, The Musician’s Ai Handbook, one question that I received quite often was one that I had taken somewhat for granted. “How does Ai music generation actually make music?” came up repeatedly, so I did some research and it ended up as a section of the book. Here’s the […]

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New Music Gear Monday: ReLab QuantX Room Simulator Plugin

My first job in Los Angeles was working for Everything Audio, a pro audio equipment dealer. We had the latest of everything, and of course, engineers and producers would want to try out expensive pieces of gear before they took the buying plunge. One day I found myself going to Crystal Studios (once a major […]

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Introducing The Musician’s Ai Handbook

I’m pleased to announced that my new Musician’s Ai Handbook is now available in both print and ebook versions. This comprehensive guide (already #1 on Amazon – thank you everyone!) shows musicians, artists, songwriters, producers, and anyone in the music business how to use artificial intelligence as a highly creative tool to generate new ideas, […]

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Plasma Walls Might Be The Sound Absorption Breakthrough We’ve Been Waiting For

Acoustic designers are very good at creating wonderful listening environments, and the techniques they use are not secrets. When it comes down to it, it’s all about absorbing frequencies in a way that provides an even response over a given reverb time. That said, an acoustician’s basic design component is sound absorption material, and while […]

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New Music Gear Monday: AIR Music Tech Jura Chorus Plugin

I think without exception, everyone fell in love with the chorus effect the very first time they heard it on Roland instruments and amplifiers in the 1980s. It was rich, it was new, and it was an effect that you wanted to use on everything – and people did, at least for a while. Since […]

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Who Created Flanging? It’s Complicated

In the past, whenever I’ve been asked to explain the origins of the flanging effect, I’d respond that it came from the fact that you’d slow down one of the three tape machines needed for the original effect by putting your finger on the tape flange. . .but it was John Lennon who actually named […]

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New Music Gear Monday: Foleysoft Footsteps Sample Player

If you do sound design along with your music work, you’re going to find this week’s feature a big time saver. It’s the Footsteps sample player from Foleysoft, an app designed to get you out of the foley pit and sound designing in record time. Footsteps is a sample library designed to work with Native […]

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Maybe Those Pricey Apple Cables Are Worth It After All

When it comes to connecting cables and adapters, Apple cables have always been way more expensive than the alternatives that you could buy online – sometimes by as much as 10 times. “Cables are cables” I hear you say, and in some cases that’s definitely true, but in other cases, not so much. The fact […]

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New Music Gear Monday: Heritage Audio R.A.M. 1000 Monitor Controller

Every studio needs a monitor controller, and while most computer audio interfaces have a very simple one included, many times it’s either clunky to use or doesn’t have the necessary features that a pro studio needs. An easy upgrade to almost any playback system is a dedicated monitor controller, and the new Heritage Audio R.A.M. […]

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