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Tik Tok, Singing While Playing, And Reverb.com Founder David Kalt On My Latest Inner Circle Podcast
My guest on the podcast this week is David Kalt, who launched the super popular gear site Reverb.com in 2013 after growing frustrated with the process of buying and selling guitars on eBay. To get it started, David raised more than $47 million in funding from investors ranging from Cheap Trick’s Rick Nielsen and country star Brad Paisley […]
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Is Giving The Audience Control Over A Concert Mix A Good Idea?
When Sir Elton John hits the stage Amsterdam’s Ziggo Dome for the first show of his farewell tour, the audience will be given a unique ability. Thanks to wearable tech from PEEX (PErfect EXperience) that ticketholders can rent, they’ll be able to give themselves a custom mix. The question is, is this really a good […]
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Do Your Speakers Really Need To Be Isolated?
Through the years I’ve learned a lot about everything audio from some great teachers – wisdom that I’ve passed on in many of my books as well. One piece of acoustic info that seems to be taken as a fact industry-wide is that your listening experience can be greatly improved by isolating your speakers from […]
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Scientists Create The Loudest Sound Ever Made, And That Will Ever Be Made
There are a lot of things that are pretty loud. Being on stage or in the studio in the middle of a blast of feedback over your headphones or in-ears; playback during a crazy hip-hop session with the monitor control and subs on 10; standing next to the siren of a fire truck; the blast […]
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New Music Gear Monday: Universal Audio Capitol Chambers Plugin
The right reverb sound is something that we take for granted when we have a good one available, and search endlessly for when we don’t. Many have called the sound of the chambers at Capitol Records as the best in the world, but unless you were mixing at Capitol Studios in Hollywood, it was beyond […]
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NBC Supervising Sound Editor Robert Siciliano On My Latest Inner Circle Podcast
My guest on the podcast this week is Robert Siciliano, who started as a music recording engineer, but by almost a quirk of fate got a temp job at NBC that turned into a career. In the interview we talked about making the transition to postproduction, the turnaround time for an audio job, dealing with audio that isn’t […]
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The History Of The Eventide Harmonizer H910
Unless you were around back in the early 80s when the first harmonizer was introduced (the Eventide H910), you can’t appreciate what an impact it had on mixing. This was a device that did something that couldn’t been done before. It was hard to explain exactly what that was, but you knew it instantly when […]
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Al Schmitt Talks Recording
After 23 Grammy’s for Best Engineering (more than any other engineer) and work on over 150 gold and platinum records, a #1 book on Amazon, and even his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Al Schmitt needs no introduction to anyone even remotely familiar with the recording industry. Indeed, his credit list is […]
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Trevor Horn Talks Production
Trevor Horn is one of the most successful and innovative producers ever, with credits that include Yes, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Grace Jones, Seal, and many more. What’s not often known about him is how cutting edge and quietly groundbreaking his production techniques have been. In the following video you’ll hear how Trevor made his […]
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New Music Gear Monday: Audient Nero Desktop Monitor Controller
Let’s face it, if you have a home studio then you probably need some sort of monitor controller. There are plenty out there to choose from, but very few emulate the features or layout that a big analog or digital desk provides. Audient makes some of those large consoles and the company knows what needs […]
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Microphone Builder Dave Pearlman On My Latest Inner Circle Podcast
My guest on the podcast this week is Dave Pearlman, who after years as a touring pedal steel guitarist with everyone from Dan Fogelberg and Phil Everly to Pat Boone and Bobby Womack, opened his Rotund Rascal Studio in North Hollywood in 1979. To save money on outside techs, Dave began to do repairs and modifications on classic […]
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Here’s Where Your Vocal Tone Comes From
It’s amazing how different each person’s voice can be from another, but also equally amazing how similar two people’s voices can be to each other. When recording a singer, it helps to know how his or her vocal tone is actually being produced in order to capture it more accurately. This great article by Jamie […]
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Studio Etiquette Tips For When The Session Ends
I’ve covered studio etiquette rules here in the past, but they were primarily for when a session was in progress. When the session, or your part in it, is completed, the etiquette doesn’t stop though, as this excerpt from The Studio Musician’s Handbook (written with ace studio bass player Paul ILL) illustrates. It’s perfectly natural […]
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Avid Finances Looking Strong
A lot of people have been pretty down on Avid from time to time (myself included), but the company is still strong, and it’s growing. In its most recent earnings call, Avid announced a first quarter 2019 revenue of $103.3 million which is a second consecutive quarter of 5 percent year-over-year growth. The company also […]
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New Music Gear Monday: Gamechanger Audio Motor Synth
I don’t usually post about musical instruments unless there’s something that I consider groundbreaking or very unusual, and I think that this week’s featured gear piece qualifies for at least one of these (not sure which). It’s something called the Motor Synth, which its manufacturer, Gamechanger Audio, claims is the world’s first electro-mechanical synthesizer. Electro-mechanical, […]
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