Get In On The Peavey Auction Of $12 Million Worth Of Gear And Parts

If you’re into getting a good deal on music and audio equipment, you might want to check out the upcoming Peavey auction as the company sheds its unused or unsold gear and parts valued at as much as $12 million. Among the items on the list include nearly new products from Peavey and its various […]

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A Look At The New “Classic” Microphones

While many believe that microphone technology hasn’t really improved in at least 30 years, a host of new mics have taken the technology to the next step. Some have even become classics in their own right and can be found as standard equipment in mic lockers the world over. In this excerpt from the 4th […]

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Data Transmission Via Hard Rock Is Now Possible

By now most of us have heard of or experienced audio watermarking, where metadata is hidden inside the audio signal so the artist, song, record label, publisher and songwriter can be identified when it’s played. That’s been around for at least 20 years, but the idea has been taken to another level by 2 PhD […]

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New Music Gear Monday: Wilkerson Audio DeBleeder Leakage Suppressor Plugin

Depending on the era that you grew up in the audio business, you have a different point of view on leakage, especially on the drums. If you’re old-school with experience in limited analog tracks and lots of musicians playing in the same room, leakage probably isn’t too much of a bother. There’s so much music […]

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Producer/Remixer Dave Aude On My Latest Inner Circle Podcast

My guest on the podcast this week is Dave Audé, who’s a producer and remixer with an astounding 133 #1’s on Billboard’s Dance Club chart. That’s more than any other producer, and what makes it even more impressive is that 14 are his own singles as an artist. He’s also won a Grammy for his remix of “Uptown […]

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There’s Finally Some Good News For The Retail Music Store

Music stores across the country have been sweating it for about a decade now as the industry recovered from the 2008 recession, only to be punched in the gut by online sales. For a while it looked like the local brick and mortar store was heading for the scrap heap. Not so fast – things […]

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Modern Conducting Lessons From Frank Zappa

If you’ve ever gone to music school and studied conducting, you know that there’s common group of hand signals that you learn. This works well for orchestral music, but an electric band requires something more. That said, one has ever conducted a band like the eclectic Frank Zappa. Frank got his players to express his […]

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Reverb.com Acquired By Etsy For $275 Million

In only a few years Reverb.com has established itself as the premier site for musicians wanting to buy and sell used music and audio gear, so it’s no surprise that larger online sales companies would eventually want a piece of the action. Yesterday the company announced that it was being acquired by the online marketplace […]

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New Music Gear Monday: Avid S1 Control Surface

For everyone that’s admired the various Avid S-series control surfaces but felt they were out of reach price-wise, the company just announced it’s new S1, the smallest of all its offerings that looks like it will fit in just right in any small studio environment. The S1 packs a lot of punch into a small […]

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Gibson’s Collaboration Policy Might Be The Future For Other Manufacturers Too

Gibson has certainly been through a rough few years but it seems that the ship is now righted, with the introduction of new throwback instruments at lower prices and better dealer relationships. That said, it seems to have gone over the top protecting its brand with a rather public lawsuit against Dean Guitars and a […]

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LANDR Gets More Investment For Audio AI Products

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning (there’s a difference) is being used in more and more software audio products these days, and the online mastering platform known as LANDR has been at the forefront of the technology. It looks like we’ll see even more on the AI side from the company as it’s just closed […]

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How To Time Reverb To The Pulse Of The Song

When signal processing is timed to the pulse of the track, everything in the mix sounds a lot smoother. This applies to compressors, delays, modulators, and especially reverb. One of the questions I get a lot is, “How do you time your reverb to the track?” Here’s an excerpt from the 4th edition of my […]

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Amazon Music, Aerosmith In Vegas, And Producer/Engineer Greg Penny On My Latest Inner Circle Podcast

My guest on the podcast this week is Greg Penny, who has produced hits with k.d. lang, Cher, and Paul Young among others, but a meeting with Elton John while Greg was in his teens turned into an award-winning mixing journey with the legend many years down the road.  Besides producing and mixing Elton’s many albums in surround, Greg […]

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New Music Gear Monday: Abbey Road Studio 3 Headphone Reference Plugin

Everyone knows how difficult it is to actually mix on headphones. Since the drivers are so close to your ears, you lose the sense of space that you get with speakers, which means that some of your balance, panning and low-end decisions can be out of wack with what you hear on a pair of […]

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Music In 10 Years, Tinnitus, Pro Tools Computers, And Primephonic CEO Thomas Steffens On My Latest Podcast.

My guest on the podcast this week is the CEO of Primphonic, Thomas Steffens. Primephonic is a music streaming service dedicated to keeping classical music alive and serving the needs of the classical music consumer.  Most streaming networks are geared towards modern pop music and don’t serve classical well. It’s difficult to find what you want, and labels, […]

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