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Can You Spot What Makes This Les Paul A Fake?
There are many unscrupulous manufacturers all over the world that make fake musical instruments and audio gear. It’s one thing if they’re open about making a clone, but if they pass it off as the real deal then they’ve taken the rip off to another level. It’s bad enough when a classic American company is […]
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Room Mics And Phase Tricks With Vance Powell
There are two parts to recording that many engineers are either super concerned with or completely oblivious to and that’s placement of the room mics when tracking and phase. In my experience, phase is something that you have to be aware of, but sometimes spending gobs of time on trying to get things just right […]
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Yes, You Can Turn Weather Data Into Music
It seems like if we have a data set on just about anything, we can turn it into music. Weather is a little different though in that it’s very organic and changes frequently, sometimes to the extreme, making for an interesting output. Hydrodynamics scientist Graeme Smart for New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric […]
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A Look At The Abbey Road Microphone Collection
Grammy-winning engineer Sylvia Massy is on a quest to write the ultimate book on microphones, and it’s taken her all around the world to find both historical artifacts on microphone design and the designers themselves. One stop was to the famed Abbey Road Studios for a look at their totally unique collection of mics. In […]
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An Interview With Producer/Engineer Ed Cherney
If you don’t know about producer/engineer Ed Cherney then you really should. Ed is one of the best engineers on the planet, with credits like Eric Clapton, Bonnie Raitt, The Rolling Stones, Willie Nelson, John Mayer, and even Spinal Tap, among many others (you can see them all on his website) and he’s won 2 […]
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New Music Gear Monday: SSL Fusion Stereo Buss Processor
Ever since mixing went inside the box there’s been a debate over whether outboard hardware processing provides enough of a useful upgrade to the sound of the mix to make it worth the trouble. Outboard gear used for sweeting can include everything from a custom built summing box to individual signal chains for each main […]
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In The Studio With Muse
Muse is an interesting band. On one hand it’s a modern power trio while on the other it’s a genre hopping hitmaker unafraid to cross over into any style. Nowhere is this more apparent than in this video, which shows various sessions during the making of the band’s 2nd Law album. You’ll find basic tracking […]
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Building A Hofner Beatle Bass
We all know the Hofner 5001 violin bass guitar thanks to Sir Paul McCartney, and if you’ve ever played one you know that it’s a unique instrument. First of all it’s extremely light – kind of the anti-Les Paul in that you can wear it all day and your shoulder won’t get tired. It also has […]
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Does 50 Years Make A Difference? Comparing A Vintage With A Modern Guitar Amp
Every day we’re presented with a choice – whether to use or buy a vintage piece of gear versus it’s modern equivalent or clone. Most of the time there’s a difference between them, although to many it may be small enough not to matter. In other cases it’s so blatant as to make the modern […]
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Producer/Engineer Joe Barresi On Mixing Distorted Guitars
When it comes to hard rock guitar recording and mixing, producer/engineer Joe Barresi is considered the king. He’s worked with Soundgarden, Tool, Queens Of The Stone Age, Slipknot, among many others, and his work is widely admired by both artists and other top-of-the-line engineers. In this video he shows how he treats distorted rhythm and […]
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In The Studio With Mick Guzauski
11 time Grammy-winner Mick Guzauski has been an A-list mixer for some time, having mixed 27 #1 hits spanning multiple genres with credits that include Daft Punk, Prince, Leann Rimes, Eric Clapton, Christina Aguilera, Talking Heads, Britney Spears, J-Lo, Michael Jackson and many more. Mick started with a basic home by in his home town of Rochester […]
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MIT’s PixelPlayer Lets You Isolate Sounds From Videos
One thing that musicians and producers alike forever longed for was software that would separate a mix into its vital instrumental and vocal parts. We’ve had this available for a few years now, but the next step is extracting different sounds from a video by pointing on the part of the screen that we want […]
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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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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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Seeing Ghosts With Infrasound
Everything has a resonant frequency, even the human body. In fact, strange things happen when the the resonant point of a particular body organ occurs. All of these resonant frequencies are in the infrasonic range, meaning they’re below the point of natural hearing under 20Hz and appear more as clicks rather than a steady tone. […]
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