There’s no question that people love it when low frequencies shake them when listening to a concert. Live engineers love it because you can never get a sound system powerful enough until you engage those subs. Subwoofers are now an essential component of just about any fixed system because people can’t seem to get enough […]
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On this week’s podcast episode is label consultant, music photographer, and co-host of the Your Morning Coffee podcast Jay Gilbert. Jay has always been on the cutting edge of Digital Music Marketing during his time with Universal Music, Sony Music and Warner Music Groups. In fact, he was VP New Media and Online Marketing for […]
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A number of automatic resonance reduction plugins have come to market recently and most engineers have found them useful. That said, sometimes you don’t need help across the entire frequency spectrum. The Sonnox Soften harshness reduction plugin from Focusrite only concentrates on the mid and high frequency areas, and is specialized for just three applications, […]
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A modern mix can be sophisticated and complicated, so it’s very easy to overlook something in the heat of the moment that can be important to the integrity of the mix and that can help take it to the next level. The Ultimate Mix Checklist provides a number or questions to ask yourself as your […]
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On this week’s podcast episode, my guest is my old friend 17 time Grammy winner Benny Faccone. Benny has a rich credit history with artists like Mana, Santana, Ricky Martin, Luis Miguel, Sting, and so many more. He’s a veteran of the old A&M Studios when it was one of the hottest recording facilities in Los […]
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If you were to ask most home studio owners the piece of gear that they were missing that they wished they owned, there’s a good chance that they’d say a ribbon microphone. Many studio owners are hesitant to buy a ribbon mic mostly because of the persistent myths about how fragile they are that have […]
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Whenever musicians hear the words ‘music’ and ‘AI’ in the same sentence, they immediately think of a kid in his bedroom with no musical knowledge cranking out AI-generated versions of the music legends. Yes, that happens, but AI used to alleviate musicians from some simple tasks can actually be quite useful. Case in point, the […]
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I think most of us have been reading the news and wondering how the newly imposed tariffs could be a good thing, but we haven’t been directly feeling the effects yet. That’s about to change as manufacturers are now beginning to see the increased costs as a result of the tariff, which means that consumers, […]
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On this week’s podcast episode I cover some recent overlooked audio and music industry news. We’ll look at: You can listen to it at bobbyoinnercircle.com, or via Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, Mixcloud, Spotify, Deezer, TuneIn Radio, or RadioPublic. Also, a video version of this podcast is now available on YouTube as well. Enjoy the show! […]
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When 500 series racks first came out they took the audio world by storm. Now you could load your favorite modules inside a small lunchbox-sized rack and take them with you wherever you worked. The problem is, the 500 series modules didn’t always sound as good the standard rack version of the same module due […]
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As a general rule, most musicians (especially guitar players) have no idea how to use anything that adjusts the frequency bands of their instrument, meaning an amplifier’s tone controls. The reason is that they’re never taught what tone controls are there for, and there’s not a lot of information in the manuals that comes with […]
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On this week’s podcast episode my guest is bass player, author and music business marketing consultant, Carter Fox. Known as the Soulful Traveling Spaceman Bassman, Carter has toured with R&B legend Freddie Jackson and Grammy-winner Regina Belle, while also collaborating with artists and producers such as Skrillex, Leon Huff, David Ivory, Adventure Club, and more. […]
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There are already so many emulations of classic analog audio hardware like the LA-2A and 1176 that the world doesn’t need another one. However, when a classic emulation has some truly usable modern additions, then it’s worth taking a look. Such is the case with the D16 Group Pulsatic EQ, modeled after the original analog […]
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On this week’s podcast episode my guest is modular synthesizer maven Chris Meyer, who has done important engineering work at Sequential Circuits, Digidesign, Marion Systems with the legendary Tom Oberheim, and Roland R&D U.S., where he was chief engineer. Along the way he created Vector Synthesis and worked on the Sequential Prophet 2000, Prophet VS, […]
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If you ask engineers who were active back in the analog days, they’ll tell you there are certain pieces of gear that belong in any audio “Hall of Fame.” If ever a console belonged in that esteemed hall, the Neve 8068 is it. Introduced in 1976, the 8068 was the first of Neve’s in-line monitor […]
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