It’s happened to us all. We get a mix that’s just rocking out of our main monitors, yet when we play it on some tiny computer or phone speakers the bass instrument completely disappears. Here are some steps to take to ensure that the bass on your next mix will speak on just about any […]
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Abbey Road Studios is perhaps the most revered studio in the world and for good reason. It’s been a leader in studio technology almost since its inception in 1931, something that continues to this day. Certainly there’s not a better equipped studio anywhere, but you’d expect that from a studio that’s been in business almost […]
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When it comes to plugins, we often go for emulations of hardware processors from the past. After all, what better example of how how a processor should work than what’s been successfully used for decades already. Sometimes it’s cool to have a plugin that resembles the past in look and feel, but doesn’t actually emulate […]
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My guest on the podcast today is CD Baby’s VP of international development, Heli Del Moral. Before coming to the company Heli worked in television as international director of marketing for ESPN and Univision where he won 3 Emmy awards, and numerous Telly, Promax and other honors for his creative efforts. In the interview we talked about the strength […]
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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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There are about as many ways to mike an electric guitar amp cabinet as there are opinions on which music is the best, but there’s one that’s always been my favorite. The reason is that it provides a lot of versatility in sounds, something that we’re always looking for especially when guitars tracks are stacked. […]
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We’ve all been blessed with plentiful and cheap storage these last few years, and those of us who have suffered through the bad old days of Jazz drives, Bernoulli discs, and even CDs and DVDs are supremely thankful. That said, we’re entering into a whole new golden age of small but powerful memory, and leading […]
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The bass synth or guitar element of a mix can sometimes be the hardest to fit for engineers to work with. A weak sound here will cause the mix to be weak, something that every mixer is afraid of. While there are plenty of tools to process the bass, there may not be one that’s […]
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Amphion loudspeakers have become a favorite of award-winning mixing engineers the world over, and founder and CEO Anssi Hyvonen is my guest on the podcast today. Anssi spent most of his life as a hi-fi enthusiast, but he got into building speakers sort of by accident. His speakers are very well respected by that community, but acceptance […]
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Hopefully if you’re in the music business you’re not tone deaf. That said, I’ve worked with clients in the past that made me wonder. Harvard University wants to test you though, has opened a new lab designed to study the science of music. They’ve created a series of online tests that measure how the general […]
Continue readingIn an excerpt from his autobiography Abbey Road To Ziggy Stardust (which I was lucky enough to co-write), legendary producer/engineer Ken Scott describes what it was like to work at the famous Trident Studios in London with former Beatles John Lennon and George Harrison. “Trident Studios was located at 17 St. Anne’s Court, just off […]
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In the past I’ve posted about audio creation from natural sources other than traditional instruments, like space and the weather. Now we have the sound of the Internet, which is just as unusual and interesting as you’d think. Here’s something from Russian multimedia artist Dmitry Morosov, aka ::vtol::, who’s created an interactive sound installation that […]
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Anyone who’s ever used a ribbon mic is aware of a surprising limitation – the output is low. Likewise for good sounding dynamic mics like the Shure SM7B or RE-20, and even the SM57. This isn’t a problem when the program material has a moderately high SPL level, but if that’s not the case you […]
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My guest on the podcast today is Ben Mendoza, who created UK-based Beatchain along with co-founder and musician Steve Jones to accelerate artist growth by using data science and automation. Ben has spent almost 25 years using software to improve decision making and automate time-consuming processes with leading expense management company MDSL, which Beatchain now brings to the music […]
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Most rock and pop musicians takes a percussion instrument like a tambourine for granted, thinking that it just provides something to do when you’re not actually playing your instrument. In the hands of percussion artist, the tambourine comes to life though, as this video with percussionist Gabriela Jiménez clearly shows. Using the skin, frame and metal […]
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