These days you don’t have to sit behind an acoustic drum kit to play acoustic drums. I know, I know… I’ve been a skeptic of “virtual drums” for a long time but it is truly amazing how far the technology has come to blur the lines between electronic drum pads Read more...
As digital recording has become the norm, many tools that engineers once took for granted have disappeared from recording studios. But it’s one of the ironies of the DAW-age that the embrace of computer recording has led directly to the comeback of one technology that’s even older than tape itself. Read more...
As each day passes, it seems there is yet another cool piece of musical gear coming out. Since the release of the iPad, the constant flow of apps has made it hard to stop and just use the tools that are already at hand.
Today we are going to continue Read more...
As we talked about in the previous “Vinyl Evolution” edition of Sound Thinking, there are a lot of artists releasing their records on vinyl. If you are going to be one of them, here are some things that may help you get the best results.
One thing to do is Read more...
DUMBO, BROOKLYN: I met microphone designer Dimitri Wolfwood and his [Ronin Applied Sciences] business partner Fenton Joseph at the Tape Op party during AES New York last fall. Joel Hamilton had arrived with them and introduced us, and Dimitri immediately took me into his world of ultimate microphone design. Read more...
