HOLLYWOOD: Eric Valentine keeps a relatively low profile. But here in his studio – Barefoot Recording in Hollywood – he has engineered, mixed, and produced some of the biggest-hit rock records of the last 15 years. Work with Smash Mouth, Third Eye Blind, Good Charlotte and Maroon 5 has cemented Read more...
LOS ANGELES, CA: I’m sitting in Craig Wedren’s new studio, conveniently located in his backyard in Hollywood. Affectionately referred to as “Pink Ape”, this is where Wedren has been working for the last six months, fulfilling a lifelong dream of having a spacious and comfortable studio of his own Read more...
While Anaheim is most famous for attracting hoards of children to Disneyland each year, this past weekend the “adults” of the music world got to take over for a long weekend.
The enormous Anaheim Convention Center was absolutely packed with virtually every gear and instrument manufacturer that one could imagine. Read more...
Propellerhead’s Reason holds a unique place in the world of DAW and music-making software. While it has always been a very powerful tool for music-making, it never went head-to-head with the “big” names in the DAW business because unlike Pro Tools or Nuendo, Logic or Live, it was never designed Read more...
When Universal Audio first debuted the UAD-1 system in 2001, I have to admit that I didn’t pay it much mind. At that time I was still pretty skeptical about the quality of the mixes that I could get out of mixing in-the-box (ITB), and only used plug-ins for minor Read more...
