When it comes to recording live musicians, few instruments are as misunderstood or mysterious as the drums.
The drum kit presents a complexity that just doesn’t exist when recording other instruments, simply because of the sheer number of components that make up even the most basic drum setup, as well Read more...
When you auto-tune a blue note, what color does it become?
Auto. Tune. These two simple words, whenever used together and in succession, make my skin crawl.
It’s everywhere. If you listen to anything that’s been recorded in the last 10-15 years, it cannot be escaped.
It has become so Read more...
(or, “How to Keep Your Mastering Engineer Happy”)
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We all go through periods of both development and frustration in our careers.
Whenever you are trying to Read more...
After my most recent post, “Analog Tape and Why I Don’t Miss It”, was published here last week, I felt it was only fair to add some balance by speaking out about the favorable qualities of this rust-covered wonder.
For the first 15 years of my recording career, I Read more...
Few topics stir up as much strong emotion among audio professionals as analog tape can.
Musicians and engineers alike love to romanticize about how warm and musical tape sounds, how it forces you to make decisions and commit to sounds without being able to “undo” it all, and how it Read more...
