Let’s face it: Today’s music and songwriting professionals are expected to not only deliver content that’s exciting, creative, and multi-genre but also make sure it sounds pretty damn good out of the gate. Oh, and the client needs it yesterday. Many world-class songwriters and composers admittedly fight and hack Read more...
The classics. In the pro audio world there is an elite level of products whose presence in the recording studio, or on the stage is a given. Everyone knows what they are and how they should sound when you plug them in. Sometimes we even take them for granted.
Over Read more...
PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN: While many audio professionals (myself included) have a love/hate relationship with the digital audio world, most of us would agree that we would be hard-pressed to make a living without our DAWs on a day-to-day basis.
There are, however, a few things that we all wish we Read more...
PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN: In his eponymous autobiography, Slash recollects a story about legendary mix engineer Bob Clearmountain who’d been originally hired to mix the Guns N’ Roses recordings that became the Illusions albums. Slash recalls that he had discovered a notebook where Clearmountain “had notated all of the drum Read more...
Any engineer who’s had the privilege of working in a beautiful, spacious recording studio with a huge mixing console and loads of expensive outboard gear has inevitably at one time or another heard the following sentence from an artist or musician new to the facility: “So, do you really know Read more...
