If you’re like me, you start making panning decisions for instruments early on in the music production process.
Many of us assign each new element to an initial starting point in the left-right spectrum as early on as the recording stage, planning to tweak positions later on during mixing.
Once Read more...
[In case you were wondering, there wasn’t enough of a budget to do 10.]
Large recording studios have been closing at an alarming rate. Dropping left and right. Not just in the less trafficked ‘burgs, but more shockingly, in music industry epicenters like New York and Los Angeles.
Still, there Read more...
Many people truly love writing, recording, mixing and performing, and would also love to do it for a living. However, so many of them are held back by their own fear. One of the most subtle but powerful forms of fear comes in the form of “perfectionism”.
The perfectionist inside Read more...
For even more on mastering, try SonicScoop editor Justin Colletti’s new full-length course, Mastering Demystified.
New technology. It’s big, it’s fast, it’s scary, and it’ll “take your job“.
So why am I—a guy who makes a great portion of his living mastering records for other people—not at all concerned about Read more...
I was as surprised as anyone to hear that Delores O’Riordan, lead singer for multiplatinum group The Cranberries, passed away last week. Her unmistakable voice—along with her band’s superbly-crafted songs—captivated me from the first few strains I ever heard of “Linger,” an MTV non-stopper while I was finishing up college. Read more...
