Mark Marshall’s new course, Producing and Recording Electric Guitar is out now.
For a long time, there has been a debate amongst guitarists about the differences a guitar cable can make in your tone. Some say there is no audible variation at all, and that any claim of such is Read more...
If you use a DAW to record or mix music, it’s likely that your choice is largely predicated by your history and familiarity with that piece of software.
This makes sense when you consider the largely overlapping feature sets of most DAWs. We often end up using what we started Read more...
Plug ‘n’ play? No way!
Rob Batke, a.k.a. The musical adventurer Artisan Loyalist, is not one to dial up a preset on his synthesizers — analog, digital or plugin — and run with it. Instead, his principle of very carefully crafting a synth sound and signal path is firmly reflected Read more...
This is a post by Mark Marshall. For more detail on getting authentic-sounding vintage tones, try his new full-length course, Producing and Recording Electric Guitar.
Clearing samples for use in music has become not only a complicated legal process, but an expensive one. So what happens when your production depends Read more...
A compression obsession. That’s what was building up inside a young audio engineer named Dave Derr, slowly but surely shaping a mind for dynamics until his concept was converted to reality: the Empirical Labs Distressor.
Derr’s fascination went hand in hand with the special magic that he experienced early on Read more...
