It would be difficult to find a producer, engineer, or musician who hasn’t been influenced by the work of Daniel Lanois in some way.
Over the past few decades, the Canadian multi-instrumentalist, mixer, and producer has continuously released his own solo works while collaborating with an array of remarkable, world-renowned Read more...
Thought Matty Amendola was out of drum and bass mix tricks? Turns out he was just getting started with “Blah Blah Blah” by 825 Records artist Juliana Wilson.
In part 3 of “Making the Mix II”, Matty moves from clap stacks to sample tuning, to his #1 favorite plugin preset Read more...
Last week, we explored a variety of ways to get an excellent acoustic guitar recording using a single microphone. The next logical step in the quest for different sonic nuances is to combine two or more microphones to obtain different colors.
While the single-mic techniques we demonstrated can be perfect Read more...
His name was Jazz – literally.
Rudy Van Gelder passed away on August 25 at his home in Englewood Cliffs, NJ, at age 91. It would be hard to name an audio engineer who was more closely associated with the genre they excelled in than Van Gelder. Over the many Read more...
If there’s one thing Producer/Engineer Matty Amendola loves more than teaching audio on camera, it’s making music in the studio.
Lucky for us all, the prolific founder of Brooklyn’s 825 Studios – and its sister label 825 Records – doesn’t have to choose. Once again, he’s put it all together Read more...
This story first appeared in Trust Me, I’m a Scientist, September 4th, 2012.
Among self-financed musicians, pre-production is arguably the most neglected step of the recording process.
This is especially regrettable because pre-production is perhaps the least expensive part of the process, and the one that offers the greatest return Read more...
New technology for making guitars and basses has turned the luthier’s job into as much of a science as an art form.
Thanks to the advent of advanced “CNC machines” that now aid major guitar makers in some of their most difficult and time-consuming tasks, the fretted instrument market has Read more...
What’s your preferred mic technique for recording acoustic guitars?
If you’re anything like most engineers, your answer may vary a bit depending on the arrangement, the purpose, the guitar player, the instrument and the song, but there are really just two or three commonly-used approaches that crop up again and Read more...
For even more on mastering, try the new full-length course from SonicScoop Editor Justin Colletti, Mastering Demystified.
Take a mastering man out of the big city, and what happens? He raises his game yet again.
After decades of working his magic in Gotham a.k.a. New York City, audio icon Vlado Read more...
This story first appeared in Trust Me, I’m a Scientist, August 5th, 2013.
In January of 2011, singer/songwriter Gabriel Mintz performed at a popular Seattle music venue. At the end of the night, the venue gave Mintz a printout of incomes and expenses associated with the show.
The gross revenue Read more...
