Have you heard the story of how Phil Xenidis, better known as Phil X, went from painting garages to playing with Tommy Lee of Mötley Crüe to playing almost every guitar track on the first Daughtry album, to becoming the lead guitar player for Bon Jovi?
If yes, then Read more...
Founded in 2007, UK-based Spitfire Audio’s products have rapidly become a de facto part of many a modern composer’s sample-based toolkit.
Back in 2011, Spitfire released their Albion Volume I, an orchestral library which has been used a in a myriad of scores and productions since its release.
In Read more...
One supergroup deserves another.
On the artist side, you’ve got The Last Shadow Puppets. Made up of the Arctic Monkeys’ lead vocalist/guitarist/principal songwriter Alex Turner, and singer/guitarist Miles Kane, together with Simian composer/producer/drummer/keyboardist, James Ford, their rocked-up baroque pop resulted in 2008’s #1 debut album, Age Of The Understatement. Now Read more...
This story first appeared in Trust Me, I’m a Scientist on March 2, 2012.
Single-name monikers are usually reserved for larger-than-life personalities. British producer Flood however, keeps a low, almost anonymous profile. It’s his work that gets all the hype.
Since his first noteworthy assignment as assistant engineer on New Read more...
A good microphone locker offers a vast array of possibilities, with blurry borders and intangible contours.
Knowing how to choose the right ones can often seem like a daunting task at first. But through a technique I’d like to share, which is based on deep listening and simple, intuitive experimentation, Read more...
In modern recording, engineers often rely on close mic’ing techniques, trying to capture the direct sound of a source with little to no ambient information included.
As anyone who has ever recorded at home can attest, in certain rooms, this approach can become a virtual necessity rather than just a Read more...
You can’t escape it – so you may as well just give in.
Yes, we speak of “Hello” by Adele. It’s one of those tracks that arise, and suddenly is absolutely everywhere. From the grocery store to Starbucks, local radio and your car stereo, we guarantee you’ll hear it again Read more...
This story first appeared in Trust Me, I’m a Scientist on March 31st, 2014.
Most paid rehearsal spaces stink, if not literally, then at least figuratively. For several years, my band rehearsed in one: A windowless room slapped together with drywall inside of a warehouse space in a sad and Read more...
The world of hip hop, all of music in fact, is one man down. Phife Dawg, a founding member of the breakthrough New York City group A Tribe Called Quest, died of complications from diabetes on March 22, 2016.
Phife, his co-founder Q-Tip, and later bandmates Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Read more...
It’s no secret that recorded music sales have dwindled dramatically since the dawn of the Napster age, more than 15 years ago. When adjusted for inflation and population growth, U.S. recorded music sales in fact dropped by an astonishing 64% between 2000 and 2009, and they have been slow to Read more...
