When composing music, be it an instrumental track for a TV spot, or a full song with vocals for an album release, an unwanted interruption in workflow can really be detrimental.
There’s not much worse in the songwriting world than having your creative flow slowed down or even stopped cold! Read more...
Dave Pensado showcases some great plugins this week on Into The Lair that he uses to control an 808 to fit within a Pop song. He starts off with a real dirty 808, like the kind you might find in 808 Warfare. Pensado takes us through his workflow without saying Read more...
Graham Cochrane from The Recording Revolution recently spent a day in the studio as a performer, enlisting the help of three-time Grammy-winning producer Jacquire King, and studying his approach from the other side of the glass.
Cochrane noticed that King’s recording process was quite long, but the result was that Read more...
This is Part 1 of a new series on mixing by Wessel Oltheten, author of the book Mixing with Impact.
“Expression” is the language used by all good musical performers, whether they are musicians in a band or programmers of beats.
As a producer or an engineer, you could Read more...
A MIDI keyboard is an essential piece of studio hardware, whether you’re using one daily or only on rare occasions. Having one on hand allows you to interface with your digital sounds in a more human way, enabling you to perform musical ideas rather than program them.
Many MIDI keyboards Read more...
A decade ago, if you were in the market for a new dual-oscillator analog synthesizer, your choices were likely dictated by what was listed on eBay at the moment.
These days, that is no longer the case, as the market for modern desktop synths continues to expand.
But that variety Read more...
“Oh bop, fashion, Fashion!” David Bowie gushed. And while the once-in-a-generation megastar broke countless boundaries at style’s forefront…even the great David Bowie could be a servant to fashion.
Enter Never Let Me Down, his 17th studio album. Released in 1987, it was a record that achieved decent commercial success but Read more...
Ian Vargo of the Pro Audio Files shared 11 things that he does on every master this week. Mastering is the process of formatting audio for distribution, and there’s a lot of work that goes into this seemingly simple process. Vargo includes a handful of suggestions in his article that Read more...
Hainbach is an Ambient artist from Germany, and he released a video this week explaining how he managed to splice tape loops together. I don’t own a tape machine, and I’m sure that many people reading this don’t have one either, but the process is exciting none-the-less. Walking you through Read more...
Finding a real job in the music industry can seem like a monumental and almost insurmountable task, even for those who have studied for years to do just that.
Not only does it require you to be incredibly skilled in a specialty, but it also needs you to make connections Read more...
