Let’s face it. We musicians can be a bit “motivationally challenged” when it comes to the minutia of having a real career in music.
We’d rather play a speed-metal version of “Stairway to Heaven” at rehearsal than slog through the intricacies of our set one more time.
Most of us Read more...
I was a bit skeptical when I first heard about Sonarworks, as what they purport their products are capable of sounded a little too good to be true.
I’ve always been under the impression that tuning a room is the province of a trained acoustician, and yet here’s this magic Read more...
Cracking the code to originality: House music producer Chris Budd has done it.
Based out of Birmingham in the Jolly Olde UK, Budd has built having his own sound to some pretty amazing payoffs. It’s earned him a busy career as a producer, remixer, engineer and composer, as well as Read more...
For more great insights into mixing, try our full-length course with SonicScoop editor Justin Colletti, Mixing Breakthroughs.
What is this game-changing button I speak of? What single switch could take your lifeless recording and elevate your sound to stud status?
The single magic button, often confusingly and incorrectly labeled with Read more...
Mark Marshall’s new course, Producing and Recording Electric Guitar is out now.
Guitarists, producers and engineers alike are often presented with a wide variety of amps to choose from, whether it’s on stage or in the studio, a collection of vintage tube amps or virtual ones.
Sometimes, you’ll encounter an Read more...
A digital audio workstation is more than just a piece of software for hitting record and adding plugins.
While they are incredibly deep feats of programming (even the simple ones) all that coding under the hood must also translate to providing a logical and inspiring conduit for creating art.
Simply Read more...
A plugin playground – that may be where a mixer feels like they’ve landed with the Scheps Omni Channel.
But once all the possibilities of this versatile tool sink in, ITB-heads just want to go to work with it. Designed together with Waves by the GRAMMY-winning mixer Andrew Scheps, the Read more...
This is a guest post by Wessel Oltheten, a producer, engineer and author of the new book Mixing with Impact.
Last week, we looked at how to use some of the most powerful attention mechanisms to help attract a listener’s attention, and then focus it on the most important Read more...
Alison Tavel is on a mission to bring a legendary – but little-heard – synth called The Resynator back to life. It’s an epic saga that’s about way more than just gear, as she seeks to reignite the life force of its inventor Don Tavel – her late father that Read more...
Wes Dooley, and his company, AEA, have a long history of working with ribbon microphones.
When General Electric purchased RCA in 1976 and closed its microphone division, Dooley began servicing those iconic mics. His faithful reproduction of the original RCA 44 (as well as the KU4, a remake of the Read more...
