In the world of music and audio production, the nature of dynamic compression can mean many different things to many different engineers. From subtle level riding to drastic bone-crunching limiting, a compressor’s job is as varied as the genres of music that we tackle on a daily basis.
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Tekserve is hosting a free Ableton Live seminar on Friday, December 10th at 2 PM featuring multi-instrumentalist Erin Barra.
Barra will display her “One Woman Army” approach to electronic songwriting, demonstrating her use of Live for vocal processing, looping, remixing and performing. New users to advanced practitioners should expect to Read more...
Williamsburg, Brooklyn: Last year, we reported on an impressive new recording studio that had soft-launched in South Williamsburg, called One.Point.Six Media. The facility had been years in development, its owner and designer working closely with Michael Blackmer of Blackmer Sound to perfect the acoustics. Studios can be complicated businesses, Read more...
PROSPECT LEFFERTS GARDENS, BROOKLYN: No slave to the studio, Nic Hard. For this in-demand indie producer/engineer/mixer (The Bravery, Aberdeen City, The Church, The Kin), professional recording often means a move away from controlled conditions into creatively comforting confines.
Hard’s latest project, capturing the arresting rock/new wave/electronic concoctions of Baltimore’s the Read more...
Recently, after gorging on complex channel strip plug-ins and bizarre Traktor effects like Flanger Pulse and Reverse Grain, I got a sudden hankering for some audio comfort food. Something non-intimidating that harkens back to a simpler time.
Back in the day, everyone had an uncle or the hip older brother Read more...
