Truly confident practitioners keep no secrets.
Mixers are among this self-assured group of experts who, once they reach a certain level of success, are only too happy to pass their platinum techniques on to their colleagues. They do it through 1-1 mentorship, interviews, live seminars, video tutorials, and—increasingly—with signature plugins. Read more...
This story first appeared in Trust Me, I’m a Scientist, December 2, 2013.
For musicians of my generation, our first experiments with turning two cassette decks into a makeshift multi-track recording device—by dubbing the output of one deck into the input of the other while playing a new instrument—could Read more...
More than ever before, albums are written, recorded, and even mixed at home. But it wasn’t always that way.
Just a few decades ago, almost all bands booked time in a recording studio to capture the sounds they wanted. Artists would commonly need to travel—sometimes across stateliness or outside the Read more...
Artist: The Gaslight Anthem
Song: “American Slang”
Why I Luv It: Being a New Jersey native myself, I couldn’t help but indulge in the shameless support of a great up-and-coming rock band from New Brunswick, NJ called The Gaslight Anthem.
Yesterday, my colleague Scott Perry at the Read more...
