Articles on: music & audio

“I’m not really a religious person, don’t get me wrong. I’m spiritual…but good things do happen.

[caption id="attachment_10510" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Image via David Blakie on Flickr.

Apogee One: The number one rule of recording is “garbage in, garbage out,” which makes your audio interface arguably the most important part of your rig. The Apogee One has inputs for line-in (great for guitar/bass DIs), XLR (for an external mic), and a built-in omni mic that’s surprisingly good.

[caption id="attachment_10203" align="alignnone" width="620"] Photo via Alexis Fam via Flickr[/caption] If you have any interest in music, recording or the Beatles, What Goes On is something you must see. In near-pathological detail, the website picks apart every single recording fluke, background noise and performance issue throughout the entire Beatles catalog.

"Mutilated World" from Thomas Giles' new album "Modern Noise. " Order it here.

It's my culture. It's where I come from.

Any producer or engineer that’s visited another studio or worked with someone new has had the moment where you glance out of the corner of your eye as someone else sits down in front of the console and whips out some super-slick Pro Tools shortcut you’ve never seen before. You either calmly pretend you know exactly what they’re doing to save face (while trying to glance over their shoulder next time they aren’t looking) or blurt out “WHOA!

Amplifier Modeling has come a long way in the last five-ish years. As manufactures have honed their algorithms and musicians and producers have begun to adopt sims as part of their normal live and studio setups, the possibilities have expanded enormously.