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Benjamin Ricci
Why NOW is the Perfect Time to Get Insurance For Your Band
If the pandemic taught us anything as musicians and music-lovers, it’s how much we took for...
REVIEW: Donner Starry Pad MIDI Drum Pad Controller
We hate to keep comparing things, but since our go-to pad controller in the studio is the PreSonus...
4 Insider Tips for Collaborating with Vocalists While Socially Distancing
In this era of social distancing, music creators are finding new ways to collaborate safely from afar. While there are plenty of workarounds for remote collaboration with musicians, working with...
Introducing Novation Circuit Tracks
New groovebox encourages music makers to ‘create instinctively; perform immediately’. The latest in Novation’s Circuit family of grooveboxes has arrived! Circuit Tracks is an extraordinary...
Dear Music Maker – You’re Doing Just Fine
Did you see that meme about how Shakespeare wrote King Lear during the plague? How about Isaac Newton - did you see the article about how he developed differential and integral calculus (among other...
Guerilla Home Recording with Couchsleepers’ Harrison Hsiang
Part 1: Drums I record all my music myself in my two-bedroom apartment. These days, I’ve assembled a pretty complete home studio set-up, but in the early days, that wasn’t the case. Despite the fact...
How to Record Like a Pro from Home
GETTING STARTED In the world of studio recording, when we think back to 15 years ago, there are some things we thought we could never do. In today’s age, getting professional quality recordings from...
WILLIE JONES: Fusing Country and Hip-Hop into the Ultimate American Dream
Willie Jones may be mistakenly categorized as that tired cliche of an “overnight success,” even though he first lit up The X Factor fresh out of high school way back in 2012, starred in the Netflix...
Waves and Ocean Way Collaborate on the New Waves Nx Ocean Way Nashville Plugin
Waves Audio, the world’s leading developer of professional audio signal processing technologies and leading maker of audio plugins for mixing, music production, mastering, sound design, broadcast,...
Oscar Lang Harnesses the Power of Solitude on New LP
Oscar Lang is no stranger to solitude. A haunting sense of ennui and a gripping feeling of loneliness feature prominently in his work, particularly in his early albums. Even so, going through his...
Cover Story: Oompa’s Vision of a Better World Through Song
Boston-based hip-hop and spoken word artist Oompa wears many hats: lyricist, poet, creator, activist, and visionary are just a handful I learned when speaking with her. Her music, like everything...
Yamaha YC61 Stage Keyboard REVIEW
The new Yamaha YC61 is quite the beast – a 61-key clonewheel-style organ and piano combo that takes cues from some existing Yamaha instruments (like the CP73) and retains the feel and sound the...