Cayucas recently retreated to Woodinville, Washington at rustic Bear Creek Studio to work with producer Ryan Hadlock on their latest Dancing At The Blue Lagoon...
This month Performer Magazine presents another in a long line of spectacular issues, featuring the equally spectacular Bassnectar on the cover. ALSO INSIDE: interviews with...
FLASHBACK 1987 Tascam Porta Two Cassette Four-Track Tape Recorder BACKGROUND The Porta Two is a portable cassette four-track tape recorder manufactured by Tascam in 1987....
Independents Day: Bruce Springteen’s Nebraska Opens Up A World Of Home Recording In January of 1982, Bruce Springsteen recorded a group of fifteen demos in the...
Invest in a decent mic Each voice has its own tonality and texture and no one microphone is a perfect solution for all voices. Big...
A Complete Guide to Plug-Ins For Your Home Studio In the May issue of Performer, I wrote about analog tape machine plug-ins. This month we’re...
Here’s the thing about compressors: they’re not used for what you think they’re for! And, how you think about using them fully determines the results...
Do You Need a Control Surface for Your Home Studio? In the good old days of analog recording, when something needed adjustment on the mix...
How To Choose The Right DAW For Your Home Studio WHAT IS A DAW? A fancy haircut, 23,000 Twitter followers and national television exposure are...
My first home studio consisted of a tower PC running a MIDI sequencer, a Korg DW-8000 synthesizer, and an Akai S-2000 rack mount sampler. I...