Independents Day: Bruce Springteen’s Nebraska Opens Up A World Of Home Recording In January of...
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10 Tips for Recording Great Vocals In Your Home Studio
Invest in a decent mic Each voice has its own tonality and texture and no one microphone is a...
A Complete Guide to Plug-Ins For Your Home Studio
A Complete Guide to Plug-Ins For Your Home Studio In the May issue of Performer, I wrote about...
In The Studio With Parks
Brian King on Tracking Layered Textures While Keeping a Live Vibe PRE-PRODUCTION What was your pre-production like on this project? Pre-production was simple. We knew the sounds we wanted and mostly...
How John Németh Captures The Classic Sound of Memphis Soul on Analog Tape
PRE-PRODUCTION What was your preproduction like on this project? I demoed these songs with my road band Nick Fishman, Tommy Folen, A.C. Myles, Joe Meyer, Elliot Sowell and Smokey Davis while living...
How to Transition Your Home Recording Project to the Studio: Part 2
For part one in this series, please read last month’s issue or head here. PRE-AMPS & MICROPHONES If you already have a quality analog-to-digital interface with a nice pre-amp, then you are off...
An In-Depth Look at Constructing Orb Recording Studios, Austin
Orb Recording Studios is a 5,600-square-foot facility built from the ground up on an acre of Texas hill country just 25 minutes from downtown Austin. The studio is the vision of co-owners C.B....
How to Transition Your Home Recording Project to the Studio (part 1 of 2)
Let’s face it; it’s hard to record a full drum kit in a bedroom. Even if you can physically fit the kit, you then need room for all the mic stands and then there’s the neighbor downstairs to...
FIRST LISTEN: Stream The Trews’ New Album PLUS In-Studio Interview
We are super stoked to be premiering the new Trews album today in its entirety! Stream it below, and read our interview with guitarist John-Angus MacDonald about the making of the LP, due out...
How to Record a “Band” Album Sans Band
In The Studio with Jeff Taylor PRE-PRODUCTION What was your pre-production like on this project? After a few years of obsessing over the idea of being in a band with a set group of people, I decided...
How to Regroup & Record After a Full Band Dissolution
In the Studio with Repeater, an interview with Performer Magazine PRE-PRODUCTION What was your pre-production like on this project? Our full band was in dissolution after personal issues and lack of...
Utilizing Your Home Studio to Get Back to Basics: Recording With Golden Bloom
PRE-PRODUCTION What was your pre-production like on this project? Josh: We went to a cabin in Southwest Harbor, ME with a couple of acoustic guitars, a banjo, a bass, a keyboard, and a stripped down...
Overcoming Indie Film Scoring Challenges: One Composer’s Personal Experiences with the Art & Craft
Many film composers learn their trade by scoring short films. Many continue to score short films, and many never get an opportunity to score a full feature. The truth is that there are many...