How To Maintain Perspective in The Limitless Realm of Digital Recording As we find ourselves...
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The Changing Relationships Of Modern Music Production
The Changing Relationships Of Modern Music Production Know your role and understand theirs to...
Try This Fun and Cheap DIY Home Studio Upgrade: The Transformerless SM57 Mod
While perhaps not the most rewarding or necessary of mods that can be made to your home recording...
The 4 Elements That Separate a Good Mix From a Great Mix
The first thing to understand about music is that it's completely subjective. You might make music for yourself, you might make music for an audience, but the audience will always form their own...
7 Must-Haves for Session Musicians Recording at Home
Modern technology has drastically changed the nature of working as a session musician. These days, many session players have almost as much skill as audio engineers and run their own studios where...
8 Commonly Overlooked Ways to Save Money on Your Album Production Costs
If you're like most of the musicians that we see coming into the studio, you don't have a major label financing the recording/mixing/mastering of your album. Most artists have to pay for the...
A Musician’s Guide to The Artist/Producer Relationship
An In-Depth Look at Working Together In The Studio When you enter a recording studio you are beginning a relationship with at least one new person – the recording engineer. A lot is riding on this...
EXTENDED DEADLINE! Win a Pair of Mackie CR4 Creative Reference Multimedia Monitors!
Our friends at Mackie rule. To prove it, they're letting us give away a pair of their brand new CR4 Creative Reference 4" Multimedia Monitors! If you're thinking of outfitting a new home/bedroom...
How to Create Your Own DIY Recording Studio
Recording takes a lot of time. It takes a lot of patience. And, for some, it can cost a lot of money. While some artists may spend thousands in studio time before hitting on a tune that stuck,...
Get Classic Talking Heads Sounds with a 1978 Lexicon 224 Digital Reverb
Widely considered the best high-end reverb of its day, the Lexicon 224 Digital Reverb was made by a nuclear scientist Dr. David Griesinger. The unit was considered “affordable” at $7,500 back in the...
Performer’s Ultimate Guide to Microphone Selection
Many microphones have been talked about as if they have this mystical ability to enhance performances, as if they can transform a crappy guitar into a handcrafted masterpiece or a mediocre vocalist...
How to Fix Common Mistakes in the Recording Studio
“Don’t worry, we’ll fix it in the mix.” We know it’s a cliché but often it’s true. The power of recording in a controlled environment with the right tools and the right engineer is that many common...
The June Issue Has Arrived, Featuring Baby Baby
The new June issue is here! Join us as we chat with Atlanta's punk party monsters Baby Baby about the recording of their new LP and how to get fans to crowd-fund your record the old-fashioned way....