Mixer Clinic: Understanding Artist Expectations — Featuring Dunson’s...
Every mix I do starts with a conversation with the artist. Mixer Brandon Lackey heads up the Lineup Room. My goal is to deliver something great. The best way for me to do that is to get a clear...
View ArticleTransAudio Group To Distribute Bettermaker’s Analog EQ’s With Plug-In Remote...
Bettermaker is behind a few of the most unique analog equalizers that have been produced in our modern age — starting now, US distributor TransAudio Group can get Bettermaker’s latest and bestest into...
View ArticleHow to Make a Production Music Library in 10 Steps — Lessons From The Vault
We’ve been making music for a long time. And we’ve been lucky enough at Stephen Arnold Music to produce branded music packages for some of the largest networks in the world. Volumes from...
View ArticleG-Sonique Releases Pultronic EQ-50M Mid-Range Vacuum Tube EQ
Based on the design of their popular EQ-110P plug-in released a few years ago, G-Sonique is taking their Pultronic design to the mid-range with EQ-50M. The plugin focuses to add more color and harmonic...
View ArticleStewart Copeland, Jeff Beal To Keynote 1st Annual Production Music Conference...
If its masterful mentors you seek, look no further. Stewart Copeland (picture) will keynote the afternoon session of the PMC, and Jeff Beal will keynote in the morning. The first annual Production...
View ArticleDrums Anywhere Debuts – Turns Any Surface Into a Drum Kit
This may be a drum dream come true. Of course, nothing stands in for a real drum kit. But for any personal studio producer or composer tired of trying to bang out a natural rhythm on a MIDI keyboard,...
View ArticleReturn of the Record Label Recording Studio – ECR Music Group’s NYC Home Base
Is the record label recording studio back on the rise? ECR Music Group’s studio provides a welcoming window on recording. Time was when a record company and their own recording studio were inseparable....
View ArticleMix with Maury: How and Why Distortion Can Replace the Need for EQ & Compression
Get a sharp idea of what distortion can do for your mixes. (Image by Shutterstock) As mixers, two of our main objectives are to achieve a balance in both the frequency response and the dynamic range....
View ArticleXILS-lab Releases DeeS – Transparent De-Esser Plug-In
DeeS from XILS is the first of a new plug-in line designed to provide phenomenal production possibilities. DeeS promises to rid your precious recordings of sneaky sibilance with ease – Removal is...
View ArticlePropellerhead Announces Reason 8 – New Workflow & Additional Content
The melody, beat, processing beast has officially received a makeover. Propellerhead has announced Reason 8, allowing better workflow and expanded content through a massive restructuring. The new...
View ArticleDevil Technologies Launches DTouch for Pro Tools V1.2 – Powerful Multi-Touch...
Has multi-touch Pro Tools control for the rest of us arrived? Devil Technologies, which released DTouch for Pro Tools in Spring of this year, is making a bigger noise with the launch of V1.2. The...
View ArticleCareer Corner: Three Big Tips for Aspiring Assistant Engineers
I write this as a follow-up to Andrew Koss’s excellent article, “Recording Studio Internships: How NOT to Get One — and How to Get 10 Offers,” which advises would-be interns on what it takes to get in...
View ArticleBock Audio Announces Bock 407 – New Tube Microphone With Vintage U47 Sound
David Bock, the man behind Bock Audio, has designed a series of microphones to reproduce the stunning characteristics of vintage microphones we’ve all come to know and love. Bock’s design goals are to...
View ArticleMaking the Mix Room: Matt “Linny” Linesch – Ocean Way Recording, Hollywood
It’s exhilarating to catch a rising star – and that’s exactly what’s captured here in the latest “Making the Mix Room.” Matt “Linny” Linesch and his treasured Trident are a tight musical team.What...
View ArticleJZ Microphones Introduces the Michael Wagener Kit
JZ Microphones, the Latvian-based manufacturer of handmade microphones, has introduced a special Michael Wagener signature microphone kit, consisting of two microphones: a BT-201 small diaphragm...
View ArticleJZ Microphones Introduces the Michael Wagener Kit
JZ Microphones, the Latvian-based manufacturer of handmade microphones, has introduced a special Michael Wagener signature microphone kit, consisting of two microphones: a BT-201 small diaphragm...
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Outside Scoop: MIDI 2.0, NAMM Highlights, Essential Music Production Books,...
Each week, I trudge through the swamp that is the internet, finding the most exciting new music production articles, videos, and podcasts so that you don’t have to. This week, Outside Scoop covers...
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