Throwing It All Away To Find It Again Before I ran into some (luckily fixable) health issues recently, I had been working full throttle on both JDM Pedals and recording/mixing/rehearsing the new
The Great Pleasures in Music I apologize for not posting Guitar Journal installments as often as I planned. Life leads us through a variety of winding paths, and led me to playing the David
Acoustic treatment for your studio is probably the least expensive way to improve your studio's sound; seriously! For the same price as a Shure '57, you can build a half-dozen broadband absorbers and improve your
n this post we’ll have some fun with a single, cheap ribbon mic that was placed over the kit, and sounded fantastic! With some processing, it adds a great “smack” to the snare drum,
Getting set up to create these “screen capture” style tutorial videos was a pain in the interface. It might seem simple in comparison to dealing with 24 channels of audio inputs and multiple interfaces
Continuing with the drum tracks - In part 3, we're on to some EQ and compression tips for individual channels. Next week we'll have fun with the mono ribbon mic that was placed over
Continuing with drum mixing, we’re on to the next step in organizing and “tightening up” your drum tracks. Be sure you get the free “cleansweep” plugin from brainworx before they
We’ve gotten started putting up some video tips, despite some rather annoying technical difficulties.
Yesterday we finished mixing and mastering the new album from The Soundmills. It took a bit longer than expected, but I believe these guys deserved the extra time and effort. The
It’s now more than a week into February, and I’m still not done with The Soundmills mixes. We keep improving, and some replacement performances recently came in, so things are somewhat behind schedule. Instead of