This story first appeared in Trust Me, I’m a Scientist, November 3, 2013
Keys to the Kingdom
In an expectant moment before my first guitar lesson, I quickly grabbed a pick out of the tin at the front desk of my local music store.
I can’t be sure if it Read more...
Few topics stir up as much strong emotion among audio professionals as analog tape can.
Musicians and engineers alike love to romanticize about how warm and musical tape sounds, how it forces you to make decisions and commit to sounds without being able to “undo” it all, and how it Read more...
SonicScoop’s Justin Colletti is back for the third and final installment in his latest mic roundup series, thanks to our friends at B&H.
In the first two segments in this series, we looked at some high-end mics inspired by the classic AKG C12 and Neumann U47 designs, as well as Read more...
Choices, choices, choices. Book time to track at most any pro recording studio, and they’ll proudly show you a mic locker with dozens of omnis, ribbons, LDC’s and 123’s.
But what happens when there aren’t a million choices for capturing sound? As any experienced engineer knows, the limitations are often Read more...
I’ve always been a big fan of Propellerhead’s Reason software. Though I never fully understood all its ins and outs in the past, I still regularly used it as a synth engine and as a Rewire tool within Ableton.
With Reason, Propellerhead created a platform that seems to have convinced Read more...
Every year, recording technology continues to become cheaper and more accessible than ever before.
Along with this increase in accessibility however, comes a shift in business model for commercial and home studios alike.
Gone are the days where home studios were just for amateurs, enthusiasts and well-to-do artists, as many Read more...
Will The Beatles ever get old? To those who connect with the massive charisma of the men and their music, all things Fab Four means endless fascination.
A flurry of recent films focusing on The Beatles backs that up, including the newly released Deconstructing the Beatles’ White Album, hitting Read more...
SonicScoop’s Justin Colletti is back yet again for another great mic roundup, this time featuring some very affordable tube condenser mics, thanks to our friends at B&H.
Last time, we looked at the top end of the spectrum, trying out some high-end mics inspired by the classic AKG C12 and Read more...
There’s a studio in Seacaucus, NJ that goes by the dislocated name of Hoboken HiFi.
That juxtaposition isn’t so strange when you consider the facility’s founder, a Northeasterner named Jim the Boss who was weaned on Sinatra and punk rock before falling hopelessly in love with reggae. He started a Read more...
Success in recording and mixing requires using the most accurate speakers and acoustically unambiguous rooms you can get access to.
This means that to get great results at every stage, we have to either strive to work in rooms that do not adversely color Read more...
