From The Hook to The Bridge
New York City has long been a home to talented artists, musicians, engineers, producers and world renowned recording studios. But in this age of acceleration, in which recording budgets have shrunk while urban real estate markets have sky rocketed, the era of the large Read more...
SonicScoop editor Justin Colletti is back once again with another mixing masterclass, this time on vocal processing.
In this episode of our video tutorial series with B&H, Justin fires up the rig at Joe Lambert Mastering and pulls up a multi-track of the song “Heroes” by AMFM to help walk Read more...
The madness began with 1989. Not the year, the record.
So beguiling was Taylor Swift’s fifth studio album that none can resist its magnetic pull, not fans nor artists nor engineers nor producers. 9.5 million in sales worldwide and no less than seven singles – including “Bad Blood,” “Shake It Read more...
This story first appeared in Trust Me, I’m a Scientist, September 3rd, 2013.
We now live in a global economy. This means that no matter what path you take in life, if you want anything that resembles a sustainable and fulfilling career in a creative field, chances are that you’re Read more...
It would be difficult to find a producer, engineer, or musician who hasn’t been influenced by the work of Daniel Lanois in some way.
Over the past few decades, the Canadian multi-instrumentalist, mixer, and producer has continuously released his own solo works while collaborating with an array of remarkable, world-renowned Read more...
Thought Matty Amendola was out of drum and bass mix tricks? Turns out he was just getting started with “Blah Blah Blah” by 825 Records artist Juliana Wilson.
In part 3 of “Making the Mix II”, Matty moves from clap stacks to sample tuning, to his #1 favorite plugin preset Read more...
Last week, we explored a variety of ways to get an excellent acoustic guitar recording using a single microphone. The next logical step in the quest for different sonic nuances is to combine two or more microphones to obtain different colors.
While the single-mic techniques we demonstrated can be perfect Read more...
His name was Jazz – literally.
Rudy Van Gelder passed away on August 25 at his home in Englewood Cliffs, NJ, at age 91. It would be hard to name an audio engineer who was more closely associated with the genre they excelled in than Van Gelder. Over the many Read more...
If there’s one thing Producer/Engineer Matty Amendola loves more than teaching audio on camera, it’s making music in the studio.
Lucky for us all, the prolific founder of Brooklyn’s 825 Studios – and its sister label 825 Records – doesn’t have to choose. Once again, he’s put it all together Read more...
This story first appeared in Trust Me, I’m a Scientist, September 4th, 2012.
Among self-financed musicians, pre-production is arguably the most neglected step of the recording process.
This is especially regrettable because pre-production is perhaps the least expensive part of the process, and the one that offers the greatest return Read more...
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