We examine the production of some commercial releases to help you brush up on your listening skills. This time: Joey + Rory and our Classic Mix is Fats Domino's ‘Blueberry Hill’ (1956).
If you make and record music using computers, as most of us do, you rely heavily on technology and have to come to terms with the fact that things can sometimes change more quickly than you might like.
Go-to producer for Taylor Swift, Lorde and St. Vincent, Jack Antonoff has the rare ability to translate wild experimentation into record sales.
This month tracks from Sam Smith • Taylor Swift • Imagine Dragons • Classic Mix: Spice Girls ‘Wannabe' (1996).
Orchestral performance and the role of modern technology.
Karl Marx predicted that history would repeat itself as farce — but he never saw a role for expert pop parody!
Not all that long ago it seemed that there was a place in the mainstream for instrumental music...
Will non-AI mixing become the new vintage?
Brush up on your listening skills, as we deconstruct some tracks from a production and arrangement perspective.
Getting your music online has never been easier, though making any money from it might be more of a challenge. However, the...
German producer Zedd has become a star by bringing musicality to electronic dance music.
Brush up on your listening skills as we review some hit tracks from a producer’s perspective. This month: Niall Horan • London Grammar • Anderson Paak • Classic Mix: Linkin Park ‘In The End’ (2000).
Recording our own music has never been more affordable, but there are still some pricing decisions that make little sense to...
A move to the country led the National to rethink their recording process and embrace studio experimentation as never before.
When a musician takes an interest in home recording, or makes the transition from old-school recording hardware to the wonderful world of computers, the question we hear most frequently relates to the choice of DAW software.
Why do musicians see value in the music they write but not the software they use to write it?
This month: Snarky Puppy • Zedd & Alessia Cara • Royal Blood • Kendrick Lamar • Kyle • Classic Mix: Fleetwood Mac ‘Dreams’ (1977).
It is time that we developed a new series of universally recognised credits that better reflect the skill and effort required to create a modern album.
Star producer Ariel Rechtshaid inhabits many different musical worlds at once. No wonder he’s busy...