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“I’ve loved standalone sequenced synths and grooveboxes since coming late to the Roland MC202 and Korg’s Electribes. But the computer always seemed the way forward...”
“Nothing, to my mind, represents the harmonious marriage between the creative and the technical quite like a patchbay.”
Over the last few years, while so many musicians are bemoaning the death of their own CD sales and the singular lack of income...
I love music. Of course I love music. Why else would I make it and record it and listen to it and write about it? But I also love silence...
“...in a big band arrangement the goal is not simply to play the song with a big band, it’s to imagine something unique with it.”
K‑pop is a truly global music style, and BTS’s successful assault on the US charts was led by a British mix engineer.
Why is it that I hear about so many producers spending hours riding lead vocal levels. Surely that’s what a compressor’s supposed to do?
Are we losing touch with what ‘human’ sounds like?
David Guetta is the global superstar who brought EDM out of the underground and into the mainstream.
Although Macs are simply wonderful when they are working properly, on a bad day they can be just as frustrating as their counterparts...
Together with David Guetta, French producer and composer Fred Rister created the hits that made EDM a global phenomenon.
Don’t get too carried away at the idea of seeing your name in lights. For one thing, it might not be your name, exactly...
The move away from traditional studio production has opened up new opportunities for mastering engineers like Piper Payne — but it’s also brought new challenges.
Brush up on your listening skills, as we dissect more hits from a recording and production perspective. This month: Mabel, Big Shaq, Eminem (feat. Joyner Lucas) and our classic mix is Petula Clark 'Downtown' (1965).
MsM’s bedroom studio in North London helped put grime on the map. Since then, both engineer and music have gone on to bigger things...
Hip-hop collective Brockhampton abandoned their home studios for Abbey Road — and left with a number one album.
Brush up on your listening skills, as we dissect some hits from a recording and production perspective. This month: Portugal The Man, Lost Frequencies & Zonderling, Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa, Jay-Z and Run-DMC.
For his recent tour of the States, synthwave star Seth Haley, aka Com Truise, has had to adapt his complex studio setup to life on the road.
This little module combines quiet, clean electronics with a characterful bucket-brigade delay line.
The principles behind George Ezra’s second album sound simple: great songs, great vibe, and plenty of crunch. In practice, things got a bit more complicated...