Ever since the soft-synth/sampler revolution began toward the end of the last millennium, Digidesign Pro Tools has attempted a variety of methods to exploit...
The importance of a professional monitoring system for auditioning and mixing your music cannot be underestimated. If you're unable to hear your music...
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Where does motivation and drive come from, and how do you bring it out of yourself, your bandmates and your collaborators? There's a trigger to push even...
Chops has been making moves in hip-hop for over a decade. His old group, the Mountain Brothers, was signed to Ruffhouse back in the day, though the trio...
In a quiet residential neighborhood in San Leandro, Calif., in a cottage at the back of Josh Gabriel's house, which he shares with his wife and two smiley...
You can ask anybody: Would they rather hear the rawest, dirtiest record that was recorded like shit but that has emotion or a clean record done in a big...
More musicians than ever take a jack-of-all-trades approach to producing their work, writing, arranging and recording entire projects themselves. Wearing...
So this train really doesn't stop, does it? I'm not referring to time and the stinging reality that we, and everyone we know, keep getting older every...
Detectives are usually looking for evidence at the scene of the crime, but not the musical scrutinizer known as Blockhead. Instead, he's constantly on...
There's an episode of The Simpsons where Homer discovers weight lifting. He gets so into it that he gets these enormously buff, rippling muscles. But...
You've toiled with your final mixes for what seems like forever, and you're ready to commit the music to whatever its final delivery medium will be. Then...
THANKS TO ARTISTS SUCH AS THIEVERY CORPORATION AND DJ SHADOW, as well as labels like James Lavelle's Mo' Wax, the commercial door was opened in the late...
Somewhere in southeast London, Matt Black is reflecting on the glory of his and fellow Coldcut member Jonathan More's brilliant career. They can rightly...
It's funny because I never really wanted to do a solo record, says an energized Pharrell Williams, fresh off a whirlwind trip to Tokyo and the much-hyped...
Here's a typical scenario: You've been producing tracks for a while now. You've brewed the pots of coffee at midnight, you've put the hours in learning...
Maybe it's because I, Kylee, grew up in the same house from age 5 to 18 in a very safe, rural town in Minnesota, but change freaks me the hell out. Still,...
When many people think of drum recording, they automatically envision certain standards like the following: a dedicated kick-drum mic mounted inside of...
DJ Premier is hip-hop royalty. His signature production sound is immediately recognizable: Loaded with beautifully filthy drums and scratched hooks, his...
Perfection is a nebulous concept, one that varies dramatically depending on who or what is directing the point of comparison. In terms of music production,...
IF YOU'VE EVER SCRATCHED YOUR HEAD AND WONDERED why tracks that sounded killer in the confines of your home studio came out bright and brittle, narrow...
The man of a thousand freaky hats, Jay Kay, is sitting in the English garden of his Chillington, Buckinghamshire, estate in England. A stronghold during...
Nowadays, those all-too-geeky live electronic-music events have become a norm in clubs, complete with the ghostly, illuminated faces of nonanimated performers...
If the standard pop band is the result of years of evolution and natural selection whereby the most well-adapted species rise to the top of the entertainment...
Heads are nodding in the control room at Monza Studios in midtown Manhattan, where 26-year-old hip-hop producer and label mogul Swizz Beatz is blasting...
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