Sound designer Scott Gershin talks tools, techniques an… - From Hollywood to Virtual Reality
Interview / PodcastScott Gershin is one of the top sound designers working today. He's been creating sounds for over 30 years and has a credit list a mile long, which includes films such as Nightcrawler, Pacific Rim, H…
Voicings for piano (end) - Harmony Basics - Part 45
LearningAs you already saw, due to orchestration (delegating the root to the instrument carrying the bass line) or simplification (making voicings lighter), you can take away all sort of notes from your voic…
Voicings for piano (continued) - Harmony Basics - Part 44
LearningIn the previous article we started to discuss how to apply to the piano everything you've seen so far regarding voicings. Today we'll continue doing the same.
Recording electric guitar - DI Joe - The ultimate guide to audio recording - Part 75
LearningWhen you talk about electric guitar, it's inevitable to think about the instrument and an amp. To the point that when you mention "direct recording" to some guitar players, they cry "heresy!" and shu…
The community's favorite Ableton Live controllers - Top Ableton Live controllers
TopMany of you out there use the famous Ableton sequencer and at one time or another have surely considered getting a controller to gain some creativity, comfort and speed.
Left-hand voicings for piano - Harmony Basics - Part 43
LearningToday I will change a bit the usual approach of this article series. What I intend to do this time is to leave aside the purely theoretical aspect and put into practice, in a very simple manner, what…
Recording electric guitar - Hardware - The ultimate guide to audio recording - Part 74
LearningIn this new installment I will suggest some mics and DIs to record electric guitar. By no means is this list meant to be an exhaustive one. As usual, I will stick to the standard solutions which have…
Recording electric guitar - With or without effects? - … - The ultimate guide to audio recording - Part 73
LearningGranted, the techniques you saw last time are not exactly meant for beginners. That said, I think they allow you to get results that easily compensate for the headaches that thinking about the "routi…
Voicings and cadences - Follow-up and end - Harmony Basics - Part 42
LearningThe present article closes the mini-series we started with article 39 focusing on the use of voicings within the most common cadences. And we'll finish studying voicings based on added-tone chords lo…
Recording electric guitar - With or without effects? - … - The ultimate guide to audio recording - Part 72
LearningSecond part dedicated to trying to solve the question of whether you should record an electric guitar with or without effects.
Recording electric guitar - With or without effects? - The ultimate guide to audio recording - Part 71
LearningToday we'll tackle a rather delicate topic: Should you record with or without effects?
Voicings and cadences - Second-to-last installment - Harmony Basics - Part 41
LearningWith this article we close the chapter on voicings within the framework of cadences by seeing how you can add tones to the cadence chords in the previous articles.
Recording electric guitar - Direct recording - The ultimate guide to audio recording - Part 70
LearningToday we will discuss direct recording an electric guitar.
The best paid tape emulation plug-ins - Top paid magnetic tape machine emulators
TopOh, the sound of tape! That "something" that so many people miss in digital recordings. Although there are plug-ins that do just that...
Voicings and cadences - Follow-up - Harmony Basics - Part 40
LearningIn the previous article we discussed some examples for three types of cadences: seventh chord progressions based on the circle of fifths, the perfect cadence and the plagal cadence. And we also looke…
