Harmony Basics - Part 47
LearningIn the previous article, I introduced you to modal harmony and recovered, with a slight change of perspective, the concepts of mode, scale and key you saw at the beginning of this series. Before cont…
The ultimate guide to audio recording - Part 76
Learning"S**t, I forgot that!" Have you ever had that feeling when you came out of a test or an important interview? I bet you have, surely at least the "s**t" part... Well that's exactly what I thought a co…
Harmony Basics - Part 46
LearningToday I invite you to continue on this harmonic trip with a completely new topic. But it's not just any topic! In fact, it might just shatter some of your most deeply entrenched beliefs and fundament…
Sound designer Scott Gershin talks tools, techniques and trends
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
The ultimate guide to audio recording - Part 71
LearningToday we'll tackle a rather delicate topic: Should you record with or without effects?
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.
The ultimate guide to audio recording - Part 70
LearningToday we will discuss direct recording an electric guitar.
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…
The ultimate guide to audio recording - Part 69
LearningThis week I will show you a technique that is pretty widespread when it comes to recording electric guitar (but not only), namely: double-tracking!
Harmony Basics - Part 39
LearningToday we'll go once again over what we saw in articles 34 and 36 regarding voice-leading according to cadence, exploring in detail voice movements in relation to the most common cadences.
The ultimate guide to audio recording - Part 68
LearningToday I will show you a nifty trick derived from the previous installment which will allow you to get an quasi-stereo electric guitar sound with two mono takes.
Talking music production with renowned producer, engineer and mixer Bob Power
LearningWhether it's producing, tracking, mixing or mastering—Bob Power has done it. He's been around long enough to have seen the changeover from analog to digital, the demise of the record industry, the ri…
Harmony Basics - Part 38
LearningThe previous article allowed you to get to know chords better, discussing open and drop chords. This week we'll take a look at a case where voices evolve in parallel, with a special focus on octaves …
The ultimate guide to audio recording - Part 67
LearningIn this installment we'll see in which cases it might be useful to record your guitar amp with several mics.
Harmony Basics - Part 37
LearningIn the previous article we briefly studied the movements of each voice within the context of voice-leading, based on the motion of the root. Today we'll focus on a particular sort of voicing: drop vo…
The ultimate guide to audio recording - Part 66
LearningThis week we retake the recording of electric guitar with the installment you've all been waiting for: the recording itself!
The ultimate guide to audio recording - Part 65
LearningToday's article is somewhat special but serves to illustrate perfectly the advantages of splicing into episodes this sort of series.
