Every once in a while I get asked why I don’t talk about mastering. I do a little bit, but I tend to focus more on mixing. The reason is, there’s somebody else who is just so much better at it than me. So I usually let him do the talking. Next week Ian Shepherd...
Today I want to talk about Dynamic Range Day. It was created to raise awareness of the loudness wars and how audio production has less and less dynamic range each year. Some of those remastered records that sounded so good way back when now sound terribly squashed because somebody ran them through the newest UltraMegaMasterizaTerrorizer! You...
This is a guest post by Rajiv Agarwal. If you want to contribute a post, please see the guest post guidelines. There are so many audio formats out there, which ones should you choose to record your audio in? An audio format is a file format that you use to store music on your computer. There are...
This Tell us your name, age and where you live. My name is Mike DeMarco. How did you get interested in audio engineering and music production? I got into audio engineering because when I would listen to records I would always listen to the drums or guitar and wonder of they got to sound that...
Here is part II of my interview with music producer Craig Schumacher. If you missed part I, check it out here: Interview With Music Producer Craig Schumacher Part I As you know, Craig is world-renowned producer. Calexico, Amos a great environment to make quality music. In part II of our interview Craig gave us insights...
This week I interviewed producer Craig Schumacher of Wavelab Studios in Tucson Arizona. Craig is world-renowned producer. Calexico, Amos Lee, KT Tunstall, Neko Case, acts that have used his services in the past and Wavelab Studios has a reputation as a great environment to make quality music. We sat down at his studio in downtown...