Do you remember that show Bob the Builder? It was a children’s TV program about this building contractor that went around helping people with their construction jobs. But in reality it taught kids how to cooperate, be social and help one another. Basically it taught them to create relationship with people, with its foundation based...
After a long week of mixing a smokin’ hot album, it’s time to stop and master all the different tracks together. Will you be mastering your mix? Or do you hand it off to someone else for a different touch? If you decide to work with a mastering engineer, here are some things to keep...
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...
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 a variety of formats, like wav, mp3, aiff, wma etc. To understand the difference between various formats, we need to...
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...
The business magazine Fast Company regularly has a feature on 50 of the World’s Most innovative Companies. These were companies that were doing something new and exciting. Something different in their businesses and succeeding in their innovation. That made me think about innovations in music production and audio recording. Innovation Overdrive Take the last 60...
A long time ago, a friend of mine told me this simple technique he used to deal with a novice studio musician. You know the kind, the studio musician that might be great performer but somehow gets real stressed out in the studio. They feed off the audience when they’re playing live, rocking out and...