Music production is so different depending on who’s doing it. There are so many things involved: arrangement, instrumentation and pre-production. For instance, even before you decide to record anything, songs can come from many different directions. A guitar riff and a drum groove can be a basis for a song. A chord structure and a melody...
If you’re in school you might be familiar with the time of year when every professor at school thinks it’s a good idea to just pile on the projects. It’s like they get together and scheme against the students. “Hey, how about we make the first two months really easy and then we give all the...
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...
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Namm was this past weekend. Lots of gear. But for some reason I wish I would have more to report. You see, it’s just becoming more and more of the same thing. Yay, here’s another entry-level interface that’s comparable to all the other entry-level interfaces out there. PreSonus came out with monitors, which sounds weird...
I recently had the opportunity to interview Different Fur Studios’ Patrick Brown. Patrick Brown is the owner of the iconic Different Fur Studios, located in the Mission district in San Francisco. He worked as the engineer for the new Toro y Moi album and he took the time to discuss his approach to producing, as...
To celebrate the holidays, I’ve written a short eBook for you. It’s completely free. It’s also fairly weird. We have this weird tradition back home about our 13 santa clauses that come to town one by one and bear gifts. But they weren’t always nice. The old stories portray them as trickster who terrorized the...
I’ve got a fair amount of questions about music production from readers lately. I haven’t been able to answer them all so I took the liberty of compiling some of them into one short post. I get a lot of the same questions sometimes so hopefully this will help you, even if you haven’t asked...
My name is Björgvin and I’m an 80’s addict. [Everyone:] Hi! Björgvin! I think it has something to do with the fact that I was born smack in the middle of the 80’s rock era. There’s just something about the hugeness of the 80’s power ballads that make want to travel back in time and...