I like to listen to podcasts when I’m going about my day. Not podcasts about music production or songwriting. No, I need something else to take my mind off things. There’s this one podcast that’s absolutely terrific. It’s called This American Life. It’s been going on forever and it’s one of the few apps I’ve actually...
There’s something about taking something you love, like your music, and making it better than you ever thought. It’s like the Extreme Makeover shows. For example, they take a rundown house and create a paradise out of it for the family. New furniture, new architecture, new everything. How about we do that to your music?...
There hasn’t been much going on at the website lately, as you might have noticed. Don’t worry. I haven’t quit and I didn’t die. In fact, I’m recharged and ready to rock. When life happens and everything piles up at once, there are two things you can do. 1. Fail Steven Levitt, one of favorite...
Two quick announcements today for you, although they are very related. 1. The Best of Production Advice My friend Ian Shepherd over at Production Advice has come out with a new ebook, It’s exactly what it says in the title. It compiles all the best posts from his site into one convenient ebook package. I...
This is a guest post by Conor O’Hagan. The Status Quo It is no grand statement to praise the technical ability of the elite vocalists. In the majority of cases it is a necessity to have not only a large vocal range, but an acute precision to hitting the exact note every time. (There is...
I’m heading out to Anaheim partake in the craziness that is NAMM 2012. Last year was awesome, and I’m sure this one will be even better. It’s my third year and so far it’s just been getting better and better every year. For those of you who can’t make it to NAMM, I’ll be regularly...
Some of you readers might have remembered when my MacBook broke a while back. Man, some of you even But what you don’t know is that I bought 8 GB of additional RAM when I ordered it back in June. That extra RAM was lying on my desk for the last 4 months because I...
This is a guest post by Andrew Reilly. You might have noticed that a musical genre is the first label placed on a band. More often than not, the labeling is a lazy one. Not every band is able to fit neatly into a little box with a bunch of other bands but because of the...
I was a part of an interesting e-mail thread a while back. This guy was looking for a home studio and he was asking around for where to go. An acquaintance of mine chimed in with his answer, with some details about studios and such but there was one comment that really infuriated me: You...
I was a part of an interesting e-mail thread a while back. This guy was looking for a home studio and he was asking around for where to go. An acquaintance of mine chimed in with his answer, with some details about studios and such but there was one comment that really infuriated me: You...