The guitar must be one of the most popular instruments out there because it’s portable, it’s relatively easy for beginners and it’s simply cool. But no matter how approachable it may seem there are plenty of guitar techniques you’ll need to learn in your musical journey, one of the most common ones is fingerstyle and …
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Reverb is one of the most fundamental and essential effects in music. So much so that’s it’s hard to even call it an “effect”. After all, reverb is a naturally occurring phenomenon, and identifying it is pretty much hardwired into the human brain. Reverberation can also add depth, fullness, and extra richness to music regardless …
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I can’t help but start by referencing one of my favorite nerd pickup lines of all time. In Frasier, the geeky trekkie Noel purrs to his coworker Roz, “set phasers to stunning!” Alright, it’s a different kind of phaser- or is it? The two phasers have some strange overlap. In music and audio production, a …
We’ve all seen it. The guitarist who could be more accurately called a pedal collector with a guitar. The player who runs their instrument through so many layers of effects that it’s hard to know what is doing what, exactly. Let alone how the instrument sounded in the first place. Not for nothing, an entire …
Ah, the talk box. You can’t blame Peter Frampton. Somebody had to be the first and make the talk box their signature sound. It’s just like T-Pain with the auto-tune sound, or Daft Punk with their modulated robot thing. Any vocal effect is pretty much destined to fall in the hands of an artist searching …
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I’m a full-time producer, songwriter, and composer. I’ve worked on game soundtracks, musical theatre projects, and producing songwriters ranging from folk to pop to psychedelic. But I’m not going to lie to you- beneath it all, I will always be a punk. As a teenage in the mid-00s, skate punk was the first music I …
I’m a British-American. I was born and raised in the US, and I’ve lived all over, from the Midwest to the Deep South. But my parents emigrated from England shortly before I was born. I feel this gives me a unique insider-outsider view of American culture. I find myself comparing and contrasting America and UK …
If I may say so myself, I consider myself more qualified than most to write about MIDI. I’m a producer and songwriter, and I work in a lot of genres and styles these days. Indie, jazz, blues, rock, soundtracks… But music all goes back to MIDI for me. I developed my writing and arranging chops …
One of my favorite parts about my job is that I never know what’s coming next. I’m a freelance musician, and I take projects and gigs as they come. It can be kind of stressful, and I know that a lot of people would not be happy to live this way- there’s a lot of …
Serious audiophiles like myself (and probably you) are willing to do whatever it takes to maintain that sweet sound of vinyl including investing in a proper tube amp to maintain that old school feel. That’s despite the fact that vinyl records are more primitive, fussier, and more limited. They also get scratched and skip and …
