wax&wires

EPISODE 4

In this episode:
- Performance Rights Organizations (BMI vs. ASCAP vs…)
- Aqualung
- Parallel and Two-Stage Compression

“Record” is here. I caught up with Gerry Basserman, Propheads’ director of North American Markets at the Reason Producer’s Conference this past Saturday to get a quick video snippet for you all.

On 2nd April 2009 Keane will make history with the world’s first ever live webcast in 3D.

Check out this video of a new type of interfacing for Cubase (and undoubtedly other DAWs soon enough).

We all want ways to crank out better music, and faster. Here are a few tips I’ve employed to help with just that.

KRK’s ERGO system was announced at NAMM 2008, and was expected to ship as early as April of ‘08. Well, we’re closing in on NAMM 2009, and have finally received word that KRK will be shipping their room correction units as soon as this Tuesday.
The ERGO unit connects to your computer via Firewire to analyze [...]

A week ago, in Fix It Before You Mix It, I wrote about 8 simple things you can do to set yourself up for success leading up to the mix stage of your project. In this article, I’ll try to take you through a few things that can help you during that mix stage.

Don’t count on fixing your recordings in the mix stage. Here are 8 simple things to do, before you mix, to get better sounding tracks.