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This nightmare question gets asked once per musician, they spend a couple days tormenting themselves over it, then it finally all clicks into place. That …

Let me give you the low down. You can read some really in-depth information about microphones on the internet that’s simply not reality based. You …

There are as many worthless lyricists out there as there are people pumping out horrid beats in their bedrooms and filling up SoundCloud and YouTube. …

We all have heard that tone starts in the hands of the guitarist. Different players can play thru the exact same amp and guitar rig …

So you’ve written a great song. Now what? Most songs call for more than simply the original skeleton of voice and piano or guitar. But …

Anxious music students and seasoned performers are often asked, “How long do you practice every day?” Having treated many performers with stage fright, it is …

Learning to play jazz guitar might seem like rocket science to some, and while there is a world of information and approaches out there, taking …

With advances in technology driving the cost of music recording microphones, interfaces, and computers down, everyone is building their own home recording studios. Why not, …

Working with studio headphones and monitors that feature the flattest frequency responses is important. They reduce the possible variation our listener’s will hear due to …

Forget about the tall tales, the marketing schemes, and the urban legends. Nobody wants their fingertips raw and wounded from playing guitar. Mainly because that …

They’re designed well and make nice posters for a school classroom. They get a lot of re-pins on Pinterest. Halfway interested amateurs pass them around …

We’ve all heard the difference between an amateur recording captured in your buddy’s garage and a professional recording tracked in a recording studio equipped with …

Depending on who you’re talking to, you’ll get various definitions on what tone is and where it comes from. Many purists will even tell you …

What you’ll discover as you browse the internet is that there’s a whole ton of people who have built their own studio desks, but very …

Let’s say you’re an accomplished guitarist who has been playing live for nearly a decade, ripping improvised solos alongside your band mates in your city’s …

By virtue of being able to make beats, the instrumentalist in the rap and R&B community brings a boatload of skills to the table that …

Most musicians want an audience, and many people would love to hear their music (if only they knew it existed). Classically, that’s where music distribution …

It’s hard to blame musicians for not having a perfect gain stage… Most have never even heard of this aspect of signal processing. Ignorance won’t …

There are very few topics and techniques that amateur mixing and mastering engineers will avoid out of the sheer complexity and thus confusion. One of …

There’s a danger to studio recording and mixing the results. We all fall prey to using our eyes instead of our ears. It’s simply a …