Note: If you have sold your car (and re-mortgaged your house) to buy one, stop reading and start chanting: "It's okay to record on a G4, it's okay to record..." This is not another digital versus...
In an anonymous garage on a residential street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn sits Excello Recording. It's been there for 13 years, long before the parade of hipsters crossed the BQE. It's an enigmatic...
Going into the studio as an artist, there's nothing I look for more than magic. When producing someone else's music I get deep into the mechanics of "how", but when it's my own tune, voice and guitar,...
Let's talk about what's going on these days. There are a million ways to come at it, but I'll just leave it wide open. Well, things have changed so dramatically and we all know they've changed. The...
My friend Luther Russell and I have worked together on a number of records for artists and years ago we spent a lot of an Internet music site's money making a solo record for Luther that never came...
In just a few short years, Scott Colburn's Gravelvoice Productions has been involved with a wonderfully diverse collection of artists and recordings. His Seattle, Washington studio offers an analog...
Belfast's Oh Yeah Music Centre is a 14,500 square foot complex, an assortment of variously shaped and sized rooms over three floors. It is a place of intriguing sonic possibilities —...
John and I were in France last spring, and thought we'd search out some home recordists in Paris. I tracked down Air and we also came across some acquaintances of theirs (through the fabulous boys of...
You always hear, "Oh yuck. Mixing in the box." I used to have a problem with that, especially the old versions of Pro Tools where their internal mixer and summing was much less advanced. Ever since...
