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Views From The Desk III – Five vocal microphones everyone should consider

Gareth Patch — Thu, 14 May 2020 17:27:09 +0000

Calling all singers! So, I’ve in worked live sound as part of my career in the industry for longer than I care to remember. I’ve seen guitarists and drummers, keyboard players and bassists arrive for gigs and unload from their cars, vans and shopping trolleys (oh yes!) all manner of expensive equipment that they then […]

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What Sound Engineers Wished You Knew – Views From The Desk II

Gareth Patch — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 16:04:27 +0000

Let’s talk about specs… Even the most experienced of sound engineers have a list of items that they always need to do their job properly. Sharpies, spare XLR cables and coffee are all must haves. But if there is one thing that I find invariably more useful than my collection of LX tape of many […]

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What Sound Engineers Wished You Knew – Views From The Desk

Gareth Patch — Sun, 20 Jan 2019 15:33:18 +0000

This the first of, hopefully, many articles on my experiences in music and music technology. This is not a rant and I’m not preaching…just, merely pointers… As a live sound engineer I come across all manner of life-forms (mostly musicians) and I witness some of the best music making and performance there is. There’s something […]

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Round Up of 2018

Gareth Patch — Sun, 30 Dec 2018 12:34:30 +0000

So, with the mince pies nearly gone and New Year’s resolutions looming on the horizon, Making Music.com is taking a look back on some of the news and reviews from the last 12 months, for the music tech gear and software that caught our attention. Click on the links to go to the full articles. […]

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3 essential mindset shifts for creative musicians

John Holt — Sun, 23 Sep 2018 16:04:23 +0000

Albert Einstein was quoted as saying: “Creativity is intelligence having fun”, and as you may have experienced, making a creative vision come to life is quite a unique feeling. However, being a creative is not without its struggles. Moreover, I believe that many of these struggles are self-imposed, and with the right mindset shifts, can […]

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Electric Guitars: Design And Invention

Andrew Culture — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 20:20:01 +0000

A lot of the content here on Making Music is either electronic or computer focussed, after all, that’s where we started well over a decade ago. But we’re just as at home geeking out about real instruments, like guitars. And I don’t just mean virtual guitars, but actual, real guitars. In fact almost everyone who […]

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Has electronica made you a lazy songwriter?

Jim Newstead — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 13:42:13 +0000

Since I was a 13 year old kid, I wanted to write and record my own music. Seems a simple enough idea, eh? In the 80s I was restricted to recording with a crappy mic to tape after hours of rehearsal and practice with my younger brother and sister. Sadly, or thankfully, our post rock […]

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Music Producers Guild awards 2018 – call for submissions

Andrew Culture — Sun, 13 Aug 2017 13:10:14 +0000

Now in it’s tenth year the Music Producers Guild Awards will be held on March 1st 2018. The event will be hosted by BBC 6 Music presenter, Shaun Keaveny. In recent years producers of big selling music are becoming almost as famous as the artists they work with. People like Mark Ronson, Paul Epworth Calvin Harris […]

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Loïc Gaillard Wins The 2017 MPG LIPA Prize

Andrew Culture — Fri, 11 Aug 2017 16:05:22 +0000

LIPA graduate Loïc Gaillard will receive a host of benefits, including financial support from PPL, after being named the recipient of the 2017 Music Producers Guild Prize. LIPA graduate Loïc Gaillard will receive a host of benefits, including financial support from PPL, after being named the recipient of the 2017 Music Producers Guild Prize. Launched in […]

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A New SSD – Hurrah!

Ian Waugh — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:59:28 +0000

I finally succumbed to the temptation (see this post) and upgraded my laptop with a Crucial 512Gb M4 SSD. UK Readers: Crucial 512Gb M4 2.5-inch SATA 6Gb/s (SATA III) USA Readers: Crucial 512Gb M4 2.5-inch SATA 6Gb/s (SATA III) It’s fast! The old drive had a Windows Experience Index rating of 5.9 and was […]

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