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Roland TR6s Ableton Template

Andrew Culture — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 18:21:34 +0000

The Roland TR6s is rocking our world. This fantastic little drum machine packs (almost) the same punch as the larger TR8s but at a price point that is a total bargain. Sure there are fewer tracks and a few of the TR8 features are missing, but for a lot of people, the TR6s will bring […]

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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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Making the switch to Ableton

John Holt — Sun, 26 Nov 2017 19:19:39 +0000

Ableton – what? Sometimes, it seems like there are just too many choices of good DAWs out there, making it difficult to decide which one would best suit your workflow, or be most appropriate for the genre of music that you make. You may well be thinking of making a change from your current DAW. […]

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Audio Restoration – a master class

Andrew Culture — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 11:07:19 +0000

Steve Rosenthal gives an audio restoration master class In the latest instalment of the Gear Club podcast four-time Grammy Award winner Steve Rosenthal shares a whole lot of what he knows about audio restoration. Steve recently re-located to the DUMBO neighbourhood in Brooklyn, where he has set up his new restoration lab MARS. Anyone who has […]

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Guide to creating the perfect mix revamped and released for FREE

Andrew Culture — Sun, 21 May 2017 19:49:12 +0000

Several years ago we wrote a guide that we felt answered the questions people who were new to the world of mixing might have. More than that, we wanted to create a guide that would act as a sort of short cut from knowing little about mixing to being able to ace the process. ‘Creating […]

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Interview: David Booth, The Recording Booth

Andrew Culture — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 12:29:22 +0000

For the second of our series of interviews with leading industry professionals we’re speaking to someone who offers something a little extra to everyone who records with him. The clear demarkation between tape op, engineer and producer has been blurred considerably over the years. Whereas some old studio hands might roll their eyes at this […]

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Interview: George Perks, Producer at The Crypt Studio

Ben Ward — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 13:03:09 +0000

Nestled away in the leafy splendour of North London’s crouch end lies ‘The Crypt’: a beautiful studio housed inside a converted stone church. It is here that George Perks and Anthony Leung dedicate themselves to their one true love: recording music. Despite having produced some of this centuries biggest selling records (work by Madness, The Magic Numbers, and Young Guns to […]

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Computer Music – Getting Started!

Ian Waugh — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 21:29:59 +0000

All You Need Is A Computer! Life can be so unfair. Just because you can’t sing or play an instrument, why can’t you be a rock star? Well, those shortcomings didn’t stop lots of ‘stars’. But let’s turn it down a notch and say you wanna make music. Maybe you haven’t yet learned to play […]

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