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by Jason T · Posted
If you’re just getting into beat making, whether your tastes lean toward Hip Hop, EDM, Pop, or other, the massive number of choices and opinions out there can make you want to quit before you even get started. In truth, music production is much easier and more affordable now than it used to be, but there’s still quite a bit to learn on the subject. Here’s a guide to some of the essentials.
Computers
Buying the right computer is crucial to building your production studio. When selecting your machine, you want to make sure you’re giving yourself
by Nicholas Messitte · Posted
by Nicholas Messitte · Posted
Love your Zoom field recorder but wish you could work it like a mixer—with faders and everything? Wait no longer, for your wish has been granted, with the Zoom F-CONTROL. We at B&H are now carrying this unit, which pairs via USB with your F8
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The Lectrosonics PDR, or Personal Digital Recorder, is a compact, easy to conceal, audio recorder with timecode support that’s ready to go wherever your talent goes.
by Aaron Belinfanti · Posted
It is widely accepted in the world of pro audio that when it comes to mixing songs, making the lead vocal shine above everything else is paramount. Certainly, the other instruments in a song are important, and a solid musical arrangement is indeed desirable and appreciated; however, the singer often bears the responsibility of conveying the overall emotion and meaning behind a song.
Think about it. When we go to karaoke with our friends—often in an attempt to fool ourselves into believing that we are much better singers than we are—we love
by Jason T · Posted
When people hear the words “MIDI guitar,” usually the first thing they think of is some guy on YouTube ripping a jazz solo with his 6-string, made to sound like a cheesy saxophone or flute. The truth is that there’s a lot more you can do with guitar and MIDI, especially when you start incorporating MIDI sequencing, virtual instruments, and keyboard synthesizers into the equation. We’ll discuss some of the latest technologies in the paragraphs below.
by jaime traba · Posted
Guitarists and bassists are always chasing for the “Holy Grail” of tone—the often undefinable sound (you'll know it when you hear it) that represents their personal playing style. Purists will rightfully tell you that your tone is in your fingers, but stompboxes have long played an integral part to the sound of the most lauded guitarists in history. Whether it's Steve Ray Vaughn's masterful use of the oft-cloned and copied Ibanez TS808 Tube Screamer
by Jason T · Posted
When your son told you that he wanted to make “Progressive House,” you thought he was saying he wanted to become a homebuilder and a registered Democrat. Sound familiar? Keep reading.
Music has changed a lot in the last decade, and so has the gear used to make it. When occasions come around, parents of millennial musicians are more susceptible to feeling the generation gap than ever. If you're the parent of beginner millennial musician, there's a good chance your kid falls into one of the categories below.
The Producer or Beatmaker
If
by jaime traba · Posted
For the guitarists and bassists who employ pedalboards, there is an air of sacredness to the way they set them up. While the core of any excellent tone comes from a player’s fingers, instrument, and amp, an array (or just a choice few) of effects can unlock creativity and, in many cases, help establish a unique tone or playing style.
As many musicians will tell you, setting up a pedalboard can become an art form in and of itself, and can be the source of no small amount of frustrations when you’re in the experimental stage of setting it up.
by Andrew Eisele · Posted
Astell&Kern has finally announced the long awaited support for the Tidal High-Fidelity Streaming Service. Tidal offers more than 42 million standard-definition (CD quality) and high-definition music files, as well as 140,000 high-quality videos. The experimental platform was built for fans, directly from artists from 52 countries worldwide.
Astell&Kern is offering Tidal support via an “Over-The-Air” (OTA) firmware update for the entire product
by jaime traba · Posted
Presumably, as long as there has been recorded music, there have been people trying to perfect the art of listening to it. I’d like to imagine these folks in the 1890s, some sort of proto-audiophile, insisting a certain cranking method or wax sourcing makes for a better Edison Cylinder listening experience. Realistically speaking, however, modern-day audiophiles find their roots in the late ’60s and ’70s with the rise of home HiFi systems, when the age of serious audio systems as we know them today became prolific.
Since then, we’ve
by Nicholas Messitte · Posted
We’ve all heard that VR will be the future of visual of entertainment—but what good is that without commensurate audio? Enter the Sennheiser AMBEO VR, a multi-channel microphone designed for 360° immersive applications. Now available at B&H, this mic brings sonic vivacity to the vivid visions of VR
by Nicholas Messitte · Posted
All year long, and especially around holidays, many of us have to travel—to our family homes, across cities, over oceans, enduring whatever the TSA throws at us each time, cramming ourselves into airborne Petri dishes while a pilot with the voice of Chuck Yeager slingshots us across the continents.
If that doesn’t sound fun, don’t worry: we at B&H have solutions to make the trip less painful—even more fruitful, if you’re a creative person in the audio sphere. After all, nothing speeds time like creative enterprise. So, whether you’re
by Nicholas Messitte · Posted
Has this ever happened to you? You’re mixing a rock record, one that needs to sound as huge as possible, but you run into a huge roadblock: there’s only one guitar track to work with—for the whole song.
This has happened to me. Quite often, actually. See, in my mixing practice, I tend to work with acts who’ve recorded rather quickly and cheaply. They expect me, in post, to turn their one-take recording into a credible-sounding rock anthem. Here lies the rub: credible rock anthems typically don’t sport one solitary guitar track all the way
by BH Online Videos · Posted
In this video, Sonic Scoop’s Justin Colletti gives you several tips for greatly improving vocals in a mix, including how to use commercial references to gauge how loud to make a vocal track, when to use automation, what kinds of time-based effects to employ, and which frequency bands to concentrate on while applying EQ. We hope you enjoy the video, and invite you to view the wide selection of other instructional and informative videos at BandH.com.