As my studio is in a shared space, we regularly use each others equipment, however my modular is still quite a specialised tool. With that in mind I started writing this guide with a view of anyone else wanting to use our space, they should be able to plugin in a few USBs and viola, the modular would be ready to go.
Get Down Saturday Night was a 1983 hit for Oliver Cheatham written by himself and Kevin McCord and released on MCA Records, peaking at #38 in the UK singles chart that year.
With my drafts folder brimming with 80% finished long-reads I thought it a neat idea to get out a really quick recreation of a classic Ibiza house record.
At some stage or another, anyone who records in a humble home studio might want to move beyond the sound of an economy microphone and audio interface.
The track I want to look at today is Erykah Badu’s 2007 single Honey. It’s produced by 9th Wonder, who has worked with Mary J. Blige, Jay-Z, Drake, Destiny’s Child, J.
This is the second instalment in an informal series of Logic quick-reads, following on from my previous article on sampling drums in EXS24. Today we’re covering the topic of sidechain compression.
I’m creating a series of very short Logic tutorials, partly to help me out with a student I’m currently teaching but also as Logic’s manual buries this information deep within hundreds of pages of explanation and I’ve not yet seen other sites cover this in the simplicity and succinctness it requires.
Right from the start, I knew I wanted to get my modular working with my computer. I imagined all the possibilities of running MIDI to a from my system, using Reaktor, Ableton Live, OSC… all that stuff.
Something that regularly crops up is questions about demystifying mastering, and whilst I’m not the person to go into detail about exactly how to master your own music, there is a case for shining some light on the subject.
There was a time when studios were only comprised of hardware. Whether that be sequencers, drum machines, synths, reel-to-reel tape recorders, mixers, effect units, patch-bays, compressors, EQs and such – these were the mandatory tools in order to take your music from concept to something physical.