We asked 3 top NYC producers to share their opinions about performing and recording drums in the studio - you can find their precious advice here.
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Recording Advice
Improve Your Recordings: Drums Tips and Secrets
There are a gazillion articles out there about how to record drums, but I’ve always thought that the best possible advice in this regard is not how to record but… what to record.
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Slide Guitar Tone Secrets: Pick the Right Material
When playing slide guitar, different materials used on your strings will create slightly different tones. If you are after a smooth slide with long, clean sustain, you should try a cut-off bottleneck, which was Ry Cooder’s choice. If you are aiming at something...
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Recording Electric Guitars: Secrets of the Pros
10 ideas for recording amazing electric guitars - by Shane O'Connor
Recording guitars, although easy at first can be a challenge when you really want to achieve a great sound. Here are some helpful tips to improve your guitar recording chops.
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Production Corner: Experimenting with Effect Plug-Ins
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The Jangly Guitar Sound of the ‘80s
The ‘80s weren’t just about electronic music, ya know? That decade also produced some of the most influential indie pop bands of all times – for example: The Smiths. At the time, the band’s guitarist Johnny Marr was...
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Production Corner: Fun with Arpeggiators
Arpeggiators are one of the most fun and "ancient" electronic music tools, and consist in editable algorithms that play the notes of a chord following a regular sequenced pattern. Like anything trendy in the 80s, arpeggiators are coming back in the early aughts with a...
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Famous Guitar Tones: the Twang
In the mid-50s, great guitar innovators like Duane Eddy (pictured) started playing lead riffs drenched in tremolo and echo in the lower registers of the guitar, creating the bass-y sound that since then has become synonymous with “twang.”
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Production Corner: Pop Structure and Bridges
Pop music is a little bit like classic art: it’s all about balance. If Pop had existed at the time of the ancient Greeks, it would have been Apollo’s music — he was the god of the Sun, harmony, order and reason.
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Recording Group Vocals & Hand Claps
Since the turn of the millennium the indie scene has rediscovered the sonic and percussive possibilities of the human voice and body — choral and a Capella parts are back in fashion, together with hand claps, finger snaps, foot stomping etc etc.
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Production Corner – the “Old Telephone” Effect
The “vintage telephone effect” on vocals has been in vogue, in particular in lo-fi and electronic music, since Beck’s debut album came out in 1994. Although the market is saturated with “lo-fi” plug ins, all you need to recreate this trick is some EQ, compression and distortion. Compress the vocal...
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Recording: Home VS. Studio
I was really sorry to miss the theatrical release of the film Standing In The Shadows of Motown, but I finally had the opportunity to see it on DVD. During its heyday, I was a big fan of the Motown sound. So many years later, watching the film inspired in me an even deeper appreciation...
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