Sometimes replacing or augmenting recorded drums with new sounds is necessary during a mix. You might want the drums to sound bigger or just need something that fits better in the track. Here are 7 drum replacement tricks from the latest edition of The Mixing Engineer’s Handbook (the 3rd) that will help your samples really…

Cee Lo recently discussed his wishes to have Eminem appear on Goodie Mob’s “White Power.”  “It had gotten out to the press and I just thought that it made a bold statement,” Cee Lo said to MTV in an interview. “So I thought that Eminem would easily jump at the controversy being that I heard…

1280 favorite waveforms of the Richter MegaWave from Richard Devine on Vimeo. I wanted to show a simple patch showcasing my favorite 5 banks of the Richter Megawave. Each bank has 256 waveforms that I slowly cycle through. These include the Miniwave, Socket Rocket, PPPGVS, Darwin’s House, and Monowave. The external Wave select input is…

Media studio the Moment Factory has released footage of the elaborate Nine Inch Nails performance set-ups for their summer festival dates. The clip provides a rare glimpse into the complex production work that takes place in order to make each show possible. The studio worked with Reznor last spring when he was touring with his band How…

Following a dispute with her record label, M.I.A. has threatened to release her new album ahead of schedule. Matangi, M.I.A.’s fourth studio album, is due for release sometime in the fall, but no official date has been set. The singer posted her frustrations with Interscope on Twitter, saying she could release the album next week and have…

When asked what Kendrick Lamar’s chances are of securing the award for Best Hip Hop Video at the upcoming MTV Video Music Awards, TDE rapper ScHoolboy Q made quite the surprising revelation when he suggested that Seattle duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis should instead take the win thanks to their “Can’t Hold Us” music video….

Drake’s 4th annual OVO Fest came and went. But prior to the star-studded show, YN chops it up with the eager fans outside the venue in the new Truth. Who let Elliott across the border though? [Rap Radar]

In some ways, granular material can behave much like a crystal, with its close-packed grains mimicking the precise, orderly arrangement of crystalline atoms. Now researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have pushed that similarity to a new limit, creating 2-D arrays of micrograins that can funnel acoustic waves, much as specially designed crystals can…

This week on the Billboard 200, Robin Thicke nabbed his first No. 1 album — a little over a decade after his debut. “Blurred Lines,” led by the smash single of the same name, opened at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart with 177,000 copies sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan. It was one of…

Kraftpad is a virtual analog drum synthesizer for iPad that lets you create your own electronic drum sounds, using 10 different kinds of dedicated synthesizers.Features: Virtual Analog Drum Synthesizer (no samples used) 10 Different kinds of dedicated synthesizers to easily create each drum sound Kick, Snare, Rimshot, Clap, Hi-hat, Tom, Conga, Claves, Cowbell, Cymbal 6…