Month: June 2014

What Does A New Grad Do In Music Today?

Any thoughts that Toluwanimi Adeyemo had of making half a million dollars on his first record as a producer were quickly dispelled his freshman year at New York University’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. “I went way deep into what the music industry is, what it was and what it will be,” says Adeyemo,…


Jay Z Joins “The Game Before the Game”

Jay Z lends a verse to “Jungle Remix” By X Ambassadors and Jamie N Commons! [Beats By Dre]


Who Can I Be Now? How David Bowie Spent 1974

To say that 1974 was a year of change and challenge for David Bowie and his fans is an understatement as extreme as the lurid outfits he’d worn as his just-abandoned alter ego, Ziggy Stardust. The incubator for the evolution was Bowie’s U.S. tour that year, which began in Montreal on June 14 — 40…


Gearfest 2014 Producer’s Panel

One of the events at Sweetwater’s recent Gearfest 2014 was a panel of leading producers and engineers, including: Bob Clearmountain Fab Dupont Ross Hogarth Mick Guzauski Bil VornDick…


Casey Kasem, Iconic Radio Personality, Dead at 82

Casey Kasem, the American Top 40 radio host who crafted a long and lucrative career out of counting down to No. 1, has died. He was 82. Kasem, who hosted the syndicated weekend show for nearly four decades, died of complications from dementia at St. Anthony’s Hospital in Gig Harbor, Wash. Danny Deraney, the publicist…


Mix Engineer Steve Genewick – Pensado’s Place

Two time Grammy nominated tracking and mix engineer Steve Genewick joins Dave and Herb on Pensado’s Place. [Pensado’s Place]


Sonic TALK 363 – Roland System-1 High Frequency Stimulation

A small panel discuss free Eventide UltraChannel plugin, echo chambers specifically at Studio In the Country, vocal production techniques. [Sonic Talk]


Dubspot @ Moogfest 2014: Sound Design Tutorial – Randomness in Synthesis w/ James Patrick

At Moogfest 2014, Dub-Spot presented a series of in-depth workshops focusing on music production an performance with analog synthesizers. [Dubspot]


Mixing Multiple Vocal Delays – Into The Lair #104

Dave Pensado shows you how using multiple delays on a vocal and adjusting by ear can give your delays a better feel in the mix than simply timing them with the BPM of your track. [Pensado’s Place]


Chris Brown, Tyga Hit the Studio with Lil Boosie

Chris Brown is getting right back to work following his release from jail earlier this month. The singer hit the studio with Tyga to work on their collaborative album Fan of a Fan. They were joined by Lil Boosie, who was in L.A. to shoot the remix video for K Camp’s “Cut Her Off.”…