When it boils down to one of his most talked about lawuits, Jay Z has no worries. Although, Osama Ahmed Fahmy is claiming that Jay and producer, Timbaland unlawfully used the samapling of his father’s “Khosara, Khosara” composition for the 2000 hit, “Big Pimpin,” the Brooklyn emcee has no plans on being deposed at any…

We have two CME X-Keys to give away (international). In this episode we attempt to hookup 7 USB devices to a single iPad and see what happens [SonicState]

In this Ableton Live tutorial, Dubspot Curriculum Director and Instructor Chris Petti leads a workshop on creative uses of impulse response and convolution reverb using Max for Live. This video is an excerpt from a series of workshops Dubspot presented at Moogfest 2014 focusing on music production and performance with analog synthesizers. [DubSpot]

Learn more about our DJ courses: http://www.dubspot.com/dj/ In the first installment of this three part DJ video tutorial on beatgridding with the new Serato DJ, Dubspot’s Devon James Stewart explains the basics of beatgridding from analyzing tracks and setting markers to editing the grid. Head over to our blog for more info: http://blog.dubspot.com/ [DubSpot]

Singer-songwriter, engineer, and music producer (Michael Jackson, Bobby Brown, Doug E. Fresh, Keith Sweat, Heavy D., Usher) and Blackstreet founding member, Teddy Riley joins Dave and Herb on the 169th episode of Pensado’s Place. [Pensado’s Place]

Chris Carter is a great example of how to turn your love of music into a sustainable career in the music industry. He’s worn a number of hats over the years. He’s been a record store owner, founding member of Alt Rock band DRAMARAMA (my first management client), band manager, documentary movie producer, and a…

Published on Jul 6, 2014 Advanced look at Session Horns Pro. Check out the full course by Matt Vanacoro at AskVideo.com [MacProVideo]

  In this clip taken from his feature interview with Jian at Woodshed Recording in Malibu, California, Tom Petty recalls how Elvis Presley, The Beatles, and The Rolling Stones each contributed to inspire him to pursue a career in music. You can see Jian’s interview with Tom on The National this Thursday night, and hear…

After nearly a decade of production with Aftermath throughout the 2000s, producer Focus… left the label in 2009. Spanning a time period in which the imprint churned out releases including The Eminem Show, Get Rich or Die Tryin’, and The Documentary, Focus… admits that he spent the better part of seven years working on Dr. Dre’s…

Tommy Erdelyi, who passed away Friday of bile duct cancer at age 65, never forgot how thrilling it was to be a Ramone during the band’s formative days. “I thought what we were doing was unique and exciting and potentially influential,” he recalled last October. “I was also originally the manager, so I had a…