What a difference a year makes – particularly if you’re Miley Cyrus or Robin Thicke. It’s hard to believe that just 12 months ago, Cyrus was yet another Disney star trying to make the bumpy transition from teenybopper to mainstream success story, and Thicke had the biggest hit on the planet. But on Aug. 25,…

The former rap impresario Marion “Suge” Knight, a founder of Death Row Records, and two others were shot early Sunday inside a packed West Hollywood nightclub at a pre-awards party hosted by singer Chris Brown. The 1OAK on West Hollywood’s Sunset Boulevard was thrown into chaos as multiple shots were unleashed inside the cavernous club,…

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In the Casio Music Gear video Synthesis 101, Casio’s Mike Martin explores the basics of Oscillators, Filters, Envelopes, LFOs and more, using the PX-5S and XW-P1. [Synthtopia]

In this weeks episode we talk with the BOOM Library group which was founded in 2010 by award winning audio guys from Dynamedion, the biggest European game audio studio based in Mainz, Germany. The BOOM Library prides itself on providing high end, ultimate sound effects for all media and audio professionals. Our products have this…

Engineer and founder of the Blackbird Academy John McBride (Martina McBride, Buddy Guy, Dave Stewart, Ke$ha, Joss Stone) joins Dave and Herb on the 177th episode of Pensado’s Place and makes a very special announcement with Steven Slate of Slate Digital! [Pensado’s Place]

The fourth episode in the Dubspot Original Programming series The Mix / Master Wyatt Show features Ken Bogdanowicz, founder and chief designer at SoundToys, creators of some of the best industry standard mixing and mastering plug-ins. Head over to our blog for more info: http://blog.dubspot.com/ Check out our channel page for more tutorials, reviews, recaps,…

Marion “Suge” Knight was shot during a party in West Hollywood, Calif., on early Sunday (Aug. 24) morning, Billboard confirms. The former Death Row Records CEO went into surgery following the incident and is now recovering in the ICU, according to TMZ. He reportedly left the club himself before being spotted by police and sent…

Steely Dan has always been known for their almost perfect tracks, even before the days that could easily be done via a DAW. Here’s a great example of just how great those tracks could be with the isolated bass and drums from “Bodhisttahva” from the band’s second album Countdown To Ecstasy. This album still featured…

The MIX With The MASTERS Seminar Series is a chance for recording and mixing engineers to come and work closely with A-List record producers, engineers and mixers and improve their skills in music production. The events take place in the outstanding Studio La Fabrique, in the South of France. At the end of his Weeklong…