Category: Engineers

Pretty Lights Talks About His New Approach To Making Records

Electronic Artist & Producer Derek Vincent Smith Talks about his new approach to making records, taking on a completely new and revolutionary approach to sampling by recording his own records and sampling from his own works. Dare we say, this gentleman right here is pushing the boundaries of electronic music far beyond any limit we’ve…


Sound Design Tutorial: Layering Drums – Native Instruments Battery 4 w/ Evan Sutton

In this tutorial, Dubspot Sound Design instructor and course designer Evan Sutton (aka Astrolith) shows how to layer drum sounds using Native Instruments’ Battery 4. Layering is the spice of life. There are many reasons to layer drum sounds. We can add rhythmic complexity to a sound, which can lend to the groove and improve…


Sound and Music of The Last of Us

In this exclusive SoundWorks Collection profile we talk with the sound and music team behind the critically acclaimed Naughty Dog Studios game, The Last of Us. We talk with Game Director Bruce Straley, Creative Director Neil Druckmann, Senior Sound Designer Derrick Espino, Audio Lead Phillip Kovats, Senior Audio Programmer Jonathan Lanier, and Music Manager, Jonathan…


Cardiak x Have Mercy

Following Up To “Bugatti”, Cardiak Breaks Down The Making Of Ace Hood’s 2nd Single “Have Mercy”. The Track Is From The Highly Anticipated Album Trails & Tribulations Scheduled To Drop July 16th. [BeatMakingVideos.com]


Scotty McCreery Tour Video – Pensado’s Place #119

Scotty McCreery, country music artist and winner of American Idol season 10 gives us a backstage pass to his recent “Weekend Roadtrip” tour on the 119th episode of Pensado’s Place! Soundcheck starts at 3:48. [Pensados Place]


Review – Orange OR100 British Valve Amp Head

Sonic State Amped editor Richard Beech takes a look at the top of the range valve head from Orange. [SonicState]


Arturia SparkLE multiple output routing and tracking in Studio One v2

Hey here’s a quick video showing how to setup Arturia SparkLE for multiple output routing and audio tracking inside of Studio One v2. I got requests on doing this video after reviewing Spark LE so just wanted to get it done for those interested. [Sounds and Gear]


The Sound of Man of Steel

In this exclusive SoundWorks Collection profile we talk with the sound team for Director Zack Snyder’s new film Man of Steel including re-recording mixer Chris Jenkins, re-recording mixer Frank A. MontaƱo, supervising sound editor and designer Eric A. Norris, supervising sound editor and designer Scott Hecker, and dialogue supervisor Kira Roessler. Synopsis Superman flies back…


Sonic TALK 318 – Waldorf Nave


Reason 7 – Product Presentation

Last week we had a visit from Ryan Harlin – hes the guy behind Propellerheads Music Making Month and also puts together the ongoing video content for Propellerheads. He showed us around the new features in the just released Reason 7, including (finally) the introduction of MIDI, some neat mixer functions – Spectrum EQ, bussing…