Steve Albini is an esteemed recording engineer who has tracked a long list of high-profile bands, as well as played in influential groups such as Big Black and Shellac. This article focuses on his recording techniques in his studio Electrical Recording...
Electronic Musician offers tips and advice on reamping guitars, bass, drums, keyboards, and more, from a panel of top producers, engineers and musicians...
Electronic Musician looks at Gregory Taylor's experimental production style, used on such albums as The Desert Fathers: Coptic Icons, PGT's Temporary Habitations, Amalgam: Aluminum/Hydrogen (Palace of Lights, 2007), and Two Maps of Danaraja (Stasisfield, 2008)....
In most situations, electronic musicians want speakers to radiate sound evenly throughout a listening area, delivering a similar sonic experience to everyone...
Author Brian Smithers you how to adapt M-S principles to control stereo width, ensure mono compatibility, and explore new ground in effects processing....
The current trend in mobile storage is eSATA, the external version of the SATA (Serial AT Attachment) standard. As the name suggests, this standard is related to the ATA/IDE specification under which most internal drives have operated since the late 1980s. SATA drives are increasingly popular in PCs and have been standard in Mac desktops since the first G5s...
Electronic Musician's interview with music attorney Michael Aczon focuses on the changing legal issues for musicians brought on by changes in music technology...
Grammy-winning engineer Nathaniel Kunkel Writes About Listening to the Intricacies of Mixing the Songwriters Tour Album With Guy Clark, Joe Ely, John Hiatt and Lyle Lovett...
Cycling ’74 Max has been around in some form for more than 20 years, and over that time it has earned a place as a particularly important and widely used tool for electronic musicians, especially those who are more experimentally inclined. Max was first commercially available in 1990. MSP, the audio-processing component, was added in the late 1990’s, and a suite of video Objects called Jitter was added in 2003...
The JZ Microphones Black Hole is a Latvian-made multipattern, large-diaphragm condenser microphones with a unique design and high-quality sound. It offers cardioid, figure-8, and omnidirectional polar patterns...
