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How To Get The Ultimate Small Mixing & Mastering Room

By Big Al on Friday, August 28th, 2009 | No Comments

This is a great video featured on Ethan Winer’s site RealTraps.com. This demonstrates an effective approach to treating a typical home studio room with absorption and diffusion. The result? A really nice monitoring environment! Get the latest Flash Player to see this player. [Javascript required to view Flash movie, please turn it on and refresh [...]

How To Get The Rock Guitars Wall Of Sound With One Guitar

By Big Al on Sunday, August 16th, 2009 | 1 Comment

In this video Russ (from the Air Users Blog) shows how to create a wall of sound with just one guitar and some cool tricks!

Spend Ten Minutes With Joe Chicarelli

By Big Al on Wednesday, August 12th, 2009 | No Comments

Nice interview with Joe Chicarelli. (Frank Zappa, Kajagoogoo, The White Stripes, Stan Ridgway, Oingo Boingo, Ferron, Sandra Bernhard, Spirit of the West, Counting Crows, U2, The Shins and countless others. He’s also credited with discovering singer Tori Amos and signing her first band, Y Kant Tori Read, to a label deal.)

How To Get Those Dr. Dre Drums

By Big Al on Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 | No Comments

Russ (from the Air Users Blog) shows how some of the top dance producers get their drum tracks working. He shows the tricks you can use to get a serious groove and then how to save you own signature grooves as loops.

10 Tips To Prepare Your Music For Mastering

By Big Al on Monday, August 10th, 2009 | No Comments

From the original post over at MusFormation: You made the final decision about your music and you’ve decided to go the full nine yards and have your record mastered by an actual professional instead of doing it yourself or getting it done online. But now you’ve come all the way down to the wire and [...]