Analogue to digital (A-D) or digital to analogue (D-A) conversion is a very important concept you need to understand if you are working with real instruments and recording them on a computer or device. This article is intended to be an introduction to the topic and should help you achieve a good practical knowledge about the […]
If you make music at home on your computer, it`s likely that you have a plug in folder full of software. Things that have been downloaded and that you tried a few times. You probably have a few of them that are your ‘go to’ options for compression and eq but you probably also have […]
In-ear monitors are a fairly new invention. They became affordable in the late 90’s but the idea has been in practice since the late 80s. Stevie Wonder’s sound engineer Chris Lindop conceived an arrangement for Stevie’s 1987 tour where they used a mobile broadcast station positioned outside the venue. The radio truck would receive a […]
It is extremely common for musicians in the year 2015 to record their own music at home. We invest some money in a computer, an interface, monitors, a microphone and our instruments and we are good to go! We all want our recordings to sound as good as they can so unless we have the […]
The bass guitar is one of the most overlooked instruments around. Often people just refer to them as “guitars” and if they look really closely they might wonder “why are there only 4 strings on that guy’s guitar when the other has 6?” Often if someone says “listen to that bassline”, people have a hard time […]
Bass players tend to be the butt of many jokes – maybe second only to all my drummer friends 😉 I might make a blog post with my favourites one day, but they usually boil down to things like “bass players are out of tune, stupid, unemployed, cant keep time” etc etc. Personally I’m long […]
