Category Archives: Music Production

Capture the moment with direct to stereo recording

By Ruben Kenig | Published: 31 December, 2010

I have written before about the benefits of recording direct to stereo and that post has proved popular so I wanted to go in to a bit more depth about how I decide if direct to stereo recording is suitable to use and what setup I might use in a couple of common situations. The main advantage of recording straight […]

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It’s not about the tools

By Ruben Kenig | Published: 19 August, 2010

There is an easy tendency in most disciplines to fetishise the state of the art tools, endowing them with the magical power to make your work (whatever it is) wonderful. Tools are important. If you create things with them and spend a lot of time using them the minutiae of their good and bad points magnify […]

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The perils of modern music making, part 2: Blinded by the light

By Ruben Kenig | Published: 9 August, 2010

Music is a sonic medium. As obvious as this is it can be easy to forget when faced with the rich visual environment of modern music creation software. This is, mostly, a good thing but as a card-carrying grumbler I feel compelled to spin a cautionary tale of this land of milk and honey. Don’t let your eyes rule your ears. […]

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