In a previous post I rehearsed some arguments about why direct to stereo recording may be a desirable recording method. There are two main reasons for this, the first is that it gives a chance to capture a live performance giving the listener all the subtlety of musicians making music together, the second is that our hearing skills are sensitive […]
Category Archives: Music
Is Two-Track Recording The Best Method? Not Always But Sometimes
18 September, 2009 – 2:28 pm
I’ve got myself embroiled in a discussion in the LinkedIn Music Producers group about whether Pro Tools (and digital multitrack recording in general) is a retrograde step in terms of record production. The seed of the discussion is a quote from Joe Boyd in the September issue of Mix magazine,
You could say that 2-track recording is the purest […]
Two Fundamentals to Becoming the Guy Everyone Wants in Their Band
19 August, 2009 – 2:09 pm
There is a tendency among musicians to value technical facility when discussing favourite players. Outrageous, difficult and esoteric passages often played at stupidly fast tempos and sometimes in unusual time signatures are fun to discuss, but it’s largely an intellectual exercise. The folks who are the most fun and the most valuable to have in your […]
Ideas are like piles, sooner or later every a**ehole gets them
29 July, 2009 – 2:07 pm
Ideas are just a starting point. The real trick is taking an idea and making it happen as well as possible. Derek Sivers defines ideas as a multiplier and I think that’s a useful way to look at it. He even gives some definition to the values with a so-so idea worth half as much as a good idea and that […]
The Two Hemispheres of Music Production and The Struggle to Keep Them Separate
13 February, 2009 – 5:19 pm
Modern music production software is brilliant stuff. It gives us the capability to do so much that was previously only possible in expensive studios and with the help of several musicians. There is even the potential to sync to picture and even some (pre-)mastering capability. In the words of Harold Macmillan, “[we have] never had […]
