Category Archives: Music

Hearing When It’s Wrong and Using Reverb to Tie it All Together

By Ruben Kenig | Published: 8 October, 2009

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 […]

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Is Two-Track Recording The Best Method? Not Always But Sometimes

By Ruben Kenig | Published: 18 September, 2009

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 […]

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Two Fundamentals to Becoming the Guy Everyone Wants in Their Band

By Ruben Kenig | Published: 19 August, 2009

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 […]

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