music

Making it, listening to it, recording it, all that

RIP to Stan Freberg

I'll be honest, I wasn't sure that Stan Freberg was still alive when I heard the news he'd died yesterday (from Weird Al Yankovic's Instagram)

My favorite recent mixing plugins

The plugins I've been using lately have changed dramatically from when I started mixing. Sometimes I'm guilty of buying into hype, but I've started to discover what

My favorite albums of 2014

Now that it's almost February, I assume everyone has already read all the best-of-the-year lists that matter to them. So here's one that won't. These are the

Curmudgeons, get your facts straight

These days, there are more "solutions" to the problem of music piracy than you can shake a DMCA takendown at. While I'm somewhat in the Steve Albini camp of

Harrison Mixbus first impressions

I've never worked on an analog console. Sure, I've sat with someone and suggested technical and creative engineering decisions while they operated, but the UI paradigm of a console