Single-Mic Techniques for Capturing the Perfect Acoustic Guitar Tone
What’s your preferred mic technique for recording acoustic guitars? If you’re anything like most engineers, your answer may vary a bit depending on the arrangement, the purpose, the guitar player, the...
View ArticleIn Defense of Pre-Production: Why the Most Neglected Phase of Music...
This story first appeared in Trust Me, I’m a Scientist, September 4th, 2012. Vinyl Record Notebook Courtesy of Flickr User “Stacie Stacie Stacie” Among self-financed musicians, pre-production is...
View ArticleMusic Business, Art & Financial Freedom: SonicScoop’s Justin Colletti...
SonicScoop’s Justin Colletti has just appeared on the “Unstoppable Recording Machine Podcast“, with Joey Sturgis and Eyal Levi of Nail The Mix. Join them for an inspiring discussion about making your...
View ArticleCuring Condenser Confusion: An Audio History of the AKG C 414
For this story, originally published in September of 2011 on our sister blog Trust Me I’m a Scientist, we gathered 40 years worth AKG 414s in one studio for a decisive side-by-side comparison. Now, in...
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Frank Filipetti on Music Production and Mixing Pop Classics [MixCon Video]
We’re back with the second installment in our latest MixCon video series. This time, thanks to iZotope, six time GRAMMY-winner Frank Filipetti walks us through a real working mix, dropping decades...
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SonicScoop’s Top 10 Posts from 2016!
Here it is: The annual Top 10 list of our most popular new stories from 2016. Let’s go ahead and crank it up to 11! Why not? Here goes: #11: Writing and Recording a Huge #1: Inside Adele’s “Hello”...
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SonicScoop is Proud to Introduce “Mixing Breakthroughs” with Justin Colletti
SonicScoop’s new course, Mixing Breakthroughs, is out now. We are proud to announce our new course, Mixing Breakthroughs, featuring renowned SonicScoop editor and trusted mastering engineer, Justin...
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Op Ed: Too Much Auto Tune
When you auto-tune a blue note, what color does it become? Sarah Vaughan, pictured here happily singing in an age before auto-tuning software, knew that making subtle choices in pitch was part of the...
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Feeding the Machine: Are You Releasing Enough Music to Have a Real Career?
This story first appeared in Trust Me, I’m a Scientist, October 7, 2013. Welcome back to singles culture. A survey of history reveals a familiar pattern. And a few good ideas about what musicians...
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Frank Filipetti on Music Production and Mixing Pop Classics [MixCon Video]
We’re back with the second installment in our latest MixCon video series. This time, thanks to iZotope, six time GRAMMY-winner Frank Filipetti walks us through a real working mix, dropping decades...
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SonicScoop’s Top 10 Posts from 2016!
Here it is: The annual Top 10 list of our most popular new stories from 2016. Let’s go ahead and crank it up to 11! Why not? Here goes: #11: Writing and Recording a Huge #1: Inside Adele’s “Hello”...
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SonicScoop is Proud to Introduce “Mixing Breakthroughs” with Justin Colletti
SonicScoop’s new course, Mixing Breakthroughs, is out now. We are proud to announce our new course, Mixing Breakthroughs, featuring renowned SonicScoop editor and trusted mastering engineer, Justin...
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Op Ed: Too Much Auto Tune
When you auto-tune a blue note, what color does it become? Sarah Vaughan, pictured here happily singing in an age before auto-tuning software, knew that making subtle choices in pitch was part of the...
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Feeding the Machine: Are You Releasing Enough Music to Have a Real Career?
This story first appeared in Trust Me, I’m a Scientist, October 7, 2013. Welcome back to singles culture. A survey of history reveals a familiar pattern. And a few good ideas about what musicians...
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Life or Death Pro Tools Tips: Developing Your Tracking Template
A great session template can make all the difference between having a fast, productive, enjoyable session, and wasting hours spinning your wheels, stopping and starting throughout. The evening before...
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4 “Magic” Plugins That Might Just Fix Your Mix After All
All artforms have their elitists, and music is certainly no exception. Elitism in music production extends beyond the dictates of the listeners, to the writers, creators, technicians and even the...
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Next-Gen Reference Tracks: 12 Top Engineers Share Their Essential Reference...
As music evolves, reference tracks do too. Everybody in music production knows that reference tracks are an essential tool for getting ears oriented within a critical listening environment. While some...
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9 Production Glitches in Popular Recordings
We’ve all made mistakes. Missed punch ins, bad edits, a vocal tuning glitch. If you’re like me, then you’ve probably painstakingly edited and reedited a track once, twice or a hundred times because...
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The Great Mix Bus Compressor Plugin Shootout: Which One is Best for Your...
To many of us, the stereo bus compressor has become an important, if not indispensable tool in our mixing workflow. It’s almost as if we can’t truly “complete” a mix until we’ve applied the magic dust...
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