SPOTLIGHT ON: “Drumasonic 2.1″ and Drumasonic “Luxury”
Got drums? We do! Johnny Knittle guides you through a tour of one of the most exciting things to happen to sampled drums in quite a long time: The “Drumasonic 2.1″ engine update and their newest drum library “Luxury”.
Read More →SPOTLIGHT ON: Sonokinetic’s “Sultan Drums”
Eanan Patterson takes you through a detailed look under the hood of Sonokinetic’s newest offering, Sultan Drums. From unboxing to download to DAW implementation and GUI features, this is a unique and in-depth view into the library from the driver’s seat.
Read More →2011 NAMM: Steinberg Cubase 6 w/ 64-bit Support
Cubase users rejoice! As our coverage of the 2011 NAMM Show continues, we take a peek under the hood of Steinberg’s new 64-bit-capable Cubase 6 software.
Read More →More Bits, More People
Seems like there are a lot of ways to spend your money these days, often more money than may be coming in. What are the right choices to move your career forward? Here are a couple of contrasting ideas, both worth considering in their own context. More bits To start with, here I am wearing [...]
Read More →The Brightest Light In The Room
I’m sure you’ve had this experience: you go to a party, a meeting or seminar, or maybe just an informal gathering of people — friends, work colleagues, folks out in the world. Inevitably there is one person there who stands out, the center of attention, clearly the most confident, smartest, most successful. How did this [...]
Read More →Personal Studio Acoustics
The first hint was not being sure what was up with my bottom end. Not the one in the chair, the one in the speakers. I know, I’ve been there. In the chair, in front of the speakers. Spent a good part of my life there. I should know. I’m a mixer. (Sorry, went into [...]
Read More →Mixing: Technical Guidelines, Part 2
Recording and mixing music is a collection of skills that can take a lifetime to acquire. But almost every composer needs to do their own mixing sometimes, whether for a demo, low-budget project, or other reasons. The equipment keeps getting better and is widely available, especially with the computer software packages most composers work with. [...]
Read More →Working with Others
I started out by scratching my head a bit, considering the topic of Collaboration. After all, there’s often only one engineer in the room, particularly in composer’s personal studio. But then, I figured, even in that case I’m certainly not working alone or in a vacuum. It’s almost impossible not to work with other people [...]
Read More →Live Recording Mixing
I got my start recording score music for episodic television a couple of decades ago, when the personal studio trend was just getting going in a big way. Among many others, I engineered music for the ABC series thirtysomething with composers Stewart Levin and Snuffy Walden, and then Northern Exposure with composer David Schwartz. Both [...]
Read More →The Death of the Theme: A Rant
Five years ago today, one of the greatest melodists to ever pick up the baton left us. Jerry Goldsmith was not only a master interpreter of film, but also one of the greatest creators of film music to ever grace the medium. Goldsmith’s music, whether by accident or pure purpose, was a major influence on [...]
Read More →Gateway Scores: Alien
I don’t know if this is a true story. Richard Burton was playing the lead in a comedy on Broadway. Before making his entrance he told the stage manager, “Tonight, I’m gonna make ‘em cry”. He went on and, as promised, he brought the audience to tears when they should have been laughing. With the [...]
Read More →Gateway Scores: What Got You “Hooked”?
As a special SCOREcast theme for this last week of June, you’ll see several posts on the Main Page covering a topic that we all love to talk about: our love of film music. We asked our SCOREcast Contributors to tell us what film score got them hooked into the idea that scoring films might [...]
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