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Notes That Go Together

Sometimes I get asked if you can play notes that are outside of the scale.

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If You Can't Read Music

If you don’t read music, you deserve to know you can understand and talk about music theory without knowing how to read.

Apologist Imposter

Stop feeling bad about what you don’t know.

32 bit float

Logic Pro’s recent update adds support for 32-bit floating audio files.

Taking Musical Notes

If you’re like me, you’re always working and you’re always coming up with song ideas.

Compression: Good Talk

Let’s talk about why you’re having a hard time hearing compression.

Hello: nice to meet you

Welcome to a ton of new followers and I figured I’d introduce myself.

Dynamics and EQ: connected

You can try, but you can’t really separate frequency from level.

Weather Sonification

What if you could hear everything? Sound waves are spheres with pressure in one dimension and time in the other.

Keboard Skills: thirds and sixths

This may sound boring, but this sounds a lot more exciting.

Frequency Harmonics: if you go to school to be an audio engineer

If you go to school to be an audio engineer, you’re gonna hear an awful lot about frequency.

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speaker delays

If you go to school to be an audio engineer one of the things they’re gonna teach you about is speaker delays It’s because of the legs so here’s the thing sound travels at roughly 1100 feet per second that works out to about 1.1 millisecond per foot my front gate.

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Sus Stubborn Ostinato Unobjectionable

Being unobjectionable doesn’t really sound like a compliment, but there is a beautiful ambiguity to a suspended chord that makes it fit in pretty much anywhere.

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Directional Mic: two signals, room sound

This is a directional microphone and when I point it away from my face You might expect it to be quieter than this But the thing is when you hear me, you’re not just hearing me in one place You’re hearing me and you’re hearing the sound as it bounces around the room and that might surprise you Because even this shoddy Designed to reject as much of the environment as possible still picks up a lot of sound off-axis Where it might feel more like 60/40 rather than 80/20 I like to think of any microphone as if it has two signals and not one There’s the room sound which never really changes and a direct signal where you do have some control and what you should Understand from this is that maybe more important than this mic or this one or this one is the room You’re in and which way are you facing?

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Writer's Kitchen

Writers. Music is also about narrative. And if you’re curious about how those two things intersect, so are we. Beat Kitchen is opening our doors to you. Three new products,…

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Recording The Upright Piano

Complete guide to recording upright pianos: microphone placement techniques, removing panels for better access, dealing with player noise, and miking …