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Interview: Olivia Broadfield on Macs, apps and DIY music making

by Matt Tinsley (Dec 14th, 2011)

You've probably not heard of UK based singer songwriter Olivia Broadfield before, but chances are you've heard her music at some point, especially if you watch a lot of TV. Songs from her debut album, Eyes Wide Open (released in 2009), reached over 50 TV placements on shows like The Hills, ...

Hands on with Korg's NanoKONTROL2

by Matt Tinsley (Dec 12th, 2011)

Korg's popular, slim-line NanoSERIES USB-MIDI controllers have been updated to 2.0. We were lucky enough to get our hands on the NanoKONTROL2 control surface and put it through its paces. Like the the nanoKEY2 (a 25 key, velocity-sensing MIDI keyboard) and the nanoPAD2 (with 16 responsive ...

Count The Beats: Interview with a mixing engineer

by Matt Tinsley (Dec 6th, 2009)

In the last year I've spent a fair amount of time doing some recordings. In particular, I've been working on some of my own material. Having invested a large amount of time and money into pre production and the actual recording sessions, what started out as a small bedroom demo soon escalated into ...

Rig of the Day: Maxed out

by Dave Caolo (Mar 5th, 2006)

For the month of March, we've added a theme to the Rig of the Day posts: "Maxed out." From now until the 31st, we want to see pictures of your over-the-top, maxed out set up. Just upload it to our group Flickr pool, and we'll select an image every day to highlight. Next month, we'll ...

Rig of the Day: The studio

by Dave Caolo (Feb 2nd, 2006)

Today's rig features one serious G5-powered home studio. A huge Cinema Display surveys its domain from on high. Not being a professional musician, I don't even know what most of that stuff is, so maybe reader metanut can enlighten us? "Studio" posted by metanut. If you'd like to see your ...

How to Create Your Own ILM for Almost Nothing

by C.K. Sample, III (Aug 16th, 2005)

Victor, over at DownloadSquad, has posted one of the most amazing How Tos. If you are at all interested in DIY film-making, you're going to want to go check it out. There's a lot of good gems in the tutorial, including a link to Director's Boards, which I didn't know about and Blender, ...