"If I'm taking high-end off my vocals, I like Soundtoys FilterFreak": Taylor Swift producer Jack Antonoff reveals his top 10 vocal plugins and recording techniques By Andy Jones published 4 April 24 But even with those plugins, you might not be as successful as him…
Orbital on recording The Green Album: "We didn’t have multi-tracking equipment, so we’d get everything working and just run it out live. Any manipulation or synth magic would happen as it was going down - if you didn’t like it, you’d do it again" By Future Music published 4 April 24 Phil and Paul Hartnoll talk us through the debut album that started it all, track by track
How to use FM and oscillator sync to bring synth bass to life By Future Music published 4 April 24 Spice up your bass sounds with this classic technique
"This assault on human creativity must be stopped": Pearl Jam, Stevie Wonder, Billie Eilish and 200 more artists call for protections against threat of AI By Matt Mullen published 3 April 24 "We must protect against the predatory use of AI to steal professional artists' voices and likenesses, violate creators' rights, and destroy the music ecosystem," reads an open letter from the Artist Rights Alliance
5 techniques for creative reverb manipulation: "Use your imagination to think about new ways that a reverb could be shifted and warped, and then explore different methods for realising that effect" By Stuart Adams published 3 April 24 Delving into the more complex attributes of deeper reverb manipulation
How does reverb actually work?: "Reverb gives us a mainline into our audience’s subconscious, allowing us to influence their aural experience at a subliminal level" By Stuart Adams published 3 April 24 Reverb has been relied on for its evocative sonic character ever since the first homo sapien warbled expletives into a dark cave. The transformative power of space remains a vital mix ingredient...
"He knows very little about an awful lot, but it’s how he applies that knowledge - and it’s down to confidence, too": How Brian Eno became music's ultimate renaissance man By Andy Jones published 2 April 24 Producer, collaborator, hard-to-use synth champion, ambient maestro, app developer and chancer Brian Eno is certainly a pioneer, but of what? Well, how about everything?
"I come from the old-school, the analogue tape and mixing desk-era - but with software, you have so much potential for playing around": The Orb spin-off Sedibus on new project SETI, manipulating samples and the evolution of technology By Andy Price published 2 April 24 Detaching from The Orb mothership, Sedibus is the latest project of core figurehead Alex Paterson, accompanied by former Orb-member and key creative collaborator Andy Falconer
How to make a rave-ready techno track in Ableton Live By Sara Simms published 28 March 24 Prepare to get fists in the air as we learn the tools, tricks and tempos for nailing the basics of rave-ready techno
Kelly Moran: "An important aspect of my work is trying to preserve my own humanity, even if I'm using technology to help me do it" By Matt Mullen published 28 March 24 Pianist, producer and Warp Records artist Kelly Moran abandons the prepared piano and extended techniques that defined her early work to duet with a self-playing Yamaha Disklavier on new project Moves in the Field