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• How to build a production and recording studio that fits in a backpack

  Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Anyone can produce and record music. Perhaps you and a buddy from work have been jamming in the break room and you want to record it, or maybe ...

  • Tristan Greene

• BAE Audio president Mark Loughman on analog versus digital, abandoned tech, and the NWO

  There's a good chance you've never heard of BAE Audio. Despite being one of the most prestigious high-end audio gear manufacturers in the US, it doesn't even have a Wikipedia entry. However, you've definitely heard music made using its gear. Everyone from Queens of the Stone Age ...

  • Tristan Greene

• I let Izotope's AI handle the mixing in my recording studio and now I'm on the machines' side

  Izotope's Neutron 3 Advanced audio software is an AI-powered mixing assistant you inject into your favorite DAW. It uses machine learning to balance and EQ your audio tracks so you can spend more time getting your music right and less time fiddling with virtual knobs and sliders. ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Review: Sensel's Morph is the perfect trackpad controller for musicians and other creatives

  Sensel's Morph is a pressure-sensitive touch controller that's easier to use than it is to describe. Unlike other touchpads, it's infinitely customizable and comes with several overlays that transform it into a MIDI controller for music, a gamepad, a video editing tool, or whatever ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Sweetwater Studios began in a van, now it's the heart of a $725M enterprise

  Some of the richest companies have the humblest beginnings. Google and Facebook started in dorms, Microsoft was launched from a garage, and Sweetwater Sound began as a studio in a van. The difference here is that Sweetwater's never laid off an employee, sold out to shareholders, or ...

  • Tristan Greene

• A peek at legendary architect John Storyk's design process

  John Storyk, the founder of WSDG, an acoustic consulting and A/V integration firm, is a legend in the music world. He's a world-class architect and acoustic designer whose built recording studios for everyone from Jimi Hendrix to Jay-Z. As someone whose built more than 4,000 audio/video ...

  • Tristan Greene

• These BOSS pedals make you sound like a guitar god

  Learning to play guitar is a lot of fun (and easier than ever), but somewhere around my 500th attempt at the main riff from “Black Sunshine” I got frustrated. I was playing the right notes, but it didn't sound like White Zombie. In fact nothing I played sounded right – that ...

  • Tristan Greene

• What's behind the curious serenading of cybercriminals in Nigerian hip-hop?

  Singers use artistic conventions to construct marketable music personas. However, that’s not the full picture. In the US, for example, most American hip-hop and rap songs are also a reflection of the artistes’ living experiences and social communities. These mainly involve gang ...

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• 'You Can't Take My Door' is both country music and AI's greatest achievement

  We know there's no justice in the world because the Country Music Awards, held earlier this month, didn't issue the evening's ...

  • Tristan Greene

• A Q&A with Roland CEO Jun-ichi Miki on innovation, Waku Waku, and 'sleeping musicians'

  The Roland Corporation is a global powerhouse in the field of music technology. We interviewed Mr. Jun-ichi Miki, Roland ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Spotify ad draws criticism over how it (under)pays musicians

  Spotify tweeted an ad for its new partnership with Hulu, along with a comment about "budgets." Several people, including ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Sonarworks Reference 4 makes it easy to calibrate recording studio speakers

  Your recording studio speakers probably weren't designed to sound perfect in your exact room. Sonarworks Reference 4 Studio ...

  • Tristan Greene