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Jai Meghan: Come “Sponge” with Me: Part III
In this series, I’ve invited you to learn with me from some of the masters of television scoring. In case you haven’t been following along, so far we’ve listened to over two hours of Jerry Goldsmith...
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Deane Ogden: Michael Jackson, R.I.P.
As I’m sure you’ve heard, Michael Jackson died today in Los Angeles. If film composers are musicians that put music to film, then Michael Jackson was a musician who put film to music. In addition to...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
View ArticleThe 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...
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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...
View Article2011 NAMM: Steinberg Cubase 6 w/ 64-bit Support
We got the chance to see the newest incarnation of Cubase in action at the 2011 NAMM Show, and witness the software in all its 64-bit Mac glory (Woohoo!). Here is Steinberg’s resident Cubase guru, Matt...
View ArticleSPOTLIGHT 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...
View ArticleSPOTLIGHT ON: “Drumasonic 2.1″ and Drumasonic “Luxury”
In our newest SPOTLIGHT ON, Johnny Knittle guides you through a tour of one of the most exciting things to happen to sampled drums in quite a long time: Drumasonic 2.1, Drumasonic’s newly updated...
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