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Guitar Tone - Searching for the Ultimate Tone
                  
                    Guitars are used on a good 90% of the music in the modern world. Since the early blues days, guitars, producers and enthusiasts alike have all been...
                  
                
                
                
              Microphone Capsules - What Makes Them Different?
                  
                    Microphones can usually be divided up into 3 categories - Dynamic, Condenser, and Ribbon. But within these mic’s there is a whole lot more going on, and I want to touch on that today, along with a new video expressing the sound characteristics that marry these microphones and why.
                  
                
                
                  
                
                
              Preamps - At A Glance
                  
                    Preamps have been an integral part of any studio (alongside microphones, of course!) since they first started. 
Throughout the ages, there has been...
                  
                
                
                
              321 Bus Compression Technique
                  
                    Compression is a topic we’ve covered largely already, everything from types to how to use it within your mixes while recording with JZ Mics or any ...
                  
                
                
                
              Staying Creative In Quarantine: How To Create Simple Soundscapes for Composition
                  
                    It’s understated a lot of the time, just how much music can have an emotional effect on the listener. 
Recently I’ve been working on a project with...
                  
                
                
                
              Acoustic Guitar Miking To Make It Sound Incredible
                  
                    We’ve touched lightly on recording acoustic guitars and my two go-to techniques to achieve an amazing sounding acoustic guitar. Today, I want to focus on the lesser known trick of mine that I adopted from drum recording - specifically drum overheads...
                  
                
                
                
              Carry On Being Creative In Isolation: How To Keep Yourself In A Loop And Stay In Business
                  
                    The light looks to be appearing upon the horizon. Finally, a glimmer of light is shining to signal the end of lockdown is soon to come, but this do...
                  
                
                
                
              Making An Incredible Modern Rap Vocal
                  
                    Eminem. Dr Dre. Joyner Lucas. Xxxtentacion. NF. All these names have (among a lot of things) a natural raw talent that will go down in the history ...
                  
                
                
                
              Carry on being Creative in Isolation: Addressing your Choices
                  
                    Isolation has been an unwavering torment of dreary reruns on TV, old forgotten films, and rationing toilet paper. However, I’ve also managed to fin...
                  
                
                
                
              Carry on being Creative in Isolation: The Basics Of Making a Good Home Recording
For those who don’t know, I am the biggest Star Wars nerd on the planet. My obsession with the franchise is verging on unhealthy - but it has given me a vast amount of quotes and life lessons I've held close to me for about the last decade and a half. One of the most valued is a quote from Master Yoda, in the recent sequel series; ‘The greatest teacher, failure is’.
Carry on being Creative in Isolation: How To Record Effectively In Isolation
                  
                    Isolation is a tense time. The entire world has been bought together, unwittingly, towards a much greater threat than we ever could’ve imagined. In...
                  
                
                
                
              The 5 Components of Successful Marketing (Artists and Musicians)
                  
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Content. The cornerstone of your marketing. Your All-Access Pass to an easy life if you have a knack for it straight off the bat - however,...