Back in August of 2007 and January of 2008, a Big Band that I play in recorded two live performances for a “Demo CD”. Well, in the 2 some years since we made the two recordings, the project has become a full-blown album that is currently playing on Jazz Radio stations and available on the [Continue]

I came across this article from Hometracked.com. Pitch correction software has applications from restoration and mix-rescue to outright distortion of a voice or instrument. I’ll discuss some of the more tasteful uses of these auto-tune tools (whether the original from Antares, or a variant like the free GSnap) below. But first I thought [Continue]

Rolling Stone has an interesting article about how a lot of guys are using Pro Tools to record professional albums. You still need creative genius, but at least studio time won’t put you in the poor house. The article didn’t cover some of the other costs in setting up a Pro Tools (or other) type [Continue]

In case you have not heard, you can get a FREE version of Digidesign’s ProTool. There are some limits as to what the program can do. Most notiably you cannot use Digidesign hardware to record audio. Just built in Macintosh sound. I’ve been using this program for the last couple of weeks and well….It’s a [Continue]