August 23, 2017
Music Composer for TV Commercials – BOSCH – Funk
As a music composer for TV Commercials you have to first get inside the head of the client. This is true of any composing process. You need to understand the…
August 19, 2017
Game of Thrones Funk Cover
What happens when you take one of the most iconic and inspiring TV themes of this decade and funk it up. The result is Game of Funk... or Funk of…
August 16, 2017
Mix Automation – Adding Emotion With Dynamics
Mix Automation is an important part of the music making process for any music producer of mix engineer. In this music production tutorial I show you some examples of automation that…
August 10, 2017
Trick for Bigger Musical Transitions – Drop The Bass
When producing music, the default approach to adding impact, is to add more sounds. This generally holds true. Your chorus will generally have more instrumentation for greater impact but there…
July 10, 2017
The Week The Landlords Moved In
The Week The Landlords Moved In is a "life swap" format show on BBC 1 whereby landlords get to live in their own properties for a week. And on their…
June 10, 2017
Film Score – Is It Becoming Cool?
I don’t know whether it’s just because I’m paying more attention, but these days, film score seems to be cool… ish. The very fact that film composers like Hans Zimmer…
May 15, 2017
Ribbon Microphones On Test
I was in the market for some ribbon microphones. I wanted something that would add some different, tone and character to my piano and guitar but would also sound great…
April 18, 2017
What is a Music Producer?
Until I got in to the business of making music I never truly understood: What is a music producer? "A Music Producer is the visionary who steers a piece of…
February 17, 2017
5 Steps to Finding the Right Film Music
Far be it for me to dismiss production music. I’ve written a lot of it and it certainly has its place. But for a filmmaker pouring their heart and soul…
