Being an independent musician gives you the freedom to create your own music. However, the problem lies with its quality. Musical talent isn’t enough when producing new songs. If you’re inexperienced ...

John McBride, esteemed audio engineer and owner of Blackbird Studio, chatted about his new streaming platform “Inside Blackbird” and the Blackbird Academy. He is also the husband of Grand Ole Opry ...

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Ryan Ordway, in the foreground, accompanies a student musician (not seen) during hands-on training on sound equipment during the past weekend’s first program of his newly established Let’s Record ME ...

While music production undergoes several steps, mixing and mastering music are the two essential processes that ensure every track sounds professional. Mixing is the technique of adjusting and ...

Jim Spencer and Nan Plummer last lived near downtown Ypsilanti in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and Spencer recalls a downtown business district anchored by Haab’s, a few gas stations and not too ...

The Byrds are so synonymous with that quintessentially mid-1960s, jangly folk-rock sound that it’s hard to imagine a world in which the players didn’t already have that style locked in. But as Roger ...