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Mountain Hardwear StretchDown Helps Producers Get Outside

There is a point in almost every studio day where the room starts lying to you. The kick feels wrong, then right, then wrong again. The vocal is too loud until it is too quiet. The hi-hat becomes the enemy. The same four-bar loop that felt brilliant at noon becomes completely unlistenable by 4:30. Y

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The Beatles, Drake & Taylor Swift Are Together in Top 10 on Billboard 200 for First Time

The superstar acts have the three highest totals of career No. 1 albums.

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Taylor Swift Joins The Beatles as Only Acts With 100 Weeks at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart

Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl spends a 14th week atop the chart, bringing her career total weeks at No. 1 to 100.

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AFEM and Beatport Webinar

AFEM and Beatport present Amplifying Your Label on Beatport, an online webinar on best practices for your label on the platform.

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Thom Yorke on GarageBand

The Radiohead frontman is more of a Pro Tools guy, it turns out: “When I saw that in the studio, I just wanted to learn it immediately”

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Taylor Swift’s ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ Spends 14th Week Atop Billboard 200

Plus, Drake’s HABIBTI, The Beatles’ Rubber Soul and Mac Miller’s The Divine Feminine return to top 10 after reissues.

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Kali Audio HP-1 Review: Sound, Comfort, and Compromises

I want a studio headphone that helps me hear what needs changing, and I also want to listen to music away from the desk without packing a second pair. That is the part of the Kali Audio HP-1 concept I appreciate most, because production, editing, and listening to records already take up enough of my

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Thom Yorke Prefers Pro Tools Over GarageBand

The Radiohead frontman is more of a Pro Tools guy, it turns out: “When I saw that in the studio, I just wanted to learn it immediately”

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Grovemade Desk Hides the Studio Cable Mess

Images Courtesy Of Grovemade Most producer desks become junk drawers with legs. That is not because producers are careless. Modern studio work asks one surface to do too many jobs. The same desk has to hold monitors, an interface, headphones, controllers, hard drives, a laptop, notebooks, adapters,

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Thom Yorke prefers Pro Tools over GarageBand

The Radiohead frontman is more of a Pro Tools guy, it turns out: “When I saw that in the studio, I just wanted to learn it immediately”

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Thom Yorke prefers Pro Tools over GarageBand

The Radiohead frontman is more of a Pro Tools guy, it turns out: “When I saw that in the studio, I just wanted to learn it immediately”

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Thom Yorke on DAW Preferences

The Radiohead frontman is more of a Pro Tools guy, it turns out: “When I saw that in the studio, I just wanted to learn it immediately”

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Thom Yorke on Pro Tools vs. GarageBand

The Radiohead frontman is more of a Pro Tools guy, it turns out: “When I saw that in the studio, I just wanted to learn it immediately”

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The Avalanches on their new album, sampling, and the challenges of clearing samples

The Avalanches return with No Bad Memories, a 31-track album stacked with sonic ephemera, its TV jingles and start-up sounds balancing playful nostalgia with capitalist critique. Robbie Chater tells u

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2B Shaped 2 Packs Seventeen Effects Into One Plugin

Images Courtesy Of 2B Shaped Some plugins are less about fixing a mix and more about getting a sound out of the way. 2B Played Music’s new 2B Shaped 2 looks like it belongs in that camp. The headline is simple: 17 effects in one plugin, built around sound design, shaping, and movement. The current [

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DJ & Producer Union: Finding An Agent

A practical conversation about finding an agent and building a successful artist-agent relationship.

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DJ and Producer Union Discusses Finding an Agent

A practical conversation about finding an agent and building a successful artist-agent relationship.

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The Rolling Stones are back in the studio again

Saxophonist Courtney Pine has revealed that he recently recorded with the band

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The Rolling Stones are back in the studio again

Saxophonist Courtney Pine has revealed that he recently recorded with the band

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AFEM Addresses Finding Representation for DJs and Producers

A practical conversation about finding an agent and building a successful artist-agent relationship.