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Here’s a helpful video for recording drums with just two mics and only two inputs on your audio interface. Engineer Bob Clearmountain (The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen) and drummer Matt Chamberlain (solo artist, session musician, David Bowie, Tori Amos, Soundgarden)…

It’s that time of the year when gear manufacturers and retailers, along with musicians and other industry members travel to Southern California for the NAMM show. The Noise Room will be there exploring new products, meeting old friends, and shooting…

Here’s our Year in Review: 2014 was the best year yet for The Noise Room. We expanded our NAMM coverage to bring you even more videos from the event, interviewed nearly 60 bands and artists performing at South by Southwest,…

Whether playing live or working in the studio, you can learn new tricks by working with other people. This also comes into play when working on sessions other than your own. Avid and Puremix have put together a six-part videos…

While many people are out shopping this weekend, we thought it would be better to stay in and create music by giving away a copy of Egoist for the iPad. Egoist is a groove instrument from Sugar Bytes that makes it…

Sometimes working with someone else’s music sparks new ideas of your own. For a while, The Noise Room used Blend, an online platform where producers shared source project files, including Ableton Live, Pro Tools, Logic, GarageBand, Maschine, and Reason projects,…

Neil Young’s music has been with me for as long as I can remember. As a teen I would sneak out of the house to see the midnight showing of his Rust Never Sleeps movie. Since moving to California, I’d…

While on a family vacation in Pennsylvania I took a drive to Nazareth, PA and visited the C. F. Martin guitar factory. As an owner of a Martin guitar it was a treat to see how the guitars are made.…

Bobby Owsinski started his career as a guitar and keyboard player, songwriter and arranger, eventually becoming an in-demand producer/engineer. He is a co-founder of Surround Associates and has worked on surround projects and DVD productions for a variety of acts…

Many guitarists who are recording their own music use amp simulators or all-in-one pedals such as the Eleven Rack from Avid, the POD HD from Line 6, or the ME-80 from BOSS to get their sound. This option makes it…