Desktop Mastering Essentials

Jul 25 2012 4:00PM
by Craig Anderton Fig. 1. A classical music file in Steinberg’s WaveLab 7. Processors include EQ and stereo width expansion; note the spectrometer window More...

Booker T Video Repost

Oct 12 2011 12:00AM
We've been meaning to catch up with Booker T. Jones since his Grammy win for the 2009 album Potato Hole--for which we interviewed him back in August '09. If you haven't heard his latest, The Road From Memphis, you're missing out, More...

Welcome to Keyboard's November 2011 Links Page

Oct 10 2011 12:00AM
Exclusive interview with the Flaming Lips! Evan Bogart talks songwriting, keyboards, and production. Miss our Summer NAMM gear wrap? It's online?     More...

Steal This Sound, Elton John’s “Crocodile Rock”

Jun 1 2011 2:40PM
Vox combo organs are unquestionably the king of cheesy ’60s organs, but Farfisa’s colorful axes are a close second. Perhaps Vox won favor with its sleeker lines and sexy integral Z-shaped stand, but Farfisas can be More...

Dance -- Fun With Ring Modulation

Jun 1 2011 1:15PM
by Francis Preve Lately, I’ve been getting a slew of questions about ring modulation. With effects like Apple Logic’s Ringshifter, Propellerhead Reason’s Scream, and Ableton Live’s Frequency Shifter, More...

How It Works: TALKBOX 101

May 1 2011 1:55PM
The Rocktron Banshee 2 is the gold standard of talkboxes.    Love ’em or hate ’em, vocals that are processed or Auto-Tuned until it sounds like a machine is doing the singing are a staple of funk, More...

Dance, THE ’90s HOUSE ORGAN

May 1 2011 1:40PM
In the March issue, we re-created classic house pianos using modern soft synths. This time around, we’ll take a deeper look at the house organ bass sound that launched countless ’90s hits, like Robin S.’ More...

Steal This Sound, Gary Numan's “Cars”

Aug 23 2011 12:00AM
Longtime Keyboard readers may recall that way back in July 2006, I took a crack at the infamous Polymoog “Vox Humana” patch made famous by Gary Numan (and got it pretty close). Replicating this swirly string/vocal pad has been More...

Dance, Hit The Deck

Jun 30 2011 12:00AM
By Francis Preve All too often, we hear artists and producers bemoaning the loss of tape in modern recording rigs. The compression, saturation, and warmth of tape still haven’t been properly duplicated by software. So, if you More...

Dance -- Adding Transients

Apr 29 2011 1:00AM
Regardless of your preferred subgenre of electronic dance music, no one likes mushy leads and percussion riffs. Sometimes, you’ll nail an interesting texture for the body of the sound, but the attack will be ho-hum. In EDM, More...

Pink Floyd's “Welcome to the Machine”

Apr 29 2011 1:00AM
Perhaps unintentionally, Pink Floyd became one of the great innovators of the use of synths in rock. We dissected the frenetic instrumental “On the Run” from The Dark Side of the Moon way back in the April ’05 issue. This month, More...

Software Secret Weapons

Apr 29 2011 1:00AM
One of the most powerful weapons in any arsenal is the element of surprise. This month, our panel of A-list producers answers the question “What’s your favorite exotic plug-in, and why?” JON MARGULIES (heatercore.net) My More...

Greg Calbi on What Not To Bring to the Mastering Guy

Mar 23 2011 12:00AM
Greg Calbi is one of the most prolific mastering engineers in the business. You can see his long list of credits here. Recently, I got to drop by his studio in New York City to peek inside a world that's often mysterious to us More...

Dance: Get The House Piano Sound

Mar 22 2011 1:00AM
When it comes to classic Chicago house, even passing fans of dance music know that the piano is king. More specifically, chords playing a regular rhythmic pulse using a somewhat metallic piano sound. But did you know that the More...

Wireless Mic Secrets of the Grammys

Feb 16 2011 9:00AM
Our exclusive backstage coverage of the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards continues as RF supervisor Grant Green shows us how they handle the fact that nearly every artist in attendance wants a wireless mic. It falls on the RF supervisor More...

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