Steven Lee of Fader Pro here. “Does MORE touring mean LESS Studio?” The answer is NO! We all know without a doubt that in todays world of music, its imperative to produce and release music in the marketplace and if you don’t, its very difficult to have that phone ring to put you on tour. [...]

At the end of the mixdown phase on any given song, it’s customary to print several different versions of the mix, including an instrumental and an a cappella. These are part of the group of mixes (aka the final passes) that make up the master recording. Actually, the instrumental and a cappella versions are only [...]

A remix is so much more than what its name implies. It incorporates virtually every aspect of music production—from pre-production to the final mixdown, and even mastering. Many remixers, myself included, do every single step themselves. In this month’s column, rather than explore a particular technical aspect of remixing, I wanted to discuss the overall [...]

To kick off this column, I want to talk about one of the most fundamental concepts to remixing: time-stretching. It’s a critical technical process to understand when doing a remix, and changing the tempo is one of the quickest ways to get your version to sound different from the original. It’s usually necessary to time-stretch [...]