Troy MacCubbin: A Night at the Gallery (Live)

Troy MacCubbin‘s new live album, entitled A Night at the Gallery, has just been released. This was a live recording of two concerts I did in Los Angeles with Troy in April 2011. As well as arranging the strings, playing keyboards, and MD’ing the band (detailed in a previous article here), I also produced and…

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Better Snare Drum Sounds Through EQ

I’ve been asked a lot about how to get good drum sounds, and in particular, how to EQ drums properly to sit in a mix. While there are few hard and fast rules, the video (below) shows how I locate and notch out problematic frequencies in a snare drum that hasn’t been recorded all that…

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