Music Production Articles
This index is your jumping-off point into every stage of making and releasing music—from the first chord idea to the final royalty statement. Here you’ll find articles on songwriting, lyricism, chord progressions, song arrangement, performance, and show etiquette, alongside deep dives into music composition and creative frameworks like the Palimpsest Method—an iterative approach to re-imagining recordings, building pastiche tracks, and generating new material from your own catalog.
On the technical side, we explore microphones and microphone technique, recording equipment, tracking, recording techniques, recording effects, mixing and mixing techniques, mastering, and vinyl pressing. You’ll also find session notes and recording performance insights that pull real lessons from real projects.
Because a modern producer also has to think like a business owner, this index includes practical guides to the music business: artist contracts, copyright, digital distribution, digital performance royalties, sound recording royalties, performance rights organizations, booking venues, and music promotion and marketing.
Whether you’re in the studio, on stage, or working on your next release, these articles are organized to help you make smarter creative and business decisions at every step.
For decades mastering engineers have fought The Loudness Wars. I go into why, what LUFs are, if there are merits to loudness, is the war over, and how I set levels streaming, HD, and vinyl.
Demonstration and review of the inexpensive CAD M179 Microphone with stereo examples used as a Blumlein pair.