Atreyu Headline The Mayhem Festival Stage

Longevity in the music business requires versatility and adaptability – which explains in part why, more than a decade into their career, Orange County, California quintet Atreyu are tighter and more eclectic than ever. The band kicked off their current tour with The Used with two back-to-back sold-out shows at the House of Blues in Anaheim this

Galactic on Recording Their Album, Ya-Ka-May

While many producers and bands are collaborating with other artists remotely, Galactic is keeping it decidedly homegrown with their latest album, Ya-Ka-May [Anti-]. Despite the ease of swapping files over the Internet, the band worked exclusively with singers and musicians from their vibrant, ever-rebuilding city of New Orleans. Jazz, bounce (a

Propellerhead Record : Make Groovy MIDI Sequences

OBJECTIVE: Turn stiff MIDI parts into music that grooves and swings. BACKGROUND: The ReGroove mixer is a powerful tool for adding humanization and expressiveness to MIDI parts. It has two options: Global parameters and Channel parameters. We’ll cover basics of Channel parameters, which affect only note lanes assigned to them. Note: The following also applies to Reason 4. STEPS 1. Click on the ReGroove Mixer show hide button (lower right). The mixer has four banks of eight channels; each channel can have a different groove.       2. In the note lane you want to groovify, click on the Select Groove pop-up menu, and select a groove channel. Here, ReGroove channel A1 is being selected.        3. Start playback, so you can hear

Roundup : Can You Really Mix On Headphones?

Of course you can mix on headphones, but does that mean you should? It’s an increasingly relevant question because many people listen to music on earbuds or headphones, not the hi-fi speakers that resemble what’s used for traditional mixing. Furthermore, as more people work in home project studios, mixing at high levels could lead to a grumpy spouse or complaining neighbor. Another consideration is economics: Headphones take room acoustics out of the equation, which can be a factor with home studios, and top-of-the-line headphones cost less than top-of-theline speakers. However, not all headphones are created equal. Those designed for consumers sometimes “hype” the low end, high end, or both. Finding headphones that