Hello everybody! I must admit that the title is a bit caustic. And this post should be taken as my personal answer to that question. Africa does not deserve mediocre educational instituions. By exercising my freedom of speech, I would like to present a review of the Africa Digital Media Institute, as an insider. Generally […]
“Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn’t matter whether you’re the lion or a gazelle: in Africa… […]
Hi everybody! Today I would like to talk about a topic that is not well discussed anywhere, and that most of times we tend to underestimate. I will push you a bit farther from the ordinary operational field of a sound engineer, by taking into consideration some psychological implications that bind us to the realm […]
Hi all! Let me start with a very happy belated Happy New Year! It has been a minute from the last post, but things were a bit hectic on my side. Anyway, some time back I was in the habit of posting what I called sound facts on my Facebook page. After receiving a lot […]
Hi everybody! Today I’d like to bring some clarity on a topic which often brings confusion to most and also the people that operate in the music production industry. Let me talk about the differences between a Music Producer and a Sound Engineer. A lot has changed since 1925, when the first electrical recording was […]
Hi everyone! Today I’d like to introduce a topic, which due to its vastity, I’ll treat in more than one post. The topic under exam, as I stated in the title, is the reverb. This topic is also part of my Audio Mix course, which I teach in several institution. I decided to take and […]
Hi everyone! Today I want to share with you some cool tips that can save you a lot of time and make your studio life easier. Let’s see my personal method on how to deal with humongous sessions! When we record a song, we often end up to clog our session with a multitude of […]
Something has changed here in Kenya. Last Friday, on the 15th of June 2018 at Micheal Joseph Center, I was privileged to one of the best live performances I’ve ever attended here in Kenya. Energetic, emotional, humble: these are the three adjectives I would use to describe the album launch “Thought of My Heart” by […]
Are you ready? Fasten your seat belt, this article is the start of “A Music Production Guide”, where I’ll chase on the trail of all the production steps, both creative and technical; needed to make a music album. To narrate it, I’ll use as an example a hypothetical band (named “The Marks”), composed by 5 […]
Hi everybody! I’ve been listening to questions, curiosities and perplexities all around me, and I noticed that there is a lot of confusion about all the artistic and technical processes a music album has to go through, from the inception to the completion of the product. I could not ask for a better chance to […]
