New Monday #139
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New Monday #138
Rubber Soul
New Monday #137
Here and There with Richard Thompson and Clay Blair
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Bowie and the Sound of a Console
New Monday #135
History/Lesson
New Tuesday 134
Introducing the Sound Techniques Alpha Range Channel
New Monday #133
Dolly by the Numbers
New Monday #132
Munan, Oasis & the Level-Loc
New Monday #131
Fly Like an Eagle All Over the Place
New Monday #130
Tchariots of Level-Loc
New Monday #129
From the Stupid to the Sublime
New Monday #128
The Law Firm of Middleton, Sidechain and Glue, Esq.
New Monday #127
Interviews, Mysteries, Business and Blumlein
New Monday #126
A Little Love and a Little Mid/Side
New Monday #125
The KA1776 and Compression
New Monday #124
Slew Rates and Hockey Sticks
New Monday #123
Dads, AIPS, that Video
New Monday #122
Sound Techniques, Mott the Hoople, and Trident
New Monday #121
Love Forever Changes - Sound Techniques in LA
New Monday #120
Sound Techniques Part 1
New Monday #119
Happy Birthday! You’re six, Talkback Limiter!
New Monday #118
Jack Douglas, Rocks, Beautiful Boy
New Monday #117
Techy Geeky 2 More on High Pass Filters, Ringing, Minimal-Phase Filtering. Haute and Freddy
New Monday #116
Techy Geeky 1 high-pass filters, Ultravox, LATCH
New Monday #115
FPSHOT, Beefheart, Maotai and the SOLO button
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New Tuesday 114.1, More Puff Puff
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4.20 Puff Puff mixPass
New Monday #113
Tricky Taxes
New Monday #112
Wandering in Cover Forest
New Monday #111
Hope. Expression. A Coupon
New Monday #110
Ideas, Attitude, Ty Segall
New Monday #109
What Might be Next, Velvet Daydream
New Monday #108
Capturing Reverb
New Monday #107
The Sound Techniques Console
New Monday #106
Sunset Sound Chamber One, Mixing The Cure
New Monday #105
Lip syncing, Lypsinka, Disney, and Voices Carry
New Monday #104
Two Years of New Monday
New Monday #103
dreams at Boulevard
New Monday #102
NAMM is Peeple
New Monday 101
Girls, California
New Monday #100
SITRAL and Stephen
New Monday #99
Happy New Year, Geese
New Monday #98
Something Old, Something New, Something Disco, but not in that Order
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Christmas Wrapping, Linus and Lucy
New Monday #96
London Calling, a B.O.D.
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Guadalupe Plata, Slapback Delay, and a Lesson
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Dare to Go Mono
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Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs
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Gordon, Angine de Poitrine
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About this Weather
New Monday #90
Louis Cole
New Monday #89
Dave, Tape
New Monday #88
10cc by the Numbers
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Bad Time
New Monday #86
How Long?
New Monday #85
Love in Studios
New Monday #84
Robbing Redford, Great Songs, a Lesson
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WOW, ADHD, Bab L’Bluz, and Jim
New Monday #82
Mashups, Beat downs, Turtles, and so many things to learn
New Monday #81
Sin, Sugar, and Saturation
New Monday #80
Elvis Costello, Mic Technique tips, Killers of the Flower Moon
New Monday #79
Dealing with References
New Monday #78
The Power of Very Quiet
New Monday #77
Helicopters, Pidgeons, and Tex-Mex
New Monday #76
Ozzy, Chuck, George, a Lesson
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RL, AI, A Lesson
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Fishmans, Tape and Homework
New Monday #73
Happy Birthday
New Monday #72
Mick Ralphs, Jesse Welles
New Monday #71
AI, Via Mardot
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Sly Stone and Brian Wilson
New Monday #69
NS10s, Haute and Freddy, Love and more
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Odessey
New Monday #67
Dave Shapiro, Daniel Williams, and Jackie Venson
New Monday #66
Permission
New Monday #65
Thoughts on Collaborating with AI, including existencial dread
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Collaboration
New Monday #63
Cleverly Steal Ideas
New Monday #62
Productive Limitations
New Monday #61
Inspiration Tool #1: Happy Accidents
New Monday #60
Thinking about Brains
New Monday #59
AIR, Juxtaposition
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Severance, Les, Sale
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Peter Frampton
New Monday #56
Pondering This is a Low
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Pro Tools, Flack
New Monday #54
Mix glue, Compression, AI Disruption
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Chris Isaak, Cutting Vocals Without Headphones
New Monday #52
Dave Jerden, Marianne Faithfull
New Monday #51
Peter Gabriel, Stevie Wonder, Quick Science
New Monday #50
Level-Loc, Legends, Lost Cars
New Monday #49
Inspiration for the New Year
New Monday #48
California, Joni, Delta Spirit
New Monday 47
Gates, Bridges, and What’s Next
New Monday 46
Richard Perry, Fanny, Happy New Year
New Monday 45
National Sweetheart, Frank Sinatra, Level-Setting
New Monday 44
Driving Songs and Parking Lots
New Monday #43
Common Saints & Reverb Ideas
New Monday 42b
It's Tuesday! More Plug-in Ideas!
New Monday 42a
Five Years of Korneff & Plug-In Tips and Tricks
New Monday #41
Black Friday Sale, Kim Deal
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Shel Talmy, Mic Stuff
New Monday #39
Old Guy Music
New Monday #38
A Toast: Quincy Jones
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The Numbers Game
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The Groove Made Visible
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Beverages, Flashbacks, and Jerry
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Mystery Artist, Tinnitus, and a DIY
New Monday #33
TRB - Power in the Darkness
New Monday #32
Hawksley and Puff Puff Tips
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Oh no, my Vikings are intermodulating again!
New Monday #30
St Vincent, Saturation, and Mr Flowers
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Nick, Albert, and Roger in Eden
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Doobie Brothers, Marvin Gaye, EQ'ing ideas
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Tchad Blake, the AIP, and Frankenklangfilm
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Spirit's The Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus
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Elizabeth, Jeff, and Nina... And a killer movie
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David, Gus, Terry, Wayne and Herbie. And Malcom
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Herbie sabes the day for the Godfather of Glam?
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The coolest song of 1973? Herbie Flowers, Advision
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Cloudbusting, Grooves
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Krautrock, Conny Plank! PZM tips
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Great Songs, Terrible Covers
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A great debut album, RTB, 40 tracks and overloading the input
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A Podcast, Shakespeare and Double the Production Tips
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Minimal Drum Micing
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Mixing coolness and weirdness
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Steve Albini
New Monday #12
Good Karma, old and new
New Monday #11
V - IV, John Barry, BBC’s Soul Music
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The Puff Puff, Dickey and The Allman Brothers
New Monday #9
Taxes and Taxman, Wow, use a Moving Coil Microphone
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Hendrix in the West, an Artistic Principal, use Plug-in Backwards
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Fugazi in a Sundress , TV music, Cutting Vox, AI Sux
New Monday #6
Mix like Blur and a Question for Dan
New Monday #5
Happy 3/11, guitar amp mixing, and falling down the stairs
New Monday #4
Happy Accidents, Gorillaz and EVH
New Monday #3
Happy Mondays and some Useful Tips
New Monday #2
From AI music to the Dyna Comp
It’s a New Monday
It’s a New Monday
Tips and Tricks
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Korneff Tips 12: Easy Killer Rough Mixes
Rough mixes matter. Here’s a quick setup for getting a loud, punchy, controlled rough mix that can even make it into a finished mix.
Korneff Tips 11: Training Your Ears and Finding Clarity
Finding and killing Dumb Humpies
Korneff Tips 10: Preset Ideas
Preset ideas to help you manage CPU use, as well as some creative ideas... and some presets you can download and use.
Korneff Tips 09: Gain and the Alpha Range
Setting gain on the Sound Techniques can be as easy or as difficult as you want it to be. Let's start easy and make it gradually harder, and learn something about this signal flow and gain staging.
Korneff Tips 08: My Overheads Want to Kill Me
Learn how to get better drum overheads, from choosing the right mics and stereo technique to managing room reflections, harsh cymbals, and compression.
Korneff Tips 07: Kick Ass Kicks
Learn how to record and mix a powerful kick drum with minimal money and equipment. From tuning and mic placement to phase, compression, EQ, and transformer saturation, these practical techniques will help you get a punchy, focused kick without a huge setup.
Korneff Tips 06: Low Budget Snare Ideas
Practical, low-budget tips for fixing bad snare sounds with tuning, damping, mic choices, compression, and more.
Korneff Tips 05: Fixing Badly Recorded Electric Bass
How to rescue a badly recorded electric bass using only the KA1776. Some practical compression techniques to bring out articulation, add weight, and make a weak bass track mix-ready.
Korneff Tips 04: Parallel Compression
From vocals to drums, parallel compression and clipping can make things bigger, punchier, and more exciting. Get practical tips and KA1776 settings to try on your own mixes.
Korneff Tips 03: Foolproof Compressor Settings?
Some ideas on compressor settings for level control and KA1776 examples to help you dial in the right sound.
Korneff Tips 002: The Magic of M/S
M/S recording and processing explained — mic techniques, mix ideas, and creative ways to work with Mid/Side on vocals, drums, and more.
Korneff Tips 001: Compressor Knee
The knee is how the compressor applies gain reduction as the signal crosses threshold: gently or aggressively.
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Audio 101: the Basic of Circuits
Start courseAudio 102: Analog and Digital Equalization
Start courseUsing the Amplified Instrument Processor
Start courseUsing the Shure Level-Loc
Start courseUsing the Sound Techniques Alpha Range Channel
Start courseUsing the Talkback Limiter
Start courseUsing the WOW Thing
Start courseUsing the Sound Techniques Alpha Range Channel
Setting Gain, Impedance and Saturation with the Sound Techniques Alpha Range Channel
Go deep into the Alpha Range Channel’s microphone preamp, from impedance and pad settings to gain, transformer saturation, tolerance, and amplifier HQ modes. Learn what all those knobs are actually doing and how to use them creatively.
EQ, Sound Techniques Style
Only two bands? That’s the point. The Sound Techniques Alpha Range Channel’s passive inductor EQ may look limited by modern standards, but its huge low end, musical highs, and unique interaction between boost and cut make it surprisingly powerful.
Lesson – The ElektraComp
The ElektraComp is a VCA compressor built for the Alpha Range Channel. This lesson covers EZ mode, the transfer curve editor, and the trick that changes everything: parallel compression.