Black Lion Audio introduces PBR LIT – digital patchbay labelling system
Black Lion Audio Introduces PBR LIT: Digital patchbay labelling system lights up studio in style and convenience Black Lion Audio…
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Chords (Part 2)
Chords (Part I) introduced triads, explaining how they can be extended by adding extra notes which give your chords more colour. In principle, you can add any scale tone to…
Can it really be too quiet? – apparently so…
Let's face it, every day we are faced with a constant barrage of noise. Whether it's car stereos, other people's mobiles, radios, overheard conversations or traffic it's always there. In…
Chords (part 1)
If you've been following the series of blog posts so far, well done, I guess that means it's making some sort of sense. It may seem that these posts are…
Ideas, unfamiliar styles and a big dollop of synchronicity
As ideas go, it was one of those that seemed good at the time and a bit bonkers in hindsight. And also one of those that led to several other…
Proper music vs the music industry
I've never understood why a lot, and I mean seriously an awful lot of people, only listen to chart and/or pop music. There's an attitude of "I haven't heard of them,…
My Studio
Sometimes, people say one thing and mean another. This post is no different. Although it's titled 'my studio', I don't actually have one. Given money and space I definitely would…
Circle of Fifths and Fourths
Following on from music theory primer and intervals, this post is about the circle of fifths / fourths. I've said previously that we can move through all the keys systematically…