Analog Audio Gifts for Big Spenders

While music production is more in-the-box every year, the fact of the matter is that we are dealing with what will always be an analog medium: capturing and play sound…

Will Pugh of Cartel on his not-so-new career as a producer

You might know Will Pugh as the singer, guitarist and primary songwriter for Cartel, a mainstay of the 2000s pop-punk scene along with contemporaries like The Starting Line and Something…

Noise Creators connects musicians with producers

"Producer" is one of the most misunderstood words in the music business. The word means something to different to just about everyone, which is one of the reasons why finding the…

The best CreativeLive audio classes of 2015

Studio Pass w/ Periphery It took us a long time to get these guys in our studios, but we finally did it! In this installment of "Studio Pass," Adam "Nolly"…

Music & Audio podcast 33: Nick Hipa of Wovenwar

Nick Hipa is one of those rare humans who just makes you feel really good when you talk to him-- one of those guys who makes you feel like the…

Fresh Out documents life after prison

I've never been incarcerated, but prison has always been a part of my life. My dad was a corrections officer for 25 years and about a half dozen friends and…

Music & Audio Podcast 31: Ryan Downey

Ryan Downey is a man of many faces and many talents. In addition to being Senior Editor of Alternative Press and the man behind a dozen or so cover stories…

5 Timeless Tips for Better Songs and Mixes

While CreativeLive's audio classes cover a huge range of genres and approaches to songwriting, engineering, mixing, and mastering, there are some common threads that run through all our classes. Here's a…