Making Things

When a relative I'd never met died, their kids swept through the house taking anything worth money. What got left in the basement was a decades-long run of National Geographic and Popular Communic…

Spend any time immersed in music discussions and you'll see people ask why 4/4 is so popular. The short and most precise answer to all questions of music and music theory is: centuries of changin…

This is all stuff I use or have used and still recommend as of publishing. * Black Octopus Sound has a 1GB royalty-free sampler. This was my go-to pack when I was just starting out and couldn't…

A DAW, or Digital Audio Workstation, is a big, fancy environment for working with sound. The common truism is, to an extent, true: you can do anything in any DAW. But the more advanced you get, or th…

I discovered that trying to write one big blob does not work for me. I can get as far as 2000 words before the volume overwhelms. As with many things in life, breaking it down into pieces helps a lot!…