Erik Hawkins offers tips for buying vintage drum machines, including what to look for and the best models for musicians on a budget.

Producer and Berklee Online course author Sean Slade tells how a recording session he did with Lou Reed blew up, literally!

Prince Charles Alexander may have engineered some of the most iconic rap recordings of the ’90s, but it wasn’t until he listened to the Notorious B.I.G. that he realized how much it mattered.

Susan Rogers—who teaches the graduate course Psychoacoustics in Music Production for Berklee Online—worked as Prince’s staff engineer from 1983-1987. She discusses an average day with Prince.

Thinking about your music as a business venture may make you feel uneasy, but if you’re an independent artist, thinking this way can put you on the path towards a sustainable music career.

Having a dependable hard drive for your projects is a really important part of your music production rig.

One of the most important skills for any self-producing songwriter to know is how to record vocals. Here are a few quick tips, with an instructional video.

Cleniece and Christine are both musical educators based in Kenya. They both chanced upon Berklee Online courses and found them so inspirational that they used the material to teach their students.

If you’re going to produce a home music video, you want to make it look good. Fortunately, this doesn’t require a lot of expensive cameras and lights.