Today I am posting a review I wrote for Berklee’s Guitar Faculty newsletter, Open Position. I thought it would be nice to share it with a larger community of tone-seekers.

Every term, without fail, I get a few assignments handed in with all of a mixer’s solo buttons enabled.

One eye-opening revelation in the quest for tone happening to me back in the early ’90s: I was playing with a relatively popular Boston-based band called the Heavy Metal Horns.

Let’s talk about attack devices, or ways to get a string moving. I know it sounds too simple to be true, but this one post might be the difference between you and your signature sound!

Guitarists might read three different types of notation. Each has its strengths.

“How do I tempo change a loop in Pro Tools?” This is a common question and the answer is, “There are lots of ways.”

Berklee Online music production instructor Erik Hawkins explains how to improve your sampler skills, with advice from his “Producing Music with Reason” course.

By grasping the concept of velocity layers in a sampler you will be able to better use and more easily create your own dynamic and exciting sampler patches.

Learn about the old school function of virtue tracks, and how to apply it to music production today.