Stream of Conscience: A Guide to Guilt-Free Binge Listening
Ex-Stream Hater? Streaming has renewed and widened my enjoyment of music – a feat that crates of scratched CDs or a hard drive of legal...
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Frank Gryner
- Oct 27, 2016
Disingenuity: Why MacGyver Would Make a Horrible Recording Engineer
Society seems too quick to celebrate resourcefulness. This is no more apparent than its depiction in countless movies and TV shows over...
Frank Gryner
- Jun 17, 2016
What Is This Thing? Re-discovering the Guitar
It’s complicated…my relationship with the guitar, that is. The classic on-again/off-again saga has gone on so long that sometimes I look...
Frank Gryner
- Jun 5, 2015
Underage Mixing: Cheating the Death of Rock
Not-So-Level Headed I don’t think that rock is dead, but I find myself nervously checking its pulse more frequently these days. And while...
Frank Gryner
- Jan 1, 2015
Flashback for the Attack
Secrets of the Masters: Dokken’s “Dream Warriors" By Frank Gryner (originally published in Premier Guitar) Daryl Dragon (the Captain of...
Frank Gryner
- Dec 30, 2014
Distortion of the Truth
Recording Heavy Guitars By Frank Gryner (originally published in Recording Magazine) Back when defiance was the primary sponsor for...
Frank Gryner
- Apr 8, 2014
Battle of the Multi-Bands Part I
Spectral Dynamic Processing for Guitars By Frank Gryner (as published in Recording Magazine) Up until the last decade, spectral dynamic...
Frank Gryner
- Apr 1, 2014
Battle of the Multi-Bands Part II
Dynamic Guitar Tone Sculpting by Frank Gryner (as published in Recording Magazine) Last time we focused on multiband compression as a...
Frank Gryner
- Mar 2, 2014
The Rocking Dead
Secrets of the Masters: Rob Zombie's "Dragula" By Frank Gryner (originally published in Premier Guitar) Specializing in mix re-creations...
Frank Gryner
- Feb 7, 2014
Edited & Uncredited
The Thankless Job of Vocal Comping By Frank Gryner (as published in Recording Magazine) Okay, so you’ve just siphoned every last...
Frank Gryner
- Jan 29, 2014
The Reel Story Behind “Smoke on the Water”
Secrets of the Masters: Deep Purple's "Smoke on the By Frank Gryner (originally published in Premiere Guitar) Deep Purple’s “Smoke on...
Frank Gryner
- Jan 16, 2014
Our Dirty Little White Boy is All Grown Up
Secrets of the Masters: Foreigner's "Dirty Little White Boy" By Frank Gryner (originally published in Premier Guitar) I consider it a...
Frank Gryner
- Dec 16, 2013
Sing, Sing a Song
Recording Inexperienced Singers By Frank Gryner (as published in Recording Magazine) Sesame Street Cred Some of the best advice can come...
Frank Gryner
- Nov 1, 2013
Songwriter’s Intervention
Help for the Technically-Challenged by Frank Gryner via your friends & family (as published in Recording Magazine) We’ve assembled here...
Frank Gryner
- Apr 1, 2010
Do You Have Demoitis?
An Epidemic That Affects Recording Songwriters by Frank Gryner (as published in Recording Magazine) Matthew Good's definition of demoitis...
Frank Gryner
- Dec 2, 2008
The Grand Slam
Drum Mixing Part IV by Frank Gryner (as published in Recording Magazine) We have covered kick, snare and overheads over the past several...
Frank Gryner
- Nov 1, 2008
Over-the-Top Overheads
Drum Mixing Part III by Frank Gryner (as published in Recording Magazine) I see a lot of mix engineers allocate most of their time to...
Frank Gryner
- Aug 1, 2008
An Open Letter from your Kick Drum
Drum Mixing Part II by Frank Gryner (as published in Recording Magazine) Dear Mix Engineer, I have a bone to pick with you. After having...
Frank Gryner
- Jul 1, 2008
Snared Straight
Drum Mixing Part I by Frank Gryner (as published in Recording Magazine) Over the years, multi tracking has allowed us to do some pretty...
Frank Gryner
- Jun 1, 2008
Drum Recording: Grid Lock Rock
Recording The Rhythmically Challenged by Frank Gryner (as published in Recording Magazine) With some focus on keeping everyone...