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 and pirated mp3s coul...

Society seems too quick to celebrate resourcefulness. This is no more apparent than its depiction in countless movies and TV shows over the years. Tales of m...

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 at my guitar and as...

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 the coroners of roc...

Secrets of the Masters: Dokken’s “Dream Warriors" By Frank Gryner (originally published in Premier Guitar) Daryl Dragon (the Captain of Captain and Tennille)...

Recording Heavy Guitars By Frank Gryner (originally published in Recording Magazine) Back when defiance was the primary sponsor for monster guitar tone, outc...

Spectral Dynamic Processing for Guitars By Frank Gryner (as published in Recording Magazine) Up until the last decade, spectral dynamic processing or multi-b...

Dynamic Guitar Tone Sculpting by Frank Gryner (as published in Recording Magazine) Last time we focused on multiband compression as a corrective measure used...

Secrets of the Masters: Rob Zombie's "Dragula" By Frank Gryner (originally published in Premier Guitar) Specializing in mix re-creations for so many classic ...

The Thankless Job of Vocal Comping By Frank Gryner (as published in Recording Magazine) Okay, so you’ve just siphoned every last discernable noise from your ...

Secrets of the Masters: Deep Purple's "Smoke on the By Frank Gryner (originally published in Premiere Guitar) Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water” features on...

Secrets of the Masters: Foreigner's "Dirty Little White Boy" By Frank Gryner (originally published in Premier Guitar) I consider it a privilege just to be ab...

Recording Inexperienced Singers By Frank Gryner (as published in Recording Magazine) Sesame Street Cred Some of the best advice can come from the most unlike...

Help for the Technically-Challenged by Frank Gryner via your friends & family (as published in Recording Magazine) We’ve assembled here because we care about...

An Epidemic That Affects Recording Songwriters by Frank Gryner (as published in Recording Magazine) Matthew Good's definition of demoitis is "what happens wh...

Drum Mixing Part IV by Frank Gryner (as published in Recording Magazine) We have covered kick, snare and overheads over the past several months, giving them ...

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 carving out kick and sn...

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 undergone a great de...

Drum Mixing Part I by Frank Gryner (as published in Recording Magazine) Over the years, multi tracking has allowed us to do some pretty inhuman things with t...

Recording The Rhythmically Challenged by Frank Gryner (as published in Recording Magazine) With some focus on keeping everyone solution-oriented and somewhat...