With 2017 drawing to a close, we here at zZounds found ourselves feeling a bit nostalgic. After comparing our 2017 Spotify favorites playlists, we quickly fell into another classic trap — the YouTube video hole, going back through all our favorite zZounds videos of the year. Maybe it’s the eggnog talking, but we feel that […]
Many engineers have employed a “secret sauce” for mixing thick bass tracks that involves adding a synthesizer-doubled track to create a sonic profile with seemingly endless low end (at least to the human ear.) This is common knowledge to most recording artists and has been practiced for years on countless records and sessions in most […]
This Week On Walking The Floor Longtime singer/guitarist with Alison Krauss & Union Station, Dan Tyminski, stops by to chat about his recent solo record Southern Gothic, as well as maintaining his anonymity while enjoying massive success, in the form of hit songs like “Man of Constant Sorrow” and “Hey Brother!” About The Guest Dan […]
With 2017 coming to a close, many of us can look back on the year and find a lot to be grateful for. But for so many, the past year has been a challenge. Multiple catastrophic weather events and national tragedies have caused too many people to lose everything they have. Ibanez has stepped up to […]
This Week On Walking The Floor From waiting tables at the Country Music Hall of Fame to having an exhibit there, the Brothers Osborne have covered a lot of ground, and they’re just getting started. With a sophomore record in the can, they stopped by to chat about growing up in Maryland, moving separately to […]
As one of the earliest and most natural recording effects, reverb has been a part of our listening experience ever since any one of us first listened to recorded music. As such, it’s also one of the first effects used by budding recording engineers as they start using DAWs. At first, it might seem perfectly […]
This Week On Walking The Floor Legendary boxing promoter Bob Arum talks through his long and storied career, from the early days working with Ali, to the long list of hall of famers he’s promoted – Leonard, Hagler, Hearns, Duran, De La Hoya, Mayweather, Pacquaio, etc. – plus the current state of boxing. Also, a […]
Welcome to Beat Connection, a series dedicated to promoting modern and vintage dance styles the only way we know how…by providing you a musical starting point to help you create that beat. In our previous posts, we took an in-depth look at all the tools available to help you create a beat and we’ve begun […]