EM Cast May 15, 2008 

Film-and-TV composer Ramin Djawadi talks about his score for the hit movie Ironman, and comments on examples from it. He also discusses working in Hans Zimmer's Remote Control complex, the differences between film and TV composing, and more.

What's New: Len Sasso looks at Rob Papen's Predator synth, two new versions of Native Instruments Guitar Rig, and Haunted House Records' Electronic Critters, a sampling DVD of circuit-bent childtren's toys. ...

EM Cast May 1, 2008 

Gina Fant-Saez, who is the CEO of eSession, a Pro Tools expert, and a singer/songwriter; talks about remote recording, cool new software, her Pro Tools instruction book, and more.

What's New: Len Sasso looks at free refills for Propellerhead Reason available at Line.6.com, the new Image Line Studios FL Studio 8, and Soniccouture Scriptorium....

EM Cast April 15, 2008 

Hollywood sound designer Scott Sanders (from the post-production sound company EarCandy) talks shop, and offers a step-by-step on how he created effects for the latest Rambo and Halloween movies.

Len Sasso demos new sound and loop collections, and a suite of new processing plug-ins....

EM Cast April 1, 2008 

Mix engineer Mike Barbiero (Maroon 5, Whitney Houston, John Lennon, Warren Haynes) talks about his transition to working in a personal studio.
Click here to watch a video tour of Mike Barbiero's studio.

Len Sasso looks at two sample libraries, Galbanum Abstraction 02 and Power FX Gabi Masso Oriental String Ensemble, as well as Tobor Experiment Gleetchlab, an ambience-generating application....

EM Cast March 17, 2008 

American Hi-Fi's Stacy Jones talks about producing the band's upcoming CD in his studio, and plays some excerpts from it. Jones also offers specifics on how he captures guitar, bass, and drum sounds.

What's New: Len Sasso looks at (and plays examples from) Native Instruments' free Kore Player, TrackTeam Drum.Droids, and Les Productions Zvon's Chromatic Hits....

EM Cast March 1, 2008 

System of a Down bassist Shavo Odadjian talks about ursession.com, his new musicians' Web site; Achozen, his latest side project with RZA of The Wu-Tang Clan; and the future of System of a Down.

What's New: Len Sasso looks at two software instruments and the Power FX World Loop Spice Rack sound library....

EM Cast February 15, 2008 

Part 2 of the interview with mix engineer Charles Dye, who dissects another of his mixes and explains how he knows when a mix is finished.

What's New: Len Sasso looks at a new softsynth, a MiniMoog expansion pack for Cakewalk Rapture, and a site that offers free samples and loops. ...

EM Cast January 15, 2008 

Legendary producer Phil Ramone talks about production techniques, analog vs. digital, working with singers, his new book, and more.

What's New: Len Sasso looks at three new products including More Feedback Machine V2 from u.he.com. ...

EM Cast January 4, 2008 

Guitarist/producer T.H. White talks about recording his latest CD, The Private Spotlight. Click here to watch a video tour of his personal studio.

EM's Len Sasso previews three new products. ...

EM Cast December 18, 2007 

Mastering engineer Bob Katz discusses subjects such as whether you should deliver stem tracks of your mixes to a mastering session, why you shouldn't over-compress, how to keep your studio cables sounding their best, and more.

Len Sasso looks at Ableton Live 7 and other new products....

EM Cast December 4, 2007 

Hip-hop and R&B producer/composer/engineer Steve Pageot (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Krayzie Bone, Aretha Franklin, MTV, VH1) talks about how he got his start, demonstrates how he builds beats, and more.

Click here for a video tour of Pageot's studio.

EM's Len Sasso looks at three new software instruments and demonstrates their sounds....

EM Cast November 15, 2007 

Franchot Tone of Culver City Dub Collective on the production techniques used for the band's new CD, Dos.

Len Sasso looks at three new sound generators: M-Audio (Way Out Ware ) KikAxxe, Galaxy Pianos.com's Galaxy II Grand, and SampleBase's Satellite Pro and SoundBlocks....

EM Cast November 1, 2007. 

Composer and recording artist Peter Buffett on personal recording, the evolution of recording technology, his studio, and his latest CD, Staring at the Sun.

Author Jonathan Gould discusses his new book, Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America....

EM Cast October 16, 2007 

Keyboardist T Lavitz (Dixie Dregs, Jazz is Dead) is interviewed about School of the Arts, his brand-new acoustic-jazz CD that he recorded remotely with John Patitucci, Steve Morse, Frank Gambale, Jerry Goodman, and Dave Weckl.

A report on new gear at AES 2007....

EM Cast October 1, 2007 

Producer-engineer Gary Tanin on producing Roger Powell's new CD, Fossil Poets.

EM's Len Sasso looks at Native Instruments Guitar Rig 3, Dave Smith Instruments Prophet '08, and more. ...

EM Cast September 17, 2007 

An interview with producer, engineer, and indie-label owner Robert Shanazarian, who recorded over 300 live-in-the studio performances for Sony's Connect.com Web site.

A look at Apple's stunning new Logic Studio. ...

EM Cast September 5, 2007 

Prog-rock keyboardist Erik Norlander talks about his latest projects, describes his vintage and modern gear, and plays examples of his music.

EM's Len Sasso looks at Propellerhead Reason 4 and other new gear. ...

EM Cast August 15, 2007 

An interview with session drummer Shawn Pelton, who has recorded with Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, and Sheryl Crowe, among many others. Subjects covered include drum miking, drum replacment software, processing drums, and the challenges of remote recording....

EM Cast August 1, 2007 

Paul and Price of the L.A.-based music company Red Cola talk about composing for movie trailers. Plus, a look at new gear....

EM Cast July 16, 2007 

Listen to an interview with engineer/producer Dave O'Donnell and learn about Electronic Musician's increasing new-media presence. ...

EM Cast June 15, 2007 

Listen to an interview with renowned producer/engineer Jimmy Douglass and get a preview of the EM July 07 issue with Editor-in-Chief Steve Oppenheimer....

EM Cast June 1, 2007 

John Christopher of DriveSavers Data Recovery and learn about Deconstructing a synth patch....

EM Cast May 15, 2007 

Hear part two of the interview with mixer Dave Pensado and listen to the EM June issue preview with editor-in-chief Steve Oppenheimer....