And what this means for the future of television. — Warning: This article contains examples of scenes from The Umbrella Academy and Bojack Horseman. The spoilers are minor and/or happen in the first 5 minutes of the pilot episode, but keep this in mind. In the post-network television era, television narratives have become increasingly complicated. The absence of ads means…

The secret century-long quest in music — In contemporary music, the emphasis on the importance of timbre is greater than ever before. Mike Senior, award-winning audio engineer and author of Mixing Secrets for the Small Studio points out that mixers are expected to have creative impact on the arrangements of songs, not only cutting but adding parts…

What is Vocal Comping? Vocal comping describes the process of combining multiple vocal takes into one “supertake” that has the best parts of each. This is called a “composite track,” or comp for short. …