Learn from an Engineering Mentor
Learning from an audio engineering mentor can be a wonderful and rewarding experience that can literally catapult you to success. However, it is incumbent upon the mentee (student or extern) to hold up their...
Category: Learning 101
How to be Successful in the Music Industry
If you want to be successful in the music industry, you’re going to have to have a very strong level of commitment and a work ethic that leaves most other people in the dust....
Where do Audio Engineers Work?
If you are seriously considering becoming an audio engineer you first need define what type of audio engineer you want to be. While many of the skill sets overlap, each of the various types...
How to Produce Pop Music
A Little about the History of Pop, the genre. The genre of music that we call pop music today has its roots in the early 1950s. Bill Haley and the Comets’ 1954 hit “Rock...
How do I make a breakbeat?
All it took was eight seconds to change the landscape of hip hop, dubstep, and many other forms of electronic dance music. The Amen Break is widely regarded as one of the most used...
Spotlight On… Evan Groom, Product Manager at Audio-Technica.
What you do as Product Manager at Audio-Technica? “So my role is to work closely with our engineering team that are headquartered in Japan, and I regularly communicate with them about different customer and...
Learn from an Audio Mentor
Gearheads often think they know all they need to know about audio. They’re passionate about their technology. They know every spec about every piece of gear they own and have opinions on what’s the...
Roundtable with Engineer/Producer Josh Monroy (Ludacris,OutKast, Justin Bieber, JoJo, Walla) of Studio 1 Zero
All of us at RRFC are seriously committed to providing great, real-world education, in-industry experience, and support. In order to be sure we’re continuously setting our students and mentors up for success, we recently...
How do I make House Music?
Early house music could contain lyrics, vocals with no real lyrics, or no vocals whatsoever. What it did feature were deep baselines, repetitive rhythm, and a more mechanical delivery. Almost as if to say...
How to Make Music Made of Instruments
Today’s challenge is “How would you record a jug band?” Do you even know what a jug band is? In case you don’t, a jug band is comprised of a jug (an empty glass...
