Author Archives: Justin Colletti

Why did you want to be my Facebook friend? Why did you want to connect with me on LinkedIn? When people seek me out and add me on social networking sites, I do something that is apparently quite strange: I try to engage them. As long as we appear to have a handful of real […]

…Only to realize that there are exceptionally few of them to be found, please rest assured that this is normal. In general, every locale will already be at filled to its saturation point with recording studios that specialize in music. This will be more or less true whether your town has 0 studios or 500 […]

Earlier today, a good friend of mine casually derided a neighborhood for being “filled with yuppies,” who were assumed to be “douchebags.” I’ve done the same kind of thing in the past. But more recently, I’ve begun to question it. This started happening when I decided to stop what I was doing for a moment […]

There comes a time in every young musician’s life when, after a great day spent practicing, performing, or just jamming with friends, he or she thinks: “This is so incredible. I wish I could become a professional musician so that I could do this every day.” This is easily understandable, endlessly relatable, and almost completely […]

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Recording studios do not operate on an “if you build it they will come” basis. With that in mind, here is one dumb and all-too-common approach to starting up your own recording studio: 1) Go around coveting other people’s studios for a while. 2) Start off […]

Super-high sampling rates, bit depths past a certain point, and super-sonic frequencies that human beings just can’t hear are not among them. (One friend calls these kinds of obsessions “Faith Based Audio.”) Music on the other hand? That is worth obsessing over. There are other things there worth obsessing over too: Like aesthetic choices. Like […]

Almost all of it, anyway. “Cut down on carbs” can be great advice if you want to lose weight. But what if you want to gain some? “Smile more.” This is great advice if you’re not smiling enough, making people feel uncomfortable, and losing out because of it. “Smile less.” This is great advice if […]

…You will find it. If you go around looking for reasons to believe that we are living in the darkest ages for art, then the world will never disappoint you. If you you go around seeking offense, you will find reason to be offended. If you go out looking for disagreement, polarization, misunderstanding, stupidity, cupidity, […]

(…And 8 of them were mine.) It’s been a pleasure writing for Janice Brown and David Weiss of SonicScoop again this year. 2013 was a huge one. We saw record levels of traffic and the launch of a new content network that has begun to join together some of the best music production blogs on […]