To begin with, there wasHouston. The Geto Boys were arguably the first artists from the city to gain national attention (and controversy) several years prior. By 1994, the city’s scene had expanded enough to allow a variety of notable debuts, of wildly different styles, to make their way...
Recording using a field recorder that has a wide stereo mic configuration (the microphones make a 120 degree angle, facing away from each other) is one way to capture natural stereo separation. This is also the reason for miking a drum kit or piano with matched condensers or a good stereo...
"produced byWu-Tang Clan’sRZA. She prefaced the song by giving her predominantly Japanese audience a short introduction into the importance of Wu-Tang’s role in hip-hop, and the genre's broader legacy to Black artists.
Cher’s late ‘90s comeback and makeover as a gay icon can entirely be attributed to Auto-Tune, though the song'sproducers claimed for yearsthat it was a Digitech Talker vocoder pedal effect. In 1998, she released the single, “Believe,” which featured a strange, robotic vocal effect on...