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[the_ad_placement id=”top-content-300×250″] Audio interfaces are the middlemen of the computer recording world, designed to sit between your instruments and your computer, taking the sounds made by your microphones, guitars and other instruments and converting them into digital information your computer can understand and store on its hard drive. And when playing back your audio, it’s the interface’s job to reconvert the digital audio files back into analogue signals that can be relayed to your studio monitor speakers or headphones. Put simply, if you want to record any kind of high-quality audio into your computer, a good audio interface will be…

Watch Chris Read host a seminar on sampling at Point Blank London. Back in March Point Blank held a very special free event at their London studio complex in collaboration with Brownswood Recordings and Ableton. With sampling as the main focus, attendees were able to get involved in a sample competition, together with artist workshops and a panel discussion. Starting off the day, Chris Read from the invaluable resource that is WhoSampled.com gave a session on the ‘History of Sampling’ – who better to learn from for this topic!  Check out the session below and don’t forget to subscribe to Point Blank’s YouTube channel to keep up with their latest artist masterclasses, tutorials and interviews. In…

Point Blank Los Angeles host Robot Koch for a breakdown of his track ‘Eclipse’ in Ableton Live. Point Blank have hosted masterclasses with some of the best musicians and producers in the business, grabbing time with artists as diverse as Matthew Dear, Ritchie Hawtin, Shadow Child, Shawn Lee and Prince Fatty. In their latest guest workshop, they were joined by award-winning producer and composer Robot Koch at their Los Angeles school as he treated students to a live deconstruction of ‘Eclipse’, a track from his 2015 album ‘Hypermoment’ released on Monkeytown Records. Check out the full video below. Originally a member of electronica-trio Jahcoozi, Robot Koch has…

Point Blank join MJ Cole for a tour of his studio & remix masterclass Point Blank presented a very special masterclass this week as they joined 2-step legend MJ Cole at his studio in Farringdon for a remix masterclass of Rag’n’Bone Man’s ‘Human’, together with a studio tour and interview. This is a truly insightful masterclass into the workings of a UK Garage legend, watch the above video for the full session. In this exclusive session, MJ Cole gave Point Blank a tour of his incredibly well-equipped studio, showing them some of his favourite bits of kit, such as his…

Point Blank host Prince Fatty for a lesson in all things Dub Last October, Point Blank hosted Dub specialist Mike Pelanconi, aka Prince Fatty, for a masterclass at their Orsman Road studio complex. As well as making use of their 48 Channel SSL Duality Delta mixing console, Mike brought some of his own equipment with him, demonstrating some of the sonic differences between digital delays, tape echoes, spring reverbs and filters. Starting his career at 16 working with jingles for a small radio studio in Brighton, Pelanconi quickly learnt that the reel to reel tape machines he was using could…