Is Your Creative Graveyard Failing?
Is Your Creative Graveyard Filling Up? Is Your Creative Graveyard Filling Up?Yeah. Mine too. I’ve got 139 unfinished music projects sitting in folders — demos, riffs, mixes, ideas I once swore were The One. I finish maybe a dozen a year. And I’ve got excuses out the ass. But none of them are any good. […]
Building the Backbone: How I Create Rundowns for Podcasts and Audio Shows
Building the Backbone: How I Create Rundowns for Podcasts and Audio Shows The Invisible Blueprint Every great show — whether it’s a sports podcast, a comedy series, or a narrative feature — is held together by an invisible structure. In radio, we call it a rundown. In television, a script format. But in my world? […]
Universal Audio Plugin Masterlist: What They Do, When to Use Them, and How to Keep Track
Universal Audio Plugin Masterlist: What They Do, When to Use Them, and How to Keep Track Universal Audio Overload: Conquer the Plugin Pile (Free Spreadsheet Inside) Universal Audio Plugin Masterlist: What They Do, When to Use Them, and How to Keep Track (as of July 2025) If you’ve ever scrolled endlessly through your UA plugin […]
Sculpting a Radio-Ready Drum Mix: A Top-Down Journey with Audio Examples
Noose & Lament [a smashed guitar] Sculpting a Radio-Ready Drum Mix: A Top-Down Journey with Audio Examples Introduction In this post, I want to walk you through a complete top-down drum mix workflow, focusing on tone, balance, and vibe—the kind of process that makes a kit feel finished, fat, and mix-ready before a single vocal […]
Tips from a Music Supervisor: How to Pitch Your Music for Sync
Tips from a Music Supervisor: How to Pitch Your Music for Sync Cold Pitching Cold pitching your music for placements in film, TV, and advertising can feel like navigating a maze. I reached out to two seasoned voices in the industry to get the inside scoop on what makes a pitch stand out—and what trips […]
How To Register A Song on BMI — And Why It Matters
How To Register A Song on BMI — And Why It Matters How To Register A Song on BMI — And Why It Matters The Conceptual Side 1. Introduction Whether you’re a bedroom beatmaker, a full-time composer, or somewhere in between, registering your songs with a performance rights organization (PRO) like BMI is one of […]
Building The Podcast I Couldn’t Find
How I Built the Weirdest, Smartest, Best-Sounding Word/Vocab Podcast on the Internet LISTEN WHILE YOU READ! Why Another Word/Vocab Podcast? The Conceptual Side Creating What Wasn’t Available At first glance, Nerd Word sounds like something that should already exist. A clever podcast about cool words. Surely someone’s already nailed that? They haven’t. Trust me—I checked. […]
Noose & Lament [composing dark cowboy music]
Noose & Lament [a smashed guitar] Everything I Went Through To Compose Dark Western The Conceptual Side From Creative To Technical; I smashed a guitar. Not on stage. Not in front of a crowd of screaming fans. Not for show. Not for the drama. Just me, alone in the studio, after a week of trying […]