Articles by Roger Mawer

What happens when you accidently drop a Dolby 301 unit? Producer/Engineer Joe Barresi has plenty of stories and techniques up his sleeve, one of which is being an avid user of Overloud products. We dropped by his California studio with our friend Sabino Cannone, founder of MoReVoX and designer of REmatrix to see how he uses Overloud's Dopamine and REmatrix in his sessions. He even shares great advice to aspiring engineers and producers!

LA based singer, saxophonist and music producer Alex Charles has been steadily making his mark in the industry. In addition to his own music, Alex has been writing music for one of Warner Brothers' music libraries for over three years and has had his music placed hundreds of times on major network television shows. We caught up with Alex to learn the secrets of generating income from writing library music, and how he uses that to finance his personal music projects.

An American visual and sound artist, Stephen Vitiello has a talent for transforming, as he puts it, "incidental atmospheric noises into mesmerizing soundscapes that alter our perception of the surrounding environment." In this video interview we learned that Stephen has been using the granular sampler plug-in Stream by Delta Sound Labs to transform field recordings into music.

When Covid entered our lives in February 2020, the world went into hiding willingly, mitigating measures to "flatten the curve" were embraced globally as countries went into lockdowns and we paid attention to reports about casualties in countries hardest hit, hoping our own would fare better.

In this interview, we'll find out how L.A. based mixer Narek Ambar got to where he is, what motivates him, and we'll learn about that certain plugin that caused his path to cross with ours at ILIO.

Jason Yang has earned a reputation as one of the premier acoustic and electric violin players in the world. With 197,000 subscribers and 35 million views on his YouTube channel, you can find him playing exciting covers of popular songs in a wide variety of musical genres, his own compositions, and collaborations with other artists. He describes his overall sound as “evocative, colorful, and emotional,” drawing on a wide range of influences, including film and video game soundtracks, electronic music, and hip hop.

Music producer and electronic music pioneer BT is no stranger to synthesizers. In fact, with one look at his studio you might say he knows a thing or two. We were curious how he was able to create some of the wonderfully nostalgic patches included in his patch library for Spectrasonics Omnisphere 2, BT-Modern Wave, so we picked his brain about what inspires him.

Michael (MIDIhead) Babbitt is an electronic music producer and songwriter who’s released an award-winning synthpop album and remixed songs from Kaskade and Late Night Alumni, has had original scores in movie trailers for The Matrix Reloaded, Silent Hill, and Mad Max-Fury Road, as well as a variety of television shows such as Dexter, CSI, Prison Break, MythBusters, Miami Ink, America’s Next Top Model (to name a few) and many remixes and original songs appearing in Konami’s Dance, Dance, Revolution video game series. He’s also produced all of ILIO’s Omnisphere patch libraries.

Dan Carr, AKA Reverb Machine is known for his spot-on recreations of famous synth sounds found in popular music. Check out this exclusive interview where ILIO's Michael "MIDIhead" Babbitt and Reverb Machine's Dan Carr dive into synthesis.

Los Angeles-based Andrew Wells is well known for transforming the raw, dynamic energy of such diverse acts as Fitz and the Tantrums, Meghan Trainor, Elle King, Jason Mraz and many others into snappy radio-ready tracks.