Nate Lain Music

07/25/2024

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Subscribe Sign up with your email address to receive news and updates. First Name Last Name Email Address Sign Up Thank you! Nathan LainNathan is a music producer, worship leader, and teacher. He lives in Kankakee, IL, with his wife and two boys. He has a B.M. in Music Composition from Olivet Nazare...

07/19/2024

Frontline runs for part three of the ONU Marching Band 2024 show! This is the ending of "Praise You In The Storm" by Casting Crowns.

05/15/2024

Awesome live jazz session tonight with Freddie Franken first half tracked second half later in June.

04/09/2024

Hey everyone!👋 Starting this May, I am opening my studio for summer music learning and exploration!

📩Please send me a message or email if you are interested. You can help me by SHARING this post on your news feed or with anyone you know who is interested.

🎸My experience covers a range of musical applications, including piano, voice, guitar, bass, drums, songwriting, and music production. Lessons can be in-person or virtual. 💻

I offer traditional music lessons as well as more diverse musical coaching, such as worship music, producing/songwriting, and multi-instrumental or general musical exploration. My philosophy is to foster a love of music and learning through exploration and critical thinking.

You can read my bio at https://www.lainmusic.com/about and see more of the work I am doing there.

Thanks! ✨

03/20/2024

The jump from beginner to advanced in music production happens when we take the time to learn what we are really doing with all the tools and features in our DAW. Consumer-centric DAWs make music creation easy for the beginner, so let their features help you get started, but start asking questions that take you deeper into the technical and creative elements of recording and producing music. Read more on my blog.

When a program hands you options and creative pathways, it can be a convenient help or a long-term detriment. I generally try to avoid any program or plugin that doesn’t let me customize every feature unless it has a particular use. Tools that hold your hand in the short term will limit your creat...

02/27/2024

Quick four-mic setup for some writing this morning and wow it actually sounded amazing. Sometimes the close mics can suck up all the life of the recording and something about this mid snare/tom mic paired with the rough XY over the snare made everything super tight.

01/30/2024

Apple’s Logic Pro for iPad app offers some really creative possibilities. This blog post talks about a way I configured the keyboard play surface to make chording creative and intuitive. I had a blast exploring the familiar yet novel layout of the keyboard and I found it more intuitive than a grid layout. Link in the comments!

01/25/2024

"Whatever your preference, it’s worthwhile to think outside of the box of how you have always made music and discover that different systems can help us think differently about music. Remember that at the end of the day, the music is you. Just because you are comfortable with one way of engaging in music doesn’t mean that’s the only way you can engage. I find that grow every time I press into a new concept in music creation. The new ways of thinking inform my strengths and give me the opportunity to develop new skills."

When you think about music notation, you probably picture the traditional five lines of the music staff with little dots, lines, and articulations scored across the page. You might imagine choir music with lyrics or piano music in a lesson book. But have you ever wondered where our music notation sy

01/24/2024

Hey everyone!

I'm excited to start posting more content on my website and sharing ideas about music and creativity. I'll be posting some of the blog posts here soon. For now, you can sign up for my email list on my website to get updates about upcoming blogs, projects, and creative opportunities.

Subscribe Sign up with your email address to receive news and updates. First Name Last Name Email Address Sign Up We respect your privacy. Thank you! About This Project I’m never sure where I want to fit in the world of music. In different seasons of life, different expressions of musical interest...

11/28/2023

One of my Onu Recording students wants to track two vocalists together for a project, so we came up with this solution. It works because the nulls of mics face each other, rejecting the sound from the other vocalist. There’s some bleed but mostly ambiance, and unlikely to have a drastic effect on the other mic. This helps facilitate interaction between the vocalists and the producer.

09/16/2023

Sibelius auto-predicting the chord based on the other notes in the score is pretty cool!

07/13/2023

Use two mics for vocals to get a fuller sound. Each microphone has its own characteristic sound based on the type of microphone and the design of the specific model. With two complementary sounds working together, you get the best of both worlds and can blend them to taste. In this case, the SM7b (top mic) has a more direct and focused sound, handling the higher levels well and showcasing its iconic proximity effect. The SM81 (bottom mic) is relatively flat and detailed, so it captures more of the nuances of the performance and provides more bass and shimmer. They both sound good on their own, but can sound even better together!

06/30/2023

This one of my guitar students! We’ve been doing lessons via zoom for so long that it was great to see each other in person for the first time in over a year at the ONU School of Music summer camp a few weeks ago. Fun times!

06/27/2023

Some bass work for a school project! Amazing how new strings make your bass sound better! 🤪

06/15/2023

Prepping for an all-day drum and bass session this weekend.

05/19/2023

Harvard Law School professor Rebecca Tushnet criticized the ruling, saying that "in the course of disavowing any judicial ability to opine on art, the majority actually sets itself up as an art critic, deciding that Warhol image is essentially the same as a photo because it's just a picture of Prince."

Andy Warhol's estate lost its U.S. Supreme Court copyright fight with celebrity photographer Lynn Goldsmith on Thursday as the justices faulted the famed pop artist's use of her photo of Prince in a silkscreen series depicting the charismatic rock star.

04/27/2023

I'm opening up my Thursdays for private music lessons at my studio at Olivet Nazarene University. Reach out with an email, comment, or direct message for questions about private lessons!

I'm offering lessons in guitar, piano (beginner or chord theory), bass, drums, strings, songwriting, composition, and music production. There is a LOT to choose from, and if you or your student is interested in multiple aspects of music, I could be a great help in bridging the gap between multiple disciplines.

I'm also looking at offering a summer music class for recording/production for high school students.

I'd love to have you or your student for a lesson this summer!

04/25/2023

Fantastic recording session with Orpheus Choir of ONU School of Music yesterday. The realism of the microphone setup required virtually no EQ or processing. The setup consisted of two omni mics (capture evenly from all directions) in stereo and two figure eight mics (captures from front and back but not sides) in the center with their axis perpendicular and the nulls facing the stereo mics. Since the choir was in the round, this configuration optimized the self-balancing of the choir. We had them in more of an oval so each “half” was sort of like one side of the stereo field. The omni mics brought the fullness and the figure eight setup added detail and complexity to the sound. We captured such a full and expressive sound!