Rayshaun Thompson is a film composer, record producer and EMMY nominee whose work spans a wide spectrum, but always aims to stir emotions and create a strong vibe.
Chris Henderson is the owner and designer for Hendyamps studio gear and guitar amplifiers, a platinum certified mastering engineer, musician, music sync artist, score composer, studio owner, and videographer.
David Sanford has composed, arranged and studied music for over 45 years and is currently the Elizabeth T. Kennan Professor of Music at Mount Holyoke College.
Claudia Engelhart has been doing live sound for over 40 years, and has been the Sound Engineer/Tour Manager for Bill Frisell since 1990.
August 26, 2020
For those of you who may not be familiar, Airwindows is the passion project of one Mastering Engineer and programmer Chris Johnson. His plugins are delightfully quirky, ranging from unusual dithers, to some astonishingly good sounding console emulation and saturation plugins. He also occasionally comes out with some plain old interesting ideas, such as what he terms the 'Nodal Tempo Guide' below.
Tempo, often defined in 'BPM' short for beats-per-minute is always a fascinating topic, and can have a huge effect on the song. After playing with some of the tempos Chris suggests based on his 'genre' recommendations one thing that stuck out was that a lot of songs tend to be 1-2 BPM faster than you might expect. They do seem to be remarkably stable tempos however, I certainly noticed that they grooved harder than some more common tempos, so perhaps an interesting experiment to try out on your next session!
Check out this and some of his other, very interesting plugins on Chris' website.