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In the Studio With Ming Video Series

Producer/engineer/musician Ming (aka, Aaron Albano) takes you inside his Hood Famous Music studio each month for an inside look at his production techniques. Many episodes also include interviews with, and performances by, his musical clients. Ming, who first came on the scene as part of the duo Ming+FS, works with a variety of artists in musical styles ranging from pop to hip-hop to metal to electronica. Enjoy!

Volume 11:
Ming demonstrates the distortion techniques he used when mixing drums and vocals on a track for his upcoming album that blends electro-dance and indie rock.

Previous Video Installments

In the Studio with Ming (Volume 10)  First Movement talks about their upcoming EP, and Ming shows how he used Waves Morphoder on their first single, "Lady."

In the Studio with Ming (Volume 9)  Ming shows how he used Sugar Bytes Effectrix, an effects-sequencing plug-in, on the remix of the Lady Gaga song "Telephone" that he did along with Chad North.

In the Studio with Ming (Volume 8)  Ming demonstrates his acoustic-guitar miking and mixing techniques while recording singer/songwriter Matthew Meyer.

In the Studio with Ming (Volume 7)  Ming describes how he got thick, layered rock rhythm guitar sounds for the band Bazaar Royale.

In the Studio with Ming (Volume 6)  Ming offers tips on remixing and Emch from Subatomic Sound System drops the studio to work on a dubstep remix.

In the Studio with Ming (Volume 5)  Benny Lowe of 33Hz sings an acoustic version of "Crazy All the Time" and Ming demonstrates how to add a tempo change to audio tracks in Logic Pro 9 using the Flex Time Audio feature.

In the Studio with Ming (Volume 4)  Toby Martin of Youth Group stops by Ming's studio and plays a song. Ming shows how he and Toby collaborate remotely using SoundCloud.

In the Studio with Ming (Volume 3)  VOLUME 3: Michael Lynche records a vocal for his cover of "Ain't No Sunshine," and Ming details the plug-ins he used on Michael's vocal channel.

In the Studio with Ming (Volume 2)  Using Propellerhead Reason 4, Ming demonstrates how to modify a synth sound with effects to make it your own.

In the Studio with Ming (Volume 1)  In this installment, singer Toby Lightman, one of Ming's clients, stops by the studio to talk and to perform her new single. Then Ming records sax player Art Hays doing a section part on one of Lightman's tracks (a remake of "Respect"), and Ming shows how he transposed the tenor part to baritone using Celemony Melodyne.

A Studio Visit with Ming NYC-based producer/composer Ming (Ming+FS, P-Diddy, The Cheetah Girls, CSI: Miami, Weeds), talks about his work, his studio gear and setup, using master-bus compression, miking drums, and more....