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Feb 1, 2002,
By Eric Leach
I've seen your living room: your rig, which started out as a 4-track cassette recorder and a DX-7, now has engulfed the entire room, expanding like some...
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Aug 1, 2005,
By Eli Krantzberg
Apple has added a number of features and enhancements to its Logic software that make the program more useful for post-production-style audio editing....
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Jul 1, 2000,
Dennis Miller
One of the software categories that has benefited most from recent advances in computing power is software synthesizers. Today, turning your computer...
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Apr 1, 2003,
By Gino Robair
Mother Nature offers a world of sounds that can only be heard through a microphone and headphones. To get the best results, you need quiet clothing, a little time and patience, and the right equipment. EM asks the pros how they capture these elusive sounds and bring them to life on CD....
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Oct 1, 2008,
By Dennis Miller
Read EM tutorial about granular synthesis programs for your next audio production...
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Dec 1, 2004,
By Matt Gallagher
Philadelphia-based singers, songwriters, and multi-instrumentalists Maggi, Pierce, and E.J. have cultivated a deceptively simple sound. Their quirky music...
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Jan 1, 2007,
By Eli Krantzberg
Noise gates are among the oldest audio-production tools. They mute a signal falling below a certain level, called the threshold, to remove unwanted noise....
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Jan 1, 2001,
JEFF BAUST
A guided tour of audio cables and their applications. No matter what type of audio system you use, cables are necessary to connect the components. Recording...
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Jun 1, 2001,
Brian Knave
To ensure your recordings are the best possible, you need highly accurate reference monitors—or do you? Some producers swear by speakers with well-known faults, while others use only the most pristine monitors. We resolve the conflicting viewpoints, discuss the vagaries of studio-monitor design, explain the most common specifications, and walk you through the process of choosing close-field monitors....
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Dec 1, 2002,
By Marty Cutler
EM's 2002 holiday gift guide for your favorite electronic musician (but first, our poet laureate...)...
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Dec 1, 2000,
Scott W.
Singers with nice voices have a natural vibrato. For some people, this vibrato starts the instant they start a note. For others, the note begins without...
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Aug 1, 2008,
Gino Robair, Editor
No one likes a bargain more than the editors of EM, and we are always on the lookout for products that deliver plenty of bang for the buck. Although great-sounding...
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Apr 1, 2005,
By Scott Wilkinson
Physical modeling has always been among my favorite forms of synthesis. DSP technology is now powerful enough to solve the equations that describe the...
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Nov 1, 2001,
By Kevin Smith
Once isn't always enough. Consider the following scenario: you do everything by the book mix on reliable monitors, reference your mix to those in a similar...
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Dec 1, 2001,
By Myles Boisen
To the observation that you can never be too rich or too good-looking, I would add that your recording signal path can never be too pristine. Microphones...
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Dec 1, 2003,
By Rudy Trubitt
I do most of my recording outside the comfortable confines of the studio, so it's especially important for me to have gear that not only sounds good,...
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Dec 1, 2006,
By Orren Merton
When you play a note or adjust a knob on a MIDI keyboard, it transmits MIDI data. A guitar pickup, however, produces analog electrical current that must...
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Jan 1, 2002,
By Alex Artaud
Look around today, and you'll find a slew of plug-in processors that can chew up your sounds and spit out gigabytes of bliss and mayhem. After checking...
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Dec 1, 2003,
By Peter Freeman
France’s INA-GRM has been producing innovative sound-processing software for a number of years. Starting in the 1990s with their original GRM Tools standalone application and continuing to more recent TDM plug-ins, they’ve earned a reputation for powerful and imaginative products. The new GRM Tools ST (Spectral Transform; VST $399, RTAS/HTDM/AS/VST bundle, $549) is the latest installment in the evolution of their processing tools....
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Nov 1, 2006,
By Rich Maloof
So goes a hook-laden lyric from Psycho-Delic-Ghetto-Vibe (Artform Entertainment, 2006), the new release from SonnyBoy. Anyone who records as a one-man...
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May 1, 2003,
By Michael Cooper
The Ditto Box ($399) is a tube DI with a new wrinkle: a variable gain control that provides a whopping 30 dB of gain. Capable of dishing out robust line-level...
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Jun 1, 2005,
By Matt Gallagher
Sound Tribe Sector 9 (STS9) is one of the hardest-working improvisational bands in show business. Founded in Atlanta in 1997, STS9 quickly gained a loyal...
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Oct 1, 2005,
By Ravi
The proliferation of home studios has not only caused a downturn in the commercial-studio business, but it has affected those personal-studio owners who...
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Apr 1, 2001,
By John Ferenzik
With the increased reliance on digital recording media, the demand for vacuum-tube condenser microphones, those beloved tools capable of imparting to...
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Mar 1, 2004,
Steve Oppenheimer
In many cultures, music making is a widely recognized form of employment for the blind. I don't imagine that blind people are any more musically talented...
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