Here are some mix-altering sound-design techniques made possible by routing all tracks to a subgroup, which I'll call the master group, before they reach...
One of the secrets to recording success is to avoid doing the usual thing, and rethinking your approach to stereo placement is a great place to start....
One of the secrets to making smooth audio edits is to cut on a zero-crossing, the point where the waveform crosses the centerline. Like many editors,...
At a nickel or a dime apiece, blank CDs and DVDs are affordable enough to use and lose without much regret but not to the environment. Most of us already...
Do you live and breathe video games? If the answer is yes, put down that controller and head over to OverClocked ReMix (www.ocremix.org), a nonprofit,...
Richard Linklater's 2006 film adaptation of A Scanner Darkly a jarring, rotoscope-animated view of the drug-addled future depicted by Philip K. Dick in...
When trying to create a parallel diatonic harmony from a main melody, simple pitch transposition almost never works. That's because the transposition...
Liz Pappademas's solo debut, 11 Songs, is gorgeous and lush in a sparse sort of way. The uncluttered arrangements and production allow her songwriting,...
Picture this: you're at a gig, tuning up your guitar, when suddenly an 8-foot-tall, pointy-eared gothic elf flies into the room. He is greeted by a purple-skinned,...
Nearly a quarter century after the CD was introduced, and kept alive in large part by club-based music, vinyl records are experiencing a resurgence in...
In his lifetime, German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen created hundreds of performable works in myriad musical genres, from serialism, point music, and...
What do you get when you mix synthesizers, theremins, traditional folk instruments, and electronic drums with a multitalented, multicultural, classically...
White Williams is the alter ego of graphic designer Joe Williams, who recorded the CD Smoke (Tigerbeat6, 2007) over the past two years while living in...
The holiday season has come and gone, and if you're like most people, you're wondering what to do with that old piece of gear that you just replaced with...
A brief spin through the factory instrument library reveals the power of the Kontakt Script Processor (KSP). All the factory instruments have performance...
Of all the processes involved in music production, mixing is arguably the most complex. Changing only one aspect of a mix can throw the entire balance...
In today's world of digital file sharing, musicians and engineers are often called upon to collaborate on files created in software other than their preferred...
Sometimes the soul of a song emerges by accident. I'd plugged a cheap sampling keyboard into a TV and started recording random shows 6 seconds at a time...
Indie artist Ingrid Michaelson is doing pretty well these days. Her music has aired several times on the TV drama Grey's Anatomy, with her song Keep Breathing...
Sound Design Workshop: On the Bus
Square One: Stereo Creativity
Fading Out Gracefully
Give Back
OverClocked ReMix
Pro/File: Live and Cinematic
Making Tracks: Intelligent Harmonization
Pro/File: Stark Lushness Illuminated
Playing Concerts in Second Life
Mastering Vinyl
macProVideo.com Announces N.E.D. 2
Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007)
Pro/File: No Barriers
Pro/File: Truly Hybrid
Trade or Toss
Master Class: Scripting in Kontakt 3
Crossing the Finish Line
Making Tracks: Good Migrations
Sound Design Workshop: Um's the Word
Industry Insider: Q&A: Ingrid Michaelson
