ROUTLEDGE Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking 

By Tom Duff

Nicolas Collins is an instrument-building animal, and he wants you to be one too. He has spent the last three or four years touring the world, doing workshops...

Recording the Spoken Word 

By Perry Anne Norton

Opportunities for voice-over (v/o) production have increased dramatically for project studios, mimicking the DIY paradigm shift that continues to rock...

Old-School Contemporary 

By Paul Tingen

If you think that most contemporary records are constructed in the box by young musicians endlessly peering at screens and applying multitudes of plug-in...

Do-It-Yourself Mastering 

By Michael Cooper

Mastering is essentially the art of applying signal processing to finished mixes in order to enhance them or correct perceived problems, sequencing the...

Controlled Chaos 

By Len Sasso

Used in moderation, Stylus RMX Chaos Designer is a vital creative tool....

Sounds in Motion 

By Jim Aikin

Read Electronic Musician's tutorial to learn about using multiple filters for creative sound design and how to combine filters with effects to add punch to ho-hum drum loops, rhythmic activity to sustaining pads, and ethereal colors to vocals....

Trouble in Paradise 

Learn about installing Vienna Instruments Symphonic Cube in this online-only article from Electronic Musician. ...

Out of the Box  

Learn the details on how to record the various elements on Gomez’s How We Operate...

Talent in the Raw, Continued 

Learn how to improve the overall voiceover performance of new talent....

Once More with Feeling 

Recording effective and compelling educational or technical copy requires that your v/o talent has at least a basic understanding of what it is he or she is voicing. Read how to record voiceovers for educational or technical copy....

To Have and Have Not 

Provide these basic needs and learn how to save time editing your audio....

Mastering Cubase 4
Personal Studio Series 

Learn How to Master Steinberg's Cubase 4 with this single-issue magazine featuring a bonus DVD. Mastering Cubase 4 will focus on getting up to speed quickly with tutorials on Steinberg's powerful cross-platform digital audio sequencer. ...

Venus Hum Goes Organic 

By Heather Johnson

For Venus Hum's third full-length release, The Colors in the Wheel (Nettwerk/Mono-Fi, 2006), the electronic-pop trio eschewed synthesizers in favor of...

Copyrights and Wrongs 

By Fran Vincent

As an artist, your creative works are the lifeline of your business. By protecting them through copyright registration, you can control how they're used...

Bring 'Em Back Alive 

By Rusty Cutchin

Bring ‘em Back Alive reveals tips and techniques from recording professionals on the best strategies for making live recordings of bands or solo artists, either onstage or in the studio....

All Together Now 

By Jim Aikin

In the late 1980s, sample-based synthesis was the premier technology that keyboardists used to produce a wide range of realistic sounds. Today, the synthesist...

The Rite of Strings 

By Marty Cutler

It's quite an awe-inspiring experience to pick up a guitar and play sounds that could never come from a guitar alone. The convergence of guitar, synthesizer,...

Rigged Up 

By Len Sasso

Using guitar amps, cabinets, and stompboxes to process instruments ranging from horns to acoustic and electric keyboards has a long history onstage and...

Golden Gates 

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....

Get Real 

By Jim Aikin

Until the late 1970s, synthesizers were used primarily to create new and unusual types of sounds. But by 1980, keyboard players were clamoring for synths...