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WAVES GTR 2.0 (Mac/Win) 

Dec 1, 2006,

By Orren Merton

Electronic Musician’s review of Waves GTR 2.0, a Guitar plug-in suite. Waves GTR 2.0, a hardware/software bundle for guitar recording includes hardware/software guitar amp-, cabinet-, and effects-modeling system....

Direct Results 

Dec 1, 2006,

By Mike Levine

Electronic Musician’s feature on direct guitar recording looks at DI options, modeling processors and plug-ins, strategies for getting the best sound, and more....

SIX-STRING STRATEGIES 

Dec 1, 2006,

By Michael Cooper

Read the Electronic Musician interview with four top engineers to learn their approach to recording acoustic guitar. Recording engineers talk about how they pursue the perfect acoustic guitar sound....

Monitoring for Success 

Dec 1, 2006,

By Charles Dye

Electronic Musician’s feature, written by Grammy-winning engineer Charles Dye, on better monitoring strategies. Gear, speaker placement, and advice for keeping perspective are all includedas you learn how to use monitoring techniques for a better mix....

The Low Road 

Dec 1, 2006,

By Steve Skinner

The three ingredients that are essential for creating a convincing synthesized-bass part are programming, playing, and mixing. I describe how to program...

Synth Bass-ics 

Dec 1, 2006,

By Steve Skinner

The key to programming convincing synth-bass sounds is simplicity. I use one oscillator with a medium-width pulse wave and a lowpass filter whose envelope...

Digital Music Doctor Releases Sonar 6 DVD Course 

Nov 20, 2006

Know it all with Digital Music Doctor's latest video training course, Sonar 6—Know It All! (Mac/Win; $34.95)....

McDSP Education Program and Academic Discount 

Nov 13, 2006

The McDSP Education Program provides special access and hands-on training for the McDSP line of plug-ins. More than 75 schools worldwide have already received hands-on training...

New DVD Tutorials 

Nov 13, 2006

Digital Music Doctor Know It All series is now available; know it all with the video training course Cubase 4—Know It All! (Mac/Win; $34.95). With over two hours of videos...

Learn Orchestration the Ravel Way 

Nov 2, 2006

Alexander Publishing has teamed up with Naxos to create How Ravel Orchestrated: Mother Goose Suite, an orchestration instruction set that includes a newly-engraved, 200-page score with the condensed piano part, along with a recording of the Suite performed by the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Kenneth Jean....

A Change Is Gonna Come 

Nov 1, 2006,

By Brian Smithers

As the term implies, an electronic musician depends on electrical devices to produce, capture, manipulate, and deliver musical ideas. At some point, the...

It's Who You Know 

Nov 1, 2006,

By Stuart Ridgway

Networking is crucial for getting work in the music industry....

Drum Replacement Primer 

Nov 1, 2006,

By Alec Tabak

Imagine that you have finished tracking your latest project, and the time has come to mix. You've got the vocals sounding clear and lively, the guitar...

What's the Score? 

Nov 1, 2006,

By Peter Hamlin

Read Electronic Musician’s roundup of the most popular notation software. Notation software dramatically speeds up the work of composing and arranging, eliminates or reduces the need to pay music-copying fees, and creates published-quality scores at the touch of a button....

Six Degrees of Quantization 

Nov 1, 2006,

By Len Sasso

Quantizing is about more than moving notes to the bars-and-beats....

Shifting Timbres 

Oct 1, 2006,

By Len Sasso

Speedup pitch-shifting has more uses than just the "singing chipmunk" effect....

New Tricks for an Old Dog 

Oct 1, 2006,

By Mark Ballora

For more than 20 years, the main purpose of MIDI has remained much the same: triggering sounds on a synth or sampler. Yet MIDI's modest-bandwidth, straightforward...

The Shifting Sands 

Oct 1, 2006,

By Mike Levine

Over the past several years, there's been much talk about how the World Wide Web has democratized the music industry, allowing independent musicians to...

All Is Not Lost 

Oct 1, 2006,

By Vijith Assar

Chances are you occasionally send rough mixes to clients or vie for jobs using compressed audio samples. But it's surprising how little some engineers...

It's a Cakewalk 

Oct 1, 2006,

By Scott R. Garrigus

Streamline your sessions with these work-arounds for Cakewalk Sonar 5....

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