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To Have and Have Not 

Jan 22, 2007

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

Mastering Cubase 4
Personal Studio Series
 

Jan 11, 2007

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 

Jan 1, 2007,

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 

Jan 1, 2007,

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 

Jan 1, 2007,

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 

Jan 1, 2007,

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 

Jan 1, 2007,

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 

Jan 1, 2007,

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 

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....

Get Real 

Dec 1, 2006,

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...

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....

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