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Click for Success 

Aug 1, 2006,

By Strother Bullins

Most serious musicians will agree that composing, recording, and performing great music is a full-time occupation. Yet there is no promise of seeing a...

A Workshop in the Garage 

Aug 1, 2006,

By Bob “Dr. Mac” LeVitus

Apple Computer's GarageBand is revolutionary. Never has it been easier or less expensive to record, mix, and master studio-quality audio. Though GarageBand...

Ribbon Mic Summit 

Aug 1, 2006,

By Gino Robair

Although condenser and dynamic microphones still dominate most personal studios, ribbon mics are gaining in popularity. More products are now available,...

Create More Realistic Strings 

Aug 1, 2006,

By Steve Skinner

There are two ways to work with string samples. One is to use them to try to simulate the sound of a live string section. The other is to approach them...

Extreme Resonance 

Aug 1, 2006,

By rachMiel

Increasing filter resonance to its conventional limit sharpens audio, giving it presence and bite. Pushing resonance beyond that limit can generate wild...

Evolving Grooves 

Jul 1, 2006,

By rachMiel

In the early days of electronica production, grooves often repeated without variation, and listeners loved it. These days, beat lovers demand more from...

Expressive Control 

Jul 1, 2006,

By Jim Aikin

Controlling more than one parameter from a single MIDI Control Change message is an excellent way to add expression to your synth sounds. In Square One:...

The Ins and Outs of LFOs 

Jul 1, 2006,

By Jim Aikin

String and woodwind players almost always enrich their long notes by using a technique called vibrato. To produce vibrato, string players wiggle the finger...

MySpace for Musicians 

Jul 1, 2006,

By Fran Vincent

MySpace.com, a rising star in the Internet world, is a valuable marketing tool for musicians. The networking site has more than 65 million users and receives...

Lord of the Ringtones 

Jul 1, 2006,

By Luke Holden

Since the late 1990s, the emergence of the mobile-telephone ringtone market has brought numerous employment opportunities to musicians, programmers, and...

Vocal Magic 

Jul 1, 2006,

By Mike Levine

It would be natural to assume that as digital audio technology has become more sophisticated, the job of the engineer and producer has gotten easier with...

Mixing Down and Speaking Up 

Jul 1, 2006,

By Paul Tingen

Master mixer Dave Pensado enjoys causing consternation among his peers by making controversial statements about the craft of recording. He takes great...

Fun with Formants 

Jun 1, 2006,

By Len Sasso

Formants are usually associated with vowel sounds; they are the natural resonances of the vocal tract that give vowels their character. Acoustic instruments...

Recording the Genius 

Jun 1, 2006,

By Mike Levine

Terry Howard spent almost 20 years working as Ray Charles's engineer, winning three Grammy Awards in the process and getting an insider's view of Charles's...

The Matrix 

Jun 1, 2006,

By Jim Aikin

All too often, the sounds produced by synthesizers are lifeless and boring. (I'm a huge fan of synthesizers, so I'm allowed to say that.) Various techniques...

No Spam, No Foul 

Jun 1, 2006,

By Fran Vincent

You've just opened your email box, and a deluge of unwanted, suspicious, and possibly fraudulent messages glare back at you, smugly daring you to open...

Acting on Impulse 

Jun 1, 2006,

By Alex Kemmler

Convolution reverb is rapidly gaining popularity as a powerful sonic tool. Though there is a lot of information describing the theory (see the excellent...

ReWired for Effects 

Jun 1, 2006,

By David Darlington

Producers and engineers are constantly trying to come up with something new when mixing their latest creation. To that end, they invest in plug-in and...

A New Look at Vocoding 

May 1, 2006,

By Len Sasso

You can think of a vocoder as a morphing multiband equalizer, in which the morphing is controlled by a spectral analyzer. Typically, speech (called the...

Jingles All the Way 

May 1, 2006,

By Steve Skinner

If you're skilled at composing, arranging, and producing, there's money to be made writing music for advertising. As with television and film scoring,...

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