In the early 1980s, I had the pleasure of conceiving and designing a true classic, the Lexicon PCM42 digital delay. At that time, I was interested in...
Take a look around your project studio at all the equipment you have accumulated. Are you tired of spending money on gear and ready to make money with...
The days of the demo tape are finished. CDs have taken over as the preferred demo- and DIY-album format, and producing them is easier and cheaper than...
Because of the ubiquitous presence of Macromedia Flash on the Web, many desktop musicians are interested in composing soundtracks for Flash movies. However,...
Everyone who works with digital audio soon encounters a wide variety of sound-file formats: WAV, AIFF, SND, Sound Designer I and II, and MP3, to name...
You've just finished producing a killer demo. You're certain it will kick start your career, if only you can get the right people to hear it. But how...
The best musicians spend years mastering their instruments and perfecting their composition chops. But that's often not enough to guarantee success in...
Audio- (as well as video-) data reduction, also known as data compression, is one of the most important media technologies to come along in recent years....
At the heart of any good audio education is the study of signal flow and wiring: get your inputs and outputs straight, and you can adapt to just about...
Unless you're cranking out recordings the length of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, you probably have a lot of wasted space on your CDs. Fortunately, it's...
Say you've just purchased or inherited a PC that you want to dedicate to audio and music production, but the computer came with all kinds of software already installed on it. You're hesitant to get rid of too much, and you're not sure what you can do without or whether any of that extra software will conflict with your musical needs. Well, don't just stand there! It's time to tune up Windows for music and audio....
If you use samples when writing or producing songs, one of the biggest favors you can do for your career is to understand the legal and business issues...
The CD has evolved as a medium for data storage and for entertainment, but it can never fully escape its roots. That accounts in large part for the different, and at times quirky, ways that CD-Rs behave....
Once you've mastered the arcane science of signal routing, learned the ancient secrets of gain structure, and been initiated into the mysterious ways...
Use your mixer as a control surface, too... most digital mixers on the market (and even a few analog mixers) allow you to do that to one degree or another through MIDI....
Whether you record and mix with hardware consoles or operate in the virtual world of the digital audio workstation (DAW), you need to know the various...
Giving away music is a timeless promotional strategy. But when you give away a song, shouldn't you get something in return? This article will show you...
When you call a company and are placed on hold, you typically hear music, a radio station, or a promotional message for the company. Ask yourself: who...
Ironman composer Ramin Djawadi talks film-and-TV scoring. Go
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