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How to Add Multimedia to Your CDs 

Mar 1, 2002,

By David Battino

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...

Going Legit 

Feb 1, 2002,

By Eric Leach

I've seen your living room: your rig, which started out as a 4-track cassette recorder and a DX-7, now has engulfed the entire room, expanding like some...

Social Mixer 

Feb 1, 2002,

Larry the O

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....

Chain, chain, chain 

Feb 1, 2002,

Michael Cooper

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...

Power Windows - Windows Media Encoder 

Feb 1, 2002,

By Todd Souvignier

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...

Money on Hold - How to Make Money Recording Phone Messages 

Feb 1, 2002,

By Jeffrey P. Fisher

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...

Taming of the Shrill 

Jan 1, 2002,

By Brian Knave

Although the harmonica can be played sweetly, it's not intrinsically a sweet-sounding instrument. Rather, it ranks high on the list of potentially annoying...

You Ought to Be in Pictures 

Jan 1, 2002,

By Michael A. Aczon

From its humble beginnings with pianists accompanying silent movies to the platinum-selling soundtracks for today's films and television shows, the union...

Gigasampler - Secrets of Effective Pre-Production 

Jan 1, 2002,

BY ZACK PRICE

Anyone who has played Tascam's GigaSampler or GigaStudio (originally developed by NemeSys Music Technology) readily understands why it is rapidly becoming...

Hit Men 

Jan 1, 2002,

By Michael Cooper

They say nothing succeeds like success......

Microphonic Machinations 

Dec 1, 2001,

By Scott Wilkinson

A microphone's job is simple: it converts an acoustic sound into an electrical signal that corresponds to the original waveform as closely as possible....

Truth or Consequences: Improve Your Studio's Acoustics 

Nov 1, 2001,

By Michael Cooper

Learn how to tune your studio's control room for flatter frequency response....

DIRECT ACTION 

Nov 1, 2001,

By Michael Cooper

In 1980, James Demeter was thumbing through a tube-electronics book when he stumbled upon the schematic for a cathode follower circuit. That circuit would...

MARK MY WORDS 

Nov 1, 2001,

By Alan Gary Campbell

You have the band's home page up. The counter works. You've even sold some CDs. You're about to breathe a sigh of relief, but then you sense them coming:...

Secret Encoder Ring 

Oct 1, 2001,

By Mike Sokol

So you've bitten the proverbial bullet and installed a mixer or workstation software application with surround panners, set up a 5.1 monitoring system,...

Special Delivery 

Sep 1, 2001,

by Eric and Haren Bell

It's time to deliver your music to that huge online audience you know is out there...in cyberspace....

PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS: Staying out of the Red 

Sep 1, 2001,

By Myles Boisen

In a perfect world, every device in your studio racks would integrate seamlessly with its neighbors, your levels would always be hot without a hint of...

WEB AUDIO BASICS 

Sep 1, 2001,

Peter Hamlin

Posting audio on your Web site involves three easy steps. First, create the sound file in an appropriate format. Next, transfer that audio file to your...

Making a Joyful Noise 

Aug 1, 2001,

By Myles Boisen with Cary Sheldon

For some engineers, all it takes is a glimpse of vocal session, 3 p.m. on the day's studio calendar to make their shoulders tighten and skin turn red....

Learning the Lexicon 

Aug 1, 2001,

By Michael Cooper

Although the MPX 500 and, to a much lesser extent, the MPX 100 let you edit parameters to dial in custom effects, trailblazing beyond presets can be difficult because of an almost complete lack of documentation about those parameters....

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