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Sound Design Workshop: A Different Drummer  Apr 1, 2008, By Steve Skinner You can craft interesting quasi-random bass lines from drum loops with the aid of a full-featured filter plug-in such as Sound Toys Filter Freak (see...

Master Class: Audio Alchemy  Apr 1, 2008, By Dennis Miller Lurking inside your computer are dozens, perhaps even hundreds, of unique sound effects. No, I'm not referring to some random sample libraries that have...

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Option-Click: High-Quality Telephone Recordings  Apr 1, 2008, By David Battino Incorporating long-distance interviews is a great way to add spice to your Podcasts, but telephone audio quality is horrendous. Here's an old radio trick...

Odd Instruments Inspire  Apr 1, 2008, By Tracy Katz Have you ever made a noise unintentionally and found the sound so pleasing that you did it again for the sake of recording it? Or maybe you're a hard-core...

Self-Control (Bonus)  Mar 12, 2008, By Michael Cooper Starting a music publishing company isn't rocket science, but it requires a lot of work. In Self Control, we show you how to begin and maintain your own publishing company....

Audio Alchemy (Bonus)  Mar 12, 2008, By Dennis Miller Convolution is a powerful technique that multiplies the spectra of two files—one called the source (or “carrier”) and the other called the impulse response (IR)—to produce a vast range of effects....

First Take: All Over the MAP  Mar 3, 2008, By Gino Robair No one likes deceptive advertising. I personally find it infuriating—as an editor and as a consumer—when a manufacturer plays games with pricing for a product that I’m interested in. ...

First Take: Welcome to EM 5.0  Mar 3, 2008, By Gino Robair Electronic Musician has grown a lot since it evolved from Polyphony 22 years ago, and as the fifth man in the hot seat, I have plans to take it to greater heights without losing sight of its DIY music-production roots. But before I share my editorial vision, I want to tell you what’s in store in the near future. ...

First Take: Are You an Audio Insider?  Mar 3, 2008, By Gino Robair If you are a regular visitor to emusician.com, you’ve probably noticed that some of our articles are now accessible only with a paid registration. In early August we launched an exciting new premium-content site called Audio Insider (AI). ...

First Take: By Musicians, for Musicians  Mar 3, 2008, By Gino Robair Since founding editor Craig Anderton launched EM more than 20 years ago, our primary objective has been to champion the do-it-yourself spirit in the personal studio. Over the years, EM has expanded its focus beyond kit-building projects to include all levels of audio production. And as new ways of working materialize, we’re here to help you, the musician, get a handle on them so you can fulfill your creative goals when they involve technology....

First Take: The Envelope, Please . . .  Mar 3, 2008, By Gino Robair The Editors’ Choice Awards issue is one of my favorites of the year. Although getting Electronic Musician’s editors and authors to agree on a list of winners is not trivial, the results are always exciting: it’s fun to see which of the hundreds of products released in a year make the final cut. ...

First Take: Surprise—It’s EM!  Mar 3, 2008, By Gino Robair You’ve probably noticed a few subtle tweaks to the look and feel of our magazine over the past few months (not to mention the increased presence of musicians on the cover)....

First Take: A Richer Experience  Mar 3, 2008, By Gino Robair The day after the 2008 Winter NAMM show ended, I participated in a direct-to-disc recording session at Infrasonic Sound in Los Angeles in preparation for writing the “Mastering Vinyl” feature (p. 54)....

Making Tracks: Intelligent Harmonization  Mar 1, 2008, By Michael Cooper When trying to create a parallel diatonic harmony from a main melody, simple pitch transposition almost never works. That's because the transposition...

Square One: Stereo Creativity  Mar 1, 2008, By Dave Simons One of the secrets to recording success is to avoid doing the usual thing, and rethinking your approach to stereo placement is a great place to start....

Sound Design Workshop: On the Bus  Mar 1, 2008, By Eli Krantzberg Here are some mix-altering sound-design techniques made possible by routing all tracks to a subgroup, which I'll call the master group, before they reach...

Fading Out Gracefully  Mar 1, 2008, By David Battino One of the secrets to making smooth audio edits is to cut on a zero-crossing, the point where the waveform crosses the centerline. Like many editors,...

Give Back  Mar 1, 2008, By Tracy Katz At a nickel or a dime apiece, blank CDs and DVDs are affordable enough to use and lose without much regret but not to the environment. Most of us already...

OverClocked ReMix  Mar 1, 2008, By Tracy Katz Do you live and breathe video games? If the answer is yes, put down that controller and head over to OverClocked ReMix (www.ocremix.org), a nonprofit,...

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