Sound Design Workshop: Imaginative Processing 

By Brian Smithers

Once you start creating in surround, working in stereo feels like painting with half your palette missing. With an immersive sound field, you have many...

Square One: The Sculptor's Tool 

By Brian Smithers

At the most basic level, a musician controls three elements: pitch, time, and timbre....

Get Smart 

Geary Yelton

The Classroom in a Book series from Adobe Press (www.adobepress.com) is an excellent resource for users of Adobe software. Of particular interest to EM...

ASK Video Ships Second Cubase 4 Training DVD 

The second in a three-part series, the video tutorial provides beginning-to-advanced training in Steinberg Cubase....

Garrigus.com Announces New Sonar 7 Power Book 

Sonar 7 Power! - The Comprehensive Guide offers insight into Cakewalk’s Sonar 7 Studio and Sonar 7 Producer MIDI and digital audio sequencing applications....

Analyze This (Bonus) 

By Larry the O

Metering and analysis tools provide quantitative information that allows us to observe an audio signal from various perspectives, which can be the key to avoiding problems and identifying pesky artifacts....

Bass Management in Pro Tools 

Learn about bass management and surround mixing tips in Pro Tools....

UCSC Workshop in Algorithmic Computer Music 

At the Workshop in Algorithmic Computer Music (WACM), David Cope, Paul Nauert, Peter Elsea, and Soren Goodman will be on hand to teach and advise workshop attendees. Participants will take classes on the basic techniques of algorithmic composition and music analysis, and the computer programming language Lisp....

Pro/File: Modular Odyssey 

By Bill Murphy

In this era of digitally manipulated sound, pure electronic music that is, music based totally on analog synthesis could be considered a lost art. But...

Square One: Loud and Clear 

By Larry the O

It's been said that the human voice is the most important source for recording or amplification....

SE ELECTRONICS Reflexion Filter 

By Mike Levine

SE Electronics' Reflexion Filter ($399) is a sound-absorption device designed to minimize room reflections....

SCHIRMER TRADE BOOKS Music, Money, and Success, 5th Ed. 

By Michael Cooper

The subtitle for Music, Money, and Success (Schirmer Trade Books, 2006) reads The Insider's Guide to Making Money in the Music Business, and that's no empty promise....

Music Business Insider: Q&A: Jeff Price 

By Mike Levine

The Web offers independent musicians the ability to self-distribute, allowing them to bypass record labels, distributors, and other gatekeepers...

Get Smart 

Geary Yelton

Since 1964, This Business of Music ($29.95) has been a practical resource for understanding the complexities of the music industry. Now in its tenth edition,...

Capturing Big Sounds 

By Myles Boisen

Dynamic microphones, the blue-collar workers of the recording and live-sound world, have a well-deserved reputation for reliability and tough construction....

Without Missing A Beat 

By Mike Levine

As one of the world's elite drummers, Omar Hakim has worked with everyone from Sting to Michael Jackson to Weather Report to Miles Davis....

Outer Limits 

By Brian Smithers

The next time someone seems underwhelmed by your creative calling, put them in front of a movie with the sound turned down....

Making Tracks: Sound in Motion 

By Jim Aikin

When mixing, I often want to make coordinated changes in several track parameters at once....

Sound Design Workshop: Monster Patch 

By Jon Engel

Hypersaw and Supersaw patches gained notoriety in the late '90s with the Roland JP-8000 line of synthesizers....

Digital Music Doctor Releases Pro Audio Training Video for GarageBand 

Digital Music Doctor has released a new video training course, "GarageBand 08  - Know It All!", which covers audio and MIDI recording, editing, and mixing using Apple GarageBand 2008 software. ...