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Cut the Mud from Your Mix - Remove Low-End Clutter from Your Mix with High-Pass Filtering
Learning
Guitars, vocals, pianos, drums or virtually any track in your mix, has extraneous low-frequency information that can be filtered out without compromising the sound. While you may not notice anything …
04/28/14
A Review of Toontrack's Classic Amps EZmix Pack - Classic Amps the EZ Way
Learning
Toontrack recently released a new collection of amp models with effects called the Classic Amps EZmix Pack, which can be opened as presets in the company's EZmix 2 software. How do these emulations s…
04/15/14
Long-Distance Collaboration - Work Together Remotely via DAW File Sharing
Learning
Sharing tracks over the Internet makes it possible for musicians to work together remotely, whether they're around the corner from each other or around the world.
04/02/14
Comparing Two Approaches to Drum-Track Creation - MIDI Drums vs. Audio Drum Loops
Learning
If you’re not a drummer, but you need drum tracks for your productions — and assuming you don’t have the budget and facilities to hire and record a real drummer — you’re going to need to use either M…
03/24/14
We Look at the Foremost Notation Programs - The Top Notation Software
Learning
While it's true that staff paper sheets and notebooks haven't disappeared yet, we must also admit that computers have made the task of composers and songwriters simpler by giving them the possibility…
01/12/14
How To Get a Punchy Drum Sound - PureMix Video On Mixing Drums
Learning
In this new PureMix video, sound engineer Ben Lindell shows you how to use your audio processing plug-ins to mix drums giving them more substance and presence.
01/05/14
Audio Editors: Readers' Choice - The Top Audio Editors
Learning
Be it to master a song, do some sound design, manipulate audio files or edit samples, the audio editor is a very precious tool in your creative arsenal. We chose nine paid audio editors from which yo…
01/05/14
What Is A Plug-In? - How To Install And Use An Audio Plug-In
Learning
On Audiofanzine everyone talks about plug-ins all day long. Most of you know exactly what that's all about and know how to install a plug-in. However, there was a time when we were all just starting …
01/01/14
What is Comping? - How To Get The Perfect Take
Learning
Comping is an audio editing technique that consists in putting together different takes of the same instrument in order to get the "perfect recording" without the trick being audible.
12/15/13
The Best Audio Tools to Change Your Life - The Top Software Tools to Simplify Mixing
Learning
Here's a list of plug-ins, software and hardware tools that will simplify the life of the home studio owner.
11/30/13
The Best Virtual Electric Bass Guitars - The Top Electric Bass Guitar Software
Learning
Together with pianos and drums, bass guitars ought to be counted among the instruments whose virtual versions can be considered credible today. Here's a selection of the best exponents in the genre.
11/23/13
The Best Virtual Rhodes - The Top Virtual Rhodes
Learning
A real legend among electric pianos, the Rhodes has never stopped inspiring software developers and sample publishers. These 16 instruments are proof of that.
11/17/13
The Top Reverb Plug-ins - The Best Virtual Algorithmic Reverbs
Learning
Frequently underestimated by beginners, the quality of a reverb plug-in can make a huge difference in the production of a song. That's why we made a brief review of the most essential plug-ins in thi…
09/30/13
The Top Free Virtual Guitar Amps - Free Guitar Amp Simulations Survey Results
Learning
813 persons took part in the survey and voted for their favorite free guitar amp simulations. And here are the results...
09/09/13
The Top Commercial Software Guitar Amps - The Best Commercial Guitar Amp Plug-ins
Learning
How do you pack dozens of vintage amps and speaker cabinets in a 130 ft² home studio for less than $500? Just enter the wonderful virtual realm with this article about the best commercial software gu…
07/16/13
The Top MIDI Grooves - The Best MIDI Files for Virtual Drums
Learning
So, you bought some virtual drums but none of the grooves really fit in your new song? Here you have a list of the best MIDI publishers- in no particular order of course.
07/12/13
Automation Basics - What is Automation?
Learning
Many of the features in our DAWs come from the analog world, and automation is no exception. In order to understand what it is all about, let's go back to the time when the only digital gear in a rec…
06/22/13
Reverb Parameters - How to Set a Reverb Processor
Learning
Unless you're living in a tent in the middle of the desert, you are exposed to numerous natural reverberations every day. Our ears perceive reverberations that our brain interprets automatically to i…
06/22/13
Sidechain - How Does a Sidechain Work?
Learning
Back in the analog area, audio effects with a sidechain circuit were rare and usually among the most expensive. So sidechain was used only in big productions to fine tune the processing of certain re…
06/22/13
The Top Virtual Pianos - The Best Virtual Acoustic Pianos
Learning
So, you have an 80 square foot room but you feel Glenn's Gould spirit burning inside you? Don't worry! Long gone are the days when you had to depend on 800-lb Steinways to play a chord. Thanks to VST…
06/08/13
12 plug-ins to Sound Original - The Most Original Audio Plug-ins
Learning
Most plug-in developers are obsessed with emulating vintage gear, but there are always those who focus on originality. Here is a short overview of some effect plug-ins that could open new horizons fo…
06/01/13
Our favorite sequencers for music production - What are the best DAWs?
Learning
The DAW is the heart of modern home studios. A sequencer isn't something you should buy carelessly because it impacts the way you work – the whole process, from the idea to its realization. Here is a…
05/26/13
How to Set an EQ - Understanding EQ Parameters
Learning
An EQ changes the level of frequencies in an audio signal. It allows you to define one or more frequency bands to amplify or attenuate them. In order to achieve this, the EQ uses different filters.
05/25/13
The Best Virtual Drums - The Top Commercial Virtual Drums
Learning
You want to record your newest song but you have no drummer or your drummer is sick? Virtual drums were conceived to solve this problem. Here is our selection of the best of them...
05/18/13
The Top Free Software Compressors - The 10 Best Freeware Compressor Plug-ins
Learning
Not satisfied with the standard compressor included in your sequencer? Here you have 10 must-have plug-ins for Mac or PC that should make you happy at zero cost...
05/04/13

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