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Send It in an Envelope - Sound synthesis, sound design and audio processing - Part 8
Learning
We have started to study the way in which you can create a sound with the aid of a hardware or virtual synthesizer. But, how does sound ─ which is up to now a combination of voltages or binary data p…
10/22/14
Better Tracks Through Editing - Part 2 - How to replace bad notes or chords via copy and paste
Learning
In part 1 of this article we discussed using cut, copy and paste editing techniques to fix rhythmic mistakes. This time around, we'll use those same edit tools to replace notes that are the wrong pit…
10/21/14
The Living Colour guitarist on film scoring, DAWs, amp … - Vernon Reid Talks Tech
Learning
When you hear the name Vernon Reid, your first thought is probably of his work with Living Colour, featuring his speedy and inventive guitar playing. But Reid is also an accomplished composer, scorin…
10/20/14
The Wet/Dry/Wet Technique - Improve your sound when using time-based effects in your guitar setup
Learning
Reverb, delay and all other so-called time-based effects can sometimes "dirty up" your basic guitar sound to the point that you are forced to reduce their level in order to preserve a minimum of audi…
10/19/14
The Prerequisites for a Relaxed Mixing Session - A guide to mixing music - Part 3
Learning
The simple act of clearing certain technical and practical tasks in the earliest stages of the production of a song can have miraculous effects, not only in terms of efficiency, but also from a creat…
10/15/14
Better Tracks Through Editing - Part 1 - How to Fix Rhythmic Mistakes in a Recorded Track
Learning
Today’s DAW software — not to mention a slew of third party plug-ins — offers you powerful processing options for manipulating the time and pitch of your audio. But did you know that you can fix a lo…
10/15/14
Filter It Out! - Sound synthesis, sound design and audio processing - Part 7
Learning
Today we'll deal with another element that is essential to sound synthesis: Filters. They are widely used in subtractive synthesis, which is the most widespread form of synthesis, making filters pret…
10/12/14
Mixing with Myself…or Not! - A Guide To Mixing Music - Part 2
Learning
We'll devote this second installment of our mixing article series to a bit of advice that is worth its weight in gold: Whenever possible, let someone else mix your songs and/or recordings
10/06/14
Sound synthesis, sound design and audio processing - Pa… - Swing It!
Learning
Today we'll begin our exploration of the different elements that constitute a synthesizer. "It's about time!," I hear some of you say... And it's true, but it's important to have a theoretical backgr…
10/04/14
Make Some Noise! - Sound synthesis, sound design and audio processing - Part 5
Learning
In the previous article, we explored sounds based on waveforms with more or less harmonics, but they all had one thing in common: They were periodic. As we saw, if you refer to periodic cycle, you re…
09/28/14
Talking to BT about his upcoming throwback album and hi… - BT Goes Back to the '80s
Learning
There are few musicians who are as skilled with technology and as articulate about it as BT. For his latest project, a band called All Hail The Silence, BT and Christian Burns produced an album as if…
09/24/14
In Search of the Perfect Wave - Sound synthesis, sound design and audio processing - Part 4
Learning
In the previous articles of this series, we explored sound at its core and discovered waves and what defines them. Today we'll look into the main waveforms that are usually adopted as the basic ingre…
09/21/14
Avoiding Feedback with an Acoustic Guitar - Tips for Playing Acoustic Guitar Live - Part 1
Learning
Commonly used by electric guitar players, especially to liven things up, feedback is the worst enemy of acoustic musicians. In this series of articles we'll look into the solutions to play a relaxed …
09/19/14
Sound Synthesis, Sound Design and Audio Processing - Pa… - What's the Frequency?
Learning
As we saw in the previous article of this series, if a waveform is recurrent, it is called a periodic wave. From a theoretical point of view, for example, musical notes are all based on a periodic wa…
09/14/14
Wave's Anatomy - Sound Synthesis, Sound Design and Audio Processing - Part 2
Learning
In the previous article we saw that sound is made of waves. Like many things in life, they can be simple or complex. You can't find an absolutely "pure" sound in nature. The closest to that is the s…
09/08/14
Richard Devine on sound design, synths, software, studi… - A Sonic Guru Speaks
Learning
You may have heard Richard Devine’s distinctive electronic compositions, or seen his name on patch collections in various synths, but most likely when you hear his work it’s a system sound in a compu…
08/20/14
Improve Your Mix with A/B Referencing -Part 2 - What to Listen For When Comparing a Mix
Learning
In part 1 we looked at different ways to setup your gear for an A/B comparison. This time, we’ll offer some suggestions for specific aspects to focus on during your referencing session.
08/19/14
Mastering at Home - Part 22 - How to Use Volume in Mastering
Learning
This penultimate article in our series dedicated to mastering at home is surely the one you've all been waiting for. Indeed, today we will talk about a couple of tricks to get a really HUGE sound. Bu…
08/06/14
Tips on Recording Vocals for Musicians - Vocal Recording Clinic with Kris Crummett
Learning
No matter what musical style you're into, if you own studio gear, you probably record vocals at least some of the time. So when we had a chance to tap into the expertise of Kris Crummett — a prominen…
08/04/14
Scoring to Picture — Part 3 - Finding the Tempo and Writing the Music for a Commercial
Learning
Here in the final part of this 3-part article, I’ll finish scoring the hypothetical commercial, working with variables like tempo, start time, and meter, while never losing sight of the original assi…
07/29/14
Mastering at Home - Part 21 - Best Audio Formats When Rendering a Mastered Track
Learning
In this antepenultimate installment, we'll discuss several points that you need to bear in mind to get an optimal final result, depending on how your music will be distributed.
07/27/14
Mastering at Home - Part 20 - Tips for Using the Oscilloscope When Mastering Music
Learning
To finish with the helping tools for mastering, in this installment we'll talk about the oscilloscope — very often underestimated by home studio owners — and a utilitarian plug-in, which, even if not…
07/20/14
Mastering at Home - Part 19 - Audio Norms in Mastering Music
Learning
Today we'll talk about a delicate — but very useful — subject, namely the firewalls that can help you avoid being yet another victim of the loudness war.
07/14/14
Mastering at Home - Part 18 - Plugins to Help Analyze Levels When Mastering Music
Learning
In this installment we'll talk about plug-ins that allow you to visualize levels correctly — after all, whether you like it or not, mastering has become synonymous with volume, so it's a good idea to…
07/09/14
Scoring to Picture — Part 2 - Setting up your session for a scoring job
Learning
Here in part 2, we’ll begin a hypothetical scoring job for a 15-second TV commercial. In this installment, we’ll look at how to set up the DAW session for it.
07/08/14