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From Creation to Final Mix Part 2
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Discover today the second part of the Avid/Puremix video series dedicated to the The Arrows music creation with producer Fab Dupont.
12/10/14
A guide to mixing music - Part 13
Learning
Now that we've dealt with panning in our rough mix, it's time to address the levels. The goal is simply to find a basic balance that allows you to hear each element as clearly as possible, in accorda…
12/06/14
Watch as producer Fab Dumont turns a demo into a mix-ready track
Learning
If you had an opportunity to watch over the shoulder of a famous producer as he worked with a band to craft a hit song, you’d do it right? And what if you could also download the tracks from that son…
12/02/14
A guide to mixing music - Part 12
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As mentioned in the last installment, we'll start the rough mix by panning the different elements of the mix. To do that, I recommend you an incredibly effective game I discovered several years ago t…
11/28/14
Studio tips, techniques and wisdom from a producer, engineer and musician who’s seen it all
Learning
Alan Parsons' career is as impressive as it is long. He got his start as an assistant engineer at the legendary Abbey Road Studios in London...
11/25/14
Sound synthesis, sound design and audio processing - Part 9
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In the previous articles we saw what makes up a synthesizer's basic sound chain: Oscillators, followed by filters and an amplifier, plus envelopes to control them. We also saw that an oscillator can…
11/01/14
Colin Leonard takes the analog path to mastering success
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Colin Leonard, owner and engineer of SING Mastering in Atlanta, has to be ready to handle any musical style that comes his way. “I could go from Gaelic Christmas music to hardcore hip-hop to pop to …
10/30/14
A guide to mixing music - Part 5
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Sometimes the best way to make people really grasp an idea is to resort to a fitting metaphor. That's why, today, I'll show you a way to visualize a mix that ought to allow you to understand the whol…
10/29/14
A guide to mixing music - Part 4
Learning
Before getting into the heart of the matter, I deem it necessary to deal with a subject that isn't only limited to computer music, namely backups.
10/27/14
Sound synthesis, sound design and audio processing - Part 8
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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
How to Replace Bad Notes or Chords via Copy and Paste
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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 simulators and more
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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
Improve your sound when using time-based effects in your guitar setup
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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…
10/18/14
A Guide To Mixing Music - Part 3
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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
Sound synthesis, sound design and audio processing - Part 7
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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…
10/13/14
Guide To Mixing - Part 2
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We'll devote this second installment of our mixing article series to an advice that is worth it's weight in gold: Whenever possible, let someone else mix your songs and/or recordings
10/06/14
Sound synthesis, sound design and audio processing - Part 6
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…
10/05/14
Guide To Mixing - Part 1
Learning
Given the good response our "Mastering at Home" series received, yours truly has put himself to the task of doing a similar guide dedicated to recording and mixing.
10/01/14
Sound synthesis, sound design and audio processing - Part 5
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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…
09/29/14
We interview BT about his upcoming throwback album and his love for older gear
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
Sound synthesis, sound design and audio processing - Part 3
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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…
09/10/14
Sound Synthesis, Sound Design and Audio Processing - Part 2
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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…
09/09/14
Journey to the core of sound
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Throughout history, humans all around the globe have never stopped diversifying the uses of music ─ ritual, recreational, intellectual, etc. ─ and have produced it using their voices and bodies or th…
08/29/14
One for the road & links to the entire mastering series
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After more than 20 weeks, the time has finally come for the last installment in our series dedicated to mastering at home. Today we won't be making any miraculous revelations, instead, we'll give you…
08/25/14
Richard Devine on sound design, synths, software, studios and more
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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…
08/21/14

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