More Linux Music Options

April 6th, 2010

If neither Mac nor Windows work for you, there is a third option – Linux. Now less daunting than ever before, the various flavours of Linux still provide the ultimate in workstation customisation (if you want to dig in deep) but are now much more easy to install and use…

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How To Tune A Guitar

March 30th, 2010

So you think you can tune a guitar? Maybe you can, but when you’re in the studio laying down a track for posterity, there are plenty of details that you might overlook…

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How To Prevent Clipping

March 15th, 2010

Clipping is a particularly nasty form of distortion that occurs in the digital domain when the level of the audio signal moves above 0dB – into the red. Because there’s no more space to describe the waveform, we instead get a truncation…

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Four Golden Rules Of Mixing

January 22nd, 2010

Although every mixing project is different, there are a few techniques that producers tend to use all the time, regardless of whether the music is throat singing, ska punk, disco thrash, ambient foot squeaking or armadillo cajon rock…

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114 Free Plugins For Your DAW

January 12th, 2010

It’s a whole new music-making year, and what better way to get started than with a batch of free audio mangling goodies. This is a perfect opportunity to combine two mega sources of free VST and AU plugins…

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Digital Music Jargon Explained – Aliasing

January 8th, 2010

The fourth installment of this series covers the topic of aliasing, and the Nyquist Theorem. This follows on from the previous posts which covered FFT, oversampling and dithering

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Digital Music Jargon Explained – FFT

December 11th, 2009

This third episode of the DMJ series deals with the Fast-Fourier Transform, which is basically an analogue/digital processing algorithm. The first two episodes covered dithering and oversampling, but for more info on FFT, read on…

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Free Plugin Update – TC Reverb & More

November 17th, 2009

Although it’s being well covered on other sites, I thought I would also flag TC Electronic’s very time-limited free plugin offer. Basically, they are giving away their M30 VST/AU reverb plugin in exchange for an email address, but the deal expires tomorrow!

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Pro Tools Video Tutorials

November 6th, 2009

Sometimes the best way to learn about your DAW is by observing a seasoned user actually putting its powers to the test. Here are a selection of Pro Tools videos to get you started…

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Ableton Live Controllers

October 16th, 2009

Ableton Live, as its name suggests, is a piece of software that allows electronic music to be performed rather than simply reproduced verbatim. However, despite its very hands-on approach, until recently there have been no hardware controllers officially endorsed by Ableton…

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