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Making Tracks: Make Mine Rubato  Nov 1, 2009, By Michael Cooper Many musicians hate recording while following a soulless click track that constrains their playing to a rigid tempo. Unfortunately, recording tracks with...

Sound Design Workshop: Bottom's Up  Nov 1, 2009, By Simon Langford Sidechain compression is an industry staple for cleaning up the bottom end of bass tracks. It uses a kick drum as the sidechain input to a compressor...

Mixing Drums | Beefing Up the Beat  Oct 1, 2009, By Michael Cooper Much has already been written about mixing drums, so rather than restating the basics, I'll share with you tips and advice that you're less likely to...

Making Tracks: Screencast Audio Editing  Oct 1, 2009, By Eli Krantzberg Screencasting programs such as ScreenFlow for the Mac and Camtasia for Windows let you simultaneously capture screen movement and audio. Here's how to...

Sound Design Workshop: Clean Sweep   Oct 1, 2009, By Len Sasso The familiar sweeping effect known as flanging takes its name from the way in which it was originally produced using a pair of analog tape machines. The...

Happy Singers, Happy Tracks  Sep 1, 2009, By Steve Skinner In the studio, singers give their best performances when they're comfortable, confident and contented. As the producer, it's your job to make them feel...

Option-Click: Watch Your Groove  Sep 1, 2009, By David Battino Tempo-synched delay is one of the coolest effects in music. Quarter- or 8th-note echoes can really fill out a part, whereas dotted 8th-note echoes can...

Making Tracks: Put Your Tracks on Ice  Sep 1, 2009, By Len Sasso Before Live 8, Ableton's robust implementation of track freezing had one major drawback: It couldn't be applied to multichannel virtual instruments (Vis),...

Sound Design Workshop: Twang, Rattle and Thunk  Sep 1, 2009, By Len Sasso Although John Cage was not the first person to alter the timbre of an acoustic instrument with foreign objects (nuts, bolts, rubber wedges, etc.), he...

Nathaniel Kunkel In Session: Louder, But Softer  Sep 1, 2009, By Nathaniel Kunkel Have you ever noticed how much more fun it is to turn up old recordings than new ones? I know we all talk about the level wars that the CD medium ushered...

Making Tracks: Speed It Up  Aug 1, 2009, By Brian Smithers Three keys to being an efficient editor in any DAW are views, tools and navigation. Although the following suggestions are specific to Pro Tools 7.4,...

Option-Click: Mix It Like MacGyver  Aug 1, 2009, By David Battino Find Out About Electro-Harmonix Voice Box Utility Mixer for Audio Production...

Make Mine Modular  Aug 1, 2009, By Gino Robair Relegated to the technological tar pits when inexpensive digital synths hit the scene in the '80s, analog synths are now being used by savvy sound artists...

Sound Design Workshop: A Subtle Shift  Aug 1, 2009, By Len Sasso Frequency shifting and its first cousins, ring and amplitude modulation, are usually associated with clangorous sci-fi sound effects. But with the right...

Making Tracks: Wild Sync  Jul 1, 2009, By David Battino How do you sync the tempos of multiple laptops, grooveboxes, or synths? Tight timing is a worthy goal, but being close in tempo is easier to achieve...

Sound Design Workshop: It's About Time  Jul 1, 2009, By Len Sasso Time Designer, new in Spectrasonics Stylus RMX Xpanded 1.7, is the perfect tool for forcing disparate sliced loops into a congenial stew...

Nathaniel Kunkel InSession: What to Buy  Jul 1, 2009, By Nathaniel Kunkel Nathaniel Kunkel Writes About How to Choose Audio Gear for Your Studio...

Decibels Demystified, Part 1  Jun 1, 2009, By Scott Wilkinson During the past 15 years, many fundamental music-technology concepts have been explained in “Square One” (originally titled “From the Top”). In 1997 EM technical editor Scott Wilkinson combined many of those columns into a comprehensive primer titled Anatomy of a Home Studio: How Everything Really Works, from Microphones to MIDI, >published by EMBooks, an imprint of Artistpro.com (www.artistpro.com)....

Master Class: Pitch Shifting in Pro Tools 8  Jun 1, 2009, By Brian Smithers Digidesign introduced Elastic Audio in Pro Tools 7.4, offering powerful and flexible time correction within its industry-leading DAW. In Pro Tools 8,...

Making Tracks: Creative Submixing  Jun 1, 2009, By Brian Smithers Find out how to use subgroups to combine associated tracks for mixing and applying insert effects....

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