Miking up an instrument isn’t an easy thing. It’s not like a digital camera where you point towards what you want to capture and then click. Super cool vacation photo! You might not end up with a great photo, but you can certainly make it better afterwards. Not to offend photographers, but in audio, if you have …
Having quick pitch bends on single notes, or having a sound slowly rise or fall in pitch can be an effective way to add richness to a song. Whether you’d like to use the pitch bend wheel on a MIDI controller, or draw in pitch bends with a mouse, this tutorial covers several techniques that…
In this week’s Audio Plus content, Bobby Owsinski teaches you how to get more life out of the drums when you’re recording. To learn more about what you get as part of Audio Plus, read this . To take a peek inside this tutorial, hit the jump! If there’s one instrument that producers …
You just finished a smashing new track and want to send it to a record label! But you don’t know how or you did it in the past but never got a reply. Here’s a guide to send the perfect demo submission in just six easy steps! Step 1 – Selecting …
Do you spend most of your time dealing with MIDI, audio, or a combination of the two? Each Tuesday we open our mic to readers and lurkers alike to come out of the woodwork and tell us your thoughts and opinion, your experiences and mistakes, what you love and what you hate. We want to hear from you, and…
If you’re going to record your guitar, you might as well get the best sound out of it. While good strings won’t make a bad guitar sound amazing, bad strings can totally ruin the sound of a good guitar. There are techniques for making your strings retain their brightness longer, and the way you…
Reason’s Mixer is one of the most important devices in the software, but most home musicians don’t pay much attention to it. It’s simple enough to get your head around the basics of leveling devices with a bit of experimentation, but in this tutorial we’re going to go further into the breadth of features this essential…
It takes a lot more than good pre-production to make vocals sound professional in a track (although it certainly helps), and there are many ways to improve your mix. In Part One of this tutorial we had a look at the pre-production as well as how to mix lead and backing vocals together effectively with the use …
So, you’re looking for more exposure for your work? Are you wanting to get a good collection of clips from publications? Magazines present a great opportunity to have your work seen by many people in diverse places. Magazines, like most of the journalism field, have had their ups and downs over…
