How To Make Music Online: The Next Generation of Music Production
Over the last couple of years, online music production has finally become big business. Cloud-based music making, remixing and collaboration…
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The Essential Guide to Mixing
When you mix your music you can either elevate your original ideas to greatness… or destroy them. This is MusicTech’s…
Technique of the Week: Parallel Compression
The best of both worlds? Parallel compression allows you to boost the impact of signals without losing all their dynamics.…
The 10 Synths That Made Synth Pop (And 2 Samplers)
Synth Pop dominated the 80s, becoming as synonymous with the era as disco was with the 70s. With the synth-revival…
10 Tips On Going Pro With Your Music
Made some music? Want to get paid for it? You’ll need to get it out there and get yourself out…
Sonic Perfection: A Guide to Room Calibration
Despite advances in design, no speakers or headphones have a completely flat response. But what if we could use technology…
6 Ways To Buy A New Synth
Last time we looked at the six reasons there are to buy a new synth or upgrade your existing software…
Vintage Rewind: Atari ST Computer
In 1985, if you weren’t playing Pong, you might have been making music with a hot new home computer, with…
Technique of the Week: Using Sidechain Compression to Duck a Vocal Delay
Using sidechain compression to duck a vocal delay is a popular technique in music production. Here, Alex Holmes gives us…
An Introduction to Musical Terms – Learning the Language of Sound
The world of modern music production can appear totally alien to newcomers, with technical terms in regular parlance that may…
The Creative Guide to Sound Design
Being creative with sound design will benefit whatever you produce music for, from the pop charts to a Hollywood film,…
Technique of the Week: Mic’ing Tom-Toms Using Hand Hairs
John Pickford looks at a left field technique for mic’ing tom-toms that’s literally hands-on. Here’s how you do it… Tom…
The Essential Guide to Vocal Effects
The human voice is the most popular sound in music. Over the years we’ve tried to tune it, abuse it,…
Technique of the Week: Separating MIDI Drum Tracks in Live
Erin Barra explains how separating MIDI drum tracks using Extracting Chains can greatly improve the flexibility of your drum programming……