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Square One: Making the Least of it

If you've ever tried to conserve disk space by archiving old recording projects, you probably know that standard compression schemes like ZIP and RAR ...

Music Business Insider: Q&A Mark Bright and Stephen J. Finfer

For many songwriters, the business side of music publishing is a curse; they would rather focus on the creative aspects of their jobs and leave the marketing ...

Pro/File: Montreal Pop

At the core of the band WhiteRoom is the duo of Alex Dray and Eddy Silva, who started playing together during high school in Montreal, Canada. The pair ...

Renaissance Man

Producing, engineering, mixing, remixing, playing keyboards, programming you name it, Carmen Rizzo does it. What's more, the genres that the multitalented ...

Mixing Efficiency

As an acoustic musician, I have spent a major portion of my life in the practice room, squaring away all the left-brain technical stuff so that when I ...

Removing Vocal Artifacts

Your lead vocal can make or break your production. Most DAWs offer a number of tools to manage vocal artifacts and eliminate distracting non-musical sounds ...

Speak to Me

One of the unexpected extras that comes with FL Studio 7 is the Speech Synthesizer. Just type your phrase in the box, and you can hear it spoken or sung ...

Amazing Acoustic-Digital Pianos

Few people can deny that digital pianos are impressive instruments. They come very close to reproducing the sound and feel of true acoustic pianos, and they also have cutting-edge technological features. ...

Humanoid or Vocaloid?

Many acoustic instruments can be simulated convincingly with various synthesis techniques, such as sampling and physical modeling. But one instrument ...

Meter Matters

Every good engineer knows that proper level management is critical to making good recordings, and that the ultimate weapon against setting improper levels ...

Cause and Effects

Brooklyn resident Tyondai Braxton expresses his art in varied contexts and mediums. Most recently, Braxton son of experimental multireedist and composer ...

Better Latent? Never!

Imagine trying to play a duet with another musician standing two and a half football fields away. Because sound travels through air at about 1,000 feet ...

MIT PRESS: Composing Interactive Music

I used to dream of creating robot bandmates that would stay on the beat, show up on time, and follow my directions. That robot band is still a fantasy, ...

Off-Kilter Vocals

How often have you agonized over a vocal sound? You audition mics, preamps, compressors, EQs, and even for the ultimate anguish mic cables. You strive ...

Studio Integration

One of the biggest reasons for the personal studio's explosive growth during the 15 years EM has been around is the establishment of the MIDI specification. ...

Production Construction

Those of us who grew up playing in bands and working with pop, rock or country songwriters are most familiar with the traditional process of producing...

Thanks for the Memoirs

Anyone who's spent any time in the music business has great stories to tell, and consequently the ranks of musicians, engineers and producers include...

Roger D'Arcy

Meet Roger D'Arcy, international man of studio design. The founder of the UK-based firm Recording Architecture (www.aaa-design.com), which is celebrating...

Soundelux Design Music Group

In our June issue, we profiled Technicolor Interactive, one of many studios providing services to games and interactive entertainment. This month, we...

Dare to Compare

Back in January 2006, I routed one microphone to six preamps for an unconventional series of tests dubbed Not a Mic Preamp Shootout. I was willing to...

Inside Track: Mixing Guitar

The words and go hand in hand. Along with a well-conceived and -played part, a well-crafted mix draws the listener in and sells the tune, whether it's...

Pushing the Limits of Native Processing

Computers effortlessly handle most of the the basic demands in our lives without breaking a sweat. Yet when it comes to DSP-intensive audio apps, native...

The Unfamiliar P.A.

The scariest P.A. is the one you've never met before. Traveling with production is a very comfortable place: You always know what type of gear you'll...

Plunging Into the Vortex

Surround sound. If you're into next-gen audio, then you need to get hip to multichannel audio. Forty percent of game consoles are hooked to surround systems,...

Summer D.I.Y. Fun

In July, nothing beats the radiant glow of vacuum tubes and that reminder to discharge the power supply before poking around! This month, I've got three...

Mysteries of Mixing

If talking about music is like dancing about architecture, then perhaps talking about mixing is like somersaulting about perfume. That is, music is better ...

Build a Microphone Cabinet on any Budget

We frequently get asked by readers which microphones are best for particular applications, as well as which are the best values. So, we've put together several possible cabinets...

You're Surrounded

Unless you've been asleep under a rock for the past ten years, you've at least heard about surround sound. During the past several years, it has had a ...

Analog Boot Camp

Learn the true meaning of the word "analog" and other '70s arcana. Analog synthesizers, real and emulated, are enjoying renewed popularity today. Indeed,...

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