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This month I'm planning a week's worth of recording for a commercial release of my own viola-led instrumental music, and I'd...
I'd like to know what the advantages and disadvantages are of using stand-alone word clock units, like Apogee, Lynx, Antelope...
I'm currently involved in composing music tracks for a self-help medical audio program and I would like to be able to create...
I have recently invested in the range of UAD2 plug-ins, but am afraid I am not sure how to read the VU meters correctly. I am...
In the first of a two-part series on using impulse responses in Reaper’s ReaVerb, we look at the basics: selecting, loading and editing. • Read Part 1
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Reason’s new mixer has useful features you may not have noticed...
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Here's the problem: you're working on a project and you decide you need some kind of shaker or tambourine part, but you'...
Sonokinetic's Tutti eschews the approach taken by most orchestral sample libraries, offering, instead, a selection of effects designed to bring your pieces to life...
Sontronics’ DM-series mics are specially designed for close-miking of drum kits. How do they perform in a real-world session?
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Sampling a record may be child’s play, but using such samples effectively in your own compositions requires plenty of skill and finesse.
These audio files accompany the How To Build Tracks Around Sampled Tunes feature that featured in SOS December 2011.
Version 2 of Studio One offers unprecedented levels of integration with third-party software — or, in other words, built-in Melodyne!
The SOS team head out to singer/songwriter and media composer Olivia Broadfield’s studio, to solve her monitoring issues.
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TC Helicon’s latest live vocal processor squeezes plenty of powerful processing into a 2U rackmount space, and comes with a free microphone too.