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Interview: David Booth, The Recording Booth
For the second of our series of interviews with leading industry professionals we're speaking to someone who offers something a little extra to everyone...
Creating and Manipulating Drum Loops
A little sample manipulation and processing can help create your perfect drum loop. We wield the scissors and the paste pot...
Drum tracks form the...
Producing a Hit Song – A Step-by-Step Tutorial
If it's near Christmas, you might want to read this first.
This Tutorial was written using Steinberg’s Cubasis VST, the forerunner of Cubase SE 3....
Can you mix on headphones? 4 solid reasons why you should!
Headphones or monitors? The question used to divide much of the mixing community – and probably still does – but recent developments in music-listening...
Drum Loop and Sample Tips
Although there are more drum sample CDs out there than Madonna albums, the die hard sample aficionado will want to do everything from scratch,...
Audio Restoration – a master class
Steve Rosenthal gives an audio restoration master class
In the latest instalment of the Gear Club podcast four-time Grammy Award winner Steve Rosenthal shares a whole...
How to Produce a Christmas Number One Hit
The worst thing about Christmas has to be listening to Top Of The Pops and the Christmas Number 1 – Girls Aloud, Robbie Williams,...
Music Production and Mixing Tips & Tricks
What makes a pro recording pro? What is the "sound" that the pros get and how can you make your recordings sound more professional?...
Making the switch to Ableton
Ableton - what?
Sometimes, it seems like there are just too many choices of good DAWs out there, making it difficult to decide which one...
Interview: George Perks, Producer at The Crypt Studio
Nestled away in the leafy splendour of North London's crouch end lies 'The Crypt': a beautiful studio housed inside a converted stone church. It is here that George...
