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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...
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...
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?...
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...
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...
Computer Music – Getting Started!
All You Need Is A Computer!
Life can be so unfair. Just because you can't sing or play an instrument, why can't you be a...
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...
12 Top Tips on how to get that Pro Sound
Mixing with the best
EQ
1) If you have a loose, muddy bass sound the best thing to do is to record it again properly....
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,...
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,...
