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Sample editing
The manipulation of audio samples is an integral part of the music process. We describe the essential functions you'll find in most audio editors...
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...
Guide to creating the perfect mix revamped and released for FREE
Several years ago we wrote a guide that we felt answered the questions people who were new to the world of mixing might have....
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...
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,...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
What Sound Engineers Wished You Knew – Views From The Desk II
Let’s talk about specs…
Even the most experienced of sound engineers have a list of items that they always...