Recording

I occasionally record my songwriting and performance efforts on gear that I have accumulated over the years. My main setup...

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Using someone else's recording in your music without permission can lead to disaster. We explain the ins and outs of copyright law, and guide you through the process of clearing your samples.

One of the most famous record labels of all time, Motown fostered a group of uniquely talented writers, engineers and musicians who often had to invent the equipment and techniques they used to keep their music at the cutting edge. Lamont Dozier explains how it was done...

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There are so many ways of connecting equipment these days, such as S/PDIF, ADAT, AES-EBU and MADI, not forgetting good old...

I have found this a little bit confusing. Some manufacturers advertise the fact that their products have transformer...

Is there any reason not to combine, say, an M/S stereo mic pair with an additional spaced mic pair when recording things...

I have three Firewire 400 devices, which all run simultaneously, but I only have one Firewire 400 port, so using them all...

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In 1973, a band from Florida and California went to a studio in Georgia to record a song, provoked by a Canadian, about Alabama - and managed to define the sound of Southern rock while they were at it.

Recording a real piano can feel like a lost art, given the number of high-quality sample libraries around these days. For those times when only the real thing will suffice, here's how to do it justice.

Here are links to the audio files from January 2008's PIANO RECORDING article.

I've always had trouble with hi-hat bleed through my snare drum mic. I use a Shure SM57 on the snare, and if I try to boost the...

As far as I am aware, Logic's processing engine, with which it does all of its internal effect calculations and summing, runs at...

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I want to mic up my bodhran so that I can record what I am doing in Audacity, then play it back in order to hear where I'm going...

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Younger Brother brings together two of the Twisted labels biggest names. We visited Simon Posfords studio in a bid to uncover the secrets of psytrance...

Epic in every sense of the word — unning to 21 songs, involving more than 120 musicians and taking almost two years to complete — Stevie Wonder's Songs In The Key Of Life was in many ways the high-point of an already illustrious career. This is the story of how it was created.

With the massive strides software has made in recent years, there are now more ways to record the electric guitar...