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Producer and songwriter Fraser T Smith has made the unlikely journey from prog rock to grime. With Tinchy Stryder, his broad experience has paid off in the shape of three massive hit singles.
We help you to bring your old Reason songs into the Record era.
The following video interviews accompany this month's Extreme Metal: Recording Metal Music (Part 1) masterclass.
Powerful CPUs seem to get cheaper by the day, as evidenced by Intels new i5 and i3 series, which promise enough grunt for even demanding musicians, but with a lower price tag than the popular i7 range.
Part 1: Try out Logic 9s show-stopper addition, Flex Time, which lets you manipulate audio timing as never before.
Sonar 8.5s VX64 Vocal Strip offers new possibilities for vocal processing.
Links to Audio files which accompany this month's Cubase techniques article.
Being a mix engineer isnt only about mixing, as we show when revamping Bobby Nobodys track, Stitch Up.
The Region List in Pro Tools is easy to overlook, but provides the most powerful way to keep track of what's in your Session.
This month, we tame a reflective room, tweak vocal compressors and slay the Blue Screen Of Death.
Here is a selection of audio files to accompany this month's Mix Rescue of Bobby Nobody's song 'Stitch Up'. You can listen to...
As Apple and Spotify mark out the boundaries of the sharing culture, copyright owners are still looking for ways to make their music pay in a digital age.
REMs first single wasnt just an embryonic form of the style and sound that would later make them so successful, it was also a gem of the American new wave. But it took a long time coming...
When you need to tweak or re-work a track to produce alternative versions, DP has features that make it easy.
Extreme metal music demands, and expects, extreme skills from producers and engineers. In Part 1 of this in-depth masterclass, we explain the techniques that go into crafting modern metal sounds.
Get to grips with Sonars brand-new PX64 percussion strip, which offers all the processors you need for treating drums.
The Studio SOS team pay a visit to the lucky winner of the spectacular £30,000 SOS Dream Studio giveaway we ran at this year's LIMS show, to help him get his unbelievable studio prize up and running.
The pioneering electronica of I Feel Love didnt just revolutionise disco, it changed dance music forever. This is the story of how it was made...
Links to the accompanying audio files.
Recorded and mixed in a modest home studio, Day n Nite has made stars of singer/rapper Kid Cudi and producer Dot Da Genius.