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Recorded and mixed in a modest home studio, Day n Nite has made stars of singer/rapper Kid Cudi and producer Dot Da Genius.

Working on lots of songs within one project can be annoying. Why not use Pro Tools' advanced features to create a tailor-made Session for each one?

Just how do you mike up and multitrack a large ensemble in a less-than-ideal recording space, and then produce an effective mix of the resulting recording?

Remastering projects dont come much bigger than this: a team of engineers spent four years in Abbey Road studios creating the definitive Beatles collection. Here's their story...

If your PC struggles to run the plug-ins you want to use, how about shifting some of the load to its graphics card?

We speculate on Apples direction for music, as revealed by the launch of the new Logic Studio suite.

Even grime mixes need clarity! This month we get our hands dirty cleaning up the mud in Alex Giddens track.

Breathe new life into your loops with Cubase's LoopMash.

While music software interfaces still lag behind hardware in the tweakability stakes, theres a lot we can do to improve that situation with Mac OSs built-in features.

Complex tasks of all kinds can be done quickly and easily with Logics Transform window.

This month, Martin Walker checks out ways to speed up your computer and investigates this curious DiffMerge thingamebob...

Digital Performers time-display and grid features are the key to several cool techniques, including instant glitch effects.

Sampled drums lacking realism? Synthesize stereo room mics to add authentic ambience with Sonars built-in effects.

No guitar effects in Cubase? Actually, there are more options than you can count...

Now that we have digital models and dynamic convolution technology, were spoilt for choice when it comes to classic compressor flavours. But whether hardware or software, which is right for which job?

This months mission proves that to get the best from a song you need to pay as much attention to arrangement as to mix technique.

It can be difficult reading about compression without hearing what it does. Here are a number of audio files to accompany this article, with a detailed explanation of what they demonstrate.

There are very few records whose influence can be so strongly felt after 45 years as the Kinks You Really Got Me. At the controls was Shel Talmy, who tells us the story of a song that changed pop music.

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