SOUND ON SOUND
Acoustic guitars are central to many live performances, but making them sound good through a PA isn’t as straightforward as you might imagine.
DI boxes are essential pieces of stage equipment, but to get the most out of them, it helps to know what they do — and how they do it...
Explore and learn to use Studio One 2’s Audioloop and Musicloop formats.
Optimise your vocal tracks in Sonar X2 before you start mixing.
Video tutorial to accompany this month's article.
Among Samplitude Pro X’s unique features is spectral editing in the main project window. Here’s how it works.
The landmark Reason v7 is about to arrive. What will it do for you?
When Pro Tools loses track of the media files used in a session, you need to turn detective...
Audio files to accompany the Cristina Vane article.
Putting in the effort at the front end of the production process can save countless hours when it comes to mixdown — as this month’s remix demonstrates.
Get to grips with the marquee tool’s endless possibilities, and you could soon be a Logic power user.
Live offers all the tools you need for quick and convenient comping: you just need to know where to look.
Not only did the Les Misérables crew have to capture live singing on a film set: they then had to figure out how to overdub orchestral arrangements to it!
The harmonica, or blues harp, appears on tracks in many genres. Despite its apparently simple construction, it’s an amazingly expressive instrument — and there are almost as many ways to record it as there are to play it.
Audio files to accompany the article.
DP still has its full share of virtual guitar amps and pedals, reverb and chorus plug-ins — but version 8 also introduced some quality problem-solvers.
Audio files to accompany the article.
Try out some ’80s-style high-frequency enhancement by recreating the famous ‘Dolby A’ trick with Cubase’s bundled plug-ins.
Pulp’s infectiously catchy commentary on the joys of class tourism helped propel the group to fame after nearly two decades of obscurity. Engineer David Nicholas tells us how ‘Common People’ was recorded.