Electronic Musician's Pro/File of Strange Angel, whose debut CD features a roster of guest stars, who are friends with the band's guitarist, Bryan Bell, a former studio tech....
In the April 2007 issue of EM, this column featured an interview with Michael Petricone of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), a trade group that...
Simply put, distortion is any change to a signal other than a simple gain change or delay. Given that definition, one could reasonably look at compression and equalization as forms of distortion, but it’s probably more useful to take them at face value and look for any unintended consequences as distortion. For example, many EQ circuits change the phase of filtered frequencies relative to unfiltered frequencies—linear phase equalizers are designed to avoid this phase distortion....
Tripp Lite's new Severe Weather Power Protection microsite offers practical information about keeping computers and electronics safe during severe weather events....
As a mastering engineer, I hear a lot of mixes from other studios. Some are great, some are not. But what is striking to me is that the mixes that need...
Ableton Live's Impulse drum sampler makes an excellent player for sliced audio files because of its ability to apply separate processing and output routing...
Eight years ago, I built a large, complex project studio to do freelance film and game sound design as well as music production. The studio was a success....
Slicing a drum loop or other rhythm-based audio file into individual hits, installing the slices in a multisample player, and deriving a MIDI sequence...
Logic Tips and Tricks with Eli Krantzberg is Grooveboxmusic.com's latest "Tips and Tricks" collection of video tutorials for Apple Logic Pro and Logic Express....
In this collection of 40 video tutorials, Digidesign Pro Tools engineer Kenny Gioia offers his tips for mixing, production, and utilities in Pro Tools....
Gain staging is the art of setting the multiple gain controls in any signal path to get the cleanest signal. Many of the rules of analog gain staging...