1. Audio Damage Phosphor
(Category/Recording Studio Software)

... cards. At $1,500, the alphaSyntauri still wasn't cheap, but it undercut the likes of the Synclavier and PPG 's early digital synths by many thousands of dollars. Alongside Passport Designs' Soundchaser ...

2. A Brief History of Pro Tools
(Category/Recording Studio Software)

Avid's Pro Tools, originally developed by Digidesign, looms over the DAW world like a colossus, widely considered to be the industry standard digital recording solution. Digidrums ...

3. Loudness Tips and Tricks
(Category/Recording Advices)

... as tools designed to add loudness to a signal. That's only half the story, though, since their main purpose is to restrict dynamics. The only way to get more volume from a signal using a compressor Is ...

4. The Art of Remixing
(Category/Recording Advices)

... make regarding the arrangement design and structure: will it lean towards the original track, or must it be radically reformed to keep it relevant to the style you're producing your mix in? There might ...

5. Digital Audio File Formats
(Category/Recording Advices)

... Lastly, REX is a lossless compressed audio format, which is especially designed for looped passages of audio that are created in Propellerhead's ReCycle software. A REX file will typically contain a looped ...

6. Audio & Sampling
(Category/Recording Advices)

In the early days of recording, engineers and sound designers faced an ongoing struggle to preserve audio fidelity. Capturing or playing back audio from an analogue recording medium would always add a ...

7. Effects and Plugins - Delay, Reverb, Chorus, Phaser, Flanger
(Category/Recording Utilities)

... correctors. All of these share a certain duality: they were originally designed to correct problematic recordings or performances, but turned out to also offer plenty of creative potential. EQ, for ...

8. Free Plugins
(Category/Recording Utilities)

... range of abstract percussive tones, so it's often best to think outside the box when designing sounds with it In the interest of clarity, however. we're aiming to create granular versions of more traditional ...

9. How To Record, Mix And Master An Acoustic Band
(Category/Recording Advices)

... to the less linear likes of Ableton Live and FL Studio. That's not to say that the latter two can't do the job, just that ergonomically they're not designed primarily for this sort of work. We're going ...

10. Vintage Synthesizers - Digital Audio Workstation Integration
(Category/Recording Advices)

... ranges from the relatively affordable, such as the TL Audio Fatman - which gives you a preamp and compressor designed for warming up digital recordings - up to the very expensive, such as the Fairchild ...

11. Preamplifiers
(Category/Recording Advices)

... recorded, mixed or processed. Whether you're recording or just mixing a couple of m;cs for a live PA, preamps are specifically designed to amplify the low level output, bringing it up to line level. At ...

12. Vocoders
(Category/Recording Advices)

... than the typical piece of music gear. It would be a matter of decades before transistor-based equivalents arrived on the market early vocoders designed specifically for musicians including Robert Moog's ...

13. The History of Sequencers
(Category/Recording Studio Equipment)

... to include built-in sequencing options, but the most powerful sequencers were to be found in dedicated hardware units designed specifically for controlling synths. The invention of M I Dl brought with ...

14. Limiters
(Category/Recording Advices)

... the threshold. Occasionally you may also come across a compressor described as a leveling amplifier. Rather than describing a specific topology or circuit design, leveling amplifier is really just an ...

15. The Science of Psychoacoustics
(Category/Recording Advices)

... significant consequence for most of us will come before the final mixing process, and relates more closely to production and sound design. When synthesizing sounds, choosing samples and applying effects ...

16. PreSonus Studio One Pro
(Category/Recording Studio Software)

... aimed at the recording and mixing end of the technology spectrum. Given their expertise in audio interface design, it becomes a little more understandable why they might choose ...

17. Mastering
(Category/Recording Advices)

... mixing. The most commonly used gear like EQs, compressors, expanders and limiters should need no introduction, although the versions used here tend to be mastering-grade equivalents, designed with the ...

18. Drum Synthesis
(Category/Recording Advices)

... the ability to sample and play back external sounds. This concept reached its logical conclusion when Roger Linn designed the MPC 60 for Akai. Released in 1988, the MPC series combined sampling, looping ...

19. Harmonic Distortion
(Category/Recording Advices)

... bandwidth. This bandwidth is usually specified as the Q factor and is most commonly found in adjustable form on parametric designs. It is Q that has the most relevance with regard to harmonics and the ...

20. Steinberg CI1 and CI2+
(Category/Recording Studio Equipment)

... CI2+ and Cubase Essential 5 combined into a single system, producers of electronic music will need to look no further for the perfect production kit. With the Beat designer it has never been easier to ...