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Multitrack Recording At Home: Part I

Here are the key concepts that you need to know in order to record your music on a computer. Not every detail, but the essential high spots to getting started.

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Electronic Workshop: How To Podcast

Creating and publishing podcasts can certainly be a plus for any musician. Norman Weinberg gives us tips and shows us how to create and manage the podcast of our dreams.

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Enhancing The E-Kit Experience

Norman Weinberg helps prod you out of your comfort zone into a realm of unique creative possibilities, greater personal expression and stylistic variety in this guide to exploring your e-kit.

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Proven Tips For Triggering Kicks

Want your kick drums to sound like two freight trains ramming into each other while your beater barely touches the head? We tell you how.

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How To Record Electronic Drums

Electronic drums can solve many problems in the studio, but they also require knowledge of a unique skill set. Read on to get learn the basics.

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Studio Tip: Reamping The Snare

If you want to give a lifeless-sounding or monodimensional snare track a bit more pizzazz, there’s an organic way to go about it.

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How To Create A Hybrid Drum Kit

Learn how to assemble a hybrid electronic/acoustic drum set in order to increase your sound palette and expand your musical role.

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Create Your Own Electronic Percussion Duo

Electronic percussion changed the game for drummers, who no longer need guitarists or bassists to do gigs. Here are some tips to get started.

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Studio Secrets: Unmasking The Mystery Of Mastering

What really happens inside mastering rooms is a murky mystery to most. Ask around, and responses will vary from blank guitarist-lost-in-sheet-music stares to vague open-ended definitions. More imaginative types may fathom darkened dungeons with cloaked engineers chanting in coded tongues and conjuring the spirit of Apollo to impregnate albums with inaudible mystic spells of listener enchantment. The disenchanted opposition, however, simply believes it to be an outright sham.

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Talkin’ ’Bout Mud Flaps: Low End Mixing Tips

Spinal Tap said it best with “big bottom drive me out of my mind,” and their wisdom resonates to this day as a common result of mismanaged mixing of the low end. Temperamental bass frequencies, whether in abundance or lack thereof, can drive listeners batty, as opinions of bass boosting and cutting drastically vary. As good as it can sound, it is indeed possible to go too far with the “umph,” and adding unchecked sub-low frequencies will muddy up the mid range and lower overall intelligibility. Therefore, the decision here, dear Lady Justices of the console, is to balance clarity and strength. The following suggestions will aid in molding suitable mud flaps to any tune.