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App Crackle Pop: The Best iPhone Music Apps
Jake Wood gives us an updated breakdown of the best music apps for the iPhone to help shepherd us into the brand spankin' new mobile 2013.
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Minimalist Drum Miking Techniques
While recording with eight or nine microphones has been a standard practice, Jake Wood teaches us how to get better results with minimalist techniques.
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Do-It-Yourself Drum Triggers
Gino Robair gives us a project that provides a cheap and easy way to amplify sounds and allow us to process subtle harmonics.
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The DRUM! Glossary Of Electronic Percussion
Norm Weinberg helps us demystify the jargon of electronic percussion, breaking it all down into three categories: controllers, sound modules, and audio systems.
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A Roland SPD-S Sampling Primer
Learn about all the programming parameters and short-cuts for the Roland SPD-S all-in-one multipad that allows you to capture, edit, and play samples.
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Studio Tips: How To Capture Your Kick
Studio pros Rob Tavaglione, Cameron Webb, Russ-T Cobb, Mike Plotnikoff, and Mark Trombino offer their tips for miking and recording bass drums.
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Recording Drums: The Devil Is In The Details
There are a number of factors involved in getting a particular drum sound for a recording. These parameters include head selection and tuning as well as shell dimensions, material, and construction. Microphone selection and placement further influences that tonality, as will fine-tuning with equalization. Let’s take a look at these variables and see how they influence the sound of the drums.
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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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Musical Computers: Consider Your Options
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Miking: Pushing The Boundary For Big Lows
The idea here is to emulate a boundary microphone setup with a quality omnidirectional small-diaphragm condenser to achieve amazing low-frequency results.
