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Drummer’s Guide To The Recording Studio
Time is money – whether you’re tracking drums at a fancy studio or on your home computer. Here’s a primer to help optimize your recording session.
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Fatten Up The Bottom End With Physics
Looking for a way to fatten the bottom end of your kit in the recording studio? Here’s a way to use the laws of physics to your advantage.
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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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Butch Vig, Andy Kravitz, & Billy Martin On Remixing
Remixes are equal to sequels – a new version of some familiar form of entertainment. But you won’t find these follow-ups in theaters. Instead, these sonic remodels are all over the airwaves, record stores and the Internet, providing listeners with fresh ways to hear a song.
