We're kicking off a new series of expanded, in-depth Basix tutorials, designed to guide you step-by-step through the process of setting up and using guitar amp simulation in your recordings. Beginning with the fundamentals, we’ll work through some simple scenarios and work our way up to advanced tweaks and tricks.

How do you come up with a really good melody? Here's a series of techniques and tips I've developed over the years which can be used to help beginner songwriters and composers come up with stronger melody lines.

The Harmonized Major scale enables us to identify all the chords within a given key. Not only does this make it much quicker and easier to find the right chords when writing or playing music, it is also extremely important to understand which key you are in for the improvisation of melodies and solos.

Interested in working in audio? Audio and sound related careers are varied and diverse, with many different industries needing qualified sound engineers. In the next few posts I’ll guide you through the different careers you can hope to achieve with your audio enthusiasm, from big commercial studio work, entrepreneurial business endeavors to creating sound effects for video games.

If you are reasonably new to synthesis or find yourself relying on presets too often then it’s always a good idea to get some solid synthesis technique nailed down.

Mixing is arguably the most important stage of the music production process. When done properly, one can do everything from add energy and warmth to a sound to completely alter the feel and flow of an entire piece of music.