Music & Audio Tutorials

Discover thousands of free tutorials covering all aspects of music and audio, from songwriting to audio production. Follow our expert instructors who'll help you become more productive and effective.

Whether you want to learn best practices for recording, sound design, mixing and mastering, or any other audio topic, you'll find plenty of useful tips and advice to help you meet your goals. You can also find practical tutorials on using software like Ableton Live and Logic Pro.

And why not spice up your audio projects by discovering some great royalty-free music and sound effects to use to your heart's content?

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The Making of "How We Do" by The Game
In this tutorial, we're going to learn how to recreate the beat, bass and melody from How We Do by The Game featuring 50 Cent and produced by the illustrious...
Eric Shafer
12 Sep 2008
Audio Production
How to ReWire Individual Reason Instruments into Logic Pro
Reason doesn’t offer users the greatest control over sound processing. The built-in reverb, compressor and so on will do the trick when you want to start...
Joel Falconer
11 Sep 2008
Mixing & Mastering
How to Create Futuristic Laser Beam Effects
The raygun or laser beam has been a defining sound for many a science fiction movie. How many of us can still hear the sound of the Rebel forces as they fend...
West Latta
9 Sep 2008
Sound Design
How to Process Vocals for an Amazing Professional Sound
Persuading a problematic vocal recording to play nicely with the rest of your mix can seem like a futile task. Well-recorded vocals and poorly-recorded...
Mo Volans
8 Sep 2008
Mixing & Mastering
10 Steps to a Practice Session that Gets Results
If you’re serious about your instrument, you practice. You either set aside blocks of time throughout the week or you trust yourself to pick up your guitar...
Joel Falconer
6 Sep 2008
General
How to Create Professional Podcasts with GarageBand
We tend to focus on the production of music around here, but ever since we launched AUDIOTUTS we’ve had many requests for a tutorial on podcasting. This is...
Joel Falconer
5 Sep 2008
Audio Production
How to Create a Tape Stop Effect with Cubase 4
In this tutorial we are going to look at two alternative methods of creating the sound effect of a turntable or tape being unplugged and slowing to a halt...
Andy Slatter
4 Sep 2008
Audio Production
6 Most Bizarre Instruments Ever Used in Popular Music
Guitar, drums, bass, vocals. That's what most bands need to pull off a great song. But sometimes, the situation may call for something more. You know,...
Adam Brown
3 Sep 2008
Roundups
How to Choose the Right Distortion for Your Song
With so many ways of creating distortion effects at our disposal, it's useful to know the jargon and keep up to date with the plug-ins that are available. Mo...
Mo Volans
2 Sep 2008
Audio Production
Live Sound 101: Preparing for the Show
Being a Front Of House engineer is a fun and rewarding job, but it can throw you a lot of curve balls and, as we all know, you're only as good as your...
Sean Vincent
1 Sep 2008
Mixing & Mastering
How to Automate Audio Tracks in Logic Pro 8
Automation is a very convenient feature of most modern digital audio workstations. When the record industry ran on miles of tape, there was no such thing as...
Joel Falconer
29 Aug 2008
Mixing & Mastering
5 Former Music Badasses Who've Lost Their Way
The idea of rock star as rebel dates at least as far back as Elvis and his girl-baiting hips on the Ed Sullivan Show. As pervasive as the rock and roll...
Adam Brown
28 Aug 2008
Roundups