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Win an Mbox 2 Pro in the AudioJungle Composition Challenge
Over at AudioJungle, we're running a composition challenge. To enter, you take our motif in either MIDI or MP3 format, and incorporate it into your own...
Joel Falconer
5 Sep 2008
General
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
What Do You Want? We Don't Know Until You Tell Us!
It can be pretty difficult to tell what you guys want to see here on AUDIOTUTS, whether we're talking about tutorials themselves, or new features for the...
Joel Falconer
2 Sep 2008
General
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
How to Create Complex Layered Bass Using Reason's Combinator
Reason’s virtual synthesizers have a really great sound, but to get the most out of them, you will often need to use more than one. For total integration and...
Mo Volans
26 Aug 2008
Audio Production
11 Totally Free VST Synthesizers That Sound Great
It can be hard to find a good synth plug-in, and there are plenty on the market that will have you wondering why you ever parted with your money....
Joel Falconer
22 Aug 2008
Composition
Create Awesome Drum N' Bass Fills With Livecut
Livecut by Smartelectronix is a VST beatslicer effect. It rearranges the incoming audio in real-time and is a great tool for generating drum n' bass-style...
Andy Slatter
21 Aug 2008
Composition
7 Ridiculously Upbeat Songs About Death
With the possible exceptions of love, sex, and slaying mythical beasts, no topic has commanded the attention of song-writers throughout history more than...
Adam Brown
20 Aug 2008
Roundups