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Tune Up: Home Studio Accessories
posted: September 23, 2010
So you’ve got your studio equipment: that shiny new audio interface, your rack processing units, your monitors, mixers, guitars”everything. Your home studio is complete. Well, almost. This week I’ll talk briefly about some of the…
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Tune Up: Placing Your Microphones
posted: September 19, 2010
Microphone placement is one of the most complicated and technically difficult tasks in recording/live sound. Ironically, it is also one of those things that people think they’re doing right without actually having looked into the…
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Tune Up: An Introduction to Software Synthesis
posted: September 16, 2010
We’ve all seen micro Korg synthesizers or E-mu samplers. They look awesome onstage, especially when stacked on those double keyboard racks. However, there are many live synthesizer tools that are controlled using simple MIDI controllers. These…
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Rock 'n' Roll Call: Kingsfall
posted: September 14, 2010
Hailing from Dallas, Kingsfall have spent the past two years garnering attention for their versatile approach to alt-rock. Kingsfall’s full-length, self-titled album features the songs “Love” and “Believe,” both of which can be heard on…
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Tune Up: Mackie ONYX
posted: September 12, 2010
It’s high time we shared some useful information about mixing boards. Anyone who has ever wanted to play music, record tracks or even been to a live music club knows that a mixer/mixing board is…
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Scene & Heard: Detroit, MI
posted: September 12, 2010
We haven’t had too many stops in the Midwest while we’ve been looking at music scenes, and that’s kind of a shame. Some of the most “American” music genres and acts come out of this…
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