Audiotuts+ is our sister site, and part of Envato’s Tuts+ family designed to power up your skill set. It is a blog for musicians, producers and audio junkies. It features:
- tutorials on the tools and techniques to record, produce, mix and master tracks, and
- weekly articles for the music obsessive.
The site is interesting and informative, and always worth a visit. Want more? Join the Plus program where you can access source files and bonus tutorials.
Here is a roundup of last week’s tutorials and articles.
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We are delighted to announce that Adrian Try has been hired as the new AudioJungle blog editor!
Adrian has been writing on a regular basis for AudioJungle for a while now, and we are thrilled to sign-up someone with tremendous writing expertise and a diverse knowledge of audio production.
Just take a look at some of the fantastic articles Adrian has already written for the AJ blog:
But it gets even better. From Monday, June 8th, the AudioJungle blog will be growing bigger and better! We will be blogging a lot more regularly, and we have a variety of new, regular features lined-up covering a wider gamut of music, not just audio production. Most importantly of all, we will be promoting the awesome audio on our site much more as well as showcasing the fantastic authors on AudioJungle who create all the beautiful and powerful audio on our site. In fact, we already have a bunch of interviews lined-up with some of your favorite and best-selling authors on AudioJungle!
There are also a few surprises in store including an awesome new competition and announcements of new site-wide features, so be sure to subscribe to the AudioJungle blog feed to keep informed of all the latest news and events!
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Meanwhile, if there are any improvements or suggestions you would like to see or make about the AudioJungle blog or just want to discuss the kind of content you would like to see here, please feel free to leave a comment! We always enjoy hearing your constructive feedback and ideas.
Well that didn’t take long, did it?! 
In the space of a few hours, five lucky AudioJungle members grabbed the free copies of ToneTune we gave away earlier this week. Here are the list of winners, congratulations to you all!
The Winners
jazyladi, lyden, onelastnote, redcrash, adfish
Prize winners will be notified by e-mail later today about how to claim their prize. Thank you to everyone who entered!
AudioJungle Giveaway!
We are giving away a free copy of ToneTune for the iPhone / iPod Touch to five lucky AudioJungle members! For more information about ToneTune and how to enter, read on!
Perfect Pitch
Whether you use standard tuning or an alternative tuning method to get the perfect sonority for your stringed instrument, the fact remains that it can often be a time-consuming and arduous task to accurately tune your instrument. If you are a musician performing live, time is an even more precious commodity so being able to tune your instrument quickly and accurately is essential.
ToneTune to the Rescue!
ToneTune from Stanton Studio, LLC is a brand new iPhone and iPod Touch application that is the perfect, portable tuning solution that is very quick to use and fits in your pocket.
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Audio recording has become so computer-centric that you have to be a computer geek to get into it. You have to deal with computer hardware, computer software, large hard drives, various file formats, and PCI or USB audio interfaces. Not all musicians are so comfortable with computers.
Take my friend Steve. He’s a talented and interesting musician who learned his craft as he lived on the streets and busked daily as a teenager. He has a soulful voice, writes poetic lyrics, and plays his guitar with a bluesy folk-rock feel. He’s now in his fifties, and music is just as important to him as it ever was. While he’s learned how to chat on MSN, computers aren’t the most natural way for him to make music. Steve discovered the new Portastudios: hard-disk multitrack recorders.
These devices vary a lot in price and features. Steve purchased one of the less expensive Zoom models a few years ago, and was thrilled with the results. In one small package he could do multitrack recording with digital effects using an interface he was familiar with from the good old days. He’s been writing and recording ever since.
If you’re like Steve – a musician and not a geek – these devices may be what you need to get you into digital recording. Here are five well-known brands that offer a range of hard-disk recorders that are worth looking at.
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