Audiotuts+ Roundup
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.
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Here is a roundup of this week’s tutorials and articles.
How to Make a Sampled Guitar Sound Using Freeware
Nov 27th in General by Sean Duncan
Making something sound like it was sampled can be a fun, royalty-free way to add some old-school soul to your projects. Producers that sample from records do so because they are looking for certain types of sounds that come from old styles of production, but through studying how records used to be made, these types of sounds can be imitated in modern music software. The 1950s classic guitar sound is one of those of sounds.
An Introduction to Logic Pro 9’s Amp Designer
Nov 28th in Logic Pro, Production by Joel Falconer
With Logic Pro 9, Apple introduced the Amp Designer. The Amp Designer is a big improvement on the legacy Guitar Amp Pro plug-in, but it’s also quite different. Let’s take a look at it.
Win Bobby Owsinski’s Newly-released Book “Music 3.0″
Nov 30th in General by Adrian Try
This book is perfect for everyone wanting to be successful making music in the Internet Age. To enter, all you’ve gotta do is comment! One random commenter will be chosen as winner. Too easy.
Workshop #15: Mythic by Terry Vinyard
Nov 30th in General by Adrian Try
At Audiotuts+ we irregularly put up a reader track for workshopping and critique (find out how to submit a track). This is how it works: you upload your song, and every week or so we’ll publish one here and step away from the podium. The floor is yours to talk about the track and how the artist can fix problems in and improve upon the mix and the song.
How to Record and Mix Stereo Backing Vocals – Part 1
Nov 30th in Mixing & Mastering, Production by James Arter
Recording backing vocals in stereo has been a tried and tested technique for years. Some of the greatest singers have done it – Michael Jackson, Marti Pellow (Wet Wet Wet), Mick Hucknell (Simply Red), Seal, Madonna, Christina Aguilera – and they’ve done it well. But how do you get that layered, wall-of-sound backing vocals without clouding the lead? How do you choose how many and which ones to do? Read on…
Open Mic: Tell Us About Your Favorite Headphones
Dec 1st in General by Adrian Try
What are your favorite headphones? When and why do you use them? Are you happy?
Each Tuesday we open our mic to readers and lurkers alike to come out of the woodwork and tell us your thoughts and opinion, your experiences and mistakes, what you love and what you hate. We want to hear from you, and here’s your chance.
Graimbient Loops and Textures Pack – Audio Plus
Dec 1st in General by Adrian Try
This week in Audio Plus we have a pack of 18 samples from Audiotuts+ author West Latta. The pack has great variety, and contains some weird but useful sounds.
To learn more about what you get as part of Audio Plus, read this. To take a peek inside this tutorial, hit the jump!
Workshop #16: They Just Wanna Touch by Mezzo
Dec 2nd in General by Adrian Try
At Audiotuts+ we irregularly put up a reader track for workshopping and critique (find out how to submit a track). This is how it works: you upload your song, and every week or so we’ll publish one here and step away from the podium. The floor is yours to talk about the track and how the artist can fix problems in and improve upon the mix and the song.
Music 3.0 – a New Book by Bobby Owsinski
Dec 3rd in General by Adrian Try
There is a lot of interest in Bobby Owsinski’s new book “Music 3.0″, which is the prize in this week’s competition. This press release will explain more about it. And don’t forget next week’s blog tour event when you can ask Bobby questions about the book, and you get a second chance to win it.
Top 10 Places to Buy Music
Dec 4th in General by Adrian Try
The Internet is changing the world, and has opened up new ways to distribute music, and new places to get it. We recently asked you where you buy your music, and this article wraps up your answers. It summarizes the “hive mind” of Audiotuts+ readers on the best places to buy purchase music today.
Workshop #17: Do It by The Noise
Dec 4th in General by Adrian Try
At Audiotuts+ we irregularly put up a reader track for workshopping and critique (find out how to submit a track). This is how it works: you upload your song, and every week or so we’ll publish one here and step away from the podium. The floor is yours to talk about the track and how the artist can fix problems in and improve upon the mix and the song.
Adrian
Adrian is writer and editor for Audiotuts+ and the AudioJungle blog. He has been playing keys and acoustic guitar for three decades, and has six kids. Follow him on Twitter at @audiotuts.
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