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.
The site is interesting and informative, and always worth a visit.
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Here is a roundup of this week’s tutorials and articles.
How To Mic Any Instrument
Dec 11th in Instruments, Production by Mark Garrison
Have you ever been confronted by an instrument you’ve never recorded before and thought, “How the heck am I going to mic that thing?” Well, before you lose credibility by getting caught Googling “How to mic a dulcigurdy,” here are some techniques that will give you a place to start.
Saving Time with Logic Pro 9: Screensets
Dec 12th in Logic Pro by Joel Falconer
Ever felt like the default screensets offered by Logic just don’t suit your style of working? In this first tutorial on helping you make the most of limited time in Logic Pro 9, we’re looking at how to customize your workspace, and then save, organize and recall these workspaces as screensets.
Win Bobby Owsinski’s Book “The Studio Musician’s Handbook”
Dec 14th in General by Adrian Try
This book is perfect for all serious musicians. To enter, all you’ve gotta do is comment! One random commenter will be chosen as winner. Too easy.
Workshop #21: Aqua Violet Web by Subcirrus
Dec 14th 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 Master in Propellerhead’s Record
Dec 14th in Mixing & Mastering by Mo Volans
As the new Props application Record offers a great buss compressor and full mastering suite I thought it would be useful to show a typical mastering set up and the workflow involved when mastering and delivering a new project.
Open Mic: Tell Us Where You Stream Music From
Dec 15th in General by Adrian Try
Where do you stream music from? How often do you stream? Tell us how streaming fits into your music-listening habits.
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.
In-Depth with Reason’s Sequencer Pt 1 – Audio Plus
Dec 15th in General by Adrian Try
In this week’s Audio Plus content, Joel Falconer begins an in-depth series on MIDI sequencers, using Reason as an example.
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 #22: Orchestrales Stck by Richterscale
Dec 16th 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.
A Beginner’s Guide To Songwriting – Part 1
Dec 16th in Composition by West Latta
This tutorial is the first in a series focused on showing complete beginners how to write a simple song. This series will focus predominantly on the process of writing a song, rather than the specific software and hardware techniques, skills and applications you might need in the recording, mixing, and mastering of that song.
Headphones Roundup: Audiotuts Readers’ Favorites
Dec 17th in General by Adrian Try
Headphones are an essential tool for recording musicians, but there are a lot of choices out there – and some of them are very expensive. We recently asked you about your favorite headphones, and this article wraps up your answers. Just in time for Christmas, it summarizes the “hive mind” of Audiotuts+ readers on the best brands and models for studio use and listening for pleasure.
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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