Submit a Tutorial
Want to submit a tutorial to Audiotuts+? We’ll pay US$150 p/tutorial published, and you’ll get to help your fellow musicians and sound junkies!
What to Write About?
We are looking for extensive tutorials using programs like FLStudio, Cubase, Reason and so on. However if you have tutorials on related subjects that you think would be a good fit for the site, we’re always open to hearing about them!
We prefer more complete, practical and extensive tutorials.
You must fulfill the following criteria:
- You must send in your ALREADY WRITTEN tutorial. Please note not every tutorial will be accepted. (We do now offer a review form that you can use prior to writing the tutorial).
- Your tutorial must be your original work and not published elsewhere.
- You must have a PayPal account for us to pay you, all fees will be paid at the end of the calendar month.
- You will need to format your tutorial as per the format described below.
- Your tutorial may be edited prior to publishing.
If the tutorial is accepted:
- The author can use tutorial graphics in any commercial or non-commercial work, except in an online tutorial. Source files cannot be resold or redistributed.
- you grant a license to readers to use the knowledge and demonstrated effects shown in the tutorial in their own projects without reference to yourself, Envato or this site. They may not reproduce the tutorial itself, but they can use the techniques you teach.
- you grant a license to Envato to be the exclusive publisher of the tutorial online. You may republish extracts online – for example on your own site – however the tutorial in its entirety should not appear elsewhere. You may also republish the tutorial offline in any way you wish – e.g. sell it to a magazine, submit it to a book.
- you consent to the full tutorial, extracts, samples or examples from it appearing in other Envato sites, products and services.
Credit All Sources and Use Common Sense
Always credit your sources
When you credit your sources, it’s clear that you aren’t trying to hide something. For tutorial submissions it also lets our editors check that the tutorial is acceptable.
Use common sense and Err to the side of caution
There are no hard and fast rules about copyright. Beware of “rules” like ‘copying 40% is OK’, there’s no such thing. And remember that even aside from exact words or images, it can be the idea or principle. If you think something might not be OK, then trust your gut and don’t do it.
Tutorial Acceptance and Payment
Please note, not all tutorials will be accepted. We only accept tutorials that match the site’s standards of both writing and tutorial content.
If your tutorial is accepted, payment of US$150 will be made within one month after your invoice has been received. Please don’t send an invoice until after your tutorial has been posted on Audiotuts+. You’ll receive further invoicing instructions should your tutorial be accepted. Please note that if we gain evidence in this time that the tutorial or source files used in the tutorial have been plagiarized we will take the tutorial off the site and payment will not be made.
How to Format Your Tutorial for Submission
Your tutorial must come with:
- Any appropriate source files.
- Screenshots of each step, no more than 600px wide.
- Audio preview files, and an example of your technique used in a track snippet. We prefer one audio example for each step. All audio examples MUST be in MP3 format. WAV files are permitted only in the Play Pack for samples that readers are allowed to reuse, and for DAW source files. Please do not use AIFF, WMA or OGG files as we have an audience using a variety of operating systems.
- An HTML file with the tutorial written out. The HTML file should be written in the same way that tutorials on the site are, that is in a set of “Steps” preferably with an image before each one. Additionally you should have a paragraph at the beginning giving an introduction. You can download the HTML template here.
If you make it easy for us to use your tut, you make it easy for us to accept it!
On Using the HTML Template
The HTML template here is used to provide you with a way of formatting your tutorial and submitting it in a way that is more likely to be accepted. However, if you misuse the template, you make it harder for us to accept.
The file is specifically an HTML template; that means if you try and edit it using a WYSIWYG editor, you’ll probably ruin the formatting. Open up your text editor and look at the source code. This is what you need to work with. You can find a multitude of brief tutorials on HTML online, and the basic knowledge required to edit the HTML template can be gained in about half an hour of self-study.
You will need to wrap every paragraph in paragraph tags like this:
<p>I’m a paragraph.</p>
Paragraphs should be between two and four sentences long. We don’t like wading through big blocks of text, and if you forget to use paragraph tags, that’s what we’ll see — hitting enter won’t do the trick the way it does in Word!
Make sure you use the image formatting method supplied in the code, keeping the div tags intact and surrounding each image div in paragraph tags. The code example is quite clear; stick to its format and you will be fine.
Get Feedback BEFORE Writing the Full Tutorial
You can send in a tutorial pitch to us for review prior to writing the whole tutorial. This will save you time in instances where the tutorial/effect is not what we are looking for. You can do this by clicking the link below:
Audiotuts+ Preview Submission Form
How to Submit
Completed Submissions can be made via:
