The Internet is a great place to keep up-to-date, learn and network. If you’re reading this you probably visit the Audiotuts site regularly. What other music-related sites do you find helpful?
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.
What music-related sites do you visit regularly and why? Do you visit the sites mainly for learning, networking, keeping up-to-date, or something else?
Are you a member on any music-related forums, newsgroups or mailing lists? What value do you get from them? Do you prefer interaction to reading?
Or do you still do most of your reading offline – in books and magazines?
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i normally listen to http://www.flowmi.com an argentinian site that has a player called Flowcast wherer displays all kinds of music and remixes i loved. They also hace articles for design fashion and new albums that come out on the market
I have found http://www.musictheory.net very helpful. I am working my way through a Bachelor of Education with a major in music, and the aural training apps on the website are very useful for helping to train my ear, something that I’ve never worked on before now.
I have used http://www.scalerator.com a lot aswell, also for personal learning purposes
Well as a guitarist I have quite a few sites in my rss reader, but one of my faves is: http://www.iheartguitarblog.com and also musicradar.co.uk is excellent.
And of course my own site is quite useful to other guitar players
ya mean besides Gearslutz?
http://www.gearslutz.com/board/
audiotuts.com
musicradar.com
computermagazine.co.uk
sonicacademy.com
beatport.com
there are not many good audio tutorial sites. In the world of graphics design there are tons of blogs posting tutorials. it doesnt seem like that for music.
for tutorials i use Audiotuts.com and youtube.
for samples i use sampleswap.org and for gear-news i check a danish online musicstore.
Latest gear news and stuff via http://www.gearjunkies.com
I would have to put in a mention for Podcomplex here… for music technology stuff mainly, but also some DAW guides, promotion, and so on…
http://www.podcomplex.com/blog/
grooveshark.com
It has a great database of music and plays them in high quality.
FANTASTIC! Thank you for this reference.
I like soundonsound.com (and the real magazine when I could buy it).
I’m found of their articles about the mix or recording details of hit tracks and there is real pros on the forum as well.
The problem with Gearslutz it’s that anybody write anything and sometimes you wonder if the guys there actually DO music or just talk about the next magic expensive plugin that will solve all your mixing problems …
http://www.kvraudio.com made me discover real good free plugins.
And as a final note if you have lots of time I would recommand this thread on the Reaper forum : http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=29283
http://createdigitalmusic.com/
Can’t believe Soundcloud.com hasn’t featured yet. Upload, share adn lisen to the best music around and all for free!
I’m reading a quite new blog written by some Scandinavian guys. Marcus Schössow, Ville Lope and a few more.
Not that much about production (audiotuts is still #1), but useful gear reviews, funny vids, electronica stuff and a pretty nice podcast.
Adress is http://www.innotune.net
I also search youtube a lot for tutorials, and read http://www.beatportal.com.
http://www.serious-sounds.net/
Amazing music production forum with a great community….
http://sf.sva.ee/
A great online scale and chord finder….
I use to be big on harmony central’s keyboards synths and samplers forum. Also the rapmusic.com production forum. But now, I’d rather read blog articles than participate in forums. So I have been looking for some good blogs to subscribe to with articles like those found in Remix, Electronic Musician, and Keyboard mag.
http://alonetone.com to share your recorded music.
Free of advertising clutter & corporate stank – just a bunch of musicians putting their stuff up.
http://www.futuremusic.com/blog – soft synths, gear and more
http://www.innotune.net – gear, producing, podcast and more
http://www.wiretotheear.com – sound blog
These are some of my favourites:
http://www.homestudiocorner.com
http://www.musicofsound.co.nz/blog
http://www.newmusicstrategies.com
http://nickstutorials.com
http://www.stevelawson.net
I’m a big fan of
http://www.audiogeekzine.com – Great tips and gear talk.
http://productionadvice.co.uk – Great production advice.
http://nickstutorials.com – Great Ableton/sound design videos
http://musformation.com – lots of tips, reviews, news, etc.
Cool, thanks for the mention. Here are some good ones:
http://www.musicsoftwaretraining.com
http://audiogeekzine.com/
http://www.keyofgrey.com/
http://www.cosm.co.nz/
http://www.thecovertoperators.org/
http://homestudiocorner.com
Joe does a great job with his blog.
http://homerecordingshow.com
Weekly podcast for all things home recording
http://forum.recordingreview.com
Great very friendly and fun forum
http://audiogeekzine.com
my site- articles, tutorials, reviews
http://productionadvice.co.uk
Ian gives free advice on your mixes
http://thewombforums.com
home of the Mixerman Radio Show. Tons to learn on the forum.
oops, I forgot http://keyofgrey.com another great one
i visit http://www.soundcloud.com only when im looking for a good remix and for new music for my blog
http://youproduce.net often has interesting news.
http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com/
http://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/index.php
http://www.analogsuicide.com/
Mostly synth related.
http://www.teoria.com/
I have recently found this site and it looks like a great tool and reference for those who want to learn more theory. Enjoy!