In this tutorial, we’re going to learn how to recreate the beat, bass and melody from How We Do by The Game featuring 50 Cent and produced by the illustrious Dr Dre. If you’re a fan of hip-hop and hip-hop music production, you’ll be a fan of this tutorial.
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Reason doesn’t offer users the greatest control over sound processing. The built-in reverb, compressor and so on will do the trick when you want to start composing a new song, but what about when the composition is done and it’s time to mix?
In this tutorial, we’ll go through the steps required to get your entire Reason rack routing into individual channels in Logic, a simple, handy process, but one that’s a dark and mysterious art to many newcomers.
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The raygun or laser beam has been a defining sound for many a science fiction movie. How many of us can still hear the sound of the Rebel forces as they fend off the Stormtroopers? In this tutorial, we’ll look at creating a simple ‘raygun’ effect, using some fun plugins and samples with Logic 8.
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Persuading a problematic vocal recording to play nicely with the rest of your mix can seem like a futile task. Well-recorded vocals and poorly-recorded vocals both need to be correctly prepared, and the processes we’re going through today will help you turn your untreated vocal take into a polished and commercial sound.
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We tend to focus on the production of music around here, but ever since we launched AUDIOTUTS we’ve had many requests for a tutorial on podcasting. This is that tutorial.
GarageBand isn’t the most complicated or expensive piece of software around and it’s certainly never used in professional studio recording, but it’s more than you’ll ever need for any kind of podcast. And if you know you’re only going to record podcasts, and never get into music production, why break the bank?
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In this tutorial we are going to look at two alternative methods of creating the sound effect of a turntable or tape being unplugged and slowing to a halt within a music track.
You may have heard this effect on the vocals of the Black Eyed Peas song Hey Mama. Sid Vicious’ My Way also features the subtle effect of a turntable being turned off just before the song changes from the pompous introduction to the full blown punk section.
I’m going to start by doing something similar to the effect in the Sid Vicious song using some pre-prepared audio and Cubase’s pitch shift envelope tool, then move on to an electro track that I’ve prepared where we will automate the freeware plug-in Tapestop VST to slow down some vocals whilst the music remains unaffected.
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With so many ways of creating distortion effects at our disposal, it’s useful to know the jargon and keep up to date with the plug-ins that are available. Mo Volans helps you get your head round some of the various types of distortion and the best plug-ins for the job.
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Being a Front Of House engineer is a fun and rewarding job, but it can throw you a lot of curve balls and, as we all know, you’re only as good as your last show.
How do you lessen the chances of making a huge mess of the show that could be the one that leads to a tour or even a regular stint with a big artist? Read on, and I’ll do my best to point you in the right direction.
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Automation is a very convenient feature of most modern digital audio workstations. When the record industry ran on miles of tape, there was no such thing as automation; it was all about manual knob-turning. We have it pretty easy in contrast.
Automation allows you to draw in a set of events that will automatically occur when you play back the track. For instance, you can draw a set of volume changes along your guitar track to hear it creep in and out of the mix. You can also achieve that dynamic stereo panning effect, causing instruments to swoosh from speaker to speaker.
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Reason’s virtual synthesizers have a really great sound, but to get the most out of them, you will often need to use more than one. For total integration and fast recall of multi-instrument set ups there’s no better tool than the Combinator. Here’s one way you can use it when making a layered bass sound.
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