6 ways to create '80s-style tape recording effects
Noise, wow, flutter and vintage warmth - it's all part of that '80s sound
Advice for music careers, and lessons for music gear and techniques
Noise, wow, flutter and vintage warmth - it's all part of that '80s sound
We dig deep into MIDI, the technology that enables your synths, drum machines and software to communicate
Discover the secret music theory weapon used by soul/gospel artists and film composers
We show you how to turn these free samples of classic kits into your own personal '80s Drum Rack in Live
In the next edition of our beginner's guide to GarageBand, we put together a basic drum pattern to accompany the chords from our previous tutorial
Getting to grips with GarageBand? Here's how to program a melody and chord sequence using the software's built-in synths
From hard clipping to reduced bitrates, there's plenty of creativity to be found by doing things just a little bit wrong
Do your vocals sound washed out after reverb? Here are some tips for using reverb to add power to vox, rather than take it away
Choosing the right approach to bass, real or programmed, and nailing the style, will send your song straight back to the '80s
We show you how to use Apple’s Logic Pro X Arpeggiator and Drum Machine Designer presets to get into some serious arp action
Inject some character into your electric piano sound with Cable Guys' versatile FX plugin
EDM producer Jon Gooch has revived his cartoonish Feed Me moniker. He showed Danny Turner around his studio and talked through how live instrumentation changed his production approach
We show you how to nail an authentic lo-fi sound through bouncing to tape, modular downsampling and clever EQing
Learn an important trick of the songwriting trade
"A lot of the time I won't even have a guitar with me when I'll write a riff"
Following the release of his debut album, the techno giant talks 303s, savvy sidechaining and production power tips
Get extreme with feedback loops, distortion chaining and misused convolution reverb
Your chance to speak directly to the MasterClass instructors
Wreak sonic destruction with five of the best ways to distort, degrade and defile your audio