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How to program an old-school hip-hop beat in your DAW
Take a funky trip back in time to hip-hop’s halcyon days with our drum programming guide
How to isolate a vocal from a full mix in your DAW
Learn a simple trick for acapella acquisition
8 pro tricks that will help you to reference your tracks more effectively
Compare your tracks to those of the professionals and elevate your mixes to the next level
How to A/B against commercial reference tracks in your DAW
Even the most experienced engineers use appropriate reference tracks when mixing. Here's how they do it
8 iron-clad ways to polish your metallic sounds
Check out our top techniques for creating gold-standard, chrome-plated sounds
How to use physical modelling to create metallic sounds
The ultimate in metallic instrument emulation technology, physical modelling recreates the real thing using maths an’ that. Our guide explains all…
How to use digital synthesis techniques to create metallic sounds
Frequency modulation has long been a popular choice for metal noises. Find out why with our guide
9 Ableton Live 10 features that you might have missed
There are so many big-ticket new features in Live 10 that you could easily overlook some of the lesser tweaks. Here's our run-down
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Soundtheory Gullfoss review
- £139
Could this ambitious new EQ plugin be the ultimate engineering assistant?
Sound Devices MixPre-10M review
- £1,559
- €2,069
- $1,499
DAW-based recording may be the norm, but there’s still space for dedicated hardware solutions
Mixed In Key Captain Plugins review
- $79
A little assistance for all your composition needs
AKG C636 review
- £339
- €399
- $499
Can AKG’s C636 condenser vocal mic live up to the title ‘Master Reference’ it carries?
