19/10/2017
Dissecting 2017’s Best Music Videos
Each year ahead of the NZ Music Awards the industry pays tribute to those whose talents get local music to our earbuds (engineers ...
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Gear Review: Four New Look Studio Microphones
I recently saw a meme that gave a good definition of a musician: A person who puts $5000 worth of gear into a $500 car to ...
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Postcards From Berlin: Bayker
Campbell Paget is Bayker, recently added to the Crazy Planet Records/BMG publishing stable, and even more recently a Berlin-resident ...
READ MORE >Gear Review: Five MIDI Controllers Compared
This issue's multi-love gear review saw SAE Institute's Recording Arts degree class test five portable and inexpensive ...
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Tutors’ Tutorial: Compression
The topic of dynamic range compression (not to be confused with data compression like zip, rar, mp3 etc.) is always worth ...
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Tutors’ Tutorial: Modulation – Bringing About Change
For guitarists, stomp-box effects are the sum of both aural and tactile experiences. You turn a knob with one hand while ...
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Tutors’ Tutorial: It’s Just A ø (Phase that is…)
If you've ever recorded a sound source with two or more microphones simultaneously, chances are you have encountered phase ...
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Tutors’ Tutorials: Basic Studio Acoustics
One of the single biggest improvements you can make to your home recordings is to increase the acoustic ...
READ MORE >09/05/2013
Tutors’ Tutorials: Sub-Mixing – A Mix Within A Mix Within a Mix…
While sub-mixing may at first glance seem like lacklustre housekeeping for your recording project, its actually about far ...
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