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Logic Pro tutorials

Browse our high-quality Logic Pro tutorials covering every part of this popular Mac DAW, including in depth tutorials on all the major parts of Logic as well as 'Make a song in Logic' walk-thru's showing the entire process of making a song from start to finish.
"This the best tutorial I've watched for logic pro full stop"
"Your videos stand out head and shoulders as the best"

Garageband tutorials

Browse our high-quality Garageband & Garageband iOS tutorials covering every part of the best free music DAW in the world for Mac, including 'Make a song in Garageband' walk-thru's showing the entire process of making a song from start to finish.
"I've seen a lot of GB tutorials. This is hands down the best"
"Honestly the best Garageband tutorial on the net!"

Eq & Mixing

Our ongoing EQ & mixing tutorial series including full example mix sessions of famous songs.

Garageband iOS

All our Garageband iOS tutorials for the most powerful portable tablet DAW in the world.

Reggae tutorials

Over 30 tutorials on making reggae music. Famous Riddims, basslines & other techniques.

Record your band cheap

Step by step instructions to get band recordings done in your rehearsal room super cheap.

The Busker's technique

The secret technique used by everyone from Dylan to Tracy Chapman to Ed Sheeran.

Budget home studio

Super budget but quality kit list to put together a quality home studio setup.

Arturia Spark techniques

Get a cheap S/H Spark & use it to create drum parts for any 3rd party hardware drum modules, samplers or s/w drums

Behringer BCF2000

The definitive tutorial series for Behringer's super cheap DAW controller & Logic Pro. Including how to use up to three units.

USB interface roundup

College quality lecture on the theory & techniques of using reverberation, covering all the aspects of this essential effect.

Mixers & mixing - SX2442FX walk-thru

Beginners can learn a lot about how a typical mixer like this works from this full walk-thru & explanation tutorial for this popular Behringer mixer.

Reverb for beginners

College quality lecture on the theory & techniques of using reverberation, covering all the aspects of this essential effect.

How to setup a DAW & external MIDI hardware studio

Integrating hardware MIDI synths, samplers & drum machines etc into a computer music studio without a mixer.

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Behringer BCF2000 & Apple Logic Pro user-guide

Everything you need to know about using the super-value Behringer BCF2000 B- Control fader unit with Apple's Logic Pro - this guide also is mostly interchangable with cubase btw

Windows XP install - [video]

Yup - you can watch an XP Pro install in episodes - EVERYTHING is covered... XP install & disk partitioning, inc' creating audio-partitions with large clusters - Service-Pack 1a & critical VIA chipset

Build a Budget Music PC - AMD 2400 - [Video]

Yup!... the video age is here. Well, we thought why not make a nice video for noobs showing how to build a PC for music using common PC-fair parts. AMD 2400 + GIGABYTE GA-7VT600(-L) m'board.

Build a Music PC - XP2400 - super-cheap!! [pt1]

Here's another pc build for peanuts - This time an Athlon 2400 - Another really powerful PC for peanuts using common PC-Fair components!!

Plugin formats

Just a basic page of info about the types of plugins around for Mac & PC.

Build a Music PC - XP2000 - super-cheap!! [pt6]

part 6 - final bios tweaks & XP tweaks

Build a Music PC - XP2000 - super-cheap!! [pt5]

Part 5 of an easy to follow guide to build a dedicated music PC on the cheap. This section is Win XP install - 'Plug & Play' and 'Standard PC' mode details.

Build a Music PC - XP2000 - super-cheap!! [pt4]

Part 4 of an easy to follow guide to build a dedicated music PC on the cheap. This section is boot to bios, detect drives, final tweaks before OS install

Build a Music PC - XP2000 - super-cheap!! [pt3]

Part 3 of an easy to follow guide to build a dedicated music PC on the cheap. This section is booting to BIOS for first time, adding drives & Pre OS install stuff.

Build a Music PC - XP2000 - super-cheap!! [pt2]

Part 2 of an easy to follow guide to build a dedicated music PC on the cheap. This section Adding cpu, ram, board. All prep prior to first BIOS boot.

Build a Music PC - XP2000 - super-cheap!! [pt1]

Article about building an Athlon 2000xp power system on a budget. First documented Dancetech PC build. We're checking out a new KT333 chipset board on this one. [part-1]

PC - M'board Socket - (Pentium 4)

Motherboard socket types, this page for pentium 4 both types; Socket-423 & Socket-478.

PC - M'board Socket - (Athlon/Duron)

Motherboard socket types - this page for both Slot-A & Socket-A - All the AMD Duron & Athlon chips up to current available processors.

PC - M'board Socket - (P2/P3/Xeon/Celeron)

Motherboard socket types. This page for the early Slot-1 boards/chips (the video shaped Pentium cpu housing), for Pentium 2 & early Celeron & Pentium 3 up to 1.13 ghz, and Pentium Zeon on Slot-2.

PC - M'board Socket - (P3/Celeron)

Sockets for motherboards - this page is for the next gen of Pentium 3 & Celeron running on socket 370 - Celeron 300 up to the last P3 running at 1.53ghz.

PC - M'board Socket - (P75-233/Pro/K5/6)

Motherboard socket types - Socket-7 for P75 to 233 mmx & K5/6, Socket-8 for P-Pro up to 333 mhz, & SuperSocket-7 (K6).

PC - M'board Sockets - (SX /DX - P60/P180)

Slot 1, slot 2, slot A, socket 370 ??? - This page shows older connectors/cpu's from SX, DX & DX4/100 etc up to Pentium 166/200, pre-MMX. Everything up to Socket-7.

AMD BOARDS - ATHALON

Recommended boards from AMD for athalon chips. This'll save you trawling round the www.

AMD BOARDS - DURON

Listings of AMD DURON approved/tested boards from amd site. This'll save you trawling round the www.

Pentium 3 - (512kb) overview

Condensed overview from Intel of the P3 with 512kb cache - clock speeds from .450 - 1.4 GHz.






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