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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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15 & 18 inch Bass Cabinet From Celestion UK

Plans to build a 15" or 18" bass cabinet for playing out (Plans provided by Celestion UK)

15 inch rear horn-loaded bass scoop

Plans to build a 15" bass scoop rear horn-loaded cabinet for playing out

15 inch bass reflex cabinet

Plans to build a 15" bass reflex cabinet for playing out

15 inch Celestion W-Bin

Plans to build a 15" Celestion W-Bin bass cabinet for playing out

4 x 10 full-range cabinet

Plans to build a 4 x 10" full-range cabinet cabinet for playing out

2 X 15 full-range modular cabinet

Plans to build a 2 X 15" full-range modular cabinet for playing out

2 X 15 folded bass-bin cabinet

Plans to build a 2 X 15" folded bass-bin cabinet for playing out

2 X 12 Angled Mid-range Cabinet

Plans to build a 2 X 12" Angled Mid-range Cabinet for playing out

2 X 10 Midrange & High Frequency Cabinet

Plans to build a 2 X 10" Midrange & High Frequency Cabinet for playing out.

PA page for noobs

All about PA and speaker boxes including making your own cabinets with plans!

Let's build some scoops!

Nice building a scoop bass bin article with images contributed by Paul C.

Mixers & Mixing - Split console [video]

Dancetech Mixers tutorial in video format - this one is about how a Split-console style mixer works

Guitar Pickup wiring diagrams

If your pickup/control wiring is broke or disconnected, here's some diagrams showing how they should be wired

On The Busses !!

A newbie page about 'the buss' - what it is & what it does...relevent to all sorts of studio stuff like mixing & fx & PC etc.

Grooves & Patterns 1

Article about making patterns and beats for various styles... This applies to drum & synth & all styles coss it's about time-signature & tempo crossovers etc...

d.i.y. synth repair

basic tips on keeping your gear running.. soldering, troubleshooting.. w/o the professional repair bill.

LOGIC - Sync With Rebirth

Yup.. how to sync Emagic Logic to rebirth - with piccies...

REAL AUDIO

All about using RA Audio, and how to set it up & code it to stream in realtime for your webpages, with or without paying for RA-Server s/w on your IP's server machine

AUDIO-STUFF PART-2

Seconds out.. round 2... How all that audio/sound theory stuff applies to your kit... Stuff like mixers, s/w, synths, samplers, p.a, FX etc

AUDIO-STUFF PART-1

all about sound, and how it applies to making music & gear in your setup like synths & mixers, s/w, samplers, p.a, FX etc.... check it out






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