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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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Triangle II synth is free courtesy of rgc Audio

Vst and DXi synthesizer, Triangle II is a free download

LOGIC - Mixer Automation 2

A supplement for the main 'Logic - Mix automation' article - Extra tips like adding a sweep eq automation & identifying controller automation numbers etc (older Logic, before track-automation)

LOGIC - Mixer Automation 1

Yes! - the wonders of automated mixng in Logic audio is just so damned easy! checkout this first page about automating EVERYTHING in your Logic mix!... (old version Logic - pre 'track automation')

LOGIC - Tracks & Objects

More Logic Audio mayhem - another look at the environment based protocol, this time thru the track headers and their assignments & data flow. The more you understand how this works in logic, the easie

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.

Pentium 3 - (256kb) overview

Condensed intel P3 info over-view for the PIII with 256kb of cache - speeds from .450 - 1.33 ghz.

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.

LOGIC - Input Monitoring

How to get external hardware gear into your Logic Audio s/w mix using a multi-in rack, and add realtime fx, record from inputs etc. How to add monitor fx you can hear while you play/record.

PC - DMA Mode

about direct memory access & how to enable it for your drives.

Flatscreen 15

If you are looking to get a budget 15" flatscreen check this page and get loads of model & links info.

PC SETUPS - STEREO SOUNDCARD

More stuff about using a PC with a stereo audio device to record microphone over s/w backing & to record with mic over s/w & outboard backing. Basic configurations to work properly.

Bendy-Toy - Live

Bendy Toy plays live in camden & we check him out.






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