Sections - Tips & Tricks

Velcome to ze "Tips 'n' Tricks" bit - Here's a variety of tips from all areas of studio, midi & live work. The emphasis here is not just about tricks to get sounds, but also ideas to save money or time. But surely YOU have soom real cool tips to share with your comrades in arms of the music world?! - Feel free to add your own money-saving or technique tips! Check out some of the Tips below, or add your own & hey!... don't forget, there are plenty of FX-Tips in the Articles section too!

Tips listings

• 01-Jun-98 - easy to do wire-up to give you wacky 3d speaker system

• 04-Apr-99 - cheap sound fx ideas

• 04-Apr-99 - try this for an evil pumpin' drum sound

• 04-Apr-99 - try this for an massive, crunchin', dirty, drum sound

• 04-Apr-99 - no place to put your monitors?....cheaper than shelves or special

• 04-Apr-99 - fed-up with tripping over cables ?....check this one

• 04-Apr-99 - wicked bass synth tip

• 04-Apr-99 - got a deep bass 9 ?...tweak it with this tip

• 04-Apr-99 - reverb fx tips

• 04-Apr-99 - variable time delay fx tips

• 04-Apr-99 - modulation time delay fx tips

• 04-Apr-99 - static time delay fx tips

• 04-Apr-99 - compressor fx tips

• 04-Apr-99 - audio gates fx tips

• 04-Apr-99 - how to get a cheap quality kik drum mike to handle high spl's

• 04-Apr-99 - horn players...standing still during solo's ?.....read on

• 04-Apr-99 - live drums and vinyl pressing tip

• 04-Apr-99 - phat jv-1080 tip

• 04-Apr-99 - vocal recording tips

• 04-Apr-99 - drum programming with a human groove

• 04-Apr-99 - 70's dub snare drum tip

• 04-Apr-99 - spare $$$ if u move from adat to hd rec

• 04-Apr-99 - cubase

• 04-Apr-99 - hard disk files from your sequencer

• 04-Apr-99 - make a cheap compressor sound good

• 04-Apr-99 - cheap 4-track hd recording

• 04-Apr-99 - making waves drum loop tip

• 04-Apr-99 - groovy cubase

• 04-Apr-99 - observe your own work

• 04-Apr-99 - "natural sounding" hi-hat trick

• 04-Apr-99 - acid line tip

• 04-Apr-99 - re: drumloops in making waves

• 04-Apr-99 - automation for analogue mixing desks

• 04-Apr-99 - bass trap

• 04-Apr-99 - sound situation

• 04-Apr-99 - wacky very hard guitar and basesounds

• 04-Apr-99 - groovy reverse fx

• 04-Apr-99 - reverse reverb fx

• 04-Apr-99 - forget quantization!

• 04-Apr-99 - how to get a fattest sound with synths

• 04-Apr-99 - expensive sounding mic

• 04-Apr-99 - how to sound like a cheap robot

• 04-Apr-99 - cutting loops w/out recycle

• 04-Apr-99 - recording acoustic kik drums

• 04-Apr-99 - sample yourself

• 04-Apr-99 - this is a very good tip

• 04-Apr-99 - get killer ministry vocals

• 04-Apr-99 - lagging beats

• 04-Apr-99 - makinī the coolest drums with rebirth!!

• 04-Apr-99 - don't lose hi-freq dynamics!

• 04-Apr-99 - nice evolving pads

• 04-Apr-99 - turntabling sampling fx

• 04-Apr-99 - thickin your synth lines

• 04-Apr-99 - poorman's fx

• 04-Apr-99 - cheap automation for your mixer

• 04-Apr-99 - time stretch percentage equations

• 04-Apr-99 - how to remix in digital

• 04-Apr-99 - reverb-room

• 04-Apr-99 - simple midi-to-audio!

• 04-Apr-99 - sirens and tones

• 04-Apr-99 - generating alias on purpose

• 04-Apr-99 - how to get some decent sounds from cs1x

• 04-Apr-99 - sample bpm secret formula

• 04-Apr-99 - click correction (abused!)

• 04-Apr-99 - click correction (replace)

• 04-Apr-99 - texture guitar tip

• 04-Apr-99 - more poorman's fx

• 04-Apr-99 - more sound fx ideas

• 04-Apr-99 - awesome wacky soundscapes

• 04-Apr-99 - kickdrums from hell

• 04-Apr-99 - cheap sample cd's

• 04-Apr-99 - cure for writers block

• 04-Apr-99 - a great idea for sampling

• 14-Apr-99 - realistic kicks

• 24-Apr-99 - pre-amp

• 30-Apr-99 - make your s2000 sound like the devil

• 05-May-99 - backup up you akia/emu/roland sample zips to cd

• 02-Jun-99 - backwards guitar

• 02-Jun-99 - fatten your dx sounds

• 05-Jun-99 - nice water sound

• 20-Jun-99 - more cheap fx

• 20-Jun-99 - foot switch

• 21-Jun-99 - funky filtered drums on a worstation...

• 22-Jun-99 - inspiration technique

• 24-Jun-99 - inspiration trick number 2

• 26-Jun-99 - working out delay times

• 07-Jul-99 - more cheap robots

• 09-Jul-99 - hh trick

• 19-Jul-99 - weird, scary samples

• 26-Jul-99 - soundscapes with guitar

• 09-Aug-99 - easy (ish) way to remove an ingrowing toe nail

• 26-Aug-99 - phat analogue bass!!!!

• 18-Sep-99 - saving hd space

• 23-Sep-99 - how to be stylish on the dj-set!

• 23-Sep-99 - cool midi-setup

• 23-Sep-99 - making a phat song with the new rm1x!

• 30-Sep-99 - making trancebeats rrrrrrrrun fast...in logic that is...

• 13-Oct-99 - monitoring when playing live

• 13-Oct-99 - midi

• 27-Oct-99 - title of your studio tip

• 02-Nov-99 - arpeggiator tip

• 03-Nov-99 - title of your studio tip

• 03-Nov-99 - pearls of wisdom

• 03-Nov-99 - ...one more thing....

• 11-Nov-99 - a3000 as mastering prosesor

• 12-Nov-99 - ruff noise

• 23-Nov-99 - megabass hitman recordings

• 26-Nov-99 - reverse sample in real time

• 01-Dec-99 - scratch samples without a turntable

• 16-Dec-99 - better sampling

• 17-Dec-99 - realtime fm fx with old delays

• 19-Dec-99 - title of your studio tip

• 24-Dec-99 - waking up!

• 12-Jan-00 - whitenoise

• 22-Jan-00 - clear bass kick

• 22-Jan-00 - surround any sound!!!

• 24-Jan-00 - keeping flies off melon patch

• 06-Feb-00 - neato drum sample tips.

• 21-Feb-00 - wierd sounds

• 04-Mar-00 - microcassettes

• 22-Mar-00 - ideas for new new riffs (in cubase)

• 25-Mar-00 - surround any sound ... more information.

• 09-Apr-00 - need inspiration?

• 12-Apr-00 - want to ruin your track

• 15-Apr-00 - surround sound on the electribe er-1

• 17-Apr-00 - pro 909 kicks... the secret.

• 17-Apr-00 - lm4 drum sounds.

• 17-Apr-00 - hats for dance music...the insider spin

• 21-Apr-00 - timing slack?

• 24-Apr-00 - badass 808 kicks

• 24-Apr-00 - nice pad sound

• 13-May-00 - ultimate grinding groove

• 18-May-00 - electronic noizes 1

• 30-May-00 - cables

• 30-May-00 - direct x 6

• 23-Jul-00 - dance shaker

• 02-Aug-00 - stuttering with a sampler

• 07-Aug-00 - sampled 909 closed hat magic

• 10-Aug-00 - two very usefull mastering tips

• 31-Aug-00 - tweaking two eq's with one hand

• 10-Sep-00 - booming effect on synths

• 10-Sep-00 - giving a extra punch to your dancetrack

• 22-Sep-00 - drums

• 27-Sep-00 - bouncy delays

• 29-Sep-00 - making a subway effect

• 29-Oct-00 - inspiration from the city

• 02-Nov-00 - psychedlic rhythmic voices

• 06-Nov-00 - enjoying a slamming teckno punch.

• 21-Nov-00 - dirty gritty sound

• 29-Nov-00 - bpm 2 delaytime converter

• 13-Dec-00 - sample information

• 19-Dec-00 - pasta perfection

• 16-Jan-01 - techno kick reverse gate effect

• 28-Jan-01 - how to get sick u.k. garage bass

• 10-Feb-01 - make your drums punchier in da mix

• 26-Feb-01 - phatter bass & lead lines

• 26-Feb-01 - gabber kicks

• 02-Mar-01 - subtle sounds

• 05-Mar-01 - new melodies

• 05-Mar-01 - strange sounds

• 08-Mar-01 - guitars & electronics

• 20-Mar-01 - curing writer's block pt. 2

• 22-Mar-01 - trance synth tip

• 06-Apr-01 - boa

• 07-Apr-01 - proper 2 step (uk garage) drums

• 13-Apr-01 - deepbass 9 help me!

• 17-Apr-01 - need some inspiration

• 18-May-01 - morph a lead or bass line into a drum sequence.

• 20-May-01 - how to discover cool synth rhythms

• 22-May-01 - cool electro drum fx

• 05-Jun-01 - different clap effects!

• 13-Jul-01 - organic progression

• 15-Jul-01 - acoustic treatment for your room

• 20-Jul-01 - mastering

• 08-Aug-01 - old headphones

• 10-Aug-01 - banging kick drum

• 06-Sep-01 - !! sound like the pros !!

• 20-Oct-01 - wicked guitar tones

• 08-Nov-01 - rhythm inspiration

• 19-Nov-01 - 11 sample calculators (delays, bpm, time-strecth, pitch...)

• 06-Mar-02 - stylish acoustical wall treatment

• 15-May-02 - keep remotes & keypads prestine

• 15-May-02 - cheap basstraps

• 16-Jun-02 - maximum tonal control for acoustics

• 20-Jun-02 - title of your studio tip

• 03-Aug-02 - syikom noise machine

• 12-Oct-02 - make interesting drum patterns

• 03-Apr-03 - melody tip

• 03-May-03 - sample copyright

• 22-Jul-03 - big trance claps

• 15-Aug-03 - you're all on crack!

• 22-Sep-03 - fast new basslines, synth riffs, percussion, anything! (with recycle)

• 23-Sep-03 - these tips suck

• 22-Oct-03 - these tips don't 'suck'

• 31-Dec-03 - 909 snare tip

• 03-Mar-04 - alesis sr16 tip

• 09-May-04 - quick audio preview in windows xp

• 29-Aug-04 - set delay or echo to bpm. handy for fx units with no sync.

• 10-Oct-04 - mastering quick and easy

• 26-Oct-04 - hard bass

• 07-Dec-04 - cheap home-made bass traps

• 07-Dec-04 - how to setup a turntable cartridge

• 09-Feb-05 - make a good compression

• 16-Jun-05 - classic old-skool dub snaredrum (live)

• 01-Oct-05 - limit your equipment

• 07-Oct-05 - make the tips list actually work

• 03-Nov-05 - pop sheild

• 20-Jan-06 - kmadon@wp.pl

• 31-Jan-06 - title of your studio tip

• 03-May-08 - title of your studio tip