Your Ultimate Guide to Composing Music: Recording and Mixing part 1

We have just launched a new educational series that will provide our readers with all they need to know about recording, mixing, and mastering using digital technology. Over the last few months, I have been searching the net for information that would help us in our own attempt to learn the how-to of different equipment [...]

CM Top 10 Software Synthesizers

List of Music Topics

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This page aims to list articles related to music. This is so that those interested in the subject can monitor changes to the pages by clicking on Related Changes in the sidebar and on the bottom of the page. This page links to itself, so we can track changes to it, [...]

Hard Choices & Soft Options

By Paul White
Published in SOS November 1998
There’s a mountain of stuff at www.soundonsound.com, with Paul White’s five-part ‘Hard Choices & Soft Options’ series being a good place to start. Mike Senior, ASK A SIMPLE QUESTION : May 2001, Sound On Sound

Choosing A Recording Setup: Part 1
PART 1: Confusing, isn’t it? Where once the [...]

John Vestman’s site

Recently discovered John Vestman’s site which contains some rather cool information and tips for bands and musicians on Mastering and other recording related subjects - great for beginners! The Electric Blues Club

Vocalist motivation

Secrets of Miking

Success Tape Series

How to Prepare for Mastering

Suprising Differences

Cutting a Hot CD

Mastering Procedures

What to Expect from Mastering

Tips for better Mixing

Tips for [...]

Pro Tools 7 LE Essential Training: Video Tutorials

Pro Tools 7 LE Essential Training: Templates By Joe Godfrey
In this video, host Joe Godfrey discusses Templates, and how to create a Template of all your work in a session. For the kind of work that you do, say including a drum track, a lead track, a vocal track, e6tc., he shows [...]

HOW TO GET A GREAT BASS SOUND IN YOUR HOME STUDIO

By Michael Laskow
I spent more time in the early part of my engineering career trying to get a great bass sound than anything else. I tried going through a direct box. I tried miking the amp. I tried different amps. I tried different mics. I tried everything!
No matter how hard I tried, I always fell [...]

How Microphones Work: The Tutorial

Introduction
The Basics
Microphones are a type of transducer - a device which converts energy from one form to another. Microphones convert acoustical energy (sound waves) into electrical energy (the audio signal). Different types of microphone have different ways of converting energy but they all share one thing in common: The diaphragm. This is a thin [...]

Home Recording Tips on Budget Vocal Recording

Originally printed at Traxmusic.org
In any given song, virtually without exception, the vocals are the focal point. It’s the vocal melody most people hum along to, and it’s the identifying factor to any group. Time and again we’ve seen bands complain that their singer gets all of the attention, whether he or she is a brilliant [...]

The Launch of the Fruit Projects

We just launched The Fruit Projects section of Zaki & Friends and we are very excited. Being ourselves musicians, we feel that it’s not just skill and talent that are needed to make good music, but a space where you can exhibit your music and get helpful feedback that can help guide you. Some of [...]

The Manual: A Collection of Articles In & Around Music Production

Below is a list of various articles, organized by topic. Feel free to contribute any other articles that you find can be helpful for others.

Basics · Burning CD/DVD · Business · [...]