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• Five Essential Guitar Tones  May 2008

  Need to produce great guitar tones for your tracks, or someone else’s? Here are the five you can’t afford not to know about.

• Mix Bus: Using Cassette Decks as Analog Processors for Your DAW  April 2008

  It happens to the best of us—no matter how hard we try, our tracks just aren’t quite there. They don’t have that fullness, that width, that charm that infused our recordings when we used to cut to analog tape. We romanticize those sounds ...

• Kaki King’s Joyful Ascent to Naturalism  April 2008

  Kaki King is a unique voice in a sea of guitar players. Her overhand, percussive style—rife with finger tapping and hammer-ons—delivers dynamic nuances from gently coaxed notes to explosions of pummeled strings. Starting her commercial ...

• Music’s New Messiahs: You!  April 2008

  How To Get Your Music Out In The Digital World

• John Vanderslice Reveals 3 Ways to Torture Beauty  April 2008

  “Rock and roll needs some sort of sonic violence for me to get excited,” says San Francisco-based musician/producer John Vanderslice when asked about the sounds he crafted for his latest album, Emerald City [Barsuk]. Interestingly ...

• Mix Bus: The Secrets of Home Tape Baking  March 2008

  About four years ago, I pulled one of my 20-year-old reel-to-reel tapes off the shelf to do a remix. As it played, I was surprised at the loss of high end, which got noticeably worse during the course of the three-minute song. I cleaned ...

• Roland VG-99  February 2008

  Quick question: Have you ever been in the middle of a session and thought “nothing would flesh out this song better than a 12-string,” but you didn’t have one on hand? Ever think to yourself, mid-album, that the next song could really ...

• Apogee Duet  February 2008

  Shortly after releasing my first record, recorded through a Pro Tools Digi 001, I purchased an Apogee Mini-Me that made me want to go back in time and re-record everything—it furnished incontrovertible proof that analog-to-digital conversion ...

• Vocal Cords: Crafting Hard-Hitting Hip-Hop Vocals  February 2008

  In today’s world of major label hip-hop and R&B music, the need for an in-your-face vocal is near the top of the priority list for almost all of the artists I’ve worked with [Note: Evans has worked with Mary J. Blige, Britney ...

• Ian Eagleson from Extra Golden's Tips for Tracking Big Sounds with Budget Gear  February 2008

  There’s more than one way to bake a cake, but you don’t have to be a world-class chef in a state-of-the-art facility to cook up some tasty treats. Ian Eagleson—co-founder of the band known as Extra Golden—knows all about maximizing ...