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Category Archives: Tutorials

Digital Audio Tutorial Archive

04-Mar-06

If you’re a Sound Forge user, you’ll appreciate these five “Sound Forge Lifesaver” tips. There are a ton more tutorials where that came from, including ones covering ACID 5 and Ableton. Check out the full archive on the Digital ProSound web site.

Extract 5.1 Audio

01-Mar-06

DJ John pointed me to this great tutorial on extracting Dolby 5.1 audio off a DVD.

A Beginners Guide to Mixing in GarageBand

08-Nov-05

Attention Apple producers: check out this O’Reilly guide to mixing in GarageBand.

Mod Your Pioneer DJM-707 Mixer

03-Nov-05

If you own a Pioneer DJM-707 mixer, check out this transform switch hack. With a few simple tools and a bit of patience, your on/off channel switch will become an on/off/on helicopter scratch capable switch. (via Hackaday)

DIY Audio Test CD

23-Sep-05

With a little help from Arve Bersvendsen and his free audio test CD, you’ll soon have your stereo tweaked perfectly and speakers positioned in just the right place.

Ableton 5 Tutorial

17-Sep-05

O’Reilly has posted a really nice Ableton 5 tutorial.

Compressors & Limiters

09-Sep-05

Waves has an excellent tutorial on audio compressors & limiters.

Vocal Eliminators

18-Aug-05

Nathan Winer has written a nice (albeit old) tutorial on removing vocals from tracks.

How To Write A Song

05-Aug-05

Whatever genre you’re producing, there’s something you can learn from this article on songwriting by Robin Frederick.

Seven Steps to Noise-Free Digital Audio

19-Jul-05

I’m in the process of converting much of my vinyl collection to MP3 for DJing purposes, so I found this article on producing noise-free recordings of particular interest.