Will MacOS 28 Break Your Digital Studio Environment?
In MacOS 28 Apple will remove support for applications and plugins compiled for Intel processors. Is your home studio safe to upgrade?
Read more MIDI – The Ultimate Guide to Get Started
Do you want to make songs, but can’t play all the instruments needed? Virtual instruments to the rescue! And MIDI is the way you control them – what they play, and how they play it. In this video you will learn everything about how MIDI works in a DAW – especially in Reaper, but valid for any DAW.
We will cover recording, editing, instrument plugins, velocity, quantizing, humanizing, pitch bends, drums and advanced track routing. Go from MIDI curious to MIDI expert in 22 minutes and 19 seconds.
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Double-Tracking Guitars – a Tutorial for Awesome Metal Rhythms
Do your rhythm guitar recordings sound thin and dull compared to what you hear in songs? Chances are that you’re not using the oldest trick in the book when it comes to recording guitars – double tracking!
Double-tracking will not only instantly make your guitar recordings at least twice as good, it will also automatically create space in your mix so your rhythms don’t collide with bass, vocals and lead guitars.
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How to Write Your First Song
Have you always dreamed of writing your own metal songs, but don’t know where to start? In this video I share my workflow, let you in on some tricks to get your creative juices flowing and overall tips on song arrangement. We’ll also cover how to come up with riffs for verses, choruses and other parts, and how to match your drum patterns to those riffs.
Read moreOnce Upon a Time… Space – 40th Anniversary Metal Cover
Growing up, I was mesmerized by Once Upon a Time… Space. This year it celebrates its 40th anniversary and still comes across as futuristic and visionary. So I made a metal cover of one of Michel Legrand’s songs from it: Hyper-espace.
Read moreI Finally Released a Song on Spotify
I’ve wanted to publish a song on Spotify since forever. And now I’ve finally made a song I think is good enough to do that.
Read moreQuantizing Metal Guitars with Stretch Markers in Reaper
Learn how to fix off-beat metal rhythm guitars with Reaper’s flexible quantizing mechanic stretch markers.
Read moreGet the BBC Symphony Orchestra Plugin for free
Get the Discover version of Spitfire Audios BBC Symphony Orchestra for free, a great plugin for making symphonic arrangements in your DAW.
Read moreNailing Your Metal Bass Tone with Parallel Processing – Video
The standard of processing metal bass is to split it into three parallel tracks based on frequency, and treat those three tracks differently. When they are merged back together, they will make the perfect bass tone that glues with your guitars and with your drums. This video teaches you how!
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