This weeks web site is a blog styled site I have come across which lists competitions on the internet where you have to remix a track in order to win something or get your remixed track released in some way. Reeemix lists a good number of these competitions from around the globe and also splits […]

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Another FREE track to listen to. I made this whilst writing a post called Do Musicians Use Too Much Equipment? (Going Back to Basics) in which I limited myself to just using a microphone, a sampler, drum machine and the basic effects (Reverb, Delay, Compression, EQ and Distortion). But that’s not all as you can […]

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Our third samplepack from Rhythm Creation and this one is in conjunction with my post entitled Do Musicians Use Too Much Equipment? (Going Back to Basics) and these are the sample I used in my track called Beatbox. All samples were created using my mouth. I’m not a beatboxer or a singer, these samples have […]

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Too often today I see many musicians/magazines/web sites telling you about some amazing new piece of software or hardware thats going to magically make you into this amazing producer/sound engineer with this amazing new sound it can produce. Basically adverts trying to sell you equipment and I think a lot of musicians fall for this […]

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Currently on the BBC web site, BBC Radio 2 and the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters (BAC&S) are holding a competition looking for aspiring songwriters. 60 finalists will be invited to attend a two day master class and 4 winners will win a “once-in-a lifetime opportunity to be mentored and work on original material […]

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In a recent post I talked about how you can make your drum tracks sound more human like if you played them in using a keyboard instead of putting in drum hits with the mouse. I then then later showed you a great little video of a keyboard drummer showing off his skills in a […]

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As our internet connections have became faster and internet technology has grown, more and more computer applications have started to become on-line in the web browser. We have seen on-line email applications, office applications and on-line music and video players. But never did I think we would see the on-line music sequencer and that’s exactly […]

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Came across this nice little video posted on metacafe posted by Babblin5. The video shows how you can make some 5.1 surround sound headphones. Although I haven’t tried it myself, I liked the look of this little tutorial and am sure it works quite well. If you want to have a go at producing with […]

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So far in this series of posts on the basics of sound we have talked about sound and how it travels through the air and also frequency and wavelength. In part 3 we are going to talk about pitch and how it relates to frequency.

The Difference Between Them

Pitch and frequency are very similar and sometimes […]

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This featured web site is a great little site for all us musicians who want to release our tracks for distribution on the internet (or anywhere else). When releasing our tracks most of us want our listeners to distribute them around as this is great and free exposure, but it does kind of feel like […]

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