This tutorial will help you to stop looking at your gate plug-ins as boring noise removal tools and get you using them as creative tools and effects.
How to Use Gate Plug-ins Creatively 
7 Thoughts on Teaching and Learning Guitar 
Creating music without listening to how other players have done it before is like rediscovering electricity every time you want to turn on a light.
Drum Replacement in Logic 
How To Use GarageBand To Sound Like T-Pain
This basic GarageBand tutorial looks at how to use the app’s built-in effects to create a T-Pain AutoTune effect.
DIY Studio Acoustic Treatment
This video offers a nice before and after comparison of DIY acoustic treatment for your studio.
How To Reduce Latency When Recording in Garageband
This basic GarageBand tutorial looks at how to reduce latency when you are recording.
Smokestack and Laser Beam: Prototype of a New Microphone Concept 
Awesome proof of a new concept: replacing the diaphragm of traditional microphones by a system combining synthetic smoke and a laser beam has been proven efficient.
Quantizing Audio with Logic Pro 9’s Flex Time 
Logic Pro 9 introduced the “Flex Time” feature which is a set of tools for manipulating audio rhythm and timing data the way you would edit MIDI.
Building An Army Of Fans Every Time You Perform 
Have you ever noticed how some concerts are just that, a “concert,” and some are an all-out PARTY, where you feel you are as much a part as the guys on stage?
How to Make a Trance Lead Synth in Reason 4 
Reason 4 is a brilliant synth-creating tool.
How to Use the Pioneer SVM-1000 Audio-Video Mixer, Part 1 
In this video tutorial Johnathan Lewis shows us what the Pioneer SVM-1000 mixer can do and how it works.
How to Use Logic Pro 9’s Drum Replacer 
Drum replacement is a tool that comes in handy when recorded drums just won’t work with the rest of the track.
MP3: Scientific Attempt To Create Most Annoying Song Ever 
After gathering data about people's least favorite music and lyrical subjects, they did the unthinkable: they combined them into a single monstrosity, specifically engineered to sound unpleasant to...
DJ Arrangement Vs Listener Arrangement - Who Are You Arranging For? 
A look at why so many dance music musicians opt for the DJ arrangement and how it might actually be harming their music.
Rhythm Strummer: Video Lessons to Learn Songs 
Guitar beginners who want to learn easy versions of songs? Rhythm Strummer might interest you.
How to Layer Sequences to Create Depth and Pace 
Understanding Reverb 
Whether generated naturally or artificially, reverb has become an essential part of today’s recordings. This article covers artificial reverb – what it offers, and how it works.
Renoise Tutorial: Getting Started
This video tutorial looks at getting started with Renoise, a music production environment for Windows, Mac and Linux.
Reason 4 Tutorial: Using Thor As A Switchable Filter
This is a quick look at using the Thor Polysonic Synthesizer as a Switchable Filter in Reason 4, using Combinator assignments.
Using Automation in Pro Tools 8 
Automation is an important tool for creating polished mixes. You can use it to fix problems, introduce and enhance effects, and to vary the mix levels throughout different sections of a song.
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