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How to Transfer Songs From a Flash Drive to iTunes
Transferring songs from a flash drive to iTunes is something you can do in literally just a couple of seconds. Transfer songs from a flash drive to iTunes with help from an audio engineer with a degree...
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How to Edit Autotune Vocals
Editing Autotune vocals always requires you to make a few key adjustments that you might not otherwise normally make. Edit Autotune vocals with help from an audio engineer with a degree in Audio...
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How to Make Vocals Clear in Audacity
Making vocals clear in Audacity is very easy, so long as you're using the right tools in the right ways. Make vocals clear in Audacity with help from an audio engineer and musician in this free video...
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Making Metronomes
When making metronomes, you're always going to want to keep a few important things in mind. Make metronomes with help from an audio engineer with a degree in Audio Recording in this free video clip.
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How to Compress on Sony Acid Pro
Compression is a useful tool for audio editing. It adjusts the volume levels of certain sections of your audio recording; often, compression is used to highlight quieter parts and limit louder parts....
View ArticleRecording Vocals for a Song With iPhone
Recording a decent vocal track is vital for a polished, professional-sounding recording. Voice Memos is the default audio-recording app on the iPhone. Although its features are minimal, you can...
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Do You Need a Preamp With a USB Microphone?
USB microphones offer a direct way to send audio to your computer that bypasses the need for an external preamp. Other ways of using a microphone with your computer typically involve using an audio...
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Adjusting the Reverb on an Amplifier
Amplifier reverb is one of the oldest electronically simulated sound effects, dating from the 1960s. It mimics the sound of playing in a large auditorium, adding depth and body to otherwise "dry"...
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How to Hook Up Instruments to a Computer
Home recording can be extremely fun and rewarding and recording music using your computer as both a mix board and a digital recording device makes the process even more fun. But to get the most out of...
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How to Fix a Delay in a USB Microphone
Because it contains the necessary preamp and analog-to-digital converter in the microphone housing, many businesses and consumers use a USB microphone to transmit audio. While USB mics can be a...
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How to Record Large Amounts of Audio
Digital recording technology allows you to record audio in a number of different ways. From your computer, you can adjust the parameters of your recording software and audio interface in order to...
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Top USB Mics
In order to record high-quality sound onto your computer, you typically need an audio interface. An audio interface takes input signals from your microphones and converts them to digital signals that...
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How to Remove a Drum Track
Budding musicians often want to play along with their favorite songs. It helps you learn what the recorded musician did and helps you develop your own skills and talent. Professional musicians often...
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How to Record Roland V-Drums as a MIDI
MIDI is universal, digital language that enables remote devices such as drum machines, samplers and keyboards to communicate with other devices, such as lighting rigs and recording software. MIDI...
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How to Create a Music Producer's Bio
Creating a bio for a music producer depends on whom you're writing for and what the goal is. For instance, if it's an up-and-coming producer, it may be for simple self-promotion and garnering new acts...
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How to Make Your Voice Sound Good in "GarageBand"
When recording vocals, you may be looking for a good effect to add to your voice to make it stand out more, or you may be trying to fix a vocal track that is too quiet or loud. With GarageBand, there...
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How to Interview a Producer
Now that you're ready to record your music, you need a music producer to oversee the production process. As one of the most critical people in music production, the producer -- a project manager and...
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How to Equalize a Brass Instrument
Equalization, or EQ, is one of the most basic, flexible and powerful tools at the recording engineer's disposal. EQ mechanisms vary, from simple hardware devices to highly complex software plug-ins. By...
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How to Connect a Mixer to Garage Band
GarageBand is a digital audio workstation (DAW) that is included with the Apple iLife software package. Although GarageBand allows users to record one track at a time with the computer's built-in...
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How to Connect a Guitar Amp to a Mixer
In some cases, it will be necessary to plug your guitar amplifier into a mixing board. When you are recording guitar, the mixer sends the sound from the guitar amplifier into the recording device,...
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How to Drop Pitch on a Voice Using Pro Tools
Pro Tools includes a wide set of tools for modifying and distorting sound on your home computer. One of the more popular vocal effects of recent years is adjusting the pitch. Adjusting the pitch of a...
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How to Take Out the Vocals in a Song on GarageBand
GarageBand is a digital audio work station for the Mac. With it you can record, edit and mix your music using your computer. You can also use GarageBand as an audio editor for music in your MP3...
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How to Equalize Male Vocals
Equalization is both an art and a science. The main idea behind equalizing male vocals is to enhance the natural frequencies of the voice with which you're working. The process involves adjusting the...
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How to Remove an Echo in Audacity
Unwanted echo and reverb on audio recordings occur when sound reflects off walls, floors and ceilings with enough strength to be picked up by the microphone. Completely removing these effects from a...
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How to Make a Riddim for a Dancehall
Dancehall is a type of Jamacian music that is based on reggae music. Dancehall is significantly faster and more upbeat than reggea and producers often uses drum machines and synthesizers to create the...
View ArticleWhat Type of Computer Do I Need for Voice-over Work?
Voice-over work allows actors or announcers who don't want to spend 10 hours a day in the theater, on set or at the radio station to find a new way to pursue their craft. The Internet has enabled the...
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How to Decrease Sibilance With an Equalizer
Equalizers are audio processing tools that allow the boosting or cutting of sound frequencies across the spectrum. This allows a producer or engineer to highlight the desirable parts of a sound, or...
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How to Make a Good Bass Drop
Compositionally speaking, the bass drop in a drum 'n' bass or dubstep track is the point at which the full bassline enters the mix. More importantly, the bass drop is the point at which the crowd goes...
View ArticleHow to Move a Track to a New Song in "GarageBand"
GarageBand provides a free audio editing application and comes standard on all Macintosh systems. The program is a slimmed-down version of Apple's more expensive studio quality programs such as Logic...
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How to Adjust Latency in "GarageBand"
In digital audio recording, "latency" refers to the delay between the moment an audio signal is created -- for example, when a guitarist plays a chord -- and the moment that signal arrives at the audio...
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How to Determine BPMs in GarageBand
Setting the BPM, or beats per minute, when creating a GarageBand session is one of the first things you should do. The BPM of a GarageBand session will determine the tempo of the song. This in turn...
View ArticleHow to Get That Radio Voice Effect with GarageBand
Garageband is a multitrack audio recording application included with Mac OS-X. It's an entry-level program with a fairly basic feature set, but it's designed to be easy to use for those not familiar...
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How to Master a Song in Audacity
Mastering a song is one of the last steps prior to releasing a song for the world to hear. While in the professional world mastering is done by engineers with particular experience and equipment to do...
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How to Get Rid of a Guitar Buzz in a Recording
There are many types of unpleasant buzzing that can be picked up when recording music. Many of these varieties of buzzing can happen to single instruments, such as a guitar. Whether your buzz is an...
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How to Isolate Drums From a Song
Sometimes a drum beat or pattern is so good, you want to hear it by itself. Although it's not the easiest process, isolating the drums from a song is possible if you have the song in its original,...
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How to Extract Vocals in Ableton
Ableton Live music software's built-in sequencer and instrument tools allow you to create detailed compositions for live recording as well as production recording. You also can use the software program...
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How to Reduce White Noise With GarageBand
When you purchase a Macintosh computer such as a MacBook or iMac, you may receive GarageBand. GarageBand, part of the iLife software package bundled with new Macs, is a program that allows you to...
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How to Make Your Guitar Sound Like an Acoustic in GarageBand
GarageBand is an entry-level digital-audio workstation for Mac. It is typically included for free with new computers. With it you can record, edit and mix your music using your computer. GarageBand...
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How to Get Only Vocals From a Song in Pro Tools
One of the most common tools of the DJ trade is remixing. In some cases, there are readily available acapella versions of songs available. When there aren’t, however, it helps to know how to get vocals...
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How to Make Vocals Clear in Audacity
Audacity is an audio software program available for free download. You can make vocals clear in Audacity by using the graphic equalizer. This tool is a default processor available in Audacity that will...
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How to Hook Up Your Laptop to a PA System to Record
The capability of the contemporary computer as a recording device becomes increasingly popular as people apply computer recording to new applications. Recording live performance from a PA system is...
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How to Make Rap Vocals Sound Professional in Logic
The bling and larger-than-life image of a hip-hop artist’s life can be mesmerizing. The 21st-century hip-hop artists are the latest version of the 1960s rock star. Similar to Led Zeppelin from the late...
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How to Remove Hollow Sound From Vocals
It is important to realize that you can remove a hollow sound from vocals in a few different ways. Remove a hollow sound from vocals with help from a pianist and vocalist in this free video clip.
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How to Remove Vocals From a Song Using Mix
When mixing a song, sometimes you may have to remove certain parts of the vocals. Remove vocals from a song using mix with help from a pianist and vocalist in this free video clip.
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Can You Plug a Turntable Into a Headphone Amplifier?
Though largely displaced by compact disc (CD) players, turntables have maintained a presence with audio consumers. Listeners say they like the quality of music on vinyl records. But electronically, you...
View ArticleHow to Create a Hip Hop Beat Using GarageBand
Apple's GarageBand software supports audio recording and mixing. If you want to start creating your own hip-hop beats, GarageBand's multi-track interface allows you to piece beats together one layer at...
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How to Remove Vocals From an MP3 With Adobe SoundBooth CS3
Adobe SoundBooth includes a preset option to remove vocals. This function can be accessed from the Effects menu and works by cutting the audio frequencies where vocals normally reside on an MP3 audio...
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How to Identify Instruments That You Hear in a Song
If you listen carefully to any song you can actually single out all of the various instruments in use. Identify instruments that you hear in a song with help from a music professional in this free...
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How to Echo in GarageBand
You can add an echo to any track in GarageBand by following just a few basic steps. Add echo in GarageBand with help from an audio engineer and Web manager in this free video clip.
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How to Splice in Audacity
Splicing in Audacity can help give your track a much fuller and richer sound. Splice in Audacity with help from an audio engineer with a degree in Audio Recording from California State University in...
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