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What Saturation Is and How to Use It in a Mix
Saturation is a gentle, level-dependent distortion. It adds harmonics to a signal and softly rounds off its peaks, which makes a bass…
Condenser Microphones Explained for Home Recording Beginners
A $249 Rode NT1 5th Gen is rated at 4 dBA self-noise. A Neumann U 87 Ai costing about 18 times as…
What Free Really Costs: Lessons from DAWs, Plugin Trials and Other Freebies
Free music software is better than ever, but every free offer comes with limits worth spotting before you commit your time.
The Best Free DAWs Ranked for Music Production
A free DAW today can record a full band, sequence MIDI, host your plugins and export a finished song without a watermark.…
OpenAL Explained and How It Handles 3D Audio for Games
OpenAL is a free, cross-platform audio API that games and apps use to position sounds in 3D space around a listener. You…
How to Record Audio on Your Computer for Free, Step by Step
The free way to record audio on a computer is simple. Plug in a microphone, install Audacity, pick your mic as the…
How to Make Beats for Beginners Step by Step at Home
You can make beats at home with a laptop, a pair of headphones and free software. This guide walks you through eight…
Weird Sound Generators for Experimental Noises and Textures
A weird sound generator is any instrument built to make the noises a normal synth avoids: squeals, drones, chirps and glitchy textures.…
IK Multimedia T RackS and the free version explained
When most music makers search “t-rack,” they mean IK Multimedia’s T-RackS, a mixing and mastering suite for Windows and macOS. It comes…
Ubuntu or Linux Mint for Music Production and Everyday Use
Ubuntu and Linux Mint run the same core packages and the same kernel, so the real differences show up in the desktop,…