Open Mic: How Did You Soundproof Your Studio?

// We’re putting together a post on soundproofing a home studio, and would like to include as much of your advice as possible. How did you soundproof your home studio? Where did you purchase the materials? What plans do you have for the future? What issues need to be dealt with? What tricks and tips can you share? Each week we open our mic to readers and lurkers alike to come out of the woodwork and tell us your thoughts and opinion, your experiences and mistakes, what you love and what you hate. We want to hear from you, and here’s your chance. Relative News

How to Create Amazing Bass Patterns for Electronic Music

// Twice a month we revisit some of our reader favorite posts from throughout the history of Audiotuts+. This tutorial was first published in September 2008. Following my tutorial on creating a house drum track we received requests for information on creating bass lines, lead sounds, FX and arrangements. So, over the coming weeks I will be supplying step-by-step tutorials, demonstrating possible techniques for completing an electronic house track. I will build on the track in each tutorial so you can see things develop and make the Logic project available at each stage. Even though these tutorials are completed in Logic Pro 8 and in a one particular style of house, the techniques are very much generic and can be applied to any software and genre of dance music. Note: this tutorial contains embedded audio that will not display in a feed reader. Click back to the site to read the tutorial with audio or download the Play Pack at the end of the tut. 1. Choose your weapon Once... Relative News

How To Play Guitar Fast - Avoiding Critical Mistakes In Learning To Increase Your Guitar Speed

by Tom Hess Do you struggle with playing guitar fast? Is your lack of guitar speed making it difficult for you to express yourself fully as a musician?read more Relative News

ASL SoundLab releases "Hard Dubstep Bass Vol.2" and "Depths - Drum and Bass" soundsets for Massive

13th January 2011: ASL SoundLab has announced the release of two new soundsets for Native Instruments Massive synthesizer. The sets cost and#163;30 each. Hard Dubstep Bass Vol.2 is a soundset of 70 patches featuring so... Relative News

Grid1 Pedal Jeanie Battery-Powered Pedalboard Introduced For Winter NAMM

How would you like to have a wireless pedalboard?read more Relative News

Queen Movie Due To Start Filming

The forthcoming Freddie Mercury biopic is due to start filming shortly following the completion of the script. Relative News

Fleischprodukt updates Waveshaper to v2.1

13th January 2011: Fleischprodukt has updated Waveshaper to version 2.1. Changes: Fixed a bug with initialising the threshold slider in the Cocoa GUI. Changed the "sinc" shaping function in order to avoid clicks when... Relative News

Apocalyptica Forced To Pay Rammstein €45,000

Apocalyptica have been forced to pay Rammstein €45,000 after admitting in court to copyright infringement. Relative News

Powersoft U.S. operations moves to next level

In order to more efficiently serve U.S. markets, Powersoft is pleased to announce the formation of a new U.S. corporate structure and move to an expanded facility in California.. Relative News