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SoundCravers · How to Buy A Microphone For Your Home Studio, Microphones For Recording Drums, Microphones For Recording Instruments, And The Best Microphones For Recording Vocals
Guides Reviews Catalog zZounds Links - Guitar Bass Keyboard Recording Computers Live Drums DJ Accessories Blowouts Microphones For The Home Studio Mar 27 — By The Tweak Contents ↓ Basics of a Home Studio Mic Cabinet Setting up Microphones Ambient and Close Mics Matching the Microphone to the job. Wh…
READ GUIDE →Tweaking Hip Hop Drums
Tweaking Hip Hop Drum Sounds --page 3 Hip Hop series page 1 2 3 The Basics of the Hip Hop Drum Kit Drum sounds used in hip hop cover a huge spectrum. Hip Hop has a wider universe of drum sounds than any other genre of music, from squeaky clean studio quality kits to total train wrecks of effects. Dr…
READ GUIDE →SoundCravers Lab electronic music
SoundCravers Lab electronic music T weakHeadz Lab electronic musicians cafe' Guide | Forums | Rigs | Reviews | Bookstore | Jukebox | Audio-Pro showroom search site Korg Triton Family T he Korg Triton evolved out of the Korg Trinity, the first synth to have a Touchview screen, which is standard on th…
READ GUIDE →SoundCravers Lab Electronic Musician's Hangout
The #1 Site for Learning about Home and Project Studios Follow @SoundCravers More Really SCHWEET DEALz Tweak: New Lower price. Great Buy. Roland JUNO-G 61-Key Synthesizer Keyboard Look familiar? True to its heritage, the new JUNO-G is affordable and user-friendly. But that's where the comparisons to…
READ GUIDE →Make Your Studio Drum Tracks Come Alive, an article by Rich the TweakMeister
page 1 2 MIDI Drum Traps 'n Tips How to make your Drum tracks Come Alive by the TweakMeister Roland TD20SX V-Pro Electronic Drum Set More: Electronic Drum Sets Problems Its been long said that to get authentic sounding drum tracks in your midi compositions you have to "think like a drummer". This is…
READ GUIDE →Review of the Proteus 2000
Review of the Proteus 2000 And Free Patches and Resources by Rich the TweakMeister Pros 128 Voice polyphony Multiple outs 32 MIDI channels 3 expansion slots Hip, clean sounds Cons Pianos and Strings not as good as other synths (can be expanded with better roms though) Not GM Compatible I think I was…
READ GUIDE →Review of Superior Drummer 2 by SoundCravers Lab
Review of Superior Drummer 2.0 Toontrack brings new realism to Plugin Drumkit Imagine your are in the control room of one of the world's greatest drum studios. When you raise the fader on the overheads you hear this fantastic room come into play. You hear shadings of famous drum mixes you heard on s…
READ GUIDE →The Making of a Sample CD Rom Page 1
Sound Development Journal of Rich the TweakMeister while Making the Post-Industrial CybrSound Depot by Tweak October 10,2000 to March 18, 20001 ( more info on this cd rom) 10-10-00 I've decided to do it and make an EOS only version of my Emu format sample CD Rom " Ice Kold Tekno ". I am already a we…
READ GUIDE →Review of Battery 3 by Native Instruments
Review of Battery 3 by Native Instruments Add quality sampled drums in the virtual domain of your sequencer by the Tweak Original Battery interface Note the huge number of cells now available in the Battery 3 interface Pros Easy to use Multiple Outs (with appropriate audio driver and interface) Soun…
READ GUIDE →Older How-To Articles at SoundCravers Lab
Older How-to Articles on Using MIDI, Sequencers, Samplers, Synths and Music Computers by Tweak how to articles Setting up an Analog Surround Mix How to Make a Cakewalk .ins File Doing it with Digital . This is a primer that tells you how to make a fully digital recording with as few passes through c…
READ GUIDE →Review of the World Expedition Rom by Emu Systems
Review of the Planet Earth Module E-MU's sound designers have gathered an amazing collection of authentic rhythms and traditional instruments from the four corners of the globe to give you Planet Earth, the most realistic ethnic sound module in the world. And Planet Earth's powerful synthesis engine…
READ GUIDE →A Recipe for Song Construction Page 2
A Recipe for Song Construction By Tweak Page 2 Listen to the song at this point I muted the piano then copied the sequences to another track and assigned a low whistle from Absynth. When I added the Celtic Hammered Dulcimer I started feeling the song. But the song is far from finished, its just a dr…
READ GUIDE →Hip Hop Beat Construction Made Easy
Hip Hop Beat Construction Made Easy The Elements of a Beat, plus Arranging, Orchestrating, Sound Creation and Production Tips for Hip Hop by Tweak give feedback here --page 1 Hip Hop series page 1 2 3 Hip hop has been with us for over 20 years. It has diversified greatly during this course of time a…
READ GUIDE →Review of StormDrum by Quantum Leap
Review of Quantum Leap's StormDrum by Tweak OK, you eventually do find a reason to leave the studio. If for anything, to appease the significant other who says "Honey, we need to go out more". "Ok, dear", you smile, "lets go to a movie". Of course you are thinking 'I'll see anything they want as lon…
READ GUIDE →All about Studio Compressors
What they are, and when, where and why we use them By Tweak Close up of the DBX 1066 , a full featured dual compressor/limiter/gate. Note the sections "expander/gate", "compressor" "output gain" and "limiter" for each channel. Not all compressors have gates or limiters You have no doubt heard people…
READ GUIDE →Effects! Using Effects in the Home, Project or Pro Studio
Using Effects in the Recording Studio How to Tweak Up Special Effects that will Transform your Audio by Rich the TweakMeister E ffects are everywhere in our gear. We have effects plugins of almost limitless possibility, rack mount effects units at nearly every price range, synthesizers with "built i…
READ GUIDE →SoundCravers · 61 Key Piano / Keyboard Gallery with Pictures, Descriptions, and Prices
Guides Reviews Catalog zZounds Links - Guitar Bass Keyboard Recording Computers Live Drums DJ Accessories Blowouts 61-Key Gallery Mar 18 — By The Tweak Access Virus TI2 Keyboard Integrated Modeling Synthesizer The Access VIRUS TI2 synthesizer keyboard is designed to lead the world in a completely ne…
READ GUIDE →The Mystik Garage Emu Sample CD Rom
The Mystik Garage This Emu format CD Rom disk was made on an ESi Sampler. Loads perfectly into the Esi 32, Esi4000/2000, E4, E-Synth , E64, E6400 (and all the Ultras) and even the EIII add $5.00 Shipping Version 2.2 Now Available! $39.99 Not in stock-special order only. Send a private message to Twe…
READ GUIDE →How to Configure a Recording Studio Rig, Page 4
21 ways to assemble a home recording RIG page 4 Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 A Tour through the Diverse Home Studio options available Today Rig #13 Electronika Superior Who it is for: Here is a rig for those doing electronica, which is typically a track at a time process. Its not for those recording bands, but…
READ GUIDE →How to Create Original Drum Tracks Fast and Furious
The MIDI Drum Tips page 2 page 1 2 Write Original Drum Tracks Fast and Furious in a MIDI Sequencer by Rich the Tweak Here's how to write drum tracks really fast on a midi sequencer. Don't let the simplicity of my approach fool you into thinking this is an article for beginners. OK, lots of pros know…
READ GUIDE →Secrets of Making Great Sounding Samples
The Secrets of Great Sounding Samples Give your home made samples professional quality by Rich the TweakMeister 1. A Hardware or Software Sampler. If it's hardware, then the sampler should be well endowed with memory. 32 Megs or better is good. Any of the Emus Ultras and Esi series are up to the tas…
READ GUIDE →Celestial Windowpane
Celestial Windowpane Notes on the Making of the Celestial Windowpane 10/1/99 I am making and editing loops like I am out of my mind. Upgrading the studio too with new stuff to make the most outstanding collection of acid loops ever made for the electronic artist. Originally my idea was just to make…
READ GUIDE →Instantly Downloadable SoundFonts from the Mystik Garage Drum Kits
The Mystik Drum SoundFont Drum Font from the Mystik Garage Is available for instant download from for $9.95 No shipping, no waiting, download and use them right now! Go to Voice Crystal's SoundFont Delivery System to Order and Download The Mystik Window has one goal, to blast through a mix with a dr…
READ GUIDE →New Gear Page 6
New and Cool Gear Page 6 page 1 page 2 page 3 page 4 page 5 page 6 Akai MPC500 MIDI Production System/Sampler Akai Professional's MPC500 is the first truly portable all-in-one Music Production Center. Affording artists the ability to sample and create music on-the-go, the MPC500 offers many of the s…
READ GUIDE →Presets and Samples to Post Indie
Presets and Samples to Post Indie Preset and Sample List Post Industrial CybrSound Depot 3/11/01 V1.0 Final Release Version PRESETS 0. Master Synth 1. The Muse Unknown 2. Your Majesty 3. The Heart Afire 4. Observatory One 5. kit: CyBR KiT 1 6. Morrocco 7. The Lab at Night 8. Play my Knobs 9. Istanbu…
READ GUIDE →Choosing a Classical Guitar
Choosing a Classical Guitar One of the roles I play in this life is to teach high school students to play guitar. This page is for the person who wants to learn to play nylon stringed guitar, otherwise known as "classical" or "classic" guitar. Classical guitars are different from other acoustic guit…
READ GUIDE →How to Configure a Recording Studio Rig
21 ways to Assemble a Home Recording RIG A Tour through the Diverse Home Studio options available Today by Tweak page 1 Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 L et me take you on a walk through our favorite music store. I'll point out what works with what, nudge you in a few directions when I know something is o, so-cool…
READ GUIDE →Midi and Audio Equipment at SoundCravers Lab
Gear at SoundCravers Lab Computer Network Current Machines 1. Mac Pro 8 core 266ghz 3 1TB internal drives, 2TB USB Backup 16GB memory 4 video displays, inclu Apple 30" Cinema Display Parallels 5.0 running Windows 7 Logic 9, Cubase 5, Live 6, Reason 4 MOTU 896MK3+828mk2+ADA8000 Aggregate driver 2. Ma…
READ GUIDE →Secrets of Making of a Large SoundFont
How to Build a Bank of SoundFonts Build you Own Custom Virtual Synth by Tweak Building a good SoundFont is the same process as building a sample based synthesizer from scratch. You can use any sample and tweak it with a wide range of envelopes, filter and resonance settings and effects just like you…
READ GUIDE →Sound Development Journal of Rich the TweakMeister, Page 2
Sound Development Journal of Rich the TweakMeister while Making the Post-Industrial CybrSound Depot Part 2 Back to Page 1 1-5-01 We are in Overtime, folks. I added a few more DnB style snares--rim shots with select frequencies removed and the kits just blow me away. I am planning to make one more su…
READ GUIDE →SoundCravers · The Perfect Mix, Notes on Mastering, Post-Production Audio, and The Final Touches
Guides Reviews Catalog zZounds Links - Guitar Bass Keyboard Recording Computers Live Drums DJ Accessories Blowouts The Perfect Mix Mar 26 — By The Tweak Contents ↓ The Mix Process The Mix itself The Role of Compression at Mixdown The Role of the Software/Hardware Mastering processor Software Masteri…
READ GUIDE →Tips on Buying Music Gear and Reviews
The Intelligent Person's Guide to Buying New and Used Gear This page can save you from making huge mistakes that could cost thousands of dollars by Rich the TweakMeister My goal is to give you the straight truth as I see it. I've spent years scrimping and saving for music gear and I know how it is!…
READ GUIDE →What's New and Cool by SoundCravers Lab
What's New (and Cool) page 1 Here's some of the latest studio gear, available from zZounds page 1 page 2 page 3 page 4 page 5 page 6 A Really SCHWEET DEAL KRK VXT8 Active Studio Monitor With a visually striking enclosure design that is equally functional -- providing low resonance, improved structur…
READ GUIDE →HipHop Production and Mixing
Hip Hop Production and Mixing Tips Tools of the Trade: Sequencers and Rewire Devices --page 2 Hip Hop series page 1 2 3 Production vs. Post-Production The Production phase of a studio project is where the musicians are in the studio making tracks. That is, it is when music is being produced, created…
READ GUIDE →How to Get Audio into your Computer by SoundCravers Lab
How to Set Up Digital Audio in your Home Studio Ways to get audio into your computer for your creative projects by Tweak Audio 101 1. Learn the different ways to get audio into a computer 2. Understand digital audio 3. Learn Basics of the recording process and the Mix So, then how do we get our soun…
READ GUIDE →How to Make Money on MP3.com
How We Made Money on MP3.com by Rich the TweakMeister Note: this article is dated. It is no longer possible to make such great sums of money on MP3.com. Vivendi universal first lowered the payout from around 6 cents a play to 0.5 cents a play, and now they have gotten rid of payback for playback alt…
READ GUIDE →Review and History of the Roland Fantom G
Review and History of the Roland Fantom G The History of the Fantom Line zZounds Fantom Department Expand your Fantom S/X/XR or XV synth with Roland SRX Expansion boards Demo the SRX boards Roland V-SynthGT Synthesizer Keyboard workstations have been around a while. While definitions will vary, I de…
READ GUIDE →Review of the Shure SM57 Dynamic Microphone by SoundCravers Lab
Review of the Shure SM57 Dynamic Microphone The legendary, yet inexpensive Studio Mic of all time. If you ask nearly anyone who runs a professional recording studio, "Do you have a Shure SM57?" they might look at you and ask, "are you are serious?" Of course they do. Every studio needs at least one,…
READ GUIDE →SoundCravers Guide Index
Guide Index Browse the restored SoundCravers archive by topic. Getting Started Assembling 6 different types of Home Studios Essential Concepts for putting together a Home Studio Guide Index How to make money in your home studio How to Set Up Digital Audio in your Home Studio Pic of Basic Setup Podca…
READ GUIDE →SoundCravers · Review Of The Rode NT1
Guides Reviews Catalog zZounds Links - Guitar Bass Keyboard Recording Computers Live Drums DJ Accessories Blowouts Review Of The Rode NT1 Mar 22 — By The Tweak We all want good sound coming from our studios. We all know that the microphone is an important part of translating acoustical energy into a…
READ GUIDE →The Concise History of the Home Studio
The Concise History of the Home Studio How we used to do it, how we do it today By Rich the TweakMeister Hey, this is not the definitive history of home recording but a quick timeline to give you the gist of what happened before you got here. This is the timeline you have to know to make sense of de…
READ GUIDE →The Evolution of SoundCravers Lab
by the Tweakmeister Rich The Evolution of SoundCravers Lab Go to page 2 Page 3 Rich's First Studio? Nah! There were even earlier ones! (1975) Lets say I started with 2 cassette decks , a guitar and a Moog Prodigy in 1984. (I could go back far earlier, but lets not, OK?) The Prodigy was a spin-off of…
READ GUIDE →Types of Synthesis in Modern Softsynths
What are Software Synthesizers And the Types of Synthesis within Today's Software Instruments By Rich the Tweakmeister Spectrasonics Omnisphere Software Synth (Mac and Windows) Tweak's Pick Selecting a software synth for your studio is like going to a candy store. They all look soooo good. And with…
READ GUIDE →Using Propellerheads Reason
Understanding and Using Reason by the Tweak Pros Integrated music production package with synths, samplers, drum machines, effects, more requires no external hardware/software other than a midi keyboard and soundcard inexpensive Cons does not control external midi synths Reason and Accessories Cakew…
READ GUIDE →You passed the 1st course
You passed the 1st course Tweak's Guide to Recording Success Introduction For Noobs MIDI Basics Audio Basics Studio Rigs Studio Pics Past Studios Signal Flow System Guide Mac vs. PC Audio Interfaces Latency Install Issues Buy Gear Writing Music Inspiration Recorders Keyboards Controllers CC Events M…
READ GUIDE →A Good Sounding, reasonably priced rig
Tweak's Guide to Recording Success Introduction For Noobs MIDI Basics Audio Basics Studio Rigs Studio Pics Past Studios Signal Flow System Guide Mac vs. PC Audio Interfaces Latency Install Issues Buy Gear Writing Music Inspiration Recorders Keyboards Controllers CC Events MIDI Routing Mixers Underst…
READ GUIDE →Doing it with Digital: How to write music only in the digital domain
The Basic Process of Recording Tracks on a Computer Keep your tracks in the digital domain and get a better mix for less money by Tweak The home studio now has the ability to create music totally in the digital domain, thanks to the emergence of affordable digital gear, the evolution of midi/audio s…
READ GUIDE →Kaossilator Pro Review.html
New ways to shape your sound by SoundCravers Lab Korg Says: First came the Kaoss Pad, an effects processor with a revolutionary touch-sensitive X-Y interface that made sound manipulation more interactive and expressive than ever before. Then came the Kaossilator, a pocket-sized synth with basic loop…
READ GUIDE →Recipes for Song Construction with MIDI Sequencers and Synthesizers
How to Write a Song with Music Software by Tweak Newbs, you've come this far. (Tweak smiles, holding two fingers about 1 inch apart.). Its finally time to START making your music! If you master this page you will be this far along (Tweak hold his fingers about 1 foot apart.) This page is important a…
READ GUIDE →Review of Guru
Review of Guru The Ultimate Software Drum Machine? For those that dabble in the arts of electronica, and who experiment with what used to be called drum sounds, Guru fills several fundamental needs. Lets get down to business. Doing hip hop, trance, drum N Bass, house, world? You need a huge variety…
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