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Bands and Artists

Can You Be A Session Musician?

Your Band Will Break Up - Prepare Ahead of Time

Rock bands, tips to improve your band

Getting Started With Guitar Playing

Starting A Band: A Few Tips

Live Sound Tips

More Live Sound Fundamentals

Live Band Etiquette: Keep Your Set's Length In Check

Preparing For Recording

10 Things Every Band Should Know Before Recording

You Can Have Too Much Excitement On A Recording

Cancel Your Vocal Recording Session

If You Ignore Tone, You've Missed The Point Of Music

Put Your Time Into Tracking Your Recording...Not so much on mixing

Opening Big Studio Pro Tools Drums In Vegas

Choosing The Songs To Put On Your Upcoming Record

A Few Problems With Guitar Riffs

Promotion and Marketing

Myspace Music Marketing:: An Interview With Derek Pearson of Promise To Burn

Why Artist Development Makes A Difference

Band Marketing 101: If You Can't Sell 100 Cds, You Suck!

Getting Started With Music Marketing

Band Marketing 101: Always Have CDs To Sell

Tour AFTER You've Conquered Your Home Town

What Are Your Goals For Your Music?

Learn From The Successful Local Bands

What Is Your Band Doing That Is Newsworthy?

Use Name Brand CD-Rs

The Problem With CD Release Parties

What's The Difference Between CD Duplication and CD Replication?

Bands: Your Members Vote With Their Dollars

Don't Let The RIAA Ruin Your Band

What Are Fans Of Your Band Looking For?

Is TAXI Right For You?

Songwriting

Blow Up The Planet With Your Songwriting

Why A Songwriter Needs Midi

Songwriting 101: Are You Afraid Of Writing A Bad Song?

Songwriting: A Couple Of Reasons Why A Song Might Suck

Song Co-Writing: When A Band Member Doesn't Like Your Part

Songwriting 101: Make a Song Useless Without Vocals

Technical Guides

How Watts and Audio Amplifiers Work Together

Book Reviews

The Expert Encyclopedia of Recording ? Book Review

Gear Reviews

Primera Bravo CD Duplication and Printing System Review

Music Equipment Ebay Scam

Guitar Gear

Musician's Friend: Why I like these guys!

Guitar Amps

Marshall JCM 800 review

Guitar Amp Speakers- A little education

Epiphone Valve Junior head review

Guitar amps- the most important factor for great tone

Guitar Amp Review: Fender Pro Jr.

Marshall JCM 800 50 Watt Review

Guitar Effects and Pedals

Boss CE-2 Chorus Review

MXR phase 90 review

Boss TU-2 tuner review

My Favorite Guitar effects pedals: Distortion, Overdrive ,Delay, Phase

Boss Tu-2 Tuner Pedal : Tips For More Accurate Guitar Tuning

Guitar Eq: A misunderstood subject

Digitech Bad Monkey Overdrive Guitar Pedal Review

Guitar Pickups

Lindy Fralin pick up review

Seymour Duncan pickups review: The '59 bridge model

Guitar Pickups- When to upgrade and why

Review of EMG 81 Active Pickup For Electric Guitar

Guitars

Gibson Les Paul Jr. Guitar review

Heritage guitars: Who are they and why they are so cool!

"Lawsuit" guitars: a little info to get you started

Electric Guitars: Fender American tele review

Gibson guitars: My take on the recent quality debate

Gibson Les Paul Juniors, don't overlook these guitars

Les Paul Long neck Tenons, what are they and what does it mean?

Guitar Tuners: Boss TU-15

Guitar: How to tune the guitar Correctly so it really sounds in tune.

Gibson Guitars Factory Tour: Memphis, TN

Epiphone Electric guitars: Mod tips to get the most out of your guitar

Gibson Les Paul aluminum tailpiece: Are they better?

Agile electric guitars: My favorite Budget brand under $400

Electric guitars: How to buy a "good" one

Hamer guitars- One of the best bargains out there

Acoustic guitars- How to get more sustain and clarity

Electric guitars- Best Buys under $500

Guitar cables- Do they make a difference in tone?

Guitar Solos - Tips To Improve Your Lead Guitar Playing

Electric Guitar- How to Get Great Tones for Recording or Live Performance

Guitar intonation on electric guitar- How to guide 101

Guitar tuning problems and how to fix them fast

How to string a Acoustic or Electric guitar

Mic Preamps

Microphone Preamp Mistakes and Lessons

Preamp Fundamentals I Learned At Michael Wagener's

Guitar / Bass Preamp Shootout: API, Vintech, Great River, Mackie, and Presonus

Microphones

Soundelux U99 Condenser Microphone Review

Audio Technica AT4033 Condenser Microphone Review

Audio Technica AT4050 Large Diaphragm Condenser Microphone Review

Producers

Producing: What The Old People Are Trying To Tell Us

Producing 101 : How Arranging Effects Audio Engineering

Democracy Kills Music

Producing 101: Pay Studio Musicians

Vocals Should Be Over The Top

Drum Editing: Just Get Drum Performances Right While Tracking!

The Power Of Producing

An Audio Engineering Epiphany: The Point To Using Samples, Midi, and Line6

Hey Producer, Spend Time With Your Bands

The Importance Of Recording In-Tune Instruments

Who In The Hell is Michael Wagener?

Going To A Big Studio For Drums?

When The Brain Gets In The Way Of Music

Spec Deals: A Few Things A Producer Should Consider

Recording Computers / DAW

Recording Computer Troubleshooting: Is Your Operating System Clean?

Choosing A Computer For Home Recording

Format Windows XP On Your Dell, HP, Gateway, or other Name Brand Computer

Home Recording Computers: Clicks, Pops, and Latency

How To Build A Computer For Home Recording

Recording Engineers

Tips For Recording A Violin

Electric Guitar Recording: How Much Distortion? Volume?

Why Did You Start Your Recording Studio?

Vocal Recording: The Pencil In Front Of The Condenser Microphone Trick

Day #6 Nasvhille Studio Field Trip Day at the Michael Wagener Recording Workshop

Does Pro Recording Gear Belong In Your Living Room?

Recording Gear Can Impact The Emotion of The Song

Day #5 Tracking at the Michael Wagener Recording Workshop

Day #4 Electric Guitar Recording at the Michael Wagener Recording Workshop

Day #4 Vocal Recording at the Michael Wagener Recording Workshop

Day #3 Michael Wagener Recording Workshop

Day #2 Michael Wagener Recording Workshop

Day #1 Michael Wagener Recording Workshop

Acoustic Guitar Recording

Acoustic Guitar Recording: Choosing The Right Guitar and Pick

Acoustics

Live Room Acoustics vs Control Room Acoustics

Acoustics and How It Effects The Music Recording Process

Audio Mixing

Audio Mixing Problems ? Maybe It's The Song

Why Do Mixes Sound Terrible In The Car?

Are You Aggressive At Music Mixing?

Are Your Studio Monitors Lying? Are You Just Not Listening?

Music Mixing Trick: Run Everything Through A Delay

New Big Boy Audio Mixing Tricks

15 Uses For A Compressor

Getting Your Mixes Loud

Using Gates 101

Volume Automation: The Most Powerful Mixing Tool

A Few Tips For Reducing Vocal Sibilance

Audio Plugins

Free Audio Plugins

Bass Recording

Audio Recording / Mixing 101: Getting Bass Guitar To Cut Through

Drum Recording

How Hard Should Drummers Play On Recordings?

The Secret To The Myspace Drum Sound

Drum Recording: Why Small Rooms Suck

Drums Sounds Drastically Change From Song To Song

Drum Recording: A Weak Kick Drum Can Nearly Ruin Your Snare Drum Tone

What is a well tuned snare drum?

Electric Guitar Recording

How To Deal With A “Picky” Mid Scooped Guitarist

My Current Approach To Rock and Metal Guitars

My Electric Guitar Recording Secret Weapon

Electric Guitar Recording; My Favorite Guitar Microphones: Shure SM57 Royer R121

Identical Guitar Speakers Sound Different

Electric Guitar Recording: 2 Mics On A Guitar Amp? #2

Electric Guitar Recording: More Than One Mic On A Guitar Amp?

Getting Started

Drum Microphone Packages: Why I Don't Like Them

Pitching Your Non-Pro Tools Studio To Clients

Getting Started With DAW Control Surfaces and Faders

Professional Recording Engineers and Producers: Are they all divorced?

The Basics To The Recording Studio Business

Getting Started With Microphone Placement

Why You Don't NEED A Mixer For Home Recording

The Problem With Simple Recording Software

Getting Started With Parametric EQ

Getting Started With Mixers and Mixing Consoles

The Basics Of Setting Gain Structure

Home Recording Studio: Getting Started

How To Achieve Pro Recording Quality

The Basics Of Recording Studio Soundproofing

What To Look For In A Microphone

Vocal Booths: Why You Don't Need One!

Acoustic Guitar String Noise

Home Recording Gear Help For Songwriters

Using Analog Limitations In A Digital Recording World

Why ?Fix In The Mix? Doesn't Work

Microphones Don't Make THAT Much Difference

Recording School? The Right Career Move?

Microphones Every Recording Engineer Should Own

Getting Too Obsessed With Sound Quality and Missing The Point

The Other Fastest Way To Improve Your Audio Recordings

Home Stereo Speakers vs Studio Monitors

Moving My Studio Monitors Changed Everything

The Truth About Studio Monitors

Want Better Sound Quality? Record Better Bands!

When The Audio Recording Going Gets Tough

What Is A Good Mic?

There Is No Such Thing As A Vocal Microphone

Why Recording Computers Blow Away Standalone Units

Mastering

Understanding Audio Mastering: An Interview With Eric Conn

Midi Sequencing and Sampling

MIDI Controllers 101

Getting Started With Midi Sequencing

Software Samplers: How Much RAM?

Getting Started With Cubase SX3 Tutorials

Music Recording Software

Technical Problems

Soundcard Troubleshooting 101

Windows XP Freezes After Loading Mup.sys

Recorded Wrong Sample Rate With Vegas 3.0

Vocal Recording

Vocal Recording: Vocal Doubling 101

The Pain Test: A Quick Vocal Microphone Recording Test

Blogs

Is A Control Surface Right For Me?

A $100 Microphone Is Like Your First Girlfriend

A Few Notes About PCI Sound Cards and Audio Interfaces

A Solution To The Lieing Studio Monitors Problem

A Year And A Half In The Life Of Metallica

Acoustic Treatment for the Recording Studio

Another Boomy Mix - My Monitors Still Lie

Another Stupid Studio Monitor Review

Attending My First Nashville Mastering Session

Audio Interface Reviews Up and Running

Austin Recording Studio

Avoid Windows XP Media Center Edition For Home Recording

BBE Sonic Maximizer

Boiling Bass Strings Saved The Day

Brand New Forum Software

Brand New Thread That Pays - Musical Epiphanies?

Changing Colors In Cubase SX3

Compress Your Music....Hard!!

Confusion With Loop Pedals

Cubase SX3 After 8 Hours

Cubase SX3 Dongle / USB Key Problems Solved

Cubase SX3 First Day Tips

Cubase SX3 Tutorials

Cubase SX3 Tutorials

Direct Guitar Technology is FINALLY Here

Do Your Really Believe In Your Band? Prove It With your $$$

Does A Musician Need A Website These Days?

Does Computer Recording Fight Creativity

Don't Rush The Recording Process

Drum Mixing: Parallel Compression

Electric Guitar Mixing Tips

Eric Conn Masters Number One Country Hit

Evidence That Piracy Is Not Responsible For RIAA Sales Drops

First Audio Interface Drivers For Vista Announced

Free Kjaerhus VST Compressor Plugin Great For Parallel Compression

From Producing To Engineering

Guitar Intonation and Setup

Hard Panning Room Tracks Brought My Drums To Life

Hot Coffee and Recording Computer Motherboards

How MP3s Effect The Loudness Wars

I Moved My Mackie HR824 Studio Monitors

I Need A Sequencer

If You Buy An Apple Iphone, I HATE you

Killer Harvey Gerst Microphone Post!

Killer Vocal Compression Post

Learning Cubase VST 5 Not Going Well

Learning To Groove With Midi Drum Sequencing and SX3

Look At How Band Members Spend Their Time

Lost My Sansamp Bass DI... Didn't Need It!

Massive Cubase LE Upgrade Deal!!!

Mastering: What Do You Want To Know?

Mega Acoustic Guitar Recording Tips

Michael Wagener / King's X Recording Workshop

Michael Wagener Workshop In November 2007

Micheal Wagener Nuendo Workshop

Midi Sequencers Still Require Human Touch

Mosquito Ringtone

Music Downloads

My First Blown Celestion G12H30 Guitar Speaker

My First Great Vocal Sound With AT4050

Native Instruments Komplete $700 OFF!!

Native Instruments Komplete ? TOO MUCH!!!!!!

New Laws Band Secondhand CDs

New Michael Wagener Recording Workshop In August

New York Recording Studio

Opening hdtv.lol Rar files

Panning Position Causing Problems With Mixes Translating

Post SWSX Austin Texas Recording Gear Showcase

Presonus Firepod

Producing: Is Emotion Optional?

Producing: Underproducing vs Overproducing

Recording Big Drum Kits

Recording Software: On The Job Tutorials

Recording Studio Directory

Recording Studio Furniture

Relearning Cubase VST 5.1

Should You Reference A Major Label CD While Mixing?

Songwriting: The Importance of Daily Repetition

Sonic Foundry Reverb... Awesome on Snare Drums?

Switching To Steinberg Cubase SX 3

Take All The Plugins Off The Vocals

The Difference Between Line Level and Hi-Z

The Power of Guitar EQ In Home Recording

The Power Of Moving Speakers 6 inches

The Unimportance Of Tuning

Tracking: Should You Monitor With Headphones Or Speakers?

Trouble With Tube Condenser Microphones

UAD-1 vs Focusrite Liquidmix vs TC Powercore

Walmart Guitars Are Not Worth The Price

Want Amazing Sound Quality? Quit Trying!

When Did "Hit Songs" Become Garbage?

Why I Don't Recommend USB Microphones

Yamaha 01V96: My First Day

Yamaha 01V96: One Show Under My Belt

Yamaha NS-10 Studio Monitors... YUCK!!

Zildjian A Custom Fast Crash

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