Recording / making sound

How the heck do you get noises into your DAW, whether that’s dropping samples into a drum machine, creating your wickedest bass sound on the latest synthesiser or recording your most recent heartfelt love song? We look at all those methods in this section.

Recording Audio

We all want to know which type of mic is best for what, and how to position it. It’s also very useful to understand how to make the cleanest recording you can. We cover that in this section.

Synthesis Types

Oh wow, there are soooo many types of synthesis (and occasionally new types invented) but we will cover the main 5 types here. Subtractive, Additive, Wavetable, FM/PM and Physical Modelling. If you want to understand sound design this is a great place to start.

Samplers

Samplers playback samples. They can also do strange things like granular processing and spectral deconstruction for utter sonic madness.