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You’ve refined your latest mix, and tested it on various speakers and systems. Does it sonically stand up alongside your favourite commercial releases? What about that final 5% of sparkle, weight, depth and loudness? It needs mastering, of course! “Shadow the best in the business…” Pro engineers have years of experience, a tuned acoustic environment, full-range monitors and – most importantly – that impartiality that you just don’t have after listening to the same track over and over in a lesser room. So why not shadow the best in the business? We’ll do just that on p20 as we enter the world-famous Metropolis Mastering studios for a series of exclusive attended sessions. Find out how Stuart Hawkes, Tony Cousins and Andy ‘Hippy’ Baldwin fine-tune tracks with high-end analogue equipment. After…
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Focusrite Red Suite Get the legendary manufacturer’s own modelled EQ and compressor plugins, and see them at work on p52 Sample packs GOLDBABY CM PACK 2016 The aficionados’ choice of sample label brings you hundreds of analogue samples, p106 BONUS HOUSE SAMPLES Over 2000 genre-specific samples pulled from our huge archive, to download with this issue, p106 LOOPMASTERS SAMPLES An ace selection from the biggest name in the sampling game – grab them on your PC/Mac, p107 CM Plugins Our exclusive collection of free plugins for Mac and PC. See what’s available on pcm108…
Tutorial videos High-quality videos to guide you through our tutorials. Wherever you see the icon on the left, there’s a video version to watch See this issue’s entire video content on the next pages Tutorial files A folder full of audio examples, synth patches and project files to help you follow our tutorials This digital content has been thoroughly scanned and tested at all stages of production, but as with all new software, we still recommend that you run a virus checker before use. We also recommend that you have an up-to-date backup of your hard drive before using the content. Future cannot accept responsibility for any disruption, damage and/or loss to your data or computer system that may occur while using this magazine’s programs and/or data. Consult your network…
PROFESSIONAL MASTERING SECRETS Step inside the top engineers’ high-end studios, then apply their expert techniques yourself in software Read the full article on p20 FOCUSRITE RED 2 & RED 3 Two hugely high-end plugins, worth £229, are yours to download for free with this issue Read the full article on p52 PIMP YOUR DAW Spruce up your DAW with custom colours, bespoke skins and personalised icons Read the full article on p65 CLASSIC HIP-HOP Program head-noddin’ beats and vibe-laden riffs for days with our expert video tutorials Read the full article on p57 To download these videos onto your PC/Mac, get yourself along to vault.computermusic.co.uk and register this issue…
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