Building Your Own Professional Sound Panels – 5 Years Later
[Links to building the sound panels below] Time flies when you’re having fun the old cliché saying goes. For me, five years ago, I was in the trenches for a good week going down a rabbit hole not...
View ArticleIs the car test still relevant?
“My first mix sounds awesome in my car!” Said no producer ever… Every producer and mixer knows the struggle; the infamous car test. You know the drill. You print a near-perfect mix in your home studio...
View ArticlePro SONAR User Murray Daigle Holds Mixing Clinics at LONG & MCQUADE – ONTARIO
Producer/Songwriter/Mixer Murray Daigle out of Toronto concludes a successful short run of Mixing clinics this evening at Long & McQuade stores in Canada. Murray Daigle is a Toronto based Music...
View ArticleThe Miracle of Mid-Side EQ: Rock Your Mixes and Masters
by Craig Anderton Sure, the LP EQ is a great linear-phase, stereo EQ. But it was designed for mid-side processing as well as conventional stereo, so let’s explore what mid-side processing is about, and...
View ArticleThe Dynamic Gate | A Cleaner Way To Mix Drums
by Daniel Gonz Gates are wonderful processors that can clean up background noise and bleed in your audio tracks. They’re a bit tricky to understand because the key to successfully using one is often a...
View ArticleHOW The Duke Western USES SONAR TO CREATE MUSIC FOR DUCK DYNASTY (AND MORE)
Here at Cakewalk we are fortunate to have an external team of rocket scientists who help test out SONAR beta releases. This team is dedicated, passionate and most of all appreciated by all of us...
View ArticleHow iLan Bluestone used SONAR Platinum on his new track “Bigger Than Love”...
Just a few short years ago, we learned of a new up-and-coming artist who was using SONAR. After introducing ourselves and learning more, the one thing that kept resonating were the infectious melodies...
View ArticleCakewalk Talk Episode 3 Part 1 – Interview with Daniel Rowland from LANDR
Check out the latest episode of Cakewalk Talk, where Dan Gonzalez interviews audio engineer Daniel Rowland (Adrian Belew, StudioBelew, Accept) about LANDR and his role at the company. We’ve posted a...
View ArticleArtist Spotlight; Eric Hansen—How He Gets Big Pro Soundinig Results at Home
“Is it World Music?” “Is it Spanish Music?” “Is this Jazz?” “Is this in the Acoustic Genre?” Fortunately for guitar virtuoso and now-Pro D.I.Y’er Eric Hansen, the simple answer to these questions he...
View ArticleMining Gold from PA Recordings with SONAR
by Craig Parmerlee – SONAR user since SONAR 7 SONAR and other DAWs are used heavily to produce high-quality recordings, while other people use SONAR as part of a compositional process. I find that...
View Articlepanup: Studio Session & LANDR Test
by Panu Pentikäinen (panup at Cakewalk forums) Alex ja Armottomat (Alex) visited my recording studio in February. We had five days total to do a fully mastered CD, make promo photos of the band, and...
View Article5 Ways to Widen Your Mix
At some point, nearly every mixer has experienced this: “My mix sounds great, but this mix by (Bob Clearmountain, George Massenburg, Joe Barresi, etc.) sounds so much wider… How do they do that?” Aside...
View ArticleAnatomy of a Project: A Nontraditional Approach to a Commercial Recording
By Jimmy Landry Last summer, Peppina—a young female artist from Finland— plunged herself into the NYC music scene for two months. With the help of renowned NYC entertainment attorney Steven Beer who...
View ArticleColoring Your Sound With Reverb: Part 1 – Convolution Reverb
With so many different reverb options available, it can sometimes be hard to know where to begin. This series will focus on helping you make your reverb decisions more efficiently by identifying the...
View Article15-Compressor Shootout: Lead Vocals
No question, there are a lot of compressor plugins out there, and they all have their unique layouts, quirks, and sonic qualities. In the video below, we line up 15 different compressors and...
View ArticleParallel Compression: Now Easier Than Ever
A few years back, we showed you a bit about Parallel Compression in SONAR. Now that we’ve introduced Patch Points in the Jamaica Plain update, you can do these same things with a much more efficient...
View ArticleThe Evolution of Comping
Compiling or “Comping” takes is relatively new to sound recording. With the increased ability of technology has come the increased desire to comp with excruciating attention to detail, sometimes all...
View ArticleFive Reasons Why Patch Points Rock
By Craig Anderton Looking for some advanced, interesting, or downright weird ways to use the new Patch Points feature? Here you go: Signal Splitter Suppose you want to split one track to several...
View Article5 Tools To Get “That Analog Sound” From SONAR
With the advent of digital audio, some feel a certain quality associated with the analog signal path has been lost. While that may have been true at one point, analog emulations have come a long way...
View ArticleHOW ILAN BLUESTONE APPROACHES HIS CHARTING EDM TRACKS
SONAR Platinum artist iLan Bluestone’s career trajectory is moving fast. The jet-setting EDM producer is touring the world, but was kind enough to share not only his time with us discussing his music...
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