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Ableton Live: Creative Sidechain Auto Filter Effect
Icon Alumni Neurologix takes you into Ableton Live to demonstrate a creative sidechaining LFO effect using Live's Auto Filter.
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Ableton Live: Multiband Effects Processing
Watch Icon Instructor Paul Laski enhance a pad sound with a custom multiband effects processing rack created in Ableton Live. Free Chorus Rack download!
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15 Best Studio Monitors for Music Production
Looking for the best studio monitors? This Icon Picks roundup features a selection of studio monitors that offer professional sound at a reasonable price.
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5 Ways to Increase Perceived Loudness
This guide outlines five methods musicians use to boost the perceived loudness of sounds and achieve a more balanced mix.
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5 Free VST Plugins: September 2017
This roundup of freeware plugins features a software sampler, drum synth, multiband compressor, tube saturator, and a waveform oscilloscope.
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How to Finish Tracks When Feeling Stuck
Icon’s Nik Cherwink discusses the hardships musicians face when striving to finish tracks and offers advice on how to work through creative barriers.
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Music Theory: Melodic Bassline Techniques
Take a seat at the piano with Instructor RYKR as he demonstrates how to play a more melodic sounding bassline with slash chords.
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5 Ways to Overcome Creative Block
This guide serves as a resource that offers five methods used by musicians to help you keep your head in the game and work through creative obstacles.
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