Hints and tips on how to record and produce music to create a "pro" sound. Includes advice on monitors, recording levels, effects, EQ, reverb, and mixing. It also explains how to add "gloss", prevent a muddy mix and how to work with MIDI and audio tracks.

Comparison guide details the differences between legal music download sites and p2p file sharing networks. Discover the advantages and disadvantages of getting free music downloads online, and learn how to get safe music downloads without lawsuit risks.

You've heard of DJs, now meet the VJ, or video jockey, the newest force in music videos, night clubs and music festivals. In the '70s, VJs ran film clips and projector slides, but today's VJ is a live performer who triggers video files in laptop computers using new software to spontaneously create imagery that appears to be in three dimensions.

MMORPG's require massive upfront investments. It costs c. $20 million to develop a game, not including later content development and technical support. Consequently, hitherto, such games constitute a tiny fraction of the booming video and PC gaming businesses. With combined annual revenues of c. $9 billion in 2001, these trades are 10 percent bigger than the film industry - and half as lucrative as the home video market. They are fast closing on music retail sales.

Now that you've spent hours and days and weeks and months recording your musical masterpieces (and you've also read my article "Tips for a Great Recording Session"), you have arrived at my favorite time in the studio; The Mixdown. But don't think your job is done yet! The mixdown is just as important