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Magazines for Recording Electronic Musicians

June 27, 2009

Today in the mail I received two of my three magazine subscriptions. (The third, as a bi-monthly mag, won’t be here for another month.) All three are related to creating music, and tend to focus on using computers to do that. Most of the articles center around DIY music creation and gear, as opposed to the idea of showing up to a studio, booking time and sitting back while someone else creates your “sound” and record (that’s rec-ord, not re-cord) for you. But I digress…

The first music magazine I subscribed to was Future Music. In addition to experimenting on my own, blogs, forums and other online recording websites had formed most of my working recording knowledge, but I was looking for a more passive form of keeping up with gear and other developments in music creation. The depth of most online content is rather shallow (and shrouded in noise and heavy amounts of clutter); the beauty of print is that by definition the content needs to be succinct and relatively good, if only because people must be convinced to actually buy it.

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