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An audio enthusiast website offers tips on how to record a kick drum performance. The author recommends using more than one microphone. He recommends placing one mike inside the drum and another just outside. He details the brand names of the mikes. In the case of the kick drum he recommends a small speaker placed very near the head of the drum. While this speaker can be jury rigged, there are commercial ones available. Audio files are offered.

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Buying exclusive rights to a song may be a good idea, but it’s not always the best idea. To determine whether you should buy or lease a track, first create a budget. This budget should include the song, the recording session, mixing and mastering the track, and any required art or video. If you feel your budget is too tight, perhaps leasing is the better option. Leasing is usually the better choice for producers and buyers alike.

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A website for recording enthusiasts features an instructional video on how to change a sound track by simply clicking on it. The curve that signifies the way the music sounds is called a Bezier curve. The editor can do it by mouse or by clicking the keys Alt and Drag. In addition, the editor can use the mouse to adjust the process of fading sound tracks in or out. The program used to do this is called Reaper.

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A music blog offers a review of Sonar 2017.03, an update to a software program designed to manipulate musical instrument digital interface (MIDI) files. The updated program has an improved and easier to use control section. The stored music tracks are marked in colors for ease of tracking in music projects. The new program shows double the number of tracks as the previous version. The editor can easily edit tracks with a tool called Smart Swipe.

Read more: SONAR 2017.03: MIDI, Back to the Future

Phobos is one of two very small satellites of the planet Mars. It was discovered along with its smaller companion, Deimos, by Asaph Hall at the Naval Observatory in Washington DC in August 1877. The moons are named after the children of the Greek god Ares – who, like the Roman Mars, is the god of war. Deimos means ‘terror’ or ‘panic’ and Phobos means ‘fear’.
Phobos has an equatorial orbit, which is almost circular. It orbits once every 7 hours 39 minutes just 5989 km above the surface of Mars. Its orbit is decaying by 1.8 cm per year, so it is expected to crash into Mars, or break up to leave a ring of fragments around the planet, within 100 million years. The orbital period of Phobos is three times faster than the rotation period of Mars, with the unusual result among natural satellites that Phobos rises in the west and sets in the east as seen from Mars. It orbits so close to the surface of Mars that the curvature of the planet would obscure its view from an observer standing in Mars’ polar regions.

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