At AUDIOTUTS we’ve just launched a new Short Feed alongside our existing Full Feed. The short feed is very light-weight and designed to let you know only the title of new tutorials published at AUDIOTUTS so you can click back to the site to read the full post. If you find that our tutorials and articles are taking too long to load in your feed reader the Short Feed may be a perfect fit for you.

If you’re not already subscribed to AUDIOTUTS, this post will change your mind. If you’re not sure what all the fuss is about ‘feeds’, this post will also explain exactly why you should care.

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Recently, an AUDIOTUTS reader asked me about creative process. While this is a topic that can’t be made into a tutorial, I’d like to create an open comment thread here for readers and lurkers alike to come out of the woodworks and tell us how you take a song from beginning to end.

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It’s been four months since AUDIOTUTS hit the ol’ interweb and I’m happy today to announce it now has a new skin, inline with our updated TUTS theme that you might have spotted on sister sites PSDTUTS, NETTUTS and VECTORTUTS. Though four months doesn’t seem like a long time, AUDIOTUTS has been making great progress as a site with over 100 articles and tutorials, 10 appearances on the Digg homepage and a good three quarters of a million visitors since its inception! Continue Reading

Those of you who are using Twitter can get updates about new AUDIOTUTS tutorials and freebies as soon as they’re published. All you need to do is follow twitter.com/AUDIOTUTS!

Joel will also be periodically posting useful links, hints and updates for AUDIOTUTS readers. Why not follow PSDTUTS, NETTUTS or VECTORTUTS while you’re at it?

The Be a Cakewalk Coach competition was going to close last night — but luckily for you, we’ve extended the deadline until midnight on October the 10th. After that, entries are closed for good.

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To celebrate the release of pyro Audio Creator 1.5, Cakewalk has teamed up with AUDIOTUTS to bring you the Be a Cakewalk Coach! competition. Show off your ability to create cool video tutorials in true AUDIOTUTS style and you’ll be in the running to win a fantastic set of prizes.

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If you’re serious about your instrument, you practice. You either set aside blocks of time throughout the week or you trust yourself to pick up your guitar or start belting because you love doing it.

There are notable examples of musicians who don’t practice—take Slash from Guns N’ Roses, for example—but they sure did before they reached their peak (and they’d probably grow as players if they took it up again).

There’s just no getting around practice as an integral part of your continuing skill as an instrumentalist. Finger memory and fast chord changes, knowing your limits and expanding them, these are all things that come from dedicated, regular practice.

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Over at AudioJungle, we’re running a composition challenge. To enter, you take our motif in either MIDI or MP3 format, and incorporate it into your own composition - but the motif must remain the main theme of the track.

The reward for your labors? The winning contestant gets a brand new Mbox 2 Pro, which is valued at US$799 and comes with Pro Tools LE. It’s everything you need to make music at home.

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It can be pretty difficult to tell what you guys want to see here on AUDIOTUTS, whether we’re talking about tutorials themselves, or new features for the site.

Today, we’re giving you a way to tell us. We’re hoping that you guys will use this opportunity to let us know what you want, because it’s a subject that matters to us just as much as it matters to you.

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Today is a special day on our calendars here at Envato because on August 15th we launch the annual Blog Action Day campaign! As you may recall from 2007’s super successful campaign, the premise behind Blog Action Day is to get the world’s bloggers to unite to post on one important issue on the same day.

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