One thing which most professional, high end recorded drum kits all seem to have in common is a nice, thick kick drum sound. I hear some mixes where the kick drum sounds more like a confused snare. A nice heavy and pronounced low end in general is a good start in making your mix sound […]
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One of the most important questions for musicians is how should they release their music? This is especially true in the digital age of the internet. While there are online music stores where you can actually sell your music either in physical or digital format to your fans, music streaming sites are now gaining considerable
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Thanks to digital recording, the standard 24bit format allows for a lot of dynamic range between clipping and the noise floor, 144dB to be exact (1 bit = 6dB signal to noise ratio; 24*6dB=144dB). This means that rather than worrying about the noise floor at all, you can just focus entirely on staying a healthy
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Today we’re going to talk about how to write a song title. Generally this isn’t difficult after you’ve penned an entire or the majority of a song worth of music and lyrics. You more or less know what the title will be at that point and if you don’t you can just pull your favorite
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Chord progressions exist in every single piece of music ever written. While the focus will generally be on a solo in one form or another whether that’s being delivered by the vocals/lyrics or by instruments, the chord progressions in the background are what give those solos a canvas to exist on and are what make
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A compressor is one of the most powerful processing plugins you can use on your recordings either by an analog hardware device or through a digital plugin. In this article we’ll answer what does a compressor do. Compression literally means to compress or to squeeze something together, and that’s essentially what this plugin does to
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Once the recording stage has fully wrapped and it’s time to roll up the sleeves and get to mixing, it can be a big time-saver if you know the best order of mixing, or more specifically the proper order to set your levels. In this article we’re going to talk about the order of mixing.
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You can use songwriting chords to find a nice progression which sounds good under whatever melody you’re writing specifically at the time, and this can be a great way to develop upon an idea or just find the best progression to play under that melody. Having a solid understanding of songwriting chords can take you
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Before you do anything else to a mix, proper gain staging is the first aspect of mixing which should be addressed. This means before adding any processing to tracks, before even setting levels of different tracks in relation to each other. Gain staging occurs in both the recording and mixing stages of audio production. The
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I’ve talked at length in the past why getting your music mastered is so important. Forget the sequencing and the fact that it takes your collection of songs and makes it into a flowing full fledged record; mastering simply makes your music SOUND better. Thanks to the internet you can submit your digital recordings of
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