While the sound and style of the most popular music has changed dramatically from decade to decade, one thing which has never gone out of style is the importance of a chorus in a song. In fact, if you listen to the top ten hits from one year or even one decade to the next, […]
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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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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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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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Mastering services are the last step in completing a record. Mastering is also one of the more nebulous terms related to music production which not many people have a firm grasp on but it’s an essential final step which can significantly improve your recordings in a number of ways. Let’s talk about why mastering services
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CD mastering is a bit of an enigma and a nebulous process when it comes to audio editing. It is the final stage before a record goes off to be replicated and have thousands or millions of copies of it burned. Many people are still unclear as to what is the purpose of CD mastering?
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In this article I’m going to give you four pieces of songwriting advice so that you can write better and more memorable songs and books. Play An Instrument My first piece of songwriting advice is pretty generic but it’s extremely important. I completely recommend that you have experience with an instrument which can play chords
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One of the greatest hurdles in songwriting is getting over that first step of starting on a song and getting that first part. You need sources of inspiration for songwriting for getting past that first hurdle and I personally draw from a number of different sources for where to get inspiration for songwriting. In this
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