musicproduction

With Emergent Drums 2 on sale for $79 right now, this is the most acknowledgement I’ve put towards the program/company since its initial release not too long ago....

If you’ve listened to some 90s and early 00s ambient-oriented tracks and tried to recreate their sounds with just a synth, you’ll notice that downsampling and bitcrushing won’t get you the same kind of sound you hear in there. It will sound dull(er) and less… complete, lush, rich? That is because back in the day artists...

There are a lot of great stereo imaging tools and spectrum analyzers. Most of them aren’t free though. Having a good way to visually analyze loudness, frequency distribution and stereo image is incredibly important. Unfortunately, it is often the case that most default or free solutions are barely functional. They don’t...

I think this worth sharing as it’s a useful reference.

Just wanted to write out this post to the waveform community and say my thanks to everyone who’s been participating and lurking in this community so far. It’s amazing to see your posts and projects here every day and it genuinely makes my day a little brighter to know that something I posted helped someone on the other side...

Just found this website where you can select your heaphones from the database and automtically generate different outputs for various EQs to adjust for linearity to help you with mixing.

For a set of headphones that is so extremely visible online and offers quite a unique feature, I couldn’t find much information on it that wasn’t hyperbolic. So here I hope to provide a nuanced view....

Making a great sounding pad is actually more tricky than getting some cool synth and drowning it in tons of reverb. I know I tried that the first time. And failed miserably. You don’t have to!...

Making a great sounding pad is actually more tricky than getting some cool synth and drowning it in tons of reverb. I know I tried that the first time. And failed miserably. You don’t have to!...

Lo-fi balcony - Like it or not ^^...

Dubstep growls may sound like they’re simple, but getting a good growl sound is way more than just distorting some waves to all hell (though it may be a part of it). Using your envelopes and LFOs to shape the sound through filters, distortion and other effects will get quite a bit more complicated....

This is addressed to somewhat experienced users who worked with both softwares:...

Do you ever feel like you can make a great loop but you can’t make a great song? I don’t know if that’s your experience, but I’ve been there before, and let me tell you, it’s a nightmare. It brings to question all of your skills that you have developed so far, because you’ve been able to cruise through without...

I’m in a place a lot of people get trapped in: lost in 4 or 8 bar loop hell....

As you might’ve noticed if you visited our community page after this post, I made a very cool looking banner (or so my mum tells me). Thing is, I don’t use that many plugins on my own, and what better way to make the banner look interesting than to put your favorite plugins in there? This page will also serve as a cool...

Mixing in mono is one of those production “tricks” that have solidified in my mixing routine to achieve clearer mixes. It’s a really easy shortcut to hearing levels and even frequencies of everything in your track without the distraction of stereo imaging. It also helps to figure out phase issues between closely tuned...

This is one of those techniques that can really push you over from intermediate to pro. You need a good grasp on compression: what it does to your instruments and how it affects their texture. Parallel compression is simple, yet subtlety is what makes it work, you need good ears for compression for this to work in your favor....

How do you mix lots of instruments? Do you balance them all out so you can hear every single one that’s playing? Then this one is probably for you!...