Tell your family you’re thinking of starting your home recording studio and I’m sure you’ll get those bewildered stares. Are you serious? Can you survive in the music recording business? That are just two of the endless questions and doubts you’ll get from your family and friends. I’ve been there. I finished high school and […]
You can have the best musical ideas and plugins on earth, but it isn’t going to do you any good if you are not mixing effectively because of your studio monitors. In this guide I’ll talk about the 5 tips you can take to monitor better in your studio towards a better mix. Tip 1 […]
Last week I got my hands on Whoosh Machine, a kontakt instrument developed by Sonic Faction that creates the risers, downrisers and noise that we so often use in electronic music. I found it to be pretty amazing – you can now create risers easily with correctly timed lengths and even dial up a knob […]
Writing email headlines and content titles that work are part of successful blogging. This includes you, musicians, and producers. I believe everyone in different industries should blog about their services and what they do. When you share knowledge and ideas, you attract people to your music and brand. There’s a problem though. As you go […]
I’ve been getting a few requests lately on how to create 808 kicks, so I thought I’ll do a short tutorial on it. It’s really not hard to create a solid-sounding 808 sample, so here we go. Watch the video here: And if you made some music with the samples, show it off by posting […]
It’s amazing how MIDI existed, eveolved and has brought music making to a different level. Then there are some people who simply have to exploit MIDI. Watch the video [fbvideo link=”https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=814019401984751&set=vb.398545810198781&type=2&theater” width=”640″ height=”450″ onlyvideo=”0″] Saw this on Faebook the other day & thought it was funny to share this. Watch this and you’ll […]
Did some audio recording and ended up having a noisy recording? You might still be able to save the audio with these restoration techniques, so don’t throw that audio away yet. Perhaps you had a video recorded and the audio is so noisy that you are looking for how to remove noise from the video. In […]
You’ll be amazed to hear the music quality recorded from home recording studios. That being said, should you go for a Windows PC or a Mac? There is a war going on because of this subject itself, but having produced on a Mac & Windows before, let me give you my insights. Should You Buy A Mac? […]
Knowing what a de-esser is and how to use it can make your production shine. You’ll hear these types of amateur-ish sounding music a lot. No matter how good your mix sounds, the entire mix can be spoilt with those annoying ‘s’ sibilance, usually in vocal tracks. What’s Sibilance Really? Sibilance is the hissing sound […]