Are you an aspiring artist who wants to build your own recording studio? They say start small, but where do you really start? Having a home recording studio is something that is now becoming fairly common among music producers, artists, and even hobbyists. The thing about the modern recording studio today – is you really […]
I started a small recording studio back in the year 2008. During that time, asides from working on music and audio recording, I also extended to audio editing services. An audio job I often got then, was to remove vocals from music. My clients were people who wanted to turn their favorite songs into karaoke […]
Have you ever wanted to make a vocal track artistically sound like a robot? Well, a way to achieve that is to use a vocoder effect. In this post, you’ll learn how a vocoder works and how to use it in your music production. Let’s get started! A vocoder is an analog device or software […]
Ever wanted to remove vocals from a song? Maybe you need a karaoke track or you want to do some sampling. Luckily, with the tools and technology available these days, it’s quite easy to split music tracks into audio stems. In this post, I’ll break down 3 ways to remove vocals from your music. Let’s […]
Just recorded a vocal track, and looking for ways to add Most producers who work on vocals usually have their own vocal effect chain that becomes their signature sound. Typically it consists of some EQ, pitch correction, different types of compression, reverb, and delay. But things get interesting when producers dial in a little of […]
[UPDATED – 23rd November 2020] – Black Friday is here again. The biggest sale of the year is when musicians and producers get to buy the music gears, software, education, and stuff at discounted rates. In fact, aim to buy useful stuff that will help you produce better music. If you think about it, it’s […]
Working on a music production project on a slow computer can be very stressful. Imagine getting system dropouts everytime you hit play when composing. That’s an instant creative killer. In this article you will learn some tips to optimizing your Windows & Mac computer for music production. These tips may get you a small speed […]
The world of rock music has changed more since 2013 to now than I can ever remember before. In 2013, we saw a rise of the 80s synth-pop music and over the last couple of years, we’ve seen a huge push towards hip-hop and electronic production in rock. With this push towards music production, we’re […]
The weekend has finally arrived, and you hurry to your DAW with the excitement of a schoolboy to start arranging some tracks. You even decide to record a vocal track and suddenly its time to do some mixing. So you insert an equalizer plugin, add some reverb to the tracks and just as if on […]