So you want to produce music from home and make great music. Good! Despite what many ‘industry pros’ will tell you, it is possible to create world class music from home studios. In fact, having your own home recording studio allows for more creative time, compared to recording in a commercial studio where you’ll be […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Making a screencast of your DAW on a Mac is pretty easy. However, recording a DAW screencast on Windows DAW is a nightmare. I finally found a way to record screencast my DAW on Windows with ASIO. I’ve done my homework. There is NO screencasting software on Windows that can record ASIO right from your […]
Decided to record ideas down into your DAW? Here are 10 midi controllers worth considering this year. New year has passed and you made your resolution to make better music this year. Time to work your music career? When it comes to making music on your computer, no matter what you are, a DJ, producer, […]