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Use appropriate speakers One beneficial knock-on effect of working in a dimensionally restricted home studio is that you can save serious money on your monitoring! With the iffy acoustics of [...]
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Get to know your DAW inside out Our first essential pointer should be obvious, but if you don’t know the technical nooks and crannies of your digital audio workstation [...]
1. Fire up those vintage synths and sample libraries Whether you’re working up an actual lo-fi track or just bringing some grit to an otherwise high-gloss mix, your first instrumental [...]
Know your analogue distortion types As with any complex signal processing type, in order to use distortion effectively, you need to be fully au fait with all the variants on [...]
Vocal sibilance and pitching issues These days, there’s no excuse for over-sibilant, pitchy vocals in any track. Ideally, you would hope to capture a musically flawless and technically pristine [...]
Among the most frequently called-upon of audio effects, delay is an essential component in every producer’s mixing arsenal. Whether you’re looking to add enriching echoes to a vocal, energise a [...]
Prevent kick and bass masking with EQ While the various components of the rhythm section are all ultimately meant to lock together tightly as a cohesive musical entity, without doubt [...]
Beatmaking – that is, the process of building fully fleshed-out loops using samples and synths, for working into complete songs via the subsequent addition of rapped and/or sung vocals – [...]
Make sure the bass is up to scratch It will come as no surprise that when it comes to establishing a fabulous sound of any kind, like so many [...]
