Most activities in life take serious time, effort, and dedication to learn. Mixing and mastering are no different. Mixing and mastering are essential components of the music creation process. This is why musicians will spend a lot of money hiring the very best music producers in the world to work on their songs and albums. …
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Ableton is one of the many Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs) available for home music production and the one I am the most familiar with. I have exclusively used Ableton Live Standard (first version 10 and now version 11) for my music recording, mixing, and mastering since 2020. I don’t see myself switching to a different …
The bass is one of my favorite instruments to play. It may not get as much recognition as the guitar, but it is the backbone of most genres. Without the bassline, most songs will feel empty. Bass is typically responsible for the low end of the music, with the main frequency ranging somewhere between 40 …
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At last, you have finished recording your song. Every piece has been recorded flawlessly with no mistakes. So now you are all done and ready to upload and have all your fans listen, right? Not so fast. The next step after recording your tracks is to mix and master them. Even if the recordings are …
Creating music in your home studio is easier now than ever before. With a modest financial investment, you can be well on your way to a fully functional home recording studio. But even if you don’t want to spend money, you can still create good-quality audio recordings just by using a smartphone and some free …
The music we hear blasting through our speakers on a Sunday morning or through the privacy of our headphones has to go through a long journey until it reaches us. People often forget that mixing and mastering is an important part of this journey and how much work and time goes into songs, and albums …
Anyone who has lived near a drummer can tell you…drums are loud. When a drummer is practicing, everyone knows it. And drums are not exactly a low-maintenance instrument to travel with either. So why do we put up with it? Because when it comes down to it, the drum set is probably the most important …
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Anyone who has ever been in a band knows that, for better or worse, the vocals are the star the music. Of course, there are bona fide rock star guitarists, bassists, and drummers but there’s a reason that John Fogerty has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and the rest of Creedence doesn’t. …
It had been coming for a while, but when Kanye West released an album titled 808s and Heartbreaks it was official: The 808 is a legend. This assertion requires a little bit of unpacking- and translation. “808” is shorthand for the Roland TR-808 drum machine, an early electronic instrument. This unit was only manufactured from …
At the risk of sounding trite, the point of music is to make sounds that make people happy. I don’t think a more basic definition of music is possible- beyond that, all bets are off. Regardless of the way you’re making music, and how you’re trying to sound good, we can agree on one thing: …
