Music Production Blog Archive : read all our previous blog posts
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A different approach to music production.
Learn the skills to make better productions, from recording to mastering.
An overview of the various approaches to recording electric guitars. Mic placement and selection, using a D.I. and post processing options such as amp simulators.
Get the most from mastering by preparing your mix in an appropriate format. We look at sample rate, bit depth & dither, mix processing, headroom and file types.
Add that full and sub-bass kick drum sound to your with this simple production tip using an oscillator and side-chain triggered gate.
Some useful tips for keeping perspective whilst mixing and help ensure that processing and level decisions are as objective as possible.
Achieve a professional vocal sound that will sit right in a mix. We examine at what you can do at both the recording and mixing stages.
Panning is a simple but powerful tool for shaping your mix. We give you the 101 guide to creating productions with stereo interest.
This first production tip is a short one, but a good one. Clean up your mix with high and low pass filtering to create clarity, space and gain extra headroom.
We take a look at some of the advantages and disadvantages of entrusting your mix monitoring to headphones and how to work round these.
Take greater control over your compression and create unique effects by making use of the audio side-chain. This production tip also has an accompanying video.
This production tip examines the key reverb parameters and lifts the lid on creating your own unique reverbs from real acoustic spaces using convolution.
Why recording & mixing down as ‘hot’ a signal as possible isn’t always the best course of action. We give some practical advice about safe headroom in a digital system.
Take greater control over your dynamics processing by understanding parallel compression. Thicken and bring up detail in mix elements without loosing punch.
Tips and tricks from our engineers to help you with your music making
It's clear that changes in technology have been greatly enabling for the individual artist and it's something that can be felt at both ends of the musical food-chain.
iStock is a great source of quality royalty free images at very affordable prices. And now they want bring this successful model to the field of audio.
Inject some character into those all-digital productions using outboard processing. We look at some of the most popular lo-fi options for giving your tracks grit.
Your response to this will have a lot to do with how you consume music. Are you a sit down & appreciate a CD in its entirety person, or plugged into your iPod on shuffle?
Our 101 guide gives you everything you need to know to get started using equalization, one of the most popular tools in any engineer’s armoury.
We look at six options for adjust the width of individual mix elements, many of which are likely to be mono sources.
Making the right choices at this first stage in production can make like a lot easier during mixing and ultimately yield far better end results.
We test-drive three of the free Airwindows audio unit plugins for the mac and give you our verdict.
A first look at Amazon’s venture into the UK music download market.
