Realistic Orchestral Strings
Orchestral elements play a more significant role in today’s music than we might expect. They give the average listener something they can relate to and provide a sense of familiarity in everything from soundtracks and video games to film scores and Top 40 hits....
Learn How To Bend Your Sounds
Altering the sound characteristics with the help of distortion like effects have been present in music production for a long time. Consequently, over the past three decades, we got introduced to some pretty exciting sound processing units that alter the sound in soft...
Healthy Phase Relationships – Craft a Better Sounding Mix
Within the scope of music production, the phase has always been a concept most applicable and best understood in the context of audio recording. Within the sample based community, it is scarcely talked about, yet it remains a quintessential part of getting a full...
Make Unusual Drum Loops with Comb Filter
We all got used to applying equalizers, compressors and different LP/HP filters to the drum loops and drums in general. However sometimes, if not always, being creative really pays off. Applying multiple effects on drum loop is fun, but recently I came across a cool...
10 Essential Tips For Setting Up Your Home Studio
A common misconception among today’s musicians is that good recordings can only be made in big studios. The truth is that over the past three decades, the music industry has changed a lot. Recordings, which needed expensive consoles and microphones can now be easily...
7 Useful Modulation Effects Tips
It would be unlikely to find a fair comparison to modulation effects in nature. For example, the flanging effect could be described as a “jet plane” passing by, and that would be the closest comparison. Effects such as flanger, phaser, chorus, or ring modulation fall...
Generate a Stereo Image
Setting the right stereo image in modern music production has become a technology by itself, a really complex one I might add. From TV audio productions, gaming audio and all the way up to electronic music genres, the stereo image of the final sound product is one of...
The Complete Guide to Understanding Compression
Today, many DAW users tend to operate compressors without enough background knowledge - without knowing what compressors “actually” do. Compression can be a blessing or a curse. It can make a poor performance sound tight or ruin the dynamics of a good...
