Reflect on Reverb
What is a reflection? Reverberation or Reverb happens when a sound is reflected. Reverb time is the time it takes for an impulse to decay by a certain dB level in a space. In an acoustic space, there tend to be many reflections that return to the...
Discover The Advantages Of Strategic Mixing
What Defines A Good Mix? The chain of events that goes into a good mix is delicately crafted and subjective. However, some common outlines have proven to be efficient and are used today in the music industry. The stages of music production are different between...
Create Wider Synths with Waves Q10
I am sure you will agree that there are many different techniques you can use to make your synth sounds sound big and wide. As a consequence, we covered some of them in the past tutorials. I believe that things like panning, using stereo doubling plugins or the Haas...
Produce a Unique Reverb Sound with Abbey Road Chambers by Waves Audio
A wise sound designer once told me that there are reverb effects, and there are “The Reverb” effects. Since I'm browsing and testing many different reverb units, both hardware, and software, I must say that I agree with this 100%. Low-quality reverb unit can just make...
Generate a Perfect Clap with Hand Clapper
The Clap is certainly one of most important rhythmic elements in modern music. It all started with Roland`s TR-808 and TR-909 drum machines which introduced sampled clap sounds that consequently marked an era in modern dance music. These type of clap sounds are still...
Convert Your Rhythm Into a Melody
Nobody can deny that audio processing of drum loops and individual drum sounds requires countless hours of work. Paying attention to details, cutting, moving and processing it in various ways is something that all producers came across many times. What's more, the...
Liven the Groove With These 3 Techniques
GROOVE IT UP Personally, I feel that there are many things you can do as an electronic producer to make your MIDI sequences sound more life-like. Perhaps the most obvious is the use of different velocity levels. Also, there is also humanizing, a feature found...
Create Epic Drums with Ethnic Drum Ensembles
Cinematic Percussion Cinematic music production is without any doubt a vast industry. Its approach to sound processing is in many cases much more complicated than producing a regular pop tune. Scoring and layering of many instruments is often a time-consuming...
