5 Things One Should Know To Be A Happy Musician
As musicians, in today’s commercially grueling and competitive world we tend to lose perspective. We cease to see the larger picture and are always stuck in our petty issues. Day’s pass in self doubt and we are never satisfied. Here are 5 things one should know to not...
Creating a Layered Techno Kick Drum
As with most modern electronic music genres, the emphasis at Techno genre is in the low frequencies. In addition to bass, Techno is famous for its huge and ground shaking kick drums with lots of low-end frequencies. Producers are usually dedicating lots of their...
Unorthodox Low-End Boosting – How to Pump Up the Bass
Low-End importance The importance of the low-end frequencies in modern music doesn't need too much emphasis. This is because most of the popular electronic music genres like House, Techno, Dubstep have their foundation in the low-end frequencies. In the past...
4 Tips on How to Control High Frequencies in Your Mix
In many cases, high-frequency content is responsible for clarity and definition of a sound. Additionally, the high midrange is responsible for the attack on percussive and rhythm instruments. Vocals are most prominent at this range so as with the midrange. So, it...
5 Essential Tips For Better Mixing
Learning the craft of mixing is a hard and dilatory process. Today, there are numerous software plugins to master and tons of blog articles to go thru. However, there is not so much time in one's life to consume all of that and to properly apply gained knowledge....
5 Tips For Making Better Sounding Drums
I think it is true that one of hardest elements to mix and process are definitely the drums. Luckily, nowadays there are various tools that can help you to mix your drum sounds. A huge palette of different compressors, equalizers, special dynamic tools like transient...
4 Alternative Tips for Making Realistic Virtual Strings
For most of us, hiring a Philharmonic Orchestra is a task completely out of reach. Therefore we have to settle for the next best thing, which is selecting the best possible (most realistic) sample library. Newer sample libraries that contain pre recorded orchestral...
How to Make an Awesome Bassline – 5 Essential Tips
Bassline, without a doubt represents the core of every modern song. Whether it's subtle or highly exaggerated, without it, modern music would sound deficient. If we try to explain it, a basic definition would be the following: Bassline is a low pitched instrumental...