Add Stunning Sense of Space with Waves Abbey Road Plates
Most professional music producers consider reverb to be an inevitable effect in modern music. Reverb enriches the audio signal by adding a sense of space, depth, and texture to it. Basically, it makes everything sound better. Modern times gave us a sea of choices when...
Quick Arranging Tips: Song Structure
INTRODUCTION So you have a verse or a chorus and some introduction to it. Now you need another section. There’s not much time so you can’t start from scratch, but you don’t want it to sound repetitive. Luckily, making variations and arranging musical phrases in...
Quick Arranging Tips: Intro
TRANSFORM YOUR LOOP INTO AN INTRO SECTION So you have a nice 16 or 32 bar loop. Moreover, you’ve got a nice mix of instruments blended together. You’ve even got some automation written in and a little processing done. In essence, what sits in front of you is an...
Make Complex Delay Effects With Replika XT (Part 2)
In the last week's tutorial, I was talking about Replika XT by Native Instruments. Since this is a rather complex piece of audio software I felt like it deserves a sequel because it offers so many possibilities regarding sound manipulation. Five deeply modeled delay...
Top Production Mistakes: Part 2
In Part 1... I talked about three specific areas of electronic production that are often lacking in demos submitted to myself and EDM labels. It is impossible to fit a comprehensive list of every issue producers encounter into one or even several articles. I will,...
Top Production Mistakes: Part 1
Stop repeating the same mistakes In my experience running Berklee’s Electronica Club (soon to be called the Electronic Production Club), I’ve noticed a number of recurring mistakes producers make. In the past, I would often redirect them to the internet for...
Make Complex Delay Effects With Replika XT (Part 1)
Delay effects were always an inevitable part of music production in general. From the first delay effect that was based on the analog circuitry, all the way up to powerful modern digital delay units which are offering much more options than just the classic delay...
Modulation Effects (Part 2)
Contrary to the effects I covered in "Part 1" of this lesson, in "Part 2" I will deal with modulation effects that alter sounds in ways that one might call dramatic and bizarre. Although these - more or less - "advanced" effects have been on the market for years, they...
