Although Trap music has been hitting us with infectious boomy 808 kicks since the 1990s, the genre did not branch off into popular EDM until 2012. It then absorbed the musical conventions of the EDM scene – like drops and build-ups – and spread its addictive kick...
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...
In the early 1930s, two researchers at Bell Labs named Harvey Fletcher and W.A. Munson uncovered perhaps the most significant psychoacoustic phenomenon in history. They found that the frequency of a sound affects our perception of its loudness. In other words, two...
INTRODUCTION I love the sound of a chopped drum loops. The timbres are familiar but the arrangement of the performance seems alien. Producers have been cutting up drum loops since the tape era, but with the DSP tools we have today, it has become a much more...
The next segment of the Lumit subway series features local artist, Ilana Katz Katz: a Blues and Appalachian Fiddler, singer, composer, novelist, and painter. She lives in Boston and is known for her unique style – as a solo artist and as a bandleader. She has recorded...
Creating an atmospheric and relaxing chill groove can be more complicated than it seems. The first thing that probably comes to mind is pads and reverb. It is easy to layer pads and drown them in effects, but this can blur the harmony and does not sound very tasteful...
