You’ve probably experienced situations where your mixes seem like a war of competing sounds, resulting in a muddy and amateur-sounding track. One reason for this might be a phenomenon known as “frequency masking” in which a higher-amplitude frequency...
Powerful Punchy Synth Nobody can deny that synth leads play a huge role in today’s electronic music. Ranging from Dubstep, Psytrance and all the way to ever popular EDM, bass synth leads are in the main focus of almost every track. Consequently, music...
Reverb, as one of the most widely used audio effects in music production, is often taken for granted. From a professional point of view, it takes years to understand how, when, and in what amount one should use it. Reverb is used primarily to give depth and dimension...
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. This is because it offers so many possibilities regarding sound manipulation. Five deeply...
Become a parallel professor We have covered the use of parallel compression in one of our previous blog articles. It’s a technique whereby you use the compressor as a send effect (you’d traditionally use it as an insert) so that the dry and...
