June 16, 2021 | Instruments, Resources
The conga belongs to the percussion family. It’s a single-headed drum that originated in Africa. However, it was only when Latin music, namely mambo and salsa, became popular in the United States around the 1930s, when the conga drum started to receive a lot of...
June 11, 2021 | Instruments, Resources
The Bongo drum, better known as the bongos, is a type of Afro-Cuban percussion instrument made up of two small open-bottomed drums of different sizes. The larger drum of this pair is called “hembra”, female in Spanish, and the smaller drum...
May 11, 2023 | Musical Genre Terminology, Resources
Intelligent dance music (IDM) is electronic music more suited for home listening than nightclub dance floors. Intelligent Dance Music first appeared in the early 1990s. IDM embraces a cold, distant, digital aesthetic and extensively borrows from the sounds of the...
May 20, 2021 | Instruments, Resources
The Duduk, a woodwind instrument, originated about a thousand years ago in what we know now as Armenia. Performances often present it in pairs. While the first player performs the melody, the second player plays a constant drone tone called “dum,”. The...
May 13, 2021 | Blog, Tips and Tricks
Parallel processing is a common concept in advanced mixing. A basic description for it would be the process of duplicating a sound source, processing the duplicate independently, and then balancing or blending the duplicate with the original audio signal. This allows...
