The Conga Drum – Percussion Instruments

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...

The Bongo Drum – Percussion Instruments

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...

IDM

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...

The Duduk – Woodwind Instruments

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...
5 Essential Tips For Parallel Processing

5 Essential Tips For Parallel Processing

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...