Additive Synthesis Explained Yes, my selectors! We know how synthesizers work, and we’ve explored subtractive synthesis. We’re hacking our way through the jungle of fundamentals, envelopes, oscillators, and frequencies. It seems only natural that we…
Subtractive Synthesis Explained My dudes and dudettes, we’ve come a long way from where we were. In the previous article of our Define Synthesis series, we answered the question How Do Synthesizers Work? We discovered…
How Do I Make Sounds for Music Production? Greetings to you, homie. You’re here because you want to learn about synthesis, huh? Welcome to synthesis boot camp. Our mission is to dive deep into the…
What Are the Different Types of Audio Files? Woah! Hold the phone, homie. Wouldn’t you like to know why there are different file types first? Maybe you don’t know what audio file format means, either!…
How to Make a Reese Bass in Serum, Massive, and Vital You’ve been questing through the woodland of the internet to find the sword in the stone of music production. Your thirst for knowledge must…
What Are the Best Mastering Plugins? So, you’ve downloaded a load of samples from Mixxed. You’ve made some grizzly basses with sine bass compression and now you want to put the cherry on the cake…
What is Sine Compression? The concept is simple. You take a sine wave and compress the hell out of it. This way, you get your pure tone with some smashed-in harmonics to add some flavor…
What is Sound Pressure? Sound pressure is the variation in atmospheric pressure caused by a sound. If you have a soundwave traveling through a room, the air pressure will change as the soundwave travels in…
What is Noise Floor in Audio? I want you to imagine four walls, a ceiling, and a floor. This room is your latest song. Now imagine there’s a flood of water pouring through the front…
What is A Microphone Pickup Pattern? A microphone pick up pattern, otherwise known as a polar pick up pattern, are “maps” that explain what direction a microphone picks up sound from. it could be from…
