Sidechaining is a crucial tool in music production. The concept is simple: attenuate the volume of one sound when another plays. But… why do we need sidechaining? The most common application for sidechain compression is…
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Both music stems and multitracks in music are key collaboration tools in music production. Not only are they useful for collaboration between musicians, they’re also tools for tracking, editing, mixing, remixing, and mastering audio. The…
You & your two close friends start a musical group. The future is looking bright. You’ve been making dope music together and you’ve found some commercial success. But then money gets in the way. One…
To own your masters, which are your master recordings, is to have full control of your music. Master recordings are always at the heart of a record deal between a recording artist and a record…
You may have come to realise that there are multiple audio plugin formats, despite how you probably use just one. We use an audio plugin is a piece of software we use to add or subtract…
Some tracks light a fire inside us that explodes a wild flame of inspiration. Our minds race to remix the track, but the stems aren’t always readily available. Sometimes, though, we can work around this…
We know what it’s like. Times change, and so do you. What once seemed like a dope Spotify username now seems uncreative and bland. For first-time Spotify users, your provided Spotify username “User34593758376” probably doesn’t…
Pluginboutique celebrates 10 years of music store greatness. To let us join in with the good times, Plugin Boutique is offering 95% off a range of the most popular plugins in their shop. Right up until…
After having discussed chord tones and non-chord tones, and how to write better meldoies. it’s time to talk about the other factors that make a strong melody. From the very foundations of a melody such…
Melodies allow us to add rhythms on top of rhythms, or we can use them to compliment the existing propulsive rhythm already in our music. Or, of course, we can write a melody to kick…
