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Chillstep

Chillstep is a music genre you can find more easily during this last decade. People say it’s the little brother of dubstep due to their similar beats and great prolonged bass presence. However, in the former you might encounter a more repetitive beat that in the latter. As its name suggests, chillstep is more about…
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Music Production Knowledge

Finding the Right Studio Monitors

Finding the right studio monitors is key in anyone’s music journey. Those who are not audio knowledgeable (yet) at times mistake studio monitors for the regular loudspeakers that are so common in almost all living rooms. You should know that, in contrast, studio monitors are a crucial part of music-making. Experts build studio monitors with…
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Placing your Studio Monitors

Placing your studio monitors is key when you’re into music production. When you’ve just finished setting up your music production studio at home and everything is looking good and in the right position, the feeling is incredible. However, once you start producing or mixing, it might seem that the sound is not right. Possibly, you…
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Training Your Ears

As a music producer or sound engineer, it’s essential for you to know how important and useful training your ears is. And, even more so, to impart this type of training to others constantly. These ear training sessions can mend you with great listening skills. In turn, these will help you a lot during your…
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Music Producer

All the music you hear has gone through a process known as music production done by a music producer; it doesn’t matter if the song or album you’re listening to is really popular or underrated. This is a process in which artists create music, someone else manipulates it (mixed and processed), and then someone else…
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MPE (MIDI Polyphonic Expression)

If you don’t know what MPE stands for, you definitely should. MPE stands for MIDI Polyphonic Expression—and yes, it’s awesome! It’s a new way to play that brings the articulation of acoustic instruments into the world of electronic music. Picture it. When you pick up a guitar and play it, there’s much more than just…
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Stereo Field

A stereo field is a single instrument that involves several uses: it is a stereo audio processor, a pressure-sensitive controller, and a stereo modular touch plate feedback atonal synth. You can employ the three either separately or simultaneously.  Moreover, it is a device that allows the user to control two analog stereo preamplifier circuits using…
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Sound Mixer

A sound mixer, also known as a mixing console, is responsible for recording sounds. It can adjust sound signals and send them to output for further transmission and amplification using a sound system. The sound mixer is where the sound signals from different sources combine. In this, users can add ambience and effects. In addition,…
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Facts About Reverb

Here are some facts about reverb. This effect occurs when a sound sends waves that flow in all directions. Reverberation is present when any sound emerges in space. When these waves reflect on surfaces, the amplitude decays. Suddenly, the reflections die off. When there is no soundproofing, spaces generate closely spaced reflections that catch the…
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Facts About the Sound Spectrum

Here are some facts about the sound spectrum. To begin with, a sound spectrum is the representation of a sound regarding the amount of vibration that happens at each individual frequency. The spectrum expresses the frequency composition of the sound. You obtain it by analyzing said sound. Experts show this spectrum as a graph of…
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