Category: Knowledge

Pianos in House Music

Pianos in house music are evidence on how producers are frequently finding creative ways to mix in these sounds into different audio tracks. Artists and producers are aware of the listeners’ propensity to find sounds that they can relate to attractive. Familiar sounds are extremely appealing; so, by using pianos, vocals, and guitars as part…
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Drum and Bass

Drum and bass are essential elements in several music sub-genres and their derivations. The British-Caribbean, Hip-Hop, and Funk sound systems widely influenced these se percussion instruments. Drum and bass produce a unique sound that you can recreate. Most producers tend to associate this music genre with the classic drum pattern built upon the famous Amen…
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Creating a Song Structure

Creating a song structure provides enough variation to keep listeners interested and captive. It also provides enough repetition to make de musical piece attractive. With the right compositional tools, the user will be able to create endless possibilities. Moreover, with the right techniques, the user will be capable of developing and arranging new material from…
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Layering Techniques

Layering techniques allow the user to achieve a balanced sound that has a great impact on the overall mix and provide a bigger and more present sound. You can use layering when a certain mix needs space, widening, thickening, or a simple overall personality boost. This technique offers depth and texture to the overall sound…
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The Truth About Music Composition

The truth about music composition is that it is a complex job that requires hard work, time, and commitment. Beginners should be aware of the fact that, when composing music, it helps to know the music language. However, it is not essential. Moreover, when working with a team, knowing how to read and write music…
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Strategic Mixing

Strategic mixing, albeit subjective, consists of certain outlines that are quite efficient and widely common in the modern music industry. To begin with, recorded and sequenced music stages are different. For instance, stages in recorded productions begin when they get close enough to the previous stage. In contrast, those in sequenced music involve a producer…
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Reflectivity and Reverb

Reflectivity and reverb connect because reverberation is the very action of a sound being reflected. To begin to understand this, let us remember that reverb time is the time it takes for an impulse to decay in a specific space. In acoustic spaces, there are many reflections that hit the receiver each time they reach…
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Maximizing Loudness

Maximizing loudness in a mix begins at the sound stage rather than the mastering one. By using the full potential loudness of individual elements, the producer gives the mastering total control to drive the limiter at a higher threshold without distortion. Electronic Dance Music artists are constantly trying to find ways to get their mixes…
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Reading Meters

Reading meters is essential because listening and looking at mixes has the same level of importance. Meters help understand clipping as well as other unwanted sound content that is too subtle to hear during music production, especially after compression. There are many types of meters within the audio universe. Peak and VU meters the most…
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Phase and Phasing

Phase and phasing are crucial to music production. Phase, also known as position, refers to the orientation of a cyclical waveform in time, relative to another cyclical waveform. Experts measure phase shifting in degrees, which range from zero to 360. To determine the degree, it’s essential to have a reference waveform. Because of this, you…
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