Percussion are a great way to make an arrangement or an entire mix sound interesting. Most music producers use percussion to separate the verse from the chorus. While others use them as the foundation or main groove for the song. In this tutorial we’ll be looking at some techniques for mixing percussion sounds. Percussion are …
In this blog post we’ll be looking at a different way of adding harmonic excitement to enhance sounds in a mix. I’m going to show you the techniques I use to glue sounds and fatten them by using parallel tape saturation. It is the same as parallel compression, the only difference is that you’ll be …
Here are a couple of the greatest myths I come across about music production and audio engineering. As a musician and audio engineer I’ll do anything to make sure I get the best results. But there’s always someone who will do their best to take advantage of that. That’s when we end up spending a lot …
Layering sounds is another great technique that if used well, can give life to a song and make a thin groove sound thick. In this tutorial we’ll look at how to use the layering technique effectively. To create a rich and full sound using layering, you need to select your sounds carefully. This is the most important …
Putting together a bunch of sounds and arranging them into a song can be challenging for a lot of people. In this tutorial I would like to share some music arrangement tips that will help you get the listeners glued to their stereo. A lot of people have come up with different ways to arrange …
The delay effect is a really versatile tool and one of the most important tools to have in your Fx chain. Effects such as Chorus, Reverb, Flanger and many other plugins are all made from the Delay effects so there’s a lot of things you can do with it. Delay is pretty simple to understand: …
