Music Production

Introduction The Context and Topic Our product, Crescendo, is an online music platform that helps young aspiring musicians enhance their creativity by finding other musicians and producers with similar styles, collaborating with them, expanding their networks, and learning and growing their skill set. According to recent surveys, 67% of young people are making music (Youth…

From Firenze University Press Journal: Aisthesis — Giacomo Fronzi The relationship between new technologies and the dimension of listening takes at least two different directions, the first dealing with the role new technologies play in the “simple” reproduction and diffusion of music materials that cannot necessarily be categorized as technological music (for example, a Quartet by Brahms…

Have you ever taken ages trying to replicate the sounds of drums as heard in lo-fi music? How do the sound kinda retro-ish. Your wait is over with this article; as I show you how you can, too recreate this effect using amp, cabinet and tube saturators. I used a…

Note FX (Arpeggiator, Repeater, etc.) are powerful tools to modify the playback of instrument parts in Studio One on-the-fly. But what if you want to go one step beyond that and customize the result? At first glance it may look like you are out of luck. Luckily, that’s not true and here’s a short video on how to render those arpeggios and modify them to your heart’s content: Subscribe to my YouTube channel so you don’t miss future tips!

There are many articles out there about how to get your first million streams, or how to go viral on TikTok, or a host of “get rich quick” music tricks. But there’s not enough articles out there to help the 99% of musicians out there who are passionate about getting…

The following items have been tested working on Mac OS 9 and OS X Ableton Live 5.2 ➉ Amber-X 1.0 ➉ Amoeba 1.1 ➈ ArcHive 0.1a ➉ Argeïphontes Lyre 1.001 ➉ ARGO 2 ➉ Aurora 0.1 ➉ Audio Assistant 2 ➉ Audio Worm 1 ➈ auld-o-matic 1 ➉ autumn ➉ BallDroppings ➉ beaunz ➉ BifurcationOscillator 1.0beta2 ➈ biotrail ➈ bomb ➈ BookOfDreams ➉ Burnt Toast 1.2 ➈ cameltoe…

all you need to know about microphones. — This is the first of a series of essays covering all the basics you need to know before choosing mic types for different recordings. I will focus on: Different polar patterns The proximity effect Let’s start with polar patterns, that different microphones have or are able to emulate. If you, looking at a microphone…

One of the most precious assets of an audio engineer is a top notch vocal sound. Due to the versatility of the human voice, every vocal recording is different and will require different tools and techniques to reach its full potential. — To be able to get the best outta your plugins or gear, you have to know how they work and understand their influences & interferences when applied to audio. That means that, not only being familiar with the processor and knowing what each knob does, but also understanding the properties of…