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Introduction to Compression

07-29-2010

Do you find your percussion isn’t punchy enough? Or that your vocals are wildly varied in volume? Never fear – compression is here… What is Compression? You can think of a compressor plug-in as a virtual studio engineer with his hand on the volume knob – if the volume is too loud, he (or she, we don’t discriminate!) will turn down the volume when it exceeds a ...

How to improve your home studio… on a budget

07-29-2010

Are you always on the lookout for ways to improve your studio, but not so frequently in possession of the cash in order to do so? Then here are a few suggestions for tweaks you can make to your music making menagerie with little or no money… TVs are for more than Hollyoaks… Has your favourite show just finished, or you’ve found yourself on YouTube more than ITV? Use your old ...

Top 5 musical iPhone apps

07-22-2010

iPhone apps exist for practically anything you could imagine. So it’s not surprising that music production is possible on the little guy. But which apps are worth looking at? Let’s see… 1. Make Beats on the Bus – Intua Beatmaker Ever wanted to take your Prime Loops library to your iPhone? Well now’s the time to get your XXL Hip Hop Drums on an XXS format! In...

Trackers – A different way of making music

07-22-2010

If you’re like the majority of the music-producing masses, you’ll probably be used to a conventional sequencer, allowing you seemingly limitless control over your sound. But there are a group of musicians who think there is merit in having limits. Enter the tracker musicians… What is a Tracker? It’s quite simply a music sequencer that allows a user to arrange samples (or...

One Shot to Program Drums

07-14-2010

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Want to venture on the wild side of making your own beats? Then it’s time to enter the wondrous world of one-shots… What is a one-shot? Simply put, a one shot is a single sample – it can be a kick drum, a snare, a blip, a wooshy effect or a whole big long echoey sample, but basically it’s a sound that is not generally looped continuously. Making beats with one-shots Drums s...

The importance of covers and remixes

07-14-2010

In today’s musical climate, it’s getting increasingly harder to stand out from the crowd. There are more and more people producing and more and more ways to get your music out there. So how do you make an impact? Well I’m here to discuss one method that seems to be working a charm for a metric tonne of internet-savvy musicians… The importance of covers and remixes Yo...