*Photo by Morel Musiek Studios INTRODUCTION Mixing is the KEY stage where you get to separate your track from amateur-sounding to professional, radio-ready quality. It’s a detailed […]

Reverse-engineering a preset, in my humble opinion, is one of the most fundamental and beneficial practices you can implement in order to speed up the explication/illumination of […]

Way before the prodigious advent of modern DAWs, and all the technological strides we’ve made (specifically in regards to Samplers, Synthesizers, Effect Processors, and Digital Signal Processors), […]

Writer’s (or in this case, Producer’s) block: that dreaded ‘creative-slowdown’ every creator has undoubtedly suffered from; comprising the disastrous potential to completely drive you temporarily insane, if […]

The main reason why the ‘low end’ is so crucially important when attempting to achieve a full sound is because, without the weight and foundation of palpable low […]

A song typically consists of/revolves around three main elements: 1. A percussive sequence (drums) 2. Melodic phrases (melody) 3. A set of chords (the progression) 4. Vocals Depending on […]

Parallel Compression, also known as New York Compression, is a dynamic range compression technique used in sound recording and mixing. This technique is achieved by mixing an […]

In the early days of Hip-Hop, way before ‘Trap’ took the music world by storm and dominated the airwaves, there was virtually nothing to protect us against […]