In any industry, it is always an advantage if you do things faster. Now in professional music faster means more production, more production means more work to squeeze in your time, and more work ultimately leads to more money for you. If you are doing this for a hobby, though, it’s always good to learn and maybe eventually earn from doing the thing you love.
Let’s qualify the term faster: Faster does not just refer to speed but quality as well. Doing something over because of poor quality does not mean you did it faster. Now here a few tips so you can do a faster and more efficient production.
Read more here: https://theproaudiofiles.com/5-tips-faster-music-production/
Audio Recording
Music Production 101: Pitfalls To Avoid
There are different ways to produce a song, but most often the tendency is for producers to build it from the inside out. They start from the center and build their way out. Now once the core has been built then they just add up the other parts like the introduction, the bridge, and the outro. Although nothing is wrong with doing so but there are tendencies where important parts of the song are neglected or not given enough emphasis. Here are a few pitfalls you need to avoid if you are producing a song.
Intro’s and Outro’ don’t neglect them they are as important too.
Continue reading here: https://theproaudiofiles.com/music-production-pitfalls/
Music and Audio Terminilogy
If you have ever found yourself wondering what those three letter acronyms or all that music jargon actually meant, then you are not alone. It isn’t enough that that the audio recording and music worlds are choking on weird jargon and bizarre terms, but now we have acronyms to abbreviate what is already often incomprehensible . Here are some of the terms that you might have encountered during recordings and tutorials.
ADC – Analogue to Digital Converter is a device used to convert a signal from analogue to digital. What does “analogue” mean? Why do we use that word to describe it?
Read more here: https://music.tutsplus.com/tutorials/music-and-audio-glossary-of-terms–cms-28128
Put Emphasis On Your Background Instruments
“Everybody is entitled to 15 minutes of fame” – Andy Warhol
It is an obvious fact that in a stage of performers not all will be a the center stage but it is the duty of the mixer to ensure that everybody still gets their share of fame. Just because they are background instruments doesn’t mean they are just there for visual display. Each instrument has a distinct sound and a part to play in the entire show. Here are a few tips on how you can put emphasis to your background instruments, without over-stepping on the true stars of your show.
Read more here: http://en.audiofanzine.com/recording-mixing/editorial/articles/highlighting-background-instruments.html
Modular Synth 101: Choosing Your Eurorack Fil
Conceptualized in the 1960’s Bob Moog made it possible through his modular design for the masses to avail. Later on, it was well known as the Mini Moog, it was analogue synthesis right at the palm of your hands. what started as a concept of creating new types of sound is now well known and pretty much is used in any recording.
Today we call these different types of sound creation as filters, here is a quick lesson on filters, how and why you should use them.
We begin with an oscillator also known as the bit that makes the noise.
Read more here: http://www.musictech.net/2017/01/modular-synth-tutorial-eurorack-filters/