Auto-Tune was the engine that provided the novel, provocative, other-worldly vocal effect that made listeners sit up and take notice. Over the years, it has evolved into Auto-Tune Pro, which offers multiple options for processing beyond simple pitch correction.
Pitch correction software has gotten a bad rap from those who don’t understand how it works. But it’s simply another tool in the toolbox. Think of it like a hammer: you can use a hammer to smash things or to build a house. If you’re more into building than smashing, there’s a lot to like about pitch correction.
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Recording Tips and Techniques
A Guide to Making Music for Free
Whatever type of music you are making, and however you make it, your hobby need not cost you a fortune. The world of freeware is booming and you’ve come to the right place for your free music making. There are thousands of free music making apps and ’freeware’ software titles out there.
With desktop music production, a freeware refers to complete pieces of software that do a job without restrictions on saving as you usually find on demo software. They are usually produced by a thriving community of developers who are keen musicians and experienced software producers.
Read more about this here: https://www.musictech.net/2018/12/a-guide-to-making-music-for-free/
What’s The Difference Between Mixing and Mastering?
Trying to figure out the difference between mixing and mastering? I’ve since learned how different they both are and how important each one is to a professional sounding song.
Mixing, in a few words, is all about balancing individual instruments together. The job of a mixing engineer is to take several instruments and balance their volume, frequencies, dynamics, and spatial placement. Typically, mastering engineers get the exported mix from the mixing engineer. There’re 3 goals of the mastering process: to make the track louder, sound better, and more translatable in all kinds of speakers.
Read more about this here: https://www.musicianonamission.com/difference-between-mixing-and-mastering/
Produce music videos that get attention
With the vast number of videos on the web, you can’t just record the same old footage and rise above the clutter. Videos posted on websites and blogs are an effective way to promote your music. Here are 15 approaches to consider when producing your next video.
First, use humour. Laughter makes people feel good, so why not produce music videos that make people laugh? Singer/songwriter Dave Carroll wrote and filmed a humorous video called “United Breaks Guitars” after the airline trashed one of his instruments during a flight. Not only did the video receive over 18 million hits.
Read more about this here: http://blog.discmakers.com/2018/05/produce-music-videos-that-get-attention/
Musical Applications For iZotope RX
One obvious application for both music and post is vocal cleanup; whether spoken or sung, vocal tracks often present a number of familiar problems that may need to be addressed, and RX has several modules that do just that.
The De-plosive module automatically detects and eliminates plosives. It’s the annoying bassy thumps that can occur on certain letters like P and B. De-ess addresses the equally familiar problem of harsh sibilants, “S”-sounds. But offers an extra twist over conventional dynamics processors. Besides the usual filtered-sidechain method, De-ess includes an option that utilizes spectral shaping, for especially difficult or problematic situations.
Read more about this here: https://ask.audio/articles/musical-applications-for-izotope-rx