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making sense of numbers in music production

It doesn’t matter what your jam is, even if you’re in a math rock, what moves you isn’t numbers, it’s music.

Clearing a Path to a Better Mix

I think it would be useful to start a thread about things that made you a better mixing engineer.

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Form: Music Theory Run-On Sentence

Even if you learn some music theory, you can still write ridiculously long, run-on sentences if that's your thing.

That's What Facebook is For

I made a mistake in a video.

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Interval Landmarks

One of the most effective ways to learn to identify intervals and chords is to associate those with songs that you know.

Scaffolding: extensions and rootless voicings

Not every A minor chord looks like an A minor.

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All DAWs Crash

Every DAW crashes. Every computer crashes. In fact, if you were using tape, your Capistan motor would run out at some point. When you sign on to do music production,…

ADSR

When musicians talk about the sustain of an instrument, The sustain, listen to it.

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Interval Inversions

If you ever notice that six steps up the scale this is a major sixth but if we invert it this becomes part of a minor chord.

Giveaway: residency

Were you considering following us on our other social media accounts?

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Targetting EQ

When dialing in an equalizer, it’s helpful to think of the workflow is happening in two stages a targeting step and an adjustment step.

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Hey Teachers: watch how you ask the question

Hey teachers, when you ask your class any questions, it’s a little bit like saying, "Does everyone understand?" If you don’t hear anything, it doesn’t mean it’s time to move on.

Microphone Shootout

You probably won’t hear the difference between these microphones.

producer malpractice

It’s producer malpractice if you don’t do a quick gut check on the key of your song before you record that awesome vocal.

Noise: white pink green

Are you using green noise in your recordings because they’ll sell you anything?

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Chord Identification Intro

If you’re starting to make your own music, there will come a time when you find yourself scratching your head looking at a bunch of notes and asking …

Mic Polar Patterns Pt.2

Leveraging the polar pattern on a microphone isn’t always as straightforward as you might think.

Music Theory: Double Flats — Right vs Correct

A B double flat is technically correct, but is it useful? The difference between being right and being correct in music theory.

Wheel Demo: Blackbird

Paul McCartney's Blackbird is a masterclass in voice leading. The chord name doesn't matter — what matters is the function.

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Which Minor

This descending chord progression is in thousands of songs — but it uses two different scales depending on direction. A scale is a living thing.

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Polarity and Phase on a Cylinder

Phase can be abstracted on a cylindar to demonstrate delay and wavelength variables that are independent of rotational degrees. What does that mean …

Roman numerals in music theory — why we use them.

Roman Numerals: Why

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Is a Sampler a Synthesizer

Is a sampler a synthesizer?

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Rules:Laws

If you go to school to be an audio engineer, two of the rules they’re gonna teach you are the inverse square law and the 3 to 1 rule.

Your Ears Are Lying To You

Your ears will tell you whatever you want to hear. Until you learn to set loudness landmarks, you're mixing with luck.

Audio Masking: Drop and Cut Technique

For a mix engineer, masking is one of the first things you contend with — and it never stops showing its face. Here's a dead simple way to solve it.

Weather Sonification

84 years of barometric data from NOAA, sped up 26 octaves. Every hurricane, every northeaster, every season — turned into sound.