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Logic Folders: underrated

Folders and Logic, underrated.

double harmonic scale

Most scales are created by taking the one you already know and starting on a different note.

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Hipper Suspended Chords

Here’s a C suspended chord, but let’s see if we can’t get you playing some hipper ones, like a D minor over a C or a D minor 7 over a C.

If You Like Your Reverb: eq before reverb

Your reverb has a job to do.

Mission: better talkback

Stand by, this is going to be take three and rolling.

Wait!: sample those drums!

You had a great session.

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Orchestral Kitchen: soup in a can

It’s only a matter of time before you’re humbled by someone with far less resources than you creating at a very high level.

Asymmetrical Waveforms

Should I be concerned that the top part of this waveform is bigger than the bottom?

Borrowed Chord

What is a borrowed chord?

Drones

Approaching Acoustic Treatment

Do you need room acoustics and sound treatment?

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Compression: input output

A compressor reduces the level of a track, but one of the places people get confused is in understanding where it reduces that level.

Perfect Plagal

This Bb has an F in it.

LFO Phase Detune

Check this out and tell me if it makes sense to you.

Keboard Skills: thirds and sixths

This may sound boring, but this sounds a lot more exciting.

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Forget What You Learned

A music production environment is a complex one.

Tape Digital

For me, the most impactful part of the move from tape to digital wasn’t the sound quality.

Don't Make Peace the Enemy

Taking a break isn’t just critical for your body and your mind, but also your spirit.

Distortion

Distortion comes in lots of flavors, but one thing they all share is that distortion adds high frequency content to your program material.

Super Locrian

I had the most delightful realization today, which is this.

Learn to Record Your Own Vocals

Learn to record your own vocals or somebody else’s because regardless of whether or not you’re making vocal-based music I can’t think of a better way …

Make Your Own Rules: music theory

Music has rules, but the thing is, you get to write them yourself.

Cinematography Workshop: ad 2

I think I know a lot about music and I consider myself a pretty decent engineer and producer.

Hydrate

There’s one thing we all have in common and that’s water.

Isn't She Lovely

This morning in the region we looked at Stevie Wonder "Isn’t She Lovely?" There’s a lot this song can teach us, but we have time to talk about the …

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Looping Zero

We’ll talk about these chords another day, because right now there are two things you need to understand about working with audio and working with …

Coprime Sequence

Co-prime sequences are a backbone for evolving variations in pattern-based music.