Midi hack

(beep) - What’s happening here might not be exactly what you think.

Attack Release

The power of a compressor really comes into its own as we start to adjust the attack and release time.

Feedback: things they don't teach you in recording school

Important stuff they should teach you at recording school, but don’t.

should i care about polychords

Should I care about poly chords?

Drones

Explain Compression and Sidechain in thirty seconds

When the TV is on too loud and you turn it down, you are acting like a compressor.

Intervals: scale degrees

Sometimes the naming conventions in music theory almost seem cruel.

ADSR

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

Weather Sonification

What if you could hear everything? Sound waves are spheres with pressure in one dimension and time in the other.

Tetrachord

What is a tetrachord? The four-note building block behind every scale and mode — major, minor, harmonic, and Phrygian patterns explained with keyboard examples.

Set Aside Five Minutes

Set aside five minutes today to do something that you love.

Getting Started

We see both experienced and beginner producers at Bee Kitchen.

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 for polarity?

Level Volume

Level and volume are used interchangeably but measure different things. The technical distinction every producer should know.

Phase Cancellation

When two signals run out of phase, they cancel.