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Wait!: sample those drums!

You had a great session.

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.

Parallel Processing: have your cake and eat it too

Can you have your cake and eat it too?

Logic Folders: underrated

Folders and Logic, underrated.

Chord Inversions

The easiest way to start understanding chord inversions is to think of it like a cake with three ingredients.

you are in the wrong place

You’re in the wrong place if you’re here to learn cutting-edge tips, tricks, and techniques.

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Harmonies In One Take

Here’s a cool little trick you can do that’ll help you with your ear and with your DAW skills at the same time.

Temperament Modulation

A sawtooth wave, a mod wheel, and the space between equal and just tuning. The harmonic synthesizer crossfades between temperaments so intervals drift like a real string player.

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Tetrachord Tool — Build Scales, Modes & Harmony from Two Groups of Four Notes

An interactive tetrachord explorer that lets you pick lower and upper tetrachords, hear the resulting scale, rotate through modes, and stack diatonic harmony. 65 scales from pentatonic to bebop.

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Who Needs Mastering

It’s a radical idea. But I teach mastering before I teach mixing, and I don’t spend a lot of time on it. Two reasons. Mastering is pretty straightforward. The objective…

dithering

When you dither, you’re intentionally adding noise to your track.

TLDR: finish your songs

If you want to get better at finishing your songs, here’s the TL;DR.

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Multiband Compressor: Why?

The practical application of a multiband compressor comes into focus when you consider not just how it differs from a regular compressor, but how it differs from a traditional equalizer.