How Do You Know How Much Compression To Use

"How do I know how much compression to use?" Just use your ears.

Ouroborus: four chord progression

You may have heard of the four chord progression, but think of it more like a family of chord conversions, one of which you may actually know really, really well.

What Makes Music Production Schools Unique

You all know that everyone on here is basically teaching the same stuff, right?

Hate

Compression Primer

Today at Beat Kitchen, we’re going to turn up the heat on our conversation of compression.

Making Feedback Worse

Stop doing this to your microphone.

Class Example: velocity taken for granted

So one breakthrough that I had when I was learning how to do all of this, I think it’s very easy to forget about velocity when you’re putting stuff into a piano roll.

Weather Sonification

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

32 bit float

Logic Pro’s recent update adds support for 32-bit floating audio files.

Altoids Patchbay Tester

So what the heck is this?

Upward Compression: ear training gym

Today was ear training gym.

Directional Mic: two signals, room sound

This is a directional microphone and when I point it away from my face You might expect it to be quieter than this But the thing is when you hear me, you’re not just hearing me in one place You’re hearing me and you’re hearing the sound as it bounces around the room and that might surprise you Because even this shoddy Designed to reject as much of the environment as possible still picks up a lot of sound off-axis Where it might feel more like 60/40 rather than 80/20 I like to think of any microphone as if it has two signals and not one There’s the room sound which never really changes and a direct signal where you do have some control and what you should Understand from this is that maybe more important than this mic or this one or this one is the room You’re in and which way are you facing?

Beats

Believe it or not, I’m not trying to impress you with my pitch.

Chord of Interest

Apparently, I have a lot to say about this chord progression.

Friendlier Numbers

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.