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Impulse Response: eighth grade science teacher

An impulse response is like an acoustic fingerprint.

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Save A Song

Every day, thousands of potentially great songs are abandoned and left to wither away, unappreciated and unloved.

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Dominant Diminished Suspensions: chords for a sunday

A gospel-flavored chord progression using dominant, diminished, and suspended chords — how the tension and resolution cycle creates that Sunday morning sound.

easy chord progressions

Coming up with a good chord progression can be challenging, but it doesn’t really have to be.

routine reminder

This is your routine reminder that what you do is extraordinary.

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try this setting logic pro x

If you find yourself turning up your levels when you record and then turning them back down when you’re done, consider changing this setting in Logic Pro.

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Real Piano: Sampled Piano

Real piano. Sample piano. Oh boy. Gone are the days when piano in a can sounded like this. There are lots of great options these days and if you’re expecting…

Weather Sonification

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

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Floating Logic Markers

Markers and Logic are great for labeling sections of your song, but did you know they can also contain lots of extra text?

Mode-Less

Last night, I lay awake thinking about scales and modes so you don’t have to.

Reed Organ

Hey everyone, there’s someone I’d like you to meet.

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.

Music Theory: Double Flats

The breaking point between right and correct in music theory — why double flats exist and what they tell us about context.

When Everything is Stereo

When every track is panned wide, nothing stands out. Why mono and narrow elements are what make stereo mixing work — and how to use width as contrast.

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Not The Biggest

For those of you who are just starting out and a few of you who probably ought to know better, stop doing that thing where you try and make yourself look like you’re bigger than you are.

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What's Your Jam

We’ve been here a few months now and I’m delighted with all the new follows.

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Hey Producers! You need to learn some music theory

Hey, Producers! You need to know a little music theory. I’m going to be hosting a free Zoom workshop on the intersection of harmony and acoustics. …

Take yourself to work day

Good morning. Let’s make today take yourself to work day. At least let’s strive to make every day a day where you do what you love and where you love…

Tools

There is no best microphone.

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Synthesis is the language of sound

Even if you have no interest in electronic music, if you want to get into music production, the language of synthesis is the language of sound.

Studio Hack

Two things in the studio you’ll never find me without.

Sine Waves?

So producers were always talking about sine waves, but what are they?

What does weather sound like

Human beings hear between about 20 hertz and 20,000 cycles per second.

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This and this

I’m Nathan and I’m the founder of Beat Kitchen and I really hope you’ve enjoyed this little piece on music theory.

Chord Identification: Step 3

Today is part three in our series on identifying chords and we’re looking at the edge cases.

Chord Identification: Step 1

Three steps to identifying a chord.

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Chord Identification: Step 2

Chord ID part 2. With the chord in its root position, most chords are going to sit solidly within these two pillars of a perfect fifth. This is a …