Synthesis

You have a choice when it comes to engaging a filter.

Here’s a little tip to help you find your way around a synthesizer.

Today in office hours I helped one of our students conform some of their free playing onto a tempo grid.

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

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

Within the lexicon of recording and mixing, the concepts of phase and polarity are similar enough.

Before we begin to discuss delay, echo, and reverb, let’s take a second to talk about the Haas effect.

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

When two signals run out of phase, they cancel.

We can’t teach you how to mix, nobody can.

Is a sampler a synthesizer?

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.

When dialing in an equalizer, it’s helpful to think of the workflow is happening in two stages a targeting step and an adjustment step.

Phase in 60 seconds, let’s go.

Who needs synthesis, right?

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.

Easiest way to start to understand tuning is to begin with the idea of a unison.

If you’re thinking about joining a Beat Kitchen class, or actually if you’re thinking about getting into music production at all, here are three things I don’t care about, and you shouldn’t do there.

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

Side chains are overrated.

One thing that tends to confuse new engineers is the difference between phase and polarity.

Reverb. I am brimming with things that I want to say about reverb. There’s no way I can put this into 60 seconds, but effects mixing and synthesis starts next…

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.

Our community is deeply divided.

There’s sort of a secret reason engineers use pop filters.

Logic doesn’t have a straightforward way to apply an LFO across a bunch of parameters.

You could imagine the way this space sounds.

There is a myth that’s pervasive around here, which is that people can teach you how to mix.

If my recent videos on things like compression have helped you crystallize those concepts, you should consider joining our class.

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.