Effects

Your reverb has a job to do.

Whether you call it a bus or whether you call it a send and a return, the utility of running effects like reverbs and delays in parallel rather than in series is more than just a matter of resource management.

When you place reverb on a channel, does it sound different than when you put it on a bus?

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

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Learn essential music production concepts including effects, synthesis, and mixing fundamentals. Perfect primer course for understanding DAW tools and audio processing.

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

The goal of the upcoming musician basics elective is to get you to recognize that you can stack a bunch of notes together and create a chord.

Phase in 60 seconds, let’s go.

We see both experienced and beginner producers at Bee Kitchen.

Raise your hand if you have trouble hearing compression.

What makes music tick?

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Side chains are overrated.

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…

If you know someone who’s making cool beats but they’re still adjusting stuff by ear, getting things sounding good without entirely understanding what those settings are doing, their success relies as much on luck as it does on skill.

Can you have your cake and eat it too?

The topics in this 10-minute video include the harmonic series and the physical nature of sound.

So basically the way our classes work, we try and get you in and out of a DAW class as soon as humanly possible because we want to get to the fun stuff, the interesting stuff.

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.

After teaching countless people how to use programs like Logic and Ableton, I’ve decided to give up.

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

Compressors aren’t actually super complicated, but they are a little complicated.

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.

Creative vocal recording techniques for Jill Cunniff's 'Eye Candy': blending vintage and modern mics, piano cavity recording, and unique processing for otherworldly vocal textures.