Synthesis

The most slept on waveform in audio.

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

(beep) - What’s happening here might not be exactly what you think.

They say monsters aren’t real, but I’m not so sure.

It’s only a matter of time before you’re humbled by someone with far less resources than you creating at a very high level.

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.

I don’t give a rat’s ass if you use presets or not.

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.

Those of you who are making risers in your music are going to want to have a listen to this.

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

This cable goes one way.

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 you’re working in the box, you enjoy a luxury, which is that all of your plugins and settings snap to attention as soon as you open your session.

When two signals run out of phase, they cancel.

The EQ in your DAW may have an edge over even some of the most coveted recording discs, but only if you know how to take advantage of it.

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.

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.

Here I am at the beach.

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.

We see both experienced and beginner producers at Bee Kitchen.

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.

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.

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

With or without an audio degree, you wouldn’t be the first musician to come to me, never having been told what key tracking is and what it’s for.

These two passages are indeed different and then stumped my ear training group in gym.

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.

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.

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.