We recently had the pleasure of having Robert Babicz, amazing producer and respected mastering engineer with more than 15 years of experience and countless successful releases, in one of our Twitch sessions. In our Twitch sessions, you have the chance of listening to professionals of the music industry talking about a current topic of interest …
If you feel like the low end of your tracks doesn’t sound as good as the ones of professional producers and engineers, we’re going to show you a technique that you might not know about which has been used in studios around the world for years. This process, which will allow you to easily get …
Behringer, the controversial music gear manufacturer, has already released two different clones of the iconic Roland TB-303: TD-3 and TD-3 MO – a brand new modded unit with very interesting additions. They both have great sound and a very appealing price which together with the current hype around the Acid sound have led these machines …
In recent times there’s been a noticeable new trend of Acid infused productions in the electronic music dance scene, and we can find the signature squelchy sounds created in he Roland 303 across any genre. It’s worth to mention the new wave of rave techno, with artists such as Regal, whose Masterclass includes thorough information …
After publishing our previous article “Tips for mixing kick and bass”, where we made a summary of some interesting tips from our instructors to mix these two elements during the same production phase, we did a small survey on instagram to ask you what you found more difficult, mixing the kick or mixing the bass. …
Most synthesizers have envelopes with four sections or stages, called attack, decay, sustain, and release. You’ll often see these abbreviated as ADSR. You don’t hear the envelope directly — the synth uses the envelope’s shape to determine how one or more other aspects of the sound change over time. The envelope then modifies different parameters …
In part I we saw the most common types of waveforms an oscillator can have and now we are going to be giving some guidance on the type of waveforms to be chosen when creating a new synth instrument. CREATING INSTRUMENTS Before going into the particularities of using some waveforms or others when …
INTRODUCTION The other day, one of our Aulart students asked us a very interesting question: What wavesound should be used when creating different synth instruments? (leads, pads, basses, atmospheric sounds, plucks, etc) We are sure that many of us would love to have a clear guidance on what kind of waveform to start with …
In this article we are going to have a look at the role of compression in the process of mastering. We will do so from the perspective of well-known and experienced mastering engineer Robert Babicz, and will discover why and how he uses it. In order to learn more about this and other aspects on …
Do you recognize this vibrato? This effect has been created by an LFO and in this article you will see how. We will explain what a LFO is and will give you examples of how to use it with different synthesizers so you can eventually make it work in any. What is a LFO? …
