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February 19, 2017

Foolproof method to giving digital instruments an analog feel | mixing

To keep this blog short I skip describing anything I already described in the “fool proof method to mixing and mastering in the box” and “fool proof method to gain staging”, so for more info, read these blogs. Listen to some non-remastered recordings from the 50s, 60s and 70s. Even though there’s more noise and distortion, there’s a certain quality to them that a lot of later recordings lack. A lot of music producers try to add a little - [...]
December 20, 2016

Fool proof method to using Waves Center in a mix | Waves Center

Center is a very useful, one-of-a-kind mixing tool that can completely mess up your mix, especially when you hear the mix in mono afterwards. So here, in part one of this blog, are two safe ways to use it in a mix. You can download the first part of this blog.   Part one:   Decide what you want to do with a track first. A) Improve the center? Control the ambience? Process the Center and the Sides differently? In [...]
December 8, 2016

Fool proof method to cloning plugin EQ curves | Q-Clone

Did you know you can monitor and clone EQ curves of plugins with Waves Q-Clone? You can use this method to put Q-Clone in a plugin chain and use curves of a number of EQs in real time, without the distortions, noise and other non-linear properties. Create a 96kHz project for the best clones. Please note that not all plugins support 96kHz though. Create an empty mono channel, feed it to a buss. Make the buss mono if it isn’t [...]
October 25, 2016

Why you should pay | Piracy

One pirate sunk two of my ships. I know the reasons people have for downloading pirated data. That’s why I have free products that are fully functional. It’s fun to give things away. People who download pirated data need to realize what the possible impact is for businesses though, and they usually don’t know the background of piracy either, so I’m going to provide some insight. On thursday September 15 2016, someone using the name Ali Deom, a fake address […]

October 11, 2016

Foolproof method to gain staging | mixing

The first question I got about my mixing and mastering blog is about gain staging, so here goes… Don’t use your peak meter for gain staging. In the digital realm the focus has been on peaks too much, that’s because 0dBFS (FS = Full Scale, 0dBFS = maximum loudness of digital sound) and higher distorts while 16bit processing requires the highest level of audio possible to keep the audio far above the noise floor and digital distortion. Plugins, especially plugins [...]
October 2, 2016

Importing EXS instruments in GarageBand | Music production

GarageBand is a limited version of Logic, with Logic’s EXS24 sampler under the hood. Here’s how you can import EXS instruments in GarageBand with earlier versions of GarageBand. I haven’t found a way to do it in version 10, I’d be grateful if someone can point me in the right direction! So, in earlier versions: Go to: [user]/Library/Application Support/GarageBand/Instrument Library/Sampler/Sampler Instruments and drop the EXS file in there. On Snow Leopard and higher you need to go to “Go” in […]

September 17, 2016

Foolproof method to mixing and mastering in the box | mixing

Foolproof method to mixing and mastering in the box, version 1 Do you keep forgetting things when you’re mixing? Are your mixes too complicated? No idea where to start when you want to finish a mix or how professionals do it? Here’s a method in big steps that noobs can follow. Professionals already have their own methods but might pick up something new too, who knows. I made this blog as short as I could so I skipped the small [...]
August 21, 2016

How to create a virtual instrument

You don't need to know anything about making music software to make virtual instruments. You can map samples in soft samplers. A sample is a recording. Mapping means assigning them to keys and/or velocity ranges. A soft sampler is a computer program that plays back specific samples at the moment they're triggered. Sampled instruments are fun. You can use instruments that don't exist, use existing instruments in ways that are not possible, get music out of instruments you can't play [...]
August 4, 2016

The best way to organise your presets | sound libraries

No idea what sounds you have? Can’t find what you’re looking for? It’s not because you have too many sounds, you just didn’t organise them well enough. It’s so important to have them organised. You can get surprised and inspired by all the sounds you forgot you had while you’re already looking in the right place. What’s a good way? Create empty folders with the names of main categories of instruments and put it in the location where your software [...]

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