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Keywords: Filter Sweeps
Filter Sweeps move a sound from light to dark or dark to light, crisp to muted and back again. They’re a producer’s mixing move (borrowed from DJs) to build drama, to fade in/out with frequencies instead of volume. Filter Sweeps are always going somewhere, a process in process adding a dramatic What’s Next? sense to… Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: John Adams On What To Value And Musical Style
“Today everything is available at all times. All you have to do is have a subscription to Spotify…Nothing is special anymore. So one has to actually make some kind of pact with oneself to get back to that very very personal relationship with one work, or with just a group of very valuable pieces. Because… Continue reading
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Get Each Layer Right
While there are no hacks to quickly producing quality music, a strategy that rewards a degree of patience is to get each layer of the music right before moving on to the next. This post answers the questions, What is a musical layer in a track, and what does it mean to get it right?… Continue reading
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Music’s Main Enchanter: Hearing The Human Touch
One of the challenges with making music using software as a primary instrument is what feels like a six degrees of separation between what I intend to do, what I’m actually doing, and the sounds I’m able to make. As I’ve written about, there can be a disconnect between doings and soundings: my sense of… Continue reading
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Database: Max Lauderbauer On The Overall Expression
“If I record something, I still do it very freely. I’m not into going too much into detail. For me, the overall expression is more important than little details.” Max Lauderbauer database. Continue reading
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Keywords: Automation
Automation is a technique of controlling parameters within the DAW ecosystem over time, so that the waveforms morph, the reverbs open up, the EQs sweep, the pitches bend, the transitions blossom, and any other value you can identify shifts and evolves, as if it has a mind of its own. When you automate you multiply… Continue reading
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