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Yours Alone: Music Production Ergonomics
(photo: Paul Skorupskas) “If you really want to separate your work from everyone else’s,every time you come to a Y in the road, don’t think about which way to go;automatically take the toughest route. Everybody else is taking the easiest one.” – Richard Serra in Leonard Koren’s What Artists Do (2018) I sometimes wonder, Why I don’t Continue reading
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Database: Lorenzo Senni On Build-ups
“It was just one of the first experiments of how the people could react to […] this like 45, 50 minutes of build-ups taken from trance tracks just looped very precisely that sounds like it’s coming, but it’s always the same loop. After a while you realize that the filter is not opening, the delay Continue reading
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Templates, No Template
A workflow adjustment I’ve made in recent months is using a DAW template with most of the instruments I like working with. Prior to doing this, I would begin a piece with a piano sound. I still often begin with piano, but the problem with beginning with only a single (and familiar) sound, I realized, Continue reading
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Database: Grischa Lichtenberger On Steps Of Enhancement
“I very rarely go back or delete. I add one eq after the other and each one of them is like a step of correction or enhancement of the previous one. Of course it is maybe the worst thing you could do, but it makes the sound more yours, or better: it crystallizes what your Continue reading
