By Janette Berrios (Original Post Here) So you have a new release and want it to be featured on Beatport. Get ready! There is a lot of competition, but the good news is that it can all happen with some consistency and good music. Here are some simple yet effective ways to increase your chances of being […]
So once again, we’re approaching Dynamic Range Day; a campaign started by mastering engineer Ian Shepherd to raise awareness of the Loudness War to all producers, studio engineers, and mix/master engineers. The idea behind the campaign is to try and get us all to really think about whether we really want the dynamics squashed out of […]
So another couple of weeks later, and I finally have a small but functional control room set up (kind of)! As you can see, it’s a fairly small room to start, but due to it being winter and the building being poorly insulated, my initial designs allow me to get a working control room with […]
So as a few of you will already know, I’m an avid user of Quora and I was recently asked if I thought it was worthwhile in doing university/educational music courses. I thought it was a good question with no definitive answer, but I do get asked it a fair bit, so here’s my response: Thanks […]
So it’s been a couple weeks since my last post, and the building has come on leaps and bounds! After I’d designed the initial building layout, it was really just a case of researching the different building materials, working out how to build walls, and then just ordering the parts. Something worth noting here, as […]
As the title suggests, I’m moving to a new studio space for 2015. After searching for commercial spaces in the area, and browsing all sorts of places from fully furnished offices, to cabins in a field, I decided on a light-industrial estate. The reasons are mostly personal (near my home etc), but this particular trading […]
So some of you may already know this, but I’m an avid member of the Quora community. It’s like “Yahoo Answers” but way better because you can follow people and subjects (like Audio Engineering for example), and you can vote up/down answers which means people reading the answers can see the reliability of an answer […]
I’m seeing more and more DJs and Producers giving away free music downloads these days. Here are some of my thoughts on the matter… Obviously, it’s totally up to the artist on whether they want to give their music away for free, (I’ve done it myself a few times), but I think we all need […]
So… Ableton Live 9 has been announced this week, and while I’m personally looking forward to the new features, there’s been an issue discussed time and time again around the forums, regarding latency/delay issues with automation… So what’s the issue? Well actually, there are two issues, which are somewhat related to each other. Firstly, open […]
I was recently asked for some advice by someone about what they should have in their master channel while they produce. They had asked several other producers, who had unfortunately given them conflicting suggestions. Some people had apparently said it was a good idea to have compressors and limiters from the start, and others had […]