We are all familiar with sidechaining in EDM music creating the “pumping” sound. While this is great creative use of sidechaining, there are countless other ways we can use sidechaining to mix tracks. These techniques can range from strictly functional to amazingly creative.
After years of being in the music industry you learn a few things. Things that only time or another seasoned musician could teach you. Think Bono. Think Yoda. I was involved in the music industry for 20 years and experienced the industry feelings of success, defeat, deceit and drama. The highlights of touring, the after show parties, and the meet and greets. The low lights of constant jet lag, band arguments and "not quite" making the charts that week.
Over the last fifteen years there has been enormous change to the industry's systems and methods. I sat down with multi grammy award winning Dan Haseltine to uncover some lead singer secrets.
Ahhhhh the rise of Americana music. "Americana" has been on the up and up over the last 20 years and is a genre that is often hard to actually define. It's usually described as music where folk meets blues meets blue-grass meets rock and roll, along with an electric keyboard if you're so inclined. People think of Mumford and Sons (who obviously were not born Americana), The Lumineers, The Civil Wars and The Band Perry. It's been a few years since we had a major Americana band that broke through the mold and actually "made it". So, what's next for the Americana clan?
In EDM, some inexperienced listeners and engineers misunderstanding equalization, thinking that it's all about bass. The truth is that every mix comes down to creating space and balance. Does everything have a space or does it blend in? Is it muddy and confusing or well defined? The EQ (or equalizer) takes the highest priority in a mix so it's important to understand it and employ it with precision.
Mix engineers of all experience levels are familiar with how a compressor can be used to control the transient content of various input source signals. However, a common topic of confusion is the use of compression across the complexity of an entire mix. Many would argue that applying compression to the entire mix is a job meant for the experienced mastering engineer. Although the latter is true, it is also true that mix bus compression before mastering is a common technique among many notable mix engineers. Whether an engineer uses mix compression or not, is not all that relevant; how an engineer uses it is. In this article we will, in simple terms, examine some key ideas surrounding mix bus compression before mastering, and we will go over how to start applying it to your projects.
EDM is a genre like no other. It capitalizes on huge synth lines, dramatically sidechained melody lines, and massive stadium-like drums. However, the work-flow of mixing these tracks isn’t as straightforward and eludes most starting producers. We will run through the most time-consuming and detail-oriented stage of the song creation process--Mixing.
Does working through the confusing topic of music licenses get exhausting? In this article were combing through music licenses asking questions like:
What are music licenses? What types of music licenses are there and how are they different? How are royalties calculated from these different music licenses?
In essence, music publishing is involved in owning rights to music in order to protect, to promote and to make money from the music. If you are the writer or copyright owner of the song, you can keep ownership of your publishing or work alongside a publishing company.
The simple understanding of Mechanical Royalties are royalties that are paid to a songwriter whenever a copy of their song is made. As with many avenues in the music industry, it's always a little more complicated then it can seem. So, we've tried to simply it here.
One of the most creative artistic projects arising from Nashville these days is the synthesis of graphic comics and music under the originative eye of Vian Izak. Graphically and musically he cherry picks cultural influences ranging from Chinese propaganda to manga to early Egyptian motifs.
There is no one formula to songwriting. Song composer is a unique experience that is based around talent, creativity and discipline. You can however purposefully engage with your talent, creativity and discipline to make the most out of the song writing process.
What does it mean now that, all of a sudden, music is officially literary?
If you're an independent artist that's looking to build your band, it can be hard to know where to start. What are the important attributes to consider?
Independent artists will often be faced with the choice of investing into new music equipment or the decision to trust pre-loved equipment. Our artists have found there are many advantages to buying 2nd hand equipment. In this article, we’ll look at these advantages and give you some suggestions on how to approach buying these items with wisdom.
The thrill of the live performance is usually No. 1 on an artist’s list. But if you’re just about to make the debut of your music career, breaking into the gig search can initially be overwhelming.
