Category Archives: Music Production Basics

It seems simple, but its one of the biggest mistakes and oversights of the new home producer. Where do you place the mic? What you’re trying to record plays a big part. As well as the desired effect you want from the recording. Position can effect a great number of things, and I’m going to [...]

One of the things I love about sound loops, is the ability to change them. To take a guitar loop, and make it into the base of my beat. To take a vocal loop and distort it into a glitch element.
Now if you didn’t understand any of that, A sound loop is a piece of [...]

If you dont know what loops are, they are audio samples. Sounds, drum beats, bass lines, etc. Pieces of sound, that can either be played once, or ‘looped’ through a song. Its the old practice of sampling from albums, taken to another level.
There are loop libraries made by some very famous musicians, and a whole [...]

Let me start by explaining what a sample is. Technically a sample is any piece of sound. A drum hit, a guitar strum, a bus going down the street and every other noise you can imagine, and some you can’t. These are all samples. You can use them to piece together music of your own.
However [...]

The nice thing about Hip Hop and Rap is that its a pretty open area of music to explore. The only problem is that most of the top vocalists use a lot of the same producers, so most of the top players have beats that sound alike.
Well…that’s really a good thing because it means someone [...]

Many people have heard of Audio Mastering. It is accepted as part of the process of making a Music Album. However most probably have no idea what mastering actually is. In this article I am going to explain what it is, and why its done.
When you play a CD, the reason each track sounds the [...]

In this article I’m going to go into hardware; or analog, versus acid music studio. Even today there is a tendency towards a preference of hardware or analog equipment over computers. Some people will say the use of the computer is not really making music. This is usually from people that have [...]

Ok, ive gone over Reverb in the last videos but i only showed you how it works. Now im going to tell you what it does for your music.
When you sing in the bathroom, or any other small space it tends to sound good. It sounds good even if youre a terrible singer anywhere else. [...]

The first thing I’ll say about loops is that they can take up a lot of space. I have over 8 GB in my collection and its limited. By limited I mean not very large. I have perhaps two dozen loop libraries on the computer right now. This may seem like [...]

With early Music Players you only got Mono sound. That is sound from one speaker. With The invention of stereo, music and movie soundtracks became much more rich and dynamic. With Surround Sound both became lifelike.
The reason for this is simple. When you hear something, you hear it in a full radius around you, not [...]

Whether exchanging lyrics to better song or editing loops you are producing.  Sometimes it seems the producers are almost spooky, faceless names on an album.  Those strange names that sit behind the studio desk and make magic happen.  They can make a band bigger, give them a new sound that they needed, and take you [...]

I would like to share some insights into the act of music production with you. Many people think producing music is something complicated, and takes too long to learn. The reality is that, that notion is both true and false.
It does take years to become a great producer, but you can start producing music in [...]