If there is one thing I would like to be exemplary at, aside from being a great friend, son, brother, husband and father, it would be to be able to create music. I have had many great moments in music, playing drums in bands, jamming and such but I always admire those who can play all the instruments or just one and make a song of it. Enter the DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) almost an

New to a DAW? Want to know more about StudioOne and tired of watching YouTube? Let me know if you are in the Monterey Bay area, I am sure we can work something out. Mixing, Mastering, Plugins, Tracks, Gain Staging, Recording, External Devices. Sphere

The first order of mastering a song is objectivity. This is also one of the reason self mastering is so difficult. Music mastering is two focus: Dynamic and Sonic and has two prongs: problems and enhancements. Listen to the mix while watching a spectrum analyzer to help identify issues. If a problem is found, ask yourself, what is the root of the problem. If it is a specific and identifiable instrument/track, go back to it

While you can find this sort of information all over the internet, these are from my own collection of notes that I found I needed to understand certain basic patterns in notes and structure. Please if you can explain any of this better, or correct me, chime in! A key is an "octave" of 7 notes with the eighth note residing as the resolve back to the first note, known as the "tonic". In all

These are bands/albums missing from Spotify and or iTunes and possibly all digital age new millennium streaming services. For whatever reason, these are A.W.O.L. and it would be great to have them available. Please Like, Comment, Share and add yours to this list! Automatic Man @patthrall, @michaelshrieve Check this out! These guys need to realize the grouping of these folks alone with two releases are missing the boat not to carry these through technology. They

It just so happened after installing Vocaloid 5.0 my hard drive crashed and Vocaloid 5.4 was announced. And, after the Time Machine restore it would not update on my Mac from the DMG According to the Vocaloid Website, if you use Apple Time Machine and Vocaloid, it is beyond the scope of their Support. https://www.vocaloid.com/en/support/download/update_v5e/ I found that by reinstalling the original 5 over the previous install, I was able to reinstate the path well

Hi. For those of you who don't know, Vocaloid is a music "voice synth" program that can be used to sing vocal to a song. While it is not perfect, it is making in roads and had a valid place in today's music. I have purchased the program and am looking for a user support community and cannot seem to find one. I am interested in creating one if that's what it takes. This is

Compression is talked about a lot in mixing music. With DAWs bringing in a lot more entrepreneurial music production there is a significant point that is often overlooked. Compression is, in a sense increasing RMS. What this means is a flattening of the sounds so the overall volume can be raised. When you are creating music in a DAW, using pre sampled audio, these before they have gotten onto your track have most likely been