Audiotent Tip 325. Group to Audio Stem.One way to make a group of instruments sound more cohesive is to send them to the same buss and apply processing (e.g. compression or saturation).However, the...
4 Processing Techniques for Tech House & Techno Synth Stabs
Audiotent Tip 324. Synth Stabs for Tech House & Techno. One of the best ways to spice up any techno or tech-house track is to use synth stabs. They can be sampled from loops or synthesised with...
Audiotent Tip 323. Reducing Transients.Sharp or spiky transients can often take way too much headroom in your mix as well as sounding harsh and unpleasant at loud volumes.Make sure you have them un...
Audiotent Tip 322. Tremolo hi-hats.Automating the panning of your hi-hats left and right gives some extra movement and excitement.You can also achieve a similar effect by using a tremolo. Insert th...
3 Tips for preparing your mix for mastering
Audiotent Tip 321. Here are three tips before you send your track to get mastered. 1) Make sure you don’t apply any limiting or any form of loudness enhancement on your mix. The mastering engineer ...
Frequency Specific Haas Effect
Audiotent Tip 320. Frequency Specific Haas Effect.A very well known technique for creating an illusion of wide stereo space is called the Haas Effect. We can achieve this psychoacoustic effect by d...
Audiotent Tip 319. FX processing on your mixdown.There are multiple ways to create transitions between different parts of your track. The most common are adding a tom/snare fill, or muting some aud...
Audiotent Tip 318. Learning Sound Design.This is a great technique to help sharpen your sound design skills.First, open your favourite synthesiser and load the preset that you really like. Next, du...
Audiotent Tip 317. Layering White Noise.When designing a patch for your synth, try layering a bit of white noise. This will add some rawness and grit to your sound.If your synth has multiple filter...
Adding width to your sounds by panning oscillators
Audiotent Tip #316. Panning Oscillators.A good technique to make your synth patch stereo without the use of FX (chorus, delay, reverb etc...) is to pan the oscillators.Choose a different waveform f...