#AudiotentTip 265. Critical Listening.You can learn a lot by carefully listening to you favourite productions. Choose four or five of your favourites and listen to them from start to finish. Whilst...
#AudiotentTip 264. Mixing in mono.A great mixing technique that is used by some of the worlds leading engineers is to mix in mono. Simply add a utility plugin on your master bus that allows you to ...
Loud mastering tips - serial limiting
#AudiotentTip 263. Serial Limiting.A great way to achieve a louder master is to limit in series. Running two limiters (one after another) helps to spread the load and can lead to more transparent m...
Using an arpeggiator to create melodies
#AudiotentTip 262. Arp Melodies.So, you have a killer set of chords but you’re struggling to get a good melody. Copy your chords to a new channel and setup an arpeggiator plugin or a synth with a b...
#AudiotentTip 261. Analog Style Step Sequencers.One of the joys of analog gear is the happy accidents that you come across when programming a patch or editing a running step sequencer. A software s...
#AudiotentTip 260. Wavetable Synthesis.Stepping away from the conventional Sine, Sawtooth, Square waveforms and into Wavetables can help deliver exciting results.Things start to get really interest...
#AudiotentTip 259. Gated Synth Stabs.When working with swung grooves every element of your track needs to be short and tight to emphasise the transient hits. A great technique to achieve this for ...
Ring modulation synthesis for creating unique FX
#AudiotentTip 258. Ring Modulation FX.Ring modulation is a form of signal processing that is performed by multiplying two signals together. The output is the sum and difference of the frequencies ...
#AudiotentTip 257. Just Before The Drop.When working on electronic dance music, there are a lot of ways to create tension before the drop. A Drum fill or a vocal phrase seem to be a very common te...
Surfer EQ 2 how to use a pitch tracking equalizer
#AudiotentTip 256. Pitch Tracking EQ.A new wave of EQ’s is being created that can track the fundamental frequency or any harmonics in real-time. These EQ’s can be extremely useful and can deliver ...