How to Identify and Remove Resonances During Mastering
How, and why, and with what plugins, to remove resonances damaging the audio in your mastering project, by a seasoned guest engineer.
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What Is a Filter Sweep and How Can I Use It
Learn to make use of one of the most widely used and fun to employ sound design tricks in audio production, the filter sweep!
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How to Recreate the Synth Bass Sound of Fischerspooner’s “Emerge”
The following tutorial comes courtesy of Soundfly’s free online course, Synth Bass for Bass Players. Feel free to check this and our other free series, Demystifying Synths, to deepen your knowledge of how synthesis works. So, we’re going to take a listen to a classic electroclash track from Fischerspooner’s debut album, #1, and break down the patch…
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The 5 Best Digital Synths for Bass Sounds
There’s no getting around it, and the science is in: Bass is crucial for giving your songs both impact and coherence. It also, apparently, hits our emotions in just the right way. The upshot of all this is that you’d be selling your songs short of that emotional pull if you don’t bolster your tracks with…
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Using Synth Bass as an Expressive and Supportive Tool for Bass Players
As you move from your electric or upright to synth bass, you may start to wonder how to support your group or artist while still expressing the arc of the piece. In many situations, we bass players rely on dynamics, feel, and attack to inform our navigation through a piece of music. When I’m building a…
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Every Single Thing You Need to Play the Synth Bass Part from Bruno Mars’ “24k Magic”
Bruno Mars has made a career off tribute after tribute to artists and sounds of the past. While his success is undeniable, his approach to utilizing classic sounds and stylings is often touted as merely that of a copycat. Still, he always manages to deliver party beats with a clever contemporary twist and a wink of…
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How to Create the Iconic Synth Sounds in “Gin and Juice” from Scratch
Here’s something I know you’re going to dig! Throughout our free Demystifying Synths series of courses, we explore how to recreate the iconic keyboard sounds from tons of our favorite songs. You may have read our recent in-depth article on how to create that unmistakeable keyboard sound from Radiohead’s song “Everything in Its Right Place” off of Kid A, through…
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How to Create the Unmistakable Keyboard Sound in “Everything in Its Right Place”
Today we’re going to learn how to emulate that classic warm keyboard sound that starts Radiohead’s “Everything in Its Right Place” in just a couple of steps. A couple of notes: First, we’ll be working in the newly released version of Helm V0.6.1, an impressively powerful free digital synth plugin. Download the free version here to follow along,…
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So You Think You Can Dance Buildup?
So, you think you know EDM. You’ve been listening to all the latest players in the electronic music world, and you think you know what they’re all about — the unique, infinitesimal nuances of sub-genre that distinguish one from another. What you may not know is that all of these artists in almost all forms of…
