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10 Tips for Keeping Your Hip-Hop Beats From Sounding Stale

If you feel like you’ve been making the same beat over and over again, or you’re suffering from a severe case of “beat block,” this one’s for you!

Compressors vs. Limiters vs. Volume Automation: What’s the Difference?

What are the differences between these three forms of volume adjustment, and when to use each of them in your mixing process? We answer that and more here.

5 Reasons Every Songwriter Should Learn to Mix Their Songs

There’s a thousand reasons why songwriters today need to have the ability to put a solid rough mix on their tracks, let’s dig into the most important ones.

Why You Should Make Your Acoustic MIDI Instruments Sound… Less Real

Why are producers always trying to make their MIDI samples sound realistic? I argue that if anything, they should be made to sound more electronic…

7 Fun (and Free) Apps Musicians Can Use to Stay Creative at Home

With most of the touring and studio recording world screeching to a halt these days, we can look to our phones to deliver creative, collaborative fun.

Beat Makers, Try Thinking About Chords and Melody First

You might be an expert at programming drum beats, but if you think back on your favorite songs, they all probably have much stronger melodies and chords.

The 11 Best Music Production Books You Need to Read in 2020

In this guest post by our friends at LANDR, we examine 11 of our favorite audio production books which are both inspirational and educational!

Yes, Household Objects Should Be Sampled in Your Tracks

If you’re like us, you’re probably sitting around your kitchen right now thinking about what kind of snare sounds you can get out of that whisk over there.