Two weeks ago, Soundfly CEO and founder, Ian Temple, and I went live on Facebook with two of our favorite audio engineers working today — music mixer and producer for the hitmakers, Jake Aron, and acclaimed post-mixer and sound designer, Kate Bilinski — to talk about Ear Training for Audio Engineers. (Watch the full Office Hours session here.)…
Here’s a playlist of songs meant to help you choose the right speakers and headphones for your mixing project, exploring dynamics, frequencies, and timbres.
+ Welcome to Soundfly! We help curious musicians meet their goals with creative online courses. Whatever you want to learn, whenever you need to learn it. Subscribe now to start learning on the ’Fly. One of the wackier outcroppings now appearing on the coastlines of the internet has been the bevy of purring videos, or super loops of cats…
+ Welcome to Soundfly! We help curious musicians meet their goals with creative online courses. Whatever you want to learn, whenever you need to learn it. Subscribe now to start learning on the ’Fly. The “Shepard Tone,” also known as the “Shepard Scale” or “Shepard Illusion,” is an auditory illusion discovered by American cognitive scientist Roger Shepard in 1964. Shepard presented…
+ Learning about synthesis? Soundfly’s got a definitive new online course called Advanced Synths and Patch Design For Producers! Preview for free and subscribe for access. White noise just might be the most versatile secret weapon a producer has at their fingertips. It can be used in filter sweeps to build anticipation for your big EDM beat drop…
+ Pursue your mixing and audio production goals with a Soundfly Mentor like Andrea! Soundfly offers four-week mentorship sessions with a pro, customized to you. Get in touch to learn more. How many of you are completely terrified of doing anything to the mix buss (a.k.a., “stereo buss” or “2 buss”)? It is real easy to mess up…
+ Learning to mix at home? Preview a lesson in Soundfly’s online course Faders Up: Modern Mix Techniques for free, and subscribe for unlimited access. Let’s face it, most mixes don’t jump out of the speaker. They need stereo widening. Without a strong stereo image, your mix will struggle to achieve the expansive and immersive qualities for…
+ Welcome to Soundfly! We help curious musicians meet their goals with creative online courses. Whatever you want to learn, whenever you need to learn it. Subscribe now to start learning on the ’Fly. If a tree falls in the forest and there’s initially no one there to hear it — but someone, alerted to the event, suddenly runs toward the…
We humans live in such an audio bubble, with a hearing range of a mere 20 to 20,000 Hz (referred from here on as 20 kHz). Anything below this range is known as infrasound, and above that frequency ceiling is what we call ultrasound, or the wild chatter of the ultrasonic. There are many creators of…
Make your digital MIDI productions sound more organic with these helpful tips for layering pianos from electronic music producer Hyperbits!
