3 Ways to Collaborate with a Music Producer
Learn about the different styles of collaboration and how you can use these models to make music beyond your own boundaries through working with others.
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Recording Vocals at Home: 9 Big Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Learn how to get the best vocal performance takes in your home studio, on whatever your budget and with whatever equipment you have, with these handy tips.
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Reference Tracks: How to Improve Your Sound with Mix Referencing
Learn why it’s always helpful to bring in a few commercial recording reference tracks when you’re finishing up a mix, to compare and contrast.
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How to Make Your 808s Punchier
Learn how to get a punchier sounding 808 with some simple tricks, like ADSR adjustments, layering synth sounds, and level alterations across your mix.
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Talking Points: Howard Bilerman Explains Why Limitations Make the Best Records
Welcome to our brand new column, Talking Points. In each post, we revisit a lengthy lecture or Q&A with the greatest minds in music production and composition, and elucidate the most interesting details or concepts mentioned by each guest in order to gain a fresh perspective on the topic in question. Follow along with the series here, or…
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4 Important Things to Keep in Mind Before Prepping Your Song for Mixing
Last week, during Soundfly’s Office Hours #4, I sat down with Grammy-nominated audio engineer and instructor of our acclaimed online course, Faders Up: Advanced Mix Techniques, Kenta Yonesaka, and producer/songwriter Josh Conway out of Los Angeles to discuss the most crucial steps to take to properly prepare a track for a mix engineer, and common missteps to…
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How to Use Samples in Your Tracks Without Ruining Your Mix
+ Learn to create and arrange original, instrumental hip-hop music from sampling pioneer RJD2 himself in his new course on Soundfly, RJD2: From Samples to Songs. Samples are good for everything. They’re one of the most flexible and useful tools for any stage of music production. But mixing with samples is confusing… how do you get them out of…
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7 Weird Mixing Terms: What They Mean and How to Use Them
+ Learning to record and mix your vocals at home? Check out Soundfly’s popular online music production courses today! Subscribe for unlimited access here. Engineers can get pretty fired up when they’re talking about mixing music. Your sound is a difficult thing to describe — throw in a layer of technical jargon and it can be downright frustrating just…
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Student Spotlight, Volume 8: Listen to New Works by Student Artists
This latest Mainstage session proved to me once and for all that, yes, we can have it all: beautiful weather and outdoor summer fun and making progress and advancing in our music careers. Once again, it’s time for some of our top tracks by student artists from the last session! All of the following tracks came out…
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Mix Automation 101: How to Automate Your Sound for a Better Mix
+ 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. Things can get a little baffling when you’re nearing the end of a long mix. But mix automation can help… Maybe your EQ, compression, and send effects are all dialed in to…
