Tag: production

  • Into the Wild: Making a Beat in Ableton Live With Found Sounds

    Into the Wild: Making a Beat in Ableton Live With Found Sounds

    + Master the tools and techniques of producing pro-level electronic music and audio in Ableton Live with Soundfly’s course, Intro to Music Production in Ableton Live. By Niall McCallum There’s never been a better time to get into beat making. Editing software and audio processing tools are better, cheaper, and more readily available than ever before. Not…

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  • A Guide to Best Practices for Seamless Audio Collaboration in Your DAW

    A Guide to Best Practices for Seamless Audio Collaboration in Your DAW

    As DAW and recording technology gets ever better, musicians can collaborate in ways they’ve never imagined… which leads to a whole new host of problems.

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  • How to Approach Album Track Order in the Digital Age

    How to Approach Album Track Order in the Digital Age

    Back in the days of vinyl LPs, musicians spent a lot of time thinking about album track order. When Capitol Records released the early Beatles albums in America, for example, John Lennon was appalled at how the record label had changed the track order from what the band had originally intended. Nowadays, however, with the…

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  • Empowerment: From “Female Producer” to “Producer”

    Empowerment: From “Female Producer” to “Producer”

    By Julie Kathryn a.k.a. I AM SNOW ANGEL I’m a songwriter, recording artist, musician, and producer. I’ve self-produced two EPs and one full-length album under the moniker I AM SNOW ANGEL. In 2015, I co-founded an all-female musical collective called Female Frequency. I’d like to note that I do not consider myself an expert on…

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  • 6 Subtle Production Tricks That’ll Bring a Track to Life

    6 Subtle Production Tricks That’ll Bring a Track to Life

    Sometimes having great songs and performances isn’t enough — you also need unique and ear-catching production. What actually makes something sound even better than it does? Well, that’s that true art of audio production. The more techniques a producer or engineer has at his or her disposal, the most opportunities for inventiveness. That’s not to…

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