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What is Compression? A Music Production Guide – Blog

Compression is an indispensable tool that’s found across individual tracks, mix buses, and mastering chains. One of the most popular effects among musicians and engineers, audio compression is used for taming dynamics, manipulating amplitude envelopes, peak limiting, sidechaining, parallel processing, and more. Yet, despite its popularity, compression can be quite enigmatic for novices and veterans

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What Is Classical Music? A Beginner’s Guide – Blog

What is classical music? Classical music is usually associated with fancy concert halls and orchestras filled with string, brass, and woodwind instruments—ensembles so big that a conductor will lead them through each piece of music. These pieces often feature approaches to rhythm, melody, and harmony that might feel somewhat “conventional” or “dated,” especially when compared

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MNDR Interview: Noise Music, Writing With Charli XCX, and more – Blog

Amanda Warner, better known as MNDR, is a GRAMMY-winning songwriter, producer, and electro pop artist. With collaborators including the likes of Charli XCX, Calvin Harris, Mark Ronson, Kylie Minogue, Rita Ora, AlunaGeorge, Carly Rae Jepsen, Madonna, Stray Kids, and TOKiMONSTA—to name a few—MNDR’s songwriting and production talents have shaped music across genres,

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How to Make Music with Loops – Blog

Songwriter’s block is usually associated with challenges around writing lyrics, but it also often comes in the forms of not being able to finish a melody, feeling that a rhythm’s too repetitive, or getting stuck on a chord progression that’s too predictable. While some common solutions are writing songs on a new instrument or changing

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How to Organize and Revisit Your ‘Leftover’ Music Projects – Blog

Illustration: Jocelyn Tsaih The turkey sandwiches and microwaved stuffing on the Friday after Thanksgiving hit just a little different. Wouldn’t it be great if producing music were more like eating a hearty amount of food over the course of a few days, rather than a daunting process consisting of always starting from scratch? Thanks to

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