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5 Essential Mixing Tips (Major Lazer Style)

Mixing Music Production Sound Design Tips 'n Tricks

  We’ve recently done a tutorial explaining our new „Major Lazer - Cold Water“ project file. Here, we’ve extracted some essential tips from it which can help you improve your mixdowns. 1. Sound widening Here are two possible techniques you can use to make a track sound wider: - using Simple Delay / Filter Delay  To widen your track with a Delay, set both Left and Right channels to Time. Next, bring both of the Time settings to 1.00ms. That way the whole track will be delayed by 1 millisecond. Next, increase the time difference between L/R channels. You’ll notice...

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(Free Ableton Project) How To Make a Future Track - Step By Step Breakdown of „Cheerful“ by k-pizza

Ableton Beginners FREE Music Production Tips 'n Tricks

Hi! In this tutorial we’re going to take a look at one of my tracks called „Cheerful“. We’re going to go through all the elements from which the track is made. Here’s the end result of it: Get the free project file: DOWNLOAD HERE  (scroll down for video) The full video tutorial including the project file will be at the end - so make sure to stick around!   The elements we’re going to go through are:   1. Pluck group - main melody   The track started out from a simple melody played with a sample in Simpler. I...

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How To Start a Track With an Acapella in 10 Simple Steps

#PMLTipOfTheDay Music Production Tips 'n Tricks Writing Music

  The way I start my tracks the most often is by finding a good chord progression. Sometimes however, I like to change things up and to start by playing around with vocals. In this 10 step guide I’m about to show you a really simple workflow to get started with your new track.   Step 1: Find and download an acapella Having a killer vocal line to work with is key. It’s not always an easy task to find the vocals of your favourite song. Fortunately, there are plenty of great vocal recordings you can choose from, (and to...

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Five Quotes To Solve Your Music Production Problems

#PMLTipOfTheDay Mindset Music Production Tips 'n Tricks Writing Music

1 - „Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working“ - Pablo Picasso As a music producer you constantly have to deal with lack of inspiration. „I’m not inspired, so there’s no point in opening that DAW“ - that’s what your mind tricks you to say to yourself. As a result, you start procrastinating and never finishing music (or never even starting out). The solution to this problem is to find the inspiration by actually working. It doesn’t mean that you have to find it just by working inside your DAW! It can get very boring to stare at...

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5 Simple Habits That Will Turn You Into a Real Music Producer

Mindset Music Production Writing Music

I know how hard it is sometimes to produce music. I’ve been there! As a music producer myself, I thought it would be useful if I shared some of the simple things which I found to have improved my musicmaking process. The first, and the most important one is…  1. It’s not the musicmaking part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to make music. What that means is that the most important part of being a music producer is actually making music. In fact, the main focus of every successful music producer is ON the process, not IN it....

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How to Write a Track from Scratch - Tutorial

Chord Progressions Chords Melody Music Production Writing Music

In this tutorial, Tom is writing a complete track from scratch, starting with chord progressions, then going over bass and finishing with melodies.     =====   If you want to learn more about the basics of harmony and chord progressions, check out our in-depth course: PML Course: "Harmony and Chord Progressions"  

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Great Reverb Plugin: D16 Toraverb Vst

Mixing Music Production Skills

Buy Toraverb from D16 Toraverb is one of our favorite VST plugins when it comes to creating long tail reverbs for rather epic sounding tracks. Its heavily used in this video tutorial, check it out around minute 13:30:   Buy Toraverb from D16

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Creating your own "Gate Effect" in Ableton Live

#PMLTipOfTheDay Future Bass Music Production Skills Sound Design

In this case, we’re building a gate effect in Ableton Live. Taking a pad sound as source, we are routing the signal into a second audio track (instead of routing it to the master channel). That second audio track plays a "dummy" audio clip - an empty audio file basically. But this dummy audio clip contains the relevant track volume modulation. We can create several of those "dummy" audio clips and draw in different types of volume modulations (e.g.: 16ths, 8ths, etc). That way we can easily switch between different ideas and concepts and speed up the creative workflow.     ...

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Vocal Chopping and Editing inside of this Remake Tutorial

Future Bass Music Production Skills Sound Design Vocals

  In this tutorial we are performing several vocal editing and vocal chopping techniques using Ableton Live 9 Suite:   Watch Tutorial:   Additionally, we’re offering this template: go to template    Keywords: Vocal editing, vocal chopping, vocal cuts, vocal chops  

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Free Ableton Live 9 Beginners Course

Ableton Beginners Mastering Mixing Music Production Skills Sound Design

If you're new to music production / Ableton Live 9, we've put together a little course that might help you starting out - watch this youtube playlist:         Additionally, if you're looking for a profound in-depth course on how to produce a track in Ableton from "Start to Finish" - we've put together an extended 21-studio session paid class with Francois. You can enroll right here:     

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