In 1988, Bobby McFerrin recorded a song in about three hours using nothing but his own voice. No band, no instruments. He layered the voice over itself to cover the bass, the percussion, and the melody, all of it. The song was “Don’t Worry, Be Happy.” It went to number one on the Billboard Hot… Read More »How to Master an Acapella Vocal for Streaming
In 2008, Evan Bogart sat with Beyoncé in a studio while she recorded the vocal for “Halo.” She did it more than fifty times. Bogart later said most takes were already great. She kept going because she wanted one to feel inevitable. That is what it takes to record a vocal worth releasing. An acapella is even less forgiving… Read More »How to Record a Studio-Quality Acapella at Home
[📌📌 Insights taken from real Drum and Bass artists who have been using these DAWs for a while.] In 1995, a former graffiti artist named Goldie released a drum and bass album that would change the genre forever. It was called Timeless. The title track ran 21 minutes. The album sold over 100,000 copies in the UK alone and earned a place on… Read More »Best DAWs for Producing Drum and Bass
As a producer, as a songwriter, I’ve spent a lot of time either in my bedroom or in studios, alone.” — Maggie Rogers That’s most of us now. You sit down with a laptop, a mic, and an idea. You write the song. And then you sing it. Finally you record it. Also do the mixing and mastering your… Read More »How to Write a Song Worth Releasing
A six-second drum break, a few warehouses in London and Bristol, and a tempo nobody had pushed that hard before. That is roughly where drum and bass starts. This post tells the story of how it actually happened, from the late-80s UK rave scene to the moment jungle stopped calling itself jungle. If you want the broader overview of… Read More »How Drum and Bass Music Was Born
Most of the spooky, otherworldly sounds you may have heard in 1940s and 1950s movies were created with the theremin. One of the best examples is the 1951 classic “The Day the Earth Stood Still”, with a memorable score by Bernard Herrmann. The theremin is the instrument behind that strange and haunting sound. What makes it so… Read More »How Does a Theremin Work Without Being Touched?
If you’re stuck with audio meter readings, you’re in the right place to solve your loudness problems. Here’s we figured out the common reasons why you landed up in this blog; Let me tell you that you’re not alone. There’s plenty of music creators who often get messed up with audio meter readings. Majority of them just observe the numbers but never open up the real loudness problems. The truth… Read More »How to Use Audio Meters to Catch and Fix Loudness Problems
If you’re creating music, there’s nothing that can devast yourself other than distorted audio clips. Here’s a few situation you might be facing when you encounter with audio distortion If you’re facing any of the above issues, you need to know there’s a way. AI can help you fix distorted audio within a few seconds. For that, you don’t need to go through any detailed technical flow, at all. In this blog, we’ll know how to remove distorted audio from your music via the following… Read More »How to remove unwanted audio distortion? (under 30 seconds with AI)
Don’t you want your song to stay clean and powerful, even when someone turns the volume up? A lot of tracks start sounding harsh or distorted at higher volume, and that is where many new music creators get confused. The good news is that the reason is usually not as complicated as it sounds. In many cases, it comes down… Read More »Headroom in Audio Explained for Beginners
A lot of music creators think they have a mixing problem when they actually have a signal flow problem. The session is open. The plugins are loaded. The sounds are there. But the mix still feels confusing. The real problem is that one track sounds too loud; another disappears. Plus, the reverb feels wrong, and the whole session starts feeling heavier than it should. … Read More »Understand Complete Audio Signal Flow Before You Mix
