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Grammy-winning Composer Penka Kouneva's Masterclass, Now Open for Winter 2025 Enrollment: A 12-week Intensive Course in Soundtrack Analysis and Media Scoring
Grammy-winning composer Penka Kouneva's Masterclass (Penka's Masterclass) is now accepting students for its Winter 2025 session, which begins on January 13, 2025. Penka's Masterclass is a 12-week inte...
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Making Your Mix Sound Like The Original
Making your mix sound like someone else's mix is not easy and requires time and effort. It takes a lot of listening. To do this task, listen to the original by soloing the original mix track, and then...
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Master The Score 'Black Weeks Sale': Up to 50% Off: Premium Online Courses in Media Music Production – Composition, Orchestration, Music Production, & Trailer Music with Subtitles in 9 Languages
Master The Score announces its 'Black Weeks Sale' from November 14th to December 7th, offering up to 50% off on all courses. Founded in 2021 by Austrian composer Nikolaus Daim, Master The Score is an...
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Security Requirements for Artist Performance Venues
The promoter will provide security arrangements customized to meet the artist's specific requirements. The following is an example of security provisions for an artist: 1. Dressing Rooms - Two non-uni...
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Producer's Instructions
Assume that you are not the producer but the engineer. Therefore, you do need to follow some guidelines from the producer below. That means don't say you didn't pan any tracks because you personally l...
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Limitations of Analog Tape Recorders' Dynamic Range
The analog tape recorder (a.k.a. analog tape machine) cannot respond to the full 120 dB of dynamic range that our ears can. Therefore it can never really fool the ear into thinking the recording is re...
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The Birth of Synthesizer
In 1897, Thaddeus Cahill created the world's first electric synthesizer, the Telharmonium. Telharmonium was built with 36 keys and could only produce sine waves. In 1923, Leon Theremin invented the Th...
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About 'Noise'
Noise is something we are quite familiar with and is a simple sound, yet its precise definition is not actually straightforward. A common definition of noise is 'a sound present in all sound environme...
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Exploring Synthesis (3): Phase Distortion Synthesis
Phase Distortion Synthesis (PDS) is a method introduced by Casio in their digital synthesizers (CZ series synthesizers) released in 1984, combining the characteristics of FM synthesis with subtractive...
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Aqeel Aadam 'Ridgewalk': A Wandering Granular Looper designed to Reinterpret and Reimagine Any Audio, Allowing You to Explore Sound in Unique Ways not possible before
Aqeel Aadam, an American audio plug-in developer and sample smither, has recently announced the release of 'Ridgewalk' — A wandering granular looper designed to reinterpret and reimagine any audio, a...
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Working on Sound of Snare Drum
Solo your snare track and listen carefully to this track. Consider the following suggestions: If you want to add "snap" to the snare sound, try boosting the high-mids (around 5 kHz); If you want more...
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A Musical Artist's Royalty Calculation based on a Hypothetical Contract
The following line outlines a royalty calculation for a musical artist based on a hypothetical contract with typical industry terms. This contract includes physical sales, digital sales, and streaming...
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Pre-Delay and Decay Time in Reverb
As seen in the picture above, Pre-Delay is the silence before the onset (attack) of reverberant energy. The period of pre-delay is based on room size. (e.g. bigger room --> longer period) Pre-Delay se...
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'Nuances Controller': A Professional-grade, Handmade MIDI CC Controller allowing Ultimate Expressiveness in Your Music Score
Since March 2021, a French film composer has been getting a lot of attention for his homemade MIDI controller. This simple device has been described by people as perfect for adding expression to virtu...
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