Music Production

To quantize without losing feel, stop working at 100 percent strength by default. Choose the smallest grid that fits the part, pull quantize strength … Read more

Hi-hats sound robotic when every hit lands dead on the grid at the same velocity using the same sample. To program hi hats that … Read more

To use velocity to humanize drums, give each hit its own level of emphasis: louder on downbeats and backbeats, softer on ghost notes and … Read more

If you want to know how to make your drums hit harder, the answer is not more volume. It is a sharper transient on … Read more

How to layer kick drums well comes down to one idea: stack two or more kick sounds on separate tracks so each one owns … Read more

An 808 is a pitched bass instrument derived from the Roland TR-808 drum machine, and that single fact is the whole answer: because it … Read more

Muddiness almost always comes from the same place: the reverb tail is carrying frequencies the dry signal needs. Learning how to use reverb without … Read more

Last updated: To mix 808s well, you do four jobs in this order: put the note in tune, clear space so it stops fighting … Read more

Delay on vocals works by sending your dry vocal to a separate return bus, putting that bus fully wet, and letting the repeats land … Read more

To EQ vocals, start with a high-pass filter around 80 to 120 Hz to clear rumble, cut the low-mid resonances that make a voice … Read more