Enhance Your Recordings and Your Ears with the MicSwap app
MicSwap is aa new iOS app which lets musicians easily swap out one microphone for another when recording music. Perfect for the studio or training your ears.
Hearing Tone, Timbre, and Texture
Tone, timbre and texture are three powerful and universal concepts in music but often misunderstood. Learn the definitions and how to hear them.
Fix The Mix: Don’t let a muddy sound ruin your tracks
A muddy sound can absolutely ruin a mix. But with the right kind of audio ear training and some tips and tricks, you can take your mix from average to awesome.
Music Production Listening Skills: Timbre, Frequency, and Bass Drums
Do some audio frequency ear training and you’ll find it easier to mix percussion, choose the perfect drum kits for your tracks, and adjust their EQ in the mix.
Pitch and Timbre: Hearing the Difference
Find out how to distinguish pitch and timbre, how to identify an instruments timbre and how recognising timbre has shaped classical and modern music.
Why Music Producers Need To Learn To Play By Ear (Mark Spacey)
A different perspective on playing by ear this week: music production. We welcome guest expert Mark Spacey of music production site dancemidisamples.com! When you produce music for a living, you always have to keep the grand design in mind. The big picture is made up...
Hearing Effects: Dynamics, Part 2 – Even more dynamic…
Missed the start of the series? Catch up here. Last time around we looked at the basic controls of the compression effect, a core part of dynamics control in audio. This week we’ll look at some specialised variants: Limiters, Expanders, Gates, and Multi-Band...
Hearing Effects: Introduction
Welcome back to the ongoing series that began with Frequency Fundamentals. I trust and hope it has been as helpful for you as it was fun for me to write. Moving along, this is the start of a new series that will dovetail with the frequency series. Consider it the...
Harmonics And Distortion
Missed the rest of the series? Click here to start at the beginning. Up to this point in the series we’ve focused on characterising each sound with a single frequency representing its pitch. In today’s article we’ll consider the other frequencies...
What Does Music Look Like?
Sound wave vibrations rearrange grains and fluids into fascinating visual patterns, which have engaged the attention of scientists, artists, and mystics.
Compose Creatively by Breaking the Rules
Composing music classically restricts your creativity. In the modern age, there are many ways to create your own new sounds, as Adam Scott Neal reveals.
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