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Hey all, in this easy-to-follow tutorial series, you will learn how to create a basic Zimdancehall instrumental from scratch or a blank canvas with stock and third-party VST plugins. Although I use Image-Line's FL Studio as my primary DAW, you can pretty much do the same thing in any music...

This sound design tutorial shows how to make deep wavy synth keys using a virtual synthesizer — Lennar Digital Sylenth1. It's a synth preset that's perhaps suited for slow or mid-tempo music, but you can use it in whatever genre of music you are into. Follow the steps below to make this sound...

This sound design tutorial shows how to make a basic electric piano using Native Instruments' Massive VST wavetable synthesizer. 1) Initialize Massive VST to its default preset. 2) For Oscillator 1 choose a "Sin-Squ" wavetable, and turn the wavetable position knob completely to the...

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This sound design tutorial shows you how to make a basic electric piano using the digital audio software plug-in Xfer Records Serum inside Image-Line's FL Studio (DAW).

There are no hard and fast rules about gain reduction when using brickwall limiters like Waves Audio L2 Ultramaximizer or Waves Audio L1 Ultramaximizer. It's all about the desired sound you can achieve by using any audio mastering limiter. Although in contemporary times pushing Waves Audio L2...

I am honestly not really sure about that, but perhaps when you enable the True-Peak limiting option on iZotope's Ozone Maximizer it may turn on oversampling to a certain X amount so that the brickwall limiter plug-in calculates inter-sample peaks and apply more limiting to them in regards to...

This sound synthesis tutorial shows how to design a basic 808 bass drum using the virtual analog synthesizer LennarDigital Sylenth1 in FL Studio (DAW). The final sound is perhaps more suitable for hip-hop music production e.g., trap music. But it can somewhat blend well with other genres of...

There isn't a specific amount you need to start a record company but you ought to have a business plan which is sustainable in the long run because the music industry is constantly evolving with advancements in technology and how people consume music nowadays. A business without a sure strategy...

This sound design tutorial shows how to make a basic polyphonic Synthwave brass sound using Xfer Records' wavetable synthesizer Serum in FL Studio (Digital Audio Workstation).

It all comes down to the person who is utilizing the DAW in question (i.e., whether it's Steinberg's Cubase or Image-Line's FL Studio in this case). There are all useful tools, but ultimately it's the producer who gets to be creative with these tools, and not the "Digital Audio Workstation"...

The same process of making a Dancehall riddim instrumental applies to Zimdancehall music production. There isn't any significant difference except that Zimdancehall lyrics are often written in a context that Zim folks can relate to.

First of all, there is a difference between sending bounced off multi-tracks and audio stems to a mixing engineer. "Audio Stems" often refer to a whole group of tracks summed together e.g. drums or strings in a mix. Ideally mixing engineers don't mind you sending them recording effects as part...

Like everything in music production it all varies from each project, you are working on. However, it is perhaps much better to use high-pass filters or low-shelf filters on individual mixer tracks rather than using them on an entire mix. Furthermore, you may want to avoid using steep or gentle...

When you choose the 4-pole filter order option on Fruity Parametric EQ 2, you will get a 24 dB per octave filter because 1-pole rolls off at 6 dB/octave and 4 times 6 = 24 dB.

It's genre-specific and a matter of subjective taste. In most cases, the kick drum isn't meant to prominently occupy frequencies below 20 Hz to roughly about 50 Hz because this will result in a phenomenon known as auditory masking i.e. your kick drum will be competing with your bass guitar or...

There aren't absolute techniques or tips for mixing kick and bass sounds in a song but there are guidelines such as having your kick drum in front of your bass or vice versa.

Audio mixing is the stage of music production of doing all that stuff and sorting things out the way you like it e.g. proper gain staging or even drum replacement where necessary. Sometimes it's just a matter of turning up the gain or mixer fader of the drums if they aren't loud enough when an...

You technically can't make your drums hit hard during the mastering stage without altering a final mixdown but you can only enhance what's already there. Of course, there are digital audio plug-ins that you may try to achieve a desired sound e.g. iZotope Ozone Master Rebalance module.