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Professional audio speakers sold as midfield monitors are different from nearfield monitors, in the sense that they are designed to be used in situations where you are at least 1.5 meters (or approx. 5 feet) to about 3 meters (or approx. 10 feet) away from the speaker. Being too close to a...

New Zim artist Glen Mazani has released the official video to his debut single titled ‘Tapinda Tapinda‘, produced by Allykin.

Terry Afrika (Terrence Chivavaya) released "Matemai" music video just recently.

Audio stems is a sound engineering jargon term to describe the organization of multiple audio tracks grouped as one unit according to specific sound categories. You can create stems in your DAW (digital audio workstation) by using group channels (also known as either aux channels, bus or buss...

Zimdancehall artiste Jah Signal dropped a spanking new music video "Ndiwe Wangu"

Watch below the latest music release "Automatically" from Baba Harare (Braveman Mawanza) featuring a cameo appearance by Zimbabwean stripper and exotic dancer Beverly Sibanda.

Watch: Crooger's "Hamutityise" Zim Hip Hop music video

Watch the official music video for "Imma Boss" by Family Tree and SA Hip Hop artist Nadia Nakai.

In this second episode of Family Tree podcast, Cassper Nyovest sat down with Khuli Chana to discuss making it in the music business and the current trends in the South African music industry.

Watch the official music video for "King Santa" by Zim Hip Hop artist Scrip Mula (Keith Mudambana).

Gigi Lamayne's extended play album "Job Woods" is packing some heat with fire music and below is the tracklist: Job Woods (Skit) Holy Liquor (produced by DJ Twinn) Amanzi featuring Zakwe (produced by Tweezy) Bozza featuring Kwesta (produced by DJ Twinn) Full Clip featuring Mickey M, Red Button...

What would y'all recommend as the best free DAW that has an easy learning curve?

Stunner Da Des has just released "Zvirongwa" a Zim hip-hop song that pays homage to the ghetto life in the Republic of Zimbabwe.

The amount of headroom you should reserve before mastering music after audio mixing is subjective. What matters the most is to avoid hard clipping i.e. making sure you are not going over 0 dBFS on the master fader. However, some sound engineers may recommend having your final mix peaking at -6...

One of the most important things to learn in contemporary computer music production is understanding sound design basics (i.e., sound synthesis or synthesizer programming). Hence, the best way to approach the basics of sound design is by picking a simple-to-use virtual software synthesizer...

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...

Check out Sia Babez debut single "Hit My Line" which she has released just recently.

Some new Zimdaansaal artists have received constructive criticism for writing songs fueled with lyrics containing the use of recreational drugs and how this has a negative impact on ghetto youths who look up to them. Y'all think it's fair how most of the criticism about recreational drugs is...

A reverb's room size parameter simulates the dimensions of the desired space in the context of whether it's either a small space or a large environment. Large spaces typically have a longer decay time and wide stereo image whilst small rooms correspond to shorter decay time and also a narrow...

One of the most important parameters of any reverberation plugin is pre-delay which slightly sets back in time the dry input signal and the wet output sound. Reverb pre-delay gives us a clue about the size of the room we are working with depending on the duration of the aforementioned...