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When music producers are talking about 808s they often refer to electronic drum sounds made with "Roland's TR-808 Rhythm composer" drum machine. The Roland TR-808 drum machine first appeared on the scene in 1980 but was later discontinued in 1983 when Roland Corporation stopped its production...

Is clout chasing that addictive to the point where you have artists in the music industry who try so hard to be power couples or creating smear campaigns behind the scenes cooking up some internet witchcraft to spite the next upcoming artist?

Why is it that there is always many Hip Hop rappers who end up complaining about record contracts and how their record label isn't treating them nice? Is it that many Hip Hop artists are that illiterate or they have entertainment lawyers who set them up for failure, or maybe they wouldn't be...

The meaning behind the process of "leveling your beats" is just synonymous with the idea of "gain staging" before mixing your music or instrumental. A simple way to level a beat is by identifying the main building block in the song and start gain staging from there. For instance, your starting...

The process of mixing kick and bass should perhaps start with the vision of whether you want your bass to sound fat or whether you want your kick drum to sound lean. Well, audio mixing is a give-and-take process of technical art. This is why it makes sense to decide beforehand what's going to...

What's the point of Hip Hop rappers sticking to the street code if they catch a case or are involved in one because of their affiliates? Don't y'all think the streets are a myth?

The simple answer is no. This is because one of the rules of thumb in audio mastering is you should do no harm since reverberation has an overwhelming potential to make your music muddy and ruin a sound engineer's mix. Best believe they won't ever work with you again. Experimenting with reverb...

The Fairchild 670 compressor is a well-known vintage stereo limiter that was released way back in the 1950s by Fairchild Recording Equipment Corporation. This audio compressor's attack and release times are controlled by the switch labeled "time-constant" and the settings are as follows...

"Reverb Damping" refers to how much "high frequency" absorption is going to be simulated by a reverb plugin or a reverb hardware unit. For example, a hall that has a multitude of people will produce a unique reverberation sound compared to an empty one. Therefore, we can deduce that a hall...

The main difference between reverb and delay is that delay is a repeated signal that's held in the audio buffer for a few milliseconds and finally mixed with the original signal. On the other hand, reverb is the ambiance of a room made up of numerous echoes packed closely or loosely together...

The amount of RAM ("random-access memory") you need for your machine depends on what type of record producer you are. If you mostly make music using virtual synthesizers then you don't necessarily need to spend your budget on more primary memory without primarily addressing the need for speed...

Cardi B responded to haters about why she decided to go ahead trademarking her popular catchphrase "Okurrr" by saying it's about making smart business since other people do it too. So why can't she as Cardi B get that bag like all of the people?

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Given that a mastering limiter is an audio compressor with a very high compression ratio. The main purpose of using one is more often to make things louder whilst avoiding nasty audible distortion (unless if that's the desired sound). All mastering limiters manipulate dynamic range and some are...

Legato and portamento are common parameters that come with almost every synthesizer. In layman's terms, these are articulation functions that replicate different styles of playing instruments. Both legato and portamento are Italian words, where legato means to tie together and portamento means...