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  1. Borrowdale Barron

    What is "mangemba" in English?

    What on earth is mangemba? And why is it so popular amongst the youth who often talk about ma blue?
  2. Mpumelelo von Mumhanzi

    What are mastering limiters used for in music production?

    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...
  3. Borrowdale Barron

    What is the importance of a target audience to film producers

    Why do film producers take time to understand the target audience?
  4. Mpumelelo von Mumhanzi

    How to tune FL Studio to 432 Hz

    In Image-Line's FL Studio you can change the master pitch of a project (or flp) from the default 440 Hz to 432 Hz using the master pitch slider. Some music producers may often utilize this feature if they want to make music in 432 Hz tuning instead of standard pitch tuning of 440 Hz. When FL...
  5. Mpumelelo von Mumhanzi

    Legato and portamento for synthesizers explained

    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...
  6. Mpumelelo von Mumhanzi

    Reveal Sound Spire monophonic modes - Legato and Portamento

    Reveal Sound Spire monophonic modes can be a little bit confusing to people using the software synthesizer for the first time. Apparently there is a wide range of choices when it comes to this different portamento and legato articulation modes such as: Mono 1 = Portamento Re-trigger Mono 2 =...
  7. Mpumelelo von Mumhanzi

    What dBFS level should your kick drum peak at?

    There isn't a specific dBFS level as to where your kick (or 808 bass drum) should peak but you can follow an arbitrary starting point of either between -3 dBFS, -6 dBFS, -9 dBFS, or -12 dBFS if you want. I would highly recommend you start at -12 dBFS because if you build your mix around the kick...
  8. Mpumelelo von Mumhanzi

    What is ratio on an audio compressor?

    Almost any digital or analog audio compressor has a parameter labeled ratio and this allows a beatmaker, a mixing or an audio mastering engineer to set the amount of compression that takes place when an audio signal goes past the "threshold level" of the compressor. For example, a compression...
  9. Borrowdale Barron

    Who came up with clout chasing strategies?

    Where did the notion of clout chasing come from?
  10. Borrowdale Barron

    Mhiko chii?

    What is the meaning of mhiko muChivanhu?
  11. Mpumelelo von Mumhanzi

    What is an audio compressor in music production?

    In music production, an audio compressor is a sound effect (i.e., either an analog hardware unit or a digital audio software plugin) designed to reduce the dynamic range (DR) of the source material or entire mix as a means to either smoothly or aggressively control volume fluctuations...
  12. Mpumelelo von Mumhanzi

    What does mixing with your eyes mean?

    The sound engineering jargon "mixing with eyes" means using visual displays from frequency spectrum analyzers and loudness meters such as VU (volume unit), dBFS, LUFS, K-Weighted meters, Sonograms, etc. to make audio mixing decisions. The same meaning applies to "mastering with your eyes" except...
  13. Numero Uno

    What is mutoriro?

    What is the drug mutoriro that's used by ghetto youths in Zimbabwe?
  14. Mpumelelo von Mumhanzi

    What is a brickwall limiter?

    A brickwall limiter is an audio signal processing effect either found in a physical hardware form or as a digital audio software plug-in extension (i.e., VST, AAX, AU plug-ins, etc) and is for the most part used in audio post-production (or audio mastering) to make music (or the program...
  15. Mpumelelo von Mumhanzi

    What is auto-release on audio compressors or brickwall Limiters?

    Some hardware and plug-in dynamic processors (i.e., audio compressors and brickwall limiters) have a function that allows you to activate "auto-release" (or auto-recovery) which in turn adjusts the release time automatically with the input signal instead of a fixed setting e.g. 100 milliseconds...
  16. Mpumelelo von Mumhanzi

    What is RMS in music production?

    RMS (i.e., short for Root Mean Square) is a measurement of the average perceived loudness in music. It doesn't take into account fast transients (or peaks) in the audio material in question, but rather the average level of sustained input audio signal for a given duration (e.g., 400 ms.) Now as...
  17. Mpumelelo von Mumhanzi

    How long should a song be?

    The duration of a song is often dictated by the musical style one is making and whether the intention is solely for commercial purposes or not e.g. bubblegum music. Some genres of music are expected to have a long duration and be evolving e.g. Ambient, etc. whilst other genres of music...
  18. Mpumelelo von Mumhanzi

    What is infrasonic and ultrasound?

    Infrasonic sounds are audio frequencies that can not be heard by the human ear. I am talmbout audio material consisting of sounds that range from anywhere below 20 Hz to 0 Hz; however, ultrasound is anything above the upper limit of human hearing, id est 20 kHz. In music production, infrasonic...
  19. Scorpio

    question Chii chinombonzi free spirit?

    "Free spirit" chii zve, pindurayi ka tinzwe?
  20. Numero Uno

    How much money do you need to start a record label?

    Do you need massive amounts of capital to start and run a record label?
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