Archive for tag: presence
Mastering Session at Rare Form Mastering
November 3, 2008 MasteringThis post is about the mastering process for my latest EP. The session was booked at Minneapolis’ Rare Form Mastering. Greg Reierson took the helm and did a really solid job overall. First of all, I’m not the sort of producer who does mastering the same way for each album. For my own material, I [...]
Read More »EQ Crash Course
February 5, 2008 UncategorizedThis post focuses on the basics of equalization. Equalization is something that most people are probably pretty familiar with on a basic level, having some EQ capacity in their car stereos and portable players. Essentially, EQ is cutting or boosting of frequencies or frequency ranges. There are fundamentally two kinds of equalization: graphic and parametric. [...]
Read More »Ugly and Pretty: Exceptional Use of Diversity in Sound
December 15, 2007 UncategorizedThis post focuses on creating engaging sound for music production by combining pretty sounds and ugly sounds for contrast. Something that the most successful producers understand is the importance of both pristine, pretty sounds and awful ugly, sounds. There have been countless examples of moments where engineers, producers, and artists have strived for creating something [...]
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