http://musikality.net Dedicated to helping indie musicians all over the world Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:20:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hi there, I am back from a 6 month hiatus! Sorry guys (and girls ;-) ), but I am too short on time, and so I only write articles when I can steal a few minutes. In this post, I want to talk about an interesting way to find drums for ... http://musikality.net/music-production-sound-design/sampling-drums-mp3s/ Lately I have been doing some mixing work for the latest album of my electro project Raskolnikov's Dream. I am going to share with you some things I learned during these mixing sessions. When you are mixing you are going to need to use some EQ to make the instruments sit ... http://musikality.net/mixing-mastering/boost-wide-curve-attenuate-steep-curve/ Hi there, Musikality is back and is back for good :-). Since I don't have much time anymore, I'll write less frequently and shorter posts, but I guess that's better than nothing. Lately, I've been mixing my new album (http://raskolnikovsdream.com). If you listen to my pieces you'll see that I layer ... http://musikality.net/tutorials/panning-stereo-field-basic/ Sorry folks for not having written for so long. It's been a very hard time for me, for various reasons. Right now I am under tremendous pressure, for many reasons, including the recording of a new Raskolnikov's Dream album. I am promising to return in June with more articles. I am ... http://musikality.net/general/musikality-hibernation-time/ Alright, there will be one time or another, where you might want to take a synth sound and make it sound fatter and more analog. This kind of sound is difficult to reproduce in soft synths. Most quality digital soft synths, try to have their own distinct digital sound, leaving ... http://musikality.net/synthesizers/making-synth-sound-fatter-analog/ Today we're going to write a few basic things about compressors and limiters. First of all, a compressor is a device that reduces the signal volume by a ration, once the signal exceeds a certain threshold. A typical compressor will have the following settings: Ratio, threshold, input gain, output gain, soft ... http://musikality.net/tutorials/basic-compression-limiting/ There are many ways to write music. Whichever way you choose the most basic element remains only one: the instrument. If you choose to use a piano and a violin, you will never be able to play rock. If you choose to play a distorted guitar, you're probably off in a ... http://musikality.net/general/field-samples/ This is a great question. It is something that was circulating in my mind before I released my album, and is still circulating now. When I'm saying capitalize, I mean promote your music through myspace and make money out of it. So, let's take a look to what happened with my project: ... http://musikality.net/general/capitalize-myspace/ A very important topic when writing music is the form of your song or piece. There are many different styles and methods of working on this matter. We will discuss these in this article. First of all, everything depends on the kind of music you want to write. Pop and rock ... http://musikality.net/general/song-form-structure/ Today we're going to talk about a topic that many people miss, but it's really important to get this straight. When most people start learning about music, they usually start learning about music theory. However, what people don't understand, is that in these days, music genre is not just about music ... http://musikality.net/general/significance-effects-sound-design-musical-genre/