I’ve been away for a few days dealing with some work stuff, so I wasn’t able to write up my articles like normal. But it got me thinking about things, and I’ve decided to change my approach a little. Straight up, there are plenty of articles about “which plugins to…

Normally I like to engage on semi-music-specific topics, but I thought I’d switch it up today and try something new. This topic is purely observational and speculative, but it’s something I’ve had on my mind for a while. If you don’t like stuff like that, you’re welcome to skip. Just…

This is a trap I see a lot of beginners fall into, including myself. You watch these videos of top-tier producers and engineers using plugins A, B, and C to process sound X, and all of a sudden it sounds good. You think, “Man, I wish I had those plugins…

I struggled with this for a long time, and honestly it still changes all the time. But I’ve found little bits and pieces that seem to work pretty good, so I’ll try and point out some of the common pitfalls I experienced.

This is a bit of a controversial topic, but I’ll give you my 2 cents then let you decide. First off, I use Ableton Live, which doesn’t have any easy “humanize” functions like some of the other software does. As such, when I first started out, I would lock everything…

I’ve mentioned this briefly before, but I wanted to share my experience yesterday and hopefully help you embrace feedback more openly. It’s one of those things that can be hard to receive emotionally, but extremely beneficial in the long run. I mentioned this in my last article, but I recently…

I’ve talked a lot about beginner topics and I was getting kind of sick of it, so I wanted to talk about something a little more subjective today. Last quarter of 2020 I helped produce a short film that was supposed to be more of a festival-style film and do…

First that comes to mind is that Disclosure song ft Khalid, lol. “Can’t we just taallllk”. Anyways, let’s dive in. I had someone ask me this week about mics. …

I watched this interview once with Brody Brown (producer for Bruno Mars) on Pensado’s Place, and they asked the question “Of all the songs you write, how many of them end up being hits?”. …