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How to Make Your Kick Loud and Powerful

How to Make Your Kick Loud and Powerful Key Takeaways: Boosting mid frequencies is key to making your kick drum sound loud and powerful. Understanding the Fletcher-Munson curves and how mid frequencies relate to perceived loudness can help you achieve this. Using saturation can add harmonics and personality to your kick drum, but it’s important […]

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How to Layer Sounds for the Perfect Mix

How to Layer Sounds for the Perfect Mix Key Takeaway: Good layering is key to achieving the perfect mix: Layering involves adding different sounds together to create a rich and unique texture. The purpose of layering is to create a larger and more interesting sound that cannot be achieved with a single instrument or sample. […]

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Mixing Vocals in FL Studio

Mixing Vocals in FL Studio Key Takeaway: EQ is crucial for male vocals in FL Studio: Use a high pass filter up to before the fundamental, balance low-pass area with bell filters, boost fundamental and vowels with bell filters and dip nasal tones, boost higher-order harmonics above 2kHz, and add air with a shelf at […]

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How to Mix Your Own Music: A Beginner’s Guide

How to Mix Your Own Music: A Beginner’s Guide Mixing Key Takeaways: Objectivity is crucial when mixing your own music. It allows you to make unbiased decisions and ensure the best possible outcome. There are several tips to keeping your objectivity when mixing your music, such as having a plan for the mix, not rushing, […]

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How to Mix Your Own Songs

Mixing Your Own Music Mixing Key Takeaways: Mixing is the process of combining individual audio tracks into a cohesive and balanced final version of the song. The goal of mixing is to enhance the quality and impact of the song by adjusting levels, EQ, compression, effects, and other elements. The eight steps of mixing include […]