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Music Production Tips for Beginners
Practical music production tips for beginners: finish more songs, limit your gear, learn one DAW and use reference tracks to improve faster.
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How to Make Chords for a Song
Learn how to make chords for a song: pick a key, build chords from a scale, use common progressions, add rhythm and voicings, and pair them with a…
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How to Make a Melody
Learn how to make a melody that sticks: pick a scale, use rhythm and motifs, sing or hum ideas, and shape contour into a hook with simple, practical…
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How to Mix in Mono (And Why)
How to mix in mono and why it matters: build balance and punch by checking levels, EQ and phase in mono, then open up to stereo for a…
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What Is a Reference Track in Mixing?
What is a reference track in mixing? A clear beginner guide to choosing, loading and using a reference track to improve your tone, balance and loudness.
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Mid-Side EQ Explained
Mid-side EQ explained for beginners: what M/S processing is, how it works, and practical ways to use mid side EQ to widen, focus and clean up your mixes.
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How to Make a Song Louder
Learn how to make a song louder the right way using gain staging, EQ, compression and a limiter, plus how loudness normalisation on streaming really works.
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How to Mix 808s
How to mix 808s so they hit hard and translate everywhere: tuning, kick separation, saturation, compression, mono low end, and small-speaker tricks.
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How to Mix Electronic Music
How to mix electronic music: managing the low end, sidechaining the kick and bass, building width and depth, and getting a loud, clean, club-ready mix.
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How to Fix Pitchy Vocals
How to fix pitchy vocals using real-time pitch correction and graphical tuning, plus recording tips to capture better takes so you need less correction.