
Music production tutorials & news
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Some of your favorite songs were an act of chance, with slim odds for survival.
Many were the result of labels shelving projects they didn't believe in, tapes getting stolen from the studio, bands falling apart mid-session, or songs writt...
It’s fair to say a vast majority of producers start making music using headphones – not even studio headphones, just some random headphones they happen to have around.
As soon as you get a little more serious about the craft, you realize h...
If you make music in 2026, AI is already part of your world, whether you've opted in or not.
Your tracks might be in a training dataset. Your playlists are filling up with songs that no human played, wrote, or even listened to before they...
Ah, the beauty of reverb; it can glue together different sounds and create a cohesive mix, but also turn your song into a smeary mess!
Some artists swear by one reverb plugin or the other, but there are only a handful of them that are wide...
Parallel compression is one of those mixing techniques that, once you learn how to use it, you almost can’t do without; it has a way of making everything sound punchier without flattening or overcompressing a sound that no other audio tool...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Marco Sebastiano Alessi is a writer and music producer. He's the founder of Naviar Records.
Sam Jeans is a freelance writer interested in the intersection of sound, tech, and culture, from music production techniques to new audio technologies.
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