I find the study of popular songs fascinating. I don’t generally write in a pop music style for pleasure but I enjoy examining popular songs from a song writing perspective to try and better understand what makes them popular. A Read more…
I was working on a Doxkyn track this morning. I had a nice synthwave drum beat set up including a percussion loop but I needed an extra percussive layer to help build the rhythmic texture of the song. Ting By Read more…
Back when I was a younger man there was a thing called pre-production which was done before every recording project. This was in the day when the music producer moniker was given to someone who helped facilitate the production of Read more…
In the last few years I’ve really gotten excited about reverbs. So much so I’ve had to stop myself buying more plugins and hardware. In the past reverb was more a necessity of mixing modern music. Not that I didn’t Read more…
I was emailing a client with a revision for a mix yesterday and I mentioned that I’d tried not to “over mix” the song he’d sent through. It was a beautiful lullaby for a children’s album that he’s been working Read more…