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You turn your amp knob and suddenly your clean tone is all choppy. It feels like your modulation doesn’t match the track; it doesn’t feel … Read more

Flanging gives you a sweep across the audible frequencies, a kind of metallic shimmer, but what’s realy happening is a rapid cancellation of frequencies. Two … Read more

On paper, the New York trick seem easy enough: a loose drum track gets fed into an aggressive compressor and then blended back into original … Read more

Ever had one of those moments where you’re listening back to something and you think ‘this sounds like a robot playing’ when in fact all … Read more

Once you input your frequency and sample rate into the calculator above, math will be done for you. No more guessing at how many signal … Read more

It’s tempting to assume that a staccato note is just a blip. It isn’t. A staccato note are a precise amount of silence that sits … Read more

In many ways, a MIDI sequence can look right on the grid, but sound disconnected when played back. It has all the notes. They is … Read more

How far is an accelerando? How quickly does it increase speed and how tense does it need to be? It gets rid of the ‘panic’ … Read more

Nested tuplets is tricky to program into a sequencer as a polyrhythm too. Unless you’re a freak of nature, it’s easy to get lost when … Read more

By now most musicians has heard of and felt what a triplet is, and they will know what I mean by a bouncy, swung subdivision … Read more

The reason is compressor instability, where release time isn’t riding on the rhythm but fighting against it. What is end of a gain reduction envelope? … Read more