Saturday, November 14, 2009

Basic Music Production Tips

By Mick LLaleBeoufey

There are mainly problems along the road of music production ; the majority of these holes can be avoid if the mixing noob has a few music production basics to help them at the start. Once a person that's new to music production knows the fundamentals and knows the golden rules their educational process and overall education in this field will be at a far bigger level than those who jump straight in without knowing or reading anything. These are some useful tips :

Always back up all files that are needed in you mix - before you sit down to start a mixture, make sure you have all of your audio files and arrangement files saved and backed up on something away from your computer. Be that an external drive, DVD / CD, memory stick or perhaps online . Anything could occur,eg a virus infection, drive melt down or something else infinitely random.

Mix inside a relaxed environment - you cannot do any of the music production basics not to mention mix if there is excessive noise going on around you. Even while using headphones it isn't good as it is distracting.

You do not need extraordinary silence, although that would be nice. Just all of the noise should be in the background and not breaking your concentration. Never ever turn speakers up above a cushty listening level to drown out or counter noise interfering with your ability to mix competently.



Listen though a track before mixing and write ideas down - I usually listen through a track I'm about to mix and write down ideas I have for the mixing direction. The inspiration could come from specific vocals / words or just a feeling / idea I assumed up in that moment of listening ; it is easy to put your ideas into practise when you know the music production basics.

It is always great to have an idea or direction of how you would like the track to go. At this stage an idea would probably be formed anyway. When listening to the track for ideas wait at least twenty-four hours, or, if you're like me and / or you have the time on your hands wait longer and hear it as fresh and forgetful as you can and base your mixing idea on the 1st impressions you get.

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