In music production and audio engineering, it doesn’t matter how good your analog gear is or how new your plugins are: if you don’t understand what sound actually is, you will never make a clear mix. This is especially true in a genre like psychedelic trance, which demands a razor-tight low end and meticulous sound…
In the first two articles, we mastered the physical space of the studio and the scientific laws of sound waves. You now understand how audio flows through a channel and how its waves vibrate through the air. It’s time to learn how to organize those waves along the timeline and build actual music. If you’ve…
In the first article, we explored the universal layout of the studio: the timeline, the channel strip, and the highway of sound we call signal flow. This time, we focus on what actually travels through those channels. We’ll look precisely at what sound is in the physical world — and what happens when that physical…
Welcome to the foundations of a long journey: music production. The most common trap for beginner producers is getting locked into the button-by-button procedures of one specific piece of software. They learn which button to click in a particular program, but never understand why that function exists. The result? The moment they switch software —…