ProductionBlog

MAKING IT SOUND RIGHT The blog is back, after a brief hiatus. It’s good to get back to sharing tips and thoughts with everyone. This time I’m... Read more Thursday, 3 November 2011	Production Interview - KRL (Wolfmusic) We have something new for you in this production blog, the start of a new format of production centric interviews. The whole idea i... Read more Wednesday, 21 September 2011	PREPARING YOUR MIXDOWN FOR MASTERING When creating music, you’re only as strong as your weakest link. If your bridge is flat, your chorus will fall flat; if your ... Read more Friday, 12 August 2011
HOW TO BEAT THE WRITERS BLOCK We’ve all experienced ‘writers block’ - when you’ve been working on a track for a while and it seemed to be progressin... Read more Saturday, 2 July 2011	HOW TO GET A THICK ANALOGUE SOUND. Thick Sound Working in music or learning to, you hear a lot of "funny" words: fat, warm... thick... organic. These descriptive w... Read more Thursday, 30 June 2011	HOW TO PROMOTE YOURSELF ONLINE. In this blog I want to talk about a few of the pitfalls of the internet when it comes to getting your music heard. The world is changing very ... Read more Monday, 23 May 2011

HOW TO GET A GREAT SOUNDING MIX When you’re first starting out, one of the biggest challenges can be your own self-doubt. Are you doing things the right way? Is your te... Read more Monday, 23 May 2011	TURN THE MUSIC DOWN Input – the first step We get technical again for this weeks tip, and this is a good one. It's just something you can keep in mi... Read more Friday, 25 February 2011	Are you struggling to be heard? I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about the non-technical side to making a “great” track. Undoubtedly it’s the su... Read more Friday, 4 February 2011
It's the small things that matter most. It’s the little things that matter most. This week’s Blog focuses on the small things in a track, the little changes, instabil... Read more Thursday, 13 January 2011	How To Avoid Sidechaining This is not a tip on how to Side-chain your music – this is a Tip on how to avoid Side-chaining Welcome to the first in our new seri... Read more Tuesday, 4 January 2011	The King Of the Edit : Greg Wilson He was the first British DJ to mix live on television. He organised the UK's first ever breakdancing competitions. He was the man who taught Norman ... Read more Friday, 23 July 2010

Arthur Baker: The forgotten link. There are countless histories of dance music that talk about the innovative move by the Detroit based creators of dance style "Techno", and how they... Read more Monday, 12 July 2010	The Godmother of Electronic Music : Delia Derbyshi Delia Derbyshire was the woman who created one of the most familiar television title themes of the last 50 years. Read more Monday, 28 June 2010	The Silver Dream Machine: The synthesizer that acc They say you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover. By that reckoning, you certainly shouldn't judge a synth by it's cheap plastic casing. On first imp... Read more Monday, 7 June 2010
THE HIGHER STATES OF RECORD COMPANIES "Come and listen to this record" an over enthusiastic young nephew demanded recently. Initially (and stupidly) I was expecting to hear a record, in th... Read more Thursday, 13 May 2010

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