Watch more here: https://www.sonicacademy.com/ For any newbies out there, we know there’s a lot to learn when finding your way around a DAW and producing music that’ll be appreciated by other listeners. This week, Haterade has some sage advice for those of you starting out on this journey, and if you think the only way…
Category: Production Tips
Trance Wax ‘Distance’ Coast 2 Coast Remix Track Walkthrough
Watch more here: https://www.sonicacademy.com/ Sonic Academy’s very own Phil Johnston reignited his Coast 2 Coast alias and was asked by his good friend Trance Wax to remix the track ‘Distance’ from his new album ‘Open Up the Night’. In the latest episode of ASOT, the remix gained the prestigious ‘Tune Of The Week’, so we…
Getting Your Music On Spotify
Watch more here: https://www.sonicacademy.com/ So you’ve got a completed track, EP or album, you’re super happy with it, and you want to get it out there on the same platforms as everyone else? Well, Haterade’s here to advise you on best practices, where to look and how to go about it. It’s easier than ever…
Plugins We Recommend For Beginners!
Watch more here: https://www.sonicacademy.com/ With the amount of different third party plugins available, which ones will be the most useful if you’re a beginner starting on this journey? Well, Protoculture’s here to share his view on a few plugins that could help you progress and learn how to get your tracks sounding more professional. Every…
Design your own Heavy Reese Bass 🔥
Taken from Tech Tips Volume 89: https://www.sonicacademy.com/courses/tech-tips-volume-89-with-haterade Haterade’s back with a new set of Tech Tips, and this time he’s focussing on designing your own classic baddass Drum’n’Bass sounds. Starting by creating a classic D’n’B drum loop, he then dives into sound design using ANA 2 and predominantly Ableton stock plugins to build some gritty…
Insert vs Send and Return? Which should you use?
Watch more here: https://www.sonicacademy.com/ Protoculture’s back with us this week to look at why, how, and where we should be using send/return effects instead of on the channel itself and visa-versa – especially as now most effects plugins have a dry/wet control anyway. There’s actually a lot more to the reasoning behind the different uses…
Trance Piano
Watch more content like ‘Trance Piano with Bluffmunkey’ here: https://www.sonicacademy.com/ Bluffmunkey’s back with another quick video as part of Trace Takeover, and following on from his ‘Trance Essentials Tech Tips’, ‘Rolling Basslines’ video and recent ‘Trance Percussion’ tutorial, we now take a look at that definitive Trance Piano – you know the one right? Yeah……
Trance Percussion
Watch more content like ‘Trance Percussion with Bluffmunkey’ here: https://www.sonicacademy.com/ Continuing with our Trance Takeover and following on from Bluffmunkey’s first-class ‘Rolling Basslines’ video, he’s back with a new Tech Tip that’ll help expand your Trance knowledge by looking at some techniques when adding percussion. Going through the individual layers of hi-hats, shakers, claps and…
Create your own Impacts!
Taken from Tech Tips Volume 88 available now here!: https://www.sonicacademy.com/courses/tech-tips-volume-88-with-haterade Haterade’s back with some more Tech Tips, and here we’re looking at creating our own effects to use in our tracks. From impacts, sweeps, background ambience and risers – Noah gives us the basics of how to easily design multiple effects so you can go…
Does Gain Staging Matter Anymore?
Watch more here! – https://www.sonicacademy.com/ Kirk Degiorgio’s back with us this week looking at whether we need to worry about gain staging when our DAWs can export tracks using a 32-bit float. In this video, Kirk breaks down what 32-bit float actually means and then uses some examples to show how it can be useful…