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Ilpo Kärkkäinen May 13, 2013

5 Tips for Making an Album

It’s been a little over a year since the debut album by Loxy and myself – “Burning Shadows” - was released on Exit Records. The project had many phases and we put a ton of work on it over the course of 3-4 years. I’m still very happy and proud about how it turned out. But life is about learning, and I’ve gained new perspective since finishing the project. So let’s reflect for a bit upon the experience of working on an album… And what I would do differently next time.

Here we go – my 5 tips for making an album.

Filed Under: Workflow Tagged With: album, focus, productivity, progress 4 Comments

Guest Writer April 12, 2013

Maintaining Mono Compatibility In Your Music Mix

This is a guest post by Barry Gardner, the mastering engineer who operates SAS audio mastering services. The first stereo records were made in the 1930′s and yet it took a long time to popularize the new format and release such recordings for mass consumption. Mono recordings were the standard for many years whilst various [...]

Filed Under: Technique Tagged With: audio, hearing, phase, plugins, stereo image, timing 2 Comments

Ilpo Kärkkäinen March 25, 2013

Maschine MK1 vs MK2 – Review of Differences

The Native Instruments Maschine MK1 vs MK2 debate is running hot. I recently acquired the MK2 myself. I’ve been using the Maschine MK1 model for about 8 months and liked it a lot. A lot of people are contemplating on wether to upgrade to MK2 or not. The MK2 is currently priced at 599 € [...]

Filed Under: Review Tagged With: hardware, Maschine, MIDI, Native Instruments 1 Comment

Guest Writer March 18, 2013

How to Express Yourself

This is a guest post by Zac Citron of www.zenchamusic.com. I recently hooked up with him and quickly realized we share a lot of similar views about music production. This post is about how to express yourself and discover your own sound. Check out his website for more. YouTube user stefanhyltoft recently responded to one [...]

Filed Under: Mindset Tagged With: creativity, expression 17 Comments

Ilpo Kärkkäinen March 9, 2013

Secret Feature in Ableton Live: Show Devices / Plugins on Tracks

One of the things I have been missing in Ableton Live is the ability to see all of the devices/plugins of all of the tracks at once. It’s a bit annoying having to hop tracks to see what devices each one has loaded up. Well, one of you (thanks Martin) pointed me out to a [...]

Filed Under: Workflow Tagged With: Ableton Live, Show Devices, Show plugins, software 27 Comments

Ilpo Kärkkäinen February 25, 2013

Ableton Live – First Impressions

So I’ve recently started dabbling in Ableton Live. Lots to learn. Here are some of my initial thoughts and first impressions.

Filed Under: Review Tagged With: Ableton Live, audio, focus, hardware, inspiration, Logic, Maschine, MIDI, mixing, productivity, software 24 Comments

Guest Writer February 18, 2013

Effective Techniques to Learn Compression

Compression has become an integral ingredient of most music these days. At the same time it remains somewhat a secret science – a commonly misunderstood one. It’s a great pleasure to have the mastering engineer Barry Gardner from SafeandSound online mastering services to talk to us about how to learn compression. During his long career in music [...]

Filed Under: Technique Tagged With: audio, compression, drums, dynamics, effects, hearing, mastering, mixing, transients 7 Comments

Ilpo Kärkkäinen February 10, 2013

Maschine Tutorial Videos – Inspiration and Advanced Techniques

I am an avid fan of the Native Instruments Maschine. I just love it. What strikes me the most is how it can be used in so many different ways. I’ve picked up a lot by watching videos on Youtube and observing how other people are using it. There are tons of Maschine tutorial videos [...]

Filed Under: Technique Tagged With: drums, effects, Guitar Rig, hardware, inspiration, live performance, Maschine, Native Instruments, plugins, saturation, software, video 4 Comments

Guest Writer January 30, 2013

Breaking Workflow

This is a guest post by Kim Lajoie. I recently came across his blog and felt very much connected to his way of thinking. So I invited him to write a little something for me and here we go! I’ll let Kim take it from here. Why should breaking workflow become a part of your workflow?

Filed Under: Mindset Tagged With: focus, progress 2 Comments

Ilpo Kärkkäinen January 21, 2013