Author: Ilpo Karkkainen
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Achieve a Good Low End and Sub-Bass in Your Mix
A while back I asked my email subscribers: What area of music production are you struggling with the most? Your feedback was abundant! I learned that working with bass, sub-bass and the low end of the mix generally was challenging… Read more
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Making Good Buying Decisions
A lot of audio plugin companies base their business around big discount campaigns. You can get things for really cheap sometimes but before you go on a buying rampage, I wanted to share with you how I make buying decisions… Read more
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Inspiration is overrated
Do you think that you should feel inspired when you start working on music? You may have a problem. Read more
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Mastering Your Own Music: 5 Reasons Why You Should Not (And Why I Sometimes Do It Anyway)
Out of my 20+ years of making music, I’ve done mastering work for about 10 now. I still don’t prefer to master my own music, but there are times I do it anyway. It’s likely you are doing it, too.… Read more
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20 Things I’ve Learned in 20 Years of Being an Artist
Last year marked my 20th year releasing electronic music as an artist. I started dabbling with electronic music and made my first tracks already back in 1996. But I started releasing music to the… Read more
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Piracy – Why Shouldn’t You?
There’s a request I keep getting regularly. It comes in different shapes and forms but the gist is always the same. Here’s an example of an email I received: “I began with the program Logic pro X…. Read more