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Greetings fellow IDM readers. This is our follow up tutorial dealing with Professional vocal production (part 3). Hope you enjoy! Comping vocals for the perfect take Okay, let’s say we are working with a big vocal session and the vocalist has done more than one track on multiple channels. What’s next? Well, we are now […]
Greetings fellow IDM readers. I hope winter is keeping us indoors and recording those great hits to come! This is our follow up online tutorial dealing with Professional vocal production (part 2 with part 3 to follow). Hope you enjoy! The Proximity Effect / Micing distance The closer the vocalist is to a directional microphone […]
We are back with yet another interesting tutorial for you to sink your creative teeth into. This time I want to touch on getting the current pure, clean, in-your-face vocal sound that is very popular in top productions right now. In this three part tutorial I’m going to take you through: Microphones, the proximity effect, […]
Sylenth1 is a great synth for making quick and easy 16th note psytrance basslines. Although I feel it lacks the funk and character that longer or slower notes require, its clean, defined sound is perfect for tight 145IDM basslines and beyond. Best of all, it only takes a few minutes to get up and running. […]
With this tutorial I want to look at the foundation of a good kick drum in your mix. This is part 1 of the 3 part tutorial. When I say “the foundation of a good kick in your mix” I mean the following elements : choosing the right kicks for your song, how to layer […]
Good day fellow IDM readers. This is the part 2 continuation of the article called “The Foundation of a kick in your mix”. What we are going to focus on in part 2 is the second step of getting your kick to sound the way it should sound once we have chosen the correct kicks […]
In part 3 of our tutorial called “The Foundation of a kick in your mix we are going to focus on the final step of getting your kick to come through your bassline by use sidechain and tuning it to the right pitch. I have also repeated the kick to a length of 1 bar […]
Firstly I’d like to wish all our IDM readers a wonderful festive season and prosperous New Year. I want to touch on a topic called ‘Parallel Compression’, also known to many as ‘New York Compression’, ‘Upward Compression ‘or even’ Buss Compression’. It’s been used over and over in the biggest studios around the world and […]
What did you do this year? Did you achieve what you set out as your goals? As we enter the last few weeks of the year, it is really helpful to assess your performance by compiling a list of your achievements and, equally importantly, what you did not achieve that you set out for yourself […]
Salutations and greetings IDMings! Now read my greeting again but picture the old sci-fi robot voices from some of your favourite movies. While vocoders are some 80 years old, you can still use them to create amazing effects on vocals. If you haven’t experimented with them before they can be a nice addition to how […]
