Imagine you have a mix with drums, bass, guitars, synths, and vocals, and you want them to all sound like they’re in the same space. Adding individual reverbs to each track would be time consuming, difficult to adjust, and bad for your CPU. But, if you add the same bus on the ...
When you imagine a music producer, you might envision a spacious studio, sprawling mixing boards, and top-end mics in polished recording booths. While these are all great to have access to, you’ll be pleased to know that you can make some incredible music today with nothing but a laptop ...
But of course, the pool of available sounds has varied, and this was originally due to samplers like the MPC, but nowadays can be attributed to sample packs and services like Splice Sounds. So no matter where you get your sounds from, it’s important to consider the workflow that went be...
Bringing it forward to modern times, this is something that services like Splice and Noizz take advantage of, providing sample packs of individual sounds, loops and construction kits to use in your own production, and allowing you to select the exact sounds from 1000’s of packs you want. Mo...
Most of the time, the808s in sample packsare pre-processed and ready to go. The most you’d have to do to them is level and EQ if that. There are some sample pack creators onplatforms like Splice, who offer the dry and processed versions of their sounds. Having the dry version of...
–“A beat should be able to tell a story even without the vocals. That’s when you know you’ve got something special.”– Metro Boomin –“Don’t be afraid to be different. The best producers are the ones who take risks and create something no one else is doing.”– Pharrell Willi...
Depending on your goals, you may want to splice the file so you're only building up the backwards reverb towards the first phrase of vocals or first notes of guitar, as examples. You'll also want to add equalization to this reverb track so it's not competing with other instruments in ...
Update: The plot thickens; Splice jumps in…To me, the point of Stems is to create a format for releasing … um, stems (get it?) … for consumption by DJs. That explains to me the limit on four tracks: more than four tracks is simply too many different elements to work with at a...