Have you ever heard the oxymoron: boundaries create freedom? Have you ever intentionally used arbitrary constraints as a sort of a creative game within a music production session? The modern music production environment offers a limitless universe of possibilities. Any sound can be made, manipulated, re-recorded, etc. While an infinite range of options might sound...
Ever feel bored with your mixing approach? Is your mixing process so rigid and structured that it robs the process of its creativity? Sometimes when we’ve been mixing for a while… we can get stuck in our ways. So here are 5 super fun creative mixing tips! 1) Automate your automation Automate the send amount...
We’ve all felt it. We know it’s crucial for us to make our best music, but what is it? Well… you know, when you sit down to make music and suddenly find out 3 or 4 hours have gone by? Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is a major contributor to positive psychology. His research has spawned many discoveries...
Heyo! I wanted to share a bunch of random tips that have helped me over the years! Sometimes it just takes one little trick or insight to spawn your next creative breakthrough. If I were able to tell my 18-year-old self music production tips, they would be: 1. Choose your samples and instruments wisely. Source...
It’s easy to get lost, lose focus, and start hearing voices while mixing. Sometimes you find yourself turning knobs at random and getting lost at sonic sea. This can be a disheartening descent into madness, but thankfully it doesn’t have to be that way. I’ve found that following a simple framework has helped keep me...
As an experiment, I committed to making music every day for at least 10 minutes a day (sometimes more) for a month. It might seem like a small amount of time, but that’s the point. It’s something that I could do consistently. Before I would usually wait for weeks until I had the spare time...
In today’s musical landscape, it seems that musicians are tasked to develop the skill of becoming their own producers. Musicians who can write, record, mix and release their own product will inevitably thrive in this new face of the music industry. I would argue the new age “indie musician” is the “music producer” who can...
What if I told you that the answer to your creative problem was as simple as going for a walk? Whether it’s generating musical ideas, transforming an idea into a song, or finishing up a mix… Or fine tuning THAT @#$%^^&* SNARE DRUM! It so happens that a simple change of scenery can yield remarkable...
Do you constantly create new ideas but never finish anything? Have you always been attracted to make music, but never made the plunge? Are you constantly confronted with writer’s block? If any of these questions resonate with you, I’d like to show you how combining your music production with the principles of Alchemy can help...