Here’s Where Your Vocal Tone Comes From — Bobby Owsinski’s Music Production Blog:

It’s amazing how different each person’s voice can be from another, but also equally amazing how similar two people’s voices can be to each other. When recording a singer, it helps to know how his or her vocal tone is actually being produced in order to capture it more accurately. This great article by Jamie Ehrenfeld in Soundfly recently illustrates exactly how the body produces your vocal tone. Here’s an excerpt.

A Basic Guide to How the Human Voice Produces Resonance — Soundfly:

From the very first breath producing the initial cry that assures onlooking adults a newborn baby is healthy, humans phonate as a sign of life. Children produce sounds with their voices long before they develop the faculty to consciously alter how they’re doing so. We grow as expressive musical beings. And as we grow, we begin to hone the use of the voice as an instrument of musical and expressive communication.

Logic Pro X keyboard command of the day. #LogicProX @StudioIntern1

  Consolidate Project…

Gather all resources together and make sure they are stored in the project (folder or package).

Essential to keeping projects that can be shared with others. I copy all Apple sound files, sampler (Alchemy) files and others.

I think about what would happen if plugins could be copied as well? Bigger projects. Lots of issues.

Harrison ‘MixBus’ includes “play-only” plugins in saved projects. If I share a ‘MixBus’ project with someone they get the sound as modified by plugins. They can’t change the plugins, but they don’t simply vanish.

Consolidate assets in a project — Logic Pro X:

Using the Consolidate command, you can create a “consolidated” copy of a project, and select which types of assets are copied into the consolidated project.

⇧ SHIFT – ⌃ CONTROL – ⌥ OPTION – ⌘ COMMAND

6 Parallel Compression Mistakes in Mixing:

If you’re reading this, you’ve probably had some experience with parallel compression, the process of blending a compressed track or submix with an uncompressed copy. Getting this balance right allows us to enhance the punch and power of a signal without altering the original transients or eating up lots of mix headroom.

How to Enhance Stereo Width on Your Synth Recordings:

Stereo width means widening the stereo field, from left to right, instead of the height of the mix, which has to do with levels in EQs. Depending on the scenario, stereo width could mean a few different things when talking about specific instruments, vocals, other sounds, and the overall mix.