6 Dub Production Tips To Get Your Speaker Cones Rattling | Production Expert

Dub production may be a challenge for you, you may not even know what it is. Ronan Macdonald talks history and offers tips to get your speakers shaking the room.

Vocal Production Tips! A Mega List To Check Out | Production Expert

There are many significant junctures capable of enhancing or undermining the quality of a song’s vocals. In this article, iZotope Contributor Philip Nichols shares some common vocal production practices—some to use and some to avoid. Of course, it’s best to start at the source.

A great refresher when doing pre-production work. It really helps to know how you plan to make your recording the best it can be,

3 Overused Vocal Production Techniques (That Aren’t as Cool as You Think) — Pro Audio Files

Forget about that though. Today, I’m here to burst some bubbles, to rain on some parades, and to let you know that that production trick you think is so cool is actually kind of whack. Well, maybe anyway.

4 Overused Instrumental Production Techniques (That Aren’t as Cool as You Think) — Pro Audio Files

Some of the instrumental techniques in this article suffer from the same problem: being obvious attempts at breathing life into a song that just doesn’t feel exciting. Others are cool tricks that can sometimes create problems in a mix, and more novice producers might find themselves doing more harm than good when they employ them. If your favorite production move turns up on this list, don’t take it personally! All of these techniques can be and have been done well — that just means the bar has been raised for anybody who still wants to use them

How To Analyze A Hit — Bobby Owsinski’s Music Production Blog

If you really want to understand an audio recording and hear it in a new way, here are a few pointers on what to listen for. I’m going to break it down to a general technique, and then add an additional advanced technique for experienced musicians, engineers and producers, since they already have more refined listening skills.

Always good to practice. In traditional music theory courses of study there’s the part called “dictation” where you learn to write down what you hear, including basic rhythm and intervals. I should remember to run songs through Capo sometimes.

Studio One has a chord track to help.

Logic Pro doesn’t have a chord track anymore, but you can certainly use it to track tempo and pitch.