Posts Tagged ‘ Creativity ’
Find a big room and go record something in it! It doesn’t matter where it is, or what you record… just find a large space and record something in it. Large spaces usually have a very distinct sound to them. They also often have a noticeable reverberation. If you’ve chosen a public place as your big [ READ MORE ]
The term ‘Creative direction’ might sound obtuse, but it’s really quite simple. Creative direction is the vision for the song. It is the idea (or set of ideas) that set the direction for all the creative decisions in the production process. Decisions based on the creative direction of a song have a wide range – as [ READ MORE ]
Anyone can get sidetracked. Sometimes it happens quite naturally. The distraction is easier, faster, more gratifying than putting in the hours of work to get a result. When I speak to a musician or composer or producer, I can usually tell how connected they are to their work by how much they talk about gear. [ READ MORE ]
Have you ever felt like a mix session would never end? As if you could forever be making minor adjustments to levels, EQ or effects settings? Do you sometimes find yourself unable to decide over a 0.5dB level change for a channel? Do you wonder if anyone will notice, whether it even matters? Creative direction [ READ MORE ]
Creative direction can be a real ‘gotcha’ when working as a producer with an artist. First of all, it’s absolutely critical to be clear who is the creative director for the project. As a producer, my projects roughly fall into two categories: The artist is the creative director. For these projects, the artist has a [ READ MORE ]
An ‘a cappella’ is, put simply, singing without instruments (or a backing track). When remixing, often an a cappella track is provided to the remixer. This is usually a track consisting only of the vocals from the original song, minus all the other instruments. It’s also incorrectly spelled as ‘acapella’, ‘a capella’, ‘acapela’, or any [ READ MORE ]
We’ve all been there. Halfway through a project, maybe even halfway through a song. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but right now it feels like the well has run dry. Nothing’s grabbing your attention, nothing you try sounds good. You keep coming up with the same tired clichés and you’re over it. What [ READ MORE ]
The purpose of a studio is to create or record music. Hence, it should foster creativity. Certainly, a lot of creative work happens in the studio. A lot of non-creative work also happens in the studio. Some of it happens ‘out of session’ – upgrading equipment, cleaning the ashtrays, backing up files, getting to know [ READ MORE ]
I recently came across this article, with this great paragraph: THE REALITY is that 90% of the time, the artist (and probably the producer) dont want to sit around and watch you turn knobs and swap mics until you get your idea of the most awesome sound. They want to record. Instead of the perception [ READ MORE ]
It seems that many computer music composers have a problem with developing songs[1]. There is a tendency to create elaborate multilayered loops of two or four or eight bars, but a resistence to being able to put together a whole song. At risk of oversimplification, this is caused by vertical thinking, where a section of music [ READ MORE ]
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