5 Tips to get studio level recordings in (almost) any room
Very often modern composers perform at least some of their recording (and mixing) from their homes/home-studios. The Internet is saturated
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Use light to write better scores – Part 3: build a touch MIDI controller
Our path to automate our smart lighting in sync with music/video continues. Today we will take one step further. Let’s
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How to expand your stereo to 3 channels in any DAW
The center channel is very important in movies. It allows the viewers to experience the frontal soundscape as intended. Even those
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Tips from the past: Tape
There is an idiomatic phrase in the popular Italian language that makes me giggle every time. The closest translation I
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SEO for composers: Google and your portfolio website
On average, you spend about 24 hours a week online. That’s according to official statistics. So a website is essential
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Use light to write better scores – Part 2: control lighting with MIDI
Your DAW is the remote In our quest to exploring alternative ways to boost a composer’s productivity, last week we
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Use light to write better scores – Part 1: introduction
Fasten your seatbelts. The journey you are about to embark will give you tools to overclock your brain and craft
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5 musical terms film makers often get wrong
Musical terms The musical vocabulary can be a nightmare to navigate. With commonly used words taken from no less than
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The Lean Composer – Part 3: Small Batches
Welcome to the last chapter of this 3-part adventure. In the past 2 weeks I drew parallels between the lean
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The Lean Composer – Part 2: Pivots
Where were we? Last week we explored the concepts of lean manufacturing and lean startup and we started drawing parallels
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