01 Jul You Need to Mono Your Low End to Sound Good in the Club Bro…
"You need to mono your low end to sound good in the club bro...
25 Apr How to Record the BEST Sounding Audio for Your Videos
We’ve all seen those videos that prompt you to unceremoniously SMASH the close tab button due to horrible sounding audio. This is both sad and unnecessary, causing the unfortunate loss of so much hard work as the video succumbs to a slow - and...
11 Apr 4 Tips for How to Choose the Best Reference Tracks
As you may know, the art and science of mixing and mastering is subjective and complicated. Luckily, critically listening to and analyzing other people’s music (i.e., reference songs) can help you quickly get the pro sound you want. But what songs should you use? In...
31 Jan HOW to Achieve Excellence
[warp_heading align=”left” size=”h2” align=center]HOW TO ACHIEVE EXCELLENCE[/warp_heading] In our recent How to Set Up Your Year for Success Free Event , we shared a quote - possibly our favourite quote of ALL TIME! It's from Coach Christopher Sommer, who trains elite athletes, in the book Tools...
13 Feb How to Mix Vocals with Plugins | Vocal Processing Tutorial
Nearly all hit tracks have a vocal. But vocals are intense and challenging to produce and mix. In this new tutorial video you’ll learn intermediate and advanced techniques for processing vocals to perfection. Check out what plugins are the best for vocal...
03 Feb Granular Synthesis Tips | Grain Scanner Tutorial
[warp_heading color="blue" align="center size="h1”]NEXT LEVEL GRANULAR SYNTHESIS TIPS | GRAIN SCANNER TUTORIAL[/warp_heading] [warp_heading color=”blue” align=”left” size=h2]Level-Up Your Knowledge[/warp_heading] Granular Synthesis tutorial. Learn Granular Synthesis: https://warpacademy.com/course/glitches-and-grains Try Warp Academy for FREE: https://warpacademy.com/membership-account/membership-plans/ Learn Live 11 For FREE: https://warpacademy.com/course/warp-11-learn-ableton-live-11-for-free/ Granular synthesis and the epic grain scanner synth puts an array of wicked-powerful...
22 Jan Captain Beat Tutorial – How to Make Drum Grooves Quickly & Easily
[warp_heading color="blue" align="left" size="h1”]CAPTAIN BEAT TUTORIAL - HOW TO MAKE DRUM GROOVES QUICKLY & EASILY[/warp_heading] https://mixedinkey.com/captain-plugins/captain-beat/ Try Warp Academy for Free: https://warpacademy.com/membership-account/membership-plans/ Join Our Newsletter: https://warpacademy.com/newsletter/ Meet Captain Beat. Captain Beat is the newest addition to the Captain plugin lineup from Mixed in Key. As usual, the name pretty...
27 Jun Massive X Review & In Depth First Look at New Features
Massive X was just released and we know you all have tons of questions about it. We posted in a bunch of producer groups on Facebook, asking for all the questions you might have. This Massive X review is going to be a bit longer...
30 May 5 Focus & Productivity Hacks for Musicians | How to Do More in Less Time
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24 May How to Turn Setbacks & Failure Into Motivation & Success as a Musician
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15 Mar How to Get a Perfect -6dB Mixdown With Gain Staging
[warp_heading color="blue" align="center" size="h1”]How to Get a Perfect -6dB Mixdown With Gain Staging[/warp_heading] Get a Perfect -6dB Mixdown Download the Template: Here's Our Game Plan In this tutorial, we'll teach you the importance of careful gain staging and demonstrate a powerful workflow tool to make it easier to achieve...
06 Feb Ableton Live 10.1 Update – Full Review & First Look – Every Feature Explained
[warp_heading color="blue" align="center" size="h1”] Overview of Ableton Live 10.1 Update - Demo of ALL New Features[/warp_heading] Download 60 Free Wavetables & the Project File: http://bit.ly/wavetablesDL Learn About the 40% off EDU Discount: https://warpacademy.com/free-wavetables Buy Ableton Live 10: http://bit.ly/BuyAbleton What’s up everybody. I have some super exciting news for ya...
16 Jan How to Set Up, Test and Improve Your Home Music Production Studio Room – Acoustics Tutorial
The Gear Used in the Video Check out Sonarworks Reference 4 Studio Edition: https://bhpho.to/2FFuuob Ultimate Support MS-90 Monitor Stands: https://bhpho.to/2qU39oX IsoAcoustics Studio Monitor Isolators: https://bhpho.to/2Cr9spf Primacoustic Scatter Blocks: https://bhpho.to/2CBinF1 Full Primacoustic Room Treatment Kit: https://bhpho.to/2CuoP0u Do you ever feel like you can’t properly hear what changes to...
16 Jan Reverb Mixing Tutorial: BPM Synced Timings and How to Calculate Them
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18 Dec Apogee Groove Headphone DAC & Amp: First Impressions & Giveaway
The winners have been chosen! The winner of the Apogee Groove is...
10 Nov The #1 FASTEST Way to Put Your Sub in Mono in Ableton Live 9 & 10
The #1 FASTEST Way to Put Your Sub in Mono in Ableton Live 9 & 10 In this video I show a simple, yet extremely powerful new feature added to Ableton Live 10. The humble Utility device has gotten a juicy upgrade and now contains new...
06 Nov The 6 BEST New Features in Ableton Live 10
In this video, I cover the announcement of 6 BEST new features in Ableton Live 10 and a first look at the upgrades. With an advance beta copy, you get to see my top 6 new features in an in-depth tutorial. In this 21 minute...
04 Sep Should You Use Presets?
I want to talk about a few commonly held, but very destructive and LIMITING beliefs about writing music. I want to tackle them head on and debunk these myths. They are: If you use presets or samples in your music, you’re “cheating”. “Professional" producers never use...
23 Jun A Review of Sonarworks Systemwide
Hey Champions! A little while back I wrote an article called How to Mix Better in Headphones. It featured a special piece of tech from Sonarworks, called Reference, that helps to flatten out the frequency response of your headphones. If you missed it, check...
08 Apr The Power of Early Rising – Awaken Your Full Creative Potential
The information you're about to read is just one of the powerful lessons taught in Creative Mastery, taught by Ableton Certified Trainer, Vespers. After taking Creative Mastery we guarantee you'll learn how to finish the songs you start, gain access to an unlimited reservoir of creative...
28 Mar How to Increase Your Productivity in the Studio
The information you're about to read is just one of the powerful lessons taught in Creative Mastery, taught by Ableton Certified Trainer, Vespers. After taking Creative Mastery we guarantee you'll learn how to finish the songs you start, gain access to an unlimited reservoir of creative...
26 Feb How to Mix Better in Headphones
Mixing in headphones isn’t always sunshine and rainbows. In the next few minutes, Vespers is going to set the stage and give you some background info on the pros and cons of working in headphones, how to mix better in headphones, and some of...
25 Jan Interview with Random Rab hosted by Vespers
Vespers recently caught up with Random Rab while he was on tour in Canada and invited into the studio for an interview. This is the second time we’ve had the pleasure of interviewing Rab and this piece allowed us to cover his past couple of...
17 Jan Interview with CloZee hosted by Vespers
This past summer at Shambhala Music Festival, 2016, Warp Academy and had the pleasure of experiencing CloZee headline The Grove stage. A rising star of the bass music scene, her fresh style of ethnically-inspired world music, blended with meticulous production and dominating bass had the...
03 Feb Exploring the iZotope Ozone 7 Maximizer IRC Modes
In this video I’m going to continue my exploration into the new features of iZotope's Ozone 7. I’m going to cover the Maximizer, and in particular, the shiny new IRC4 mode. Why is this interesting? This IRC mode is basically an artificially intelligent limiter. IRC...
27 Jan MP3 & AAC Codec Preview in iZotope Ozone 7
Hey everybody! What we’re going to cover in this video is one of the new features in iZotope Ozone 7, the Codec Preview. Codec Preview allows you to hear, in real-time, what lossy audio compression will sound like on your master. It comes in two flavors,...
09 Dec 2 Essential Bass Effects Racks in Ableton Live
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08 Dec Neuro Bass Tutorial with the Morphing, Analog Filter (Live 9.5)
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14 Nov Analog Bass Tutorial in the New Max4Live Essentials Bass Synth (Live 9.5)
By submitting for this free download you will be added to our email newsletter list. Our weekly newsletter offers opportunities to get discounts, free downloads, exclusive offers, industry news, first dibs on new courses and other juicy production goodies. We hate spam and never buy,...
15 Oct Win a Pair of Dynaudio BM Series Studio Monitors!
A few weeks back I teamed up with one of the premier creators of high-end studio monitors, Dynaudio, to do a shootout of two of their top end pairs of reference monitors: the BM12mkIIIs and BM15A Classics. My role has been to put them both...
22 May The Glitch Bitch – A Speaker Shredding Swiss Army Knife!
The Glitch Bitch is an Audio Effect Rack I originally designed for DJing. It was first released back in 2012 with the DJ templates included in several of my packs (Put Down the Gun and Bubbles in the Jungle). Since then, I've continued to refine...
21 Apr Warp Academy Featured Member: Jon Neimeister
A powerfully diverse community with a wide variety of skill levels, it always excites us to see aspiring musicians flourish in our growing community. At Warp Academy our Trainers love teaching and sharing their knowledge surrounding music. Here is another inspiring story from our community. ...
15 Apr Warp Academy Featured Member: Johnny Zana
It is truly inspiring to see our incredible community at Warp Academy grow on a daily basis. We love teaching and sharing knowledge with members of all skill levels. It always excites us to see aspiring musicians flourish and we wanted to take this opportunity to share some of...
18 Mar Warp Academy Featured Member: Brenden Quibin aka. Down ch8
Name: Brenden Quibin AKA: Down 8ch Age: 26 Location: Long Beach, California Producing for: 2 years Past Warp Academy Classes: Creative Mastery with Vespers Past Vespers Classes: Audio Weapons 6, Synthesis & Sound Design Master Class /w Myagi, Vespers VIP Coaching Genre: Still in...
05 Mar Kenny Werner Interview from Creative Mastery
Kenny Werner is a world-class pianist and composer. His prolific output of compositions, recordings and publications continue to impact audiences around the world. In this Creative Mastery Interview with Kenny Werner, Vespers discusses some incredibly powerful talking points that include: Creating vs recreating Finding inspiration...
13 Feb Love and Light Interview from Creative Mastery
This is a free interview with Ryan Anderson from Love and Light, hosted by Vespers. This Love and Light interview is from Vespers Creative Mastery course. In this interview Vespers chats with Ryan with about some incredibly wicked awesome topics including: How the Love and Light...
05 Feb Funk Hunters Interview from Creative Mastery
Check out this free Funk Hunters interview with Nick Middleton, hosted by Vespers. This interview is from Vespers Creative Mastery course. In this interview Vespers investigates what incremental steps that allowed the Funk Hunters to gain success as touring electronic musicians. They dive into some juicy...
26 Jan Tannoy Reveal 802 Review – Get the Low Down on These Studio Monitors
I recently reviewed the new Tannoy Reveal 402 ultra-compact studio monitors. They’re great for small rooms and tight spaces. Now we’re going to take a look at their big brothers. In this video, we’re going to check out the Tannoy Reveal 802s and see how...
20 Jan Resident Audio T4 Thunderbolt Audio Interface Review
Check out the T4 at Resident Audio: http://bit.ly/1C8NzVQ Buy the T4 here: http://bhpho.to/1yjCgcj I recently picked up a Thunderbolt audio interface. The one I picked is the Resident Audio T4. In this video I’m going to give you an overview of it, cover some of the features,...
14 May VibeSquaD | The Warp Academy Interview
Vespers sits down with the one and only VibeSquaD for a juicy hour long mind meld on music, touring, artistic growth and more. Learn how to sample in a Home Depot!...
15 Apr Opiuo | The Warp Academy Interview
Warp Academy founding members gets jiggy with glitch hop star Opiuo in this whopper of an interview. Respect!...
18 Mar An Interview With Kill Paris
Whoa there! This is a big one - Warp Academy Founder Vespers sits down with Kill Paris for a one hour chew the fat session. Check out this wicked huge interview!...
26 Feb Studio Acoustic Treatment: Primacoustic
Aside from monitor speakers, studio acoustic treatment is one of the best investments you can make in your home studio, regardless of size. Vespers gets the low down from world leaders Primacoustic on the theory behind studio treatment, the do's and don'ts, and their...