Dolby Atmos and Spatial Audio – The Future Of Audio Is Here
Dolby Atmos and Spatial Audio Are You Listening? Unless you’ve been underground for the past few weeks, you couldn’t have missed one of the biggest developments in the world of sound – Apple recently announced that Apple Music customers will now have access to industry-leading sound quality thanks to the addition of Spatial Audio, which includes Dolby Atmos support. Artists can use Spatial Audio to create immersive audio experiences for their listeners, complete with full multidimensional sound and clarity. Starting next month, Apple Music users will get access to these new services at no additional cost. Now, before we get into what it means for you as producers and listeners, let’s take a look at what Dolby Atmos really is. su_divider top=”no” size=”1″ What Is Dolby Atmos? Source: Tom’s Guide, 2019 Dolby Atmos is touted as one of the most advanced audio technologies available on new …
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Getting Your Tracks To The Finish Line – “Scenery” On How To Get It Done
Getting Your Tracks To The Finish Line Finishing Your Tracks Thousands of producers can produce a great sounding 4-bar loop, but only a handful of them can convert it into an arranged track. From those producers, only a few can create an arrangement that has dynamics, modulation, and carefully chosen sections that combine to tell a story. At Beat Lab Academy – we’ve learnt that there’s one simple thing that sets apart these producers from the ones stuck in a loop – and it’s that they practice getting their tracks to the finish line. Exercising these sonic skills – such as arrangement, mixing, and mastering will undoubtedly help you be more productive & efficient in your music journey. In this article – we interview Scenery, an Australian producer who set himself a challenge to finish a 2-track EP every month for a year. Below, he shares strategies that have helped …
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Meet Sienna – Emulate Studio Rooms On Your Headphones
Meet Sienna Sienna is a plugin that combines technology by Acustica Audio with artificial intelligence to emulate studio rooms, anechoic chambers, and different environments – right on your headphones. Gone are the days when you have to burn a hole in your wallet to hear how you track really sounds in a studio. The best part? Our new partnership with Acustica allows Beat Lab students and followers (yes – that means you) to get this plugin for less than half price in the month of May. Read on to find out more! su_divider top=”no” size=”1″ What Is Mixing & Mastering? (Source: Produce Like A Pro, 2016) Mixing & Mastering are the two “M’s” that intimidate a lot of producers as they prepare their tracks to be release-ready. Here at Beat Lab, we believe that Mixing & Mastering are sonic skills that are absolutely learnable – just like recording or synthesis. …
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Top 10 Studio Headphones 2021 – A Producer’s Best Friend
Top 10 Studio Headphones 2021 If you’re just getting started on your music production journey – you might be listening to your mix on desktop speakers, cheap earphones, or even laptop speakers. However, after you’ve picked the best laptop to produce music with – the next purchase to consider is the right pair of headphones for you. su_divider top=”no” size=”1″ Why Are Studio Headphones Important? The best studio headphones help inform you how the track you’re working on in your DAW truly sounds (i.e flat sound.) Laptop speakers are simply too small to accurately recreate bass sounds below 200 Hz. Consumer speakers or headphones are usually bass boosted or colour the sound in different ways to entertain the listener. The best studio headphones, on the other hand: Recreate the entire frequency range that we can hear (20 Hz to 20,000 Hz) Accurately represent the frequency response of your track – …
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Teacher Spotlight | Loren Moore | Mixing & Mastering
Teacher Spotlight | Loren Moore | Mixing & Mastering Loren Moore is a Beat Lab alumnus, and one of our regular guest instructors. He is a music producer, multi-instrumentalist and mixing engineer based in Los Angeles. Loren regularly drops in for the Mixing and Mastering sections of the curriculum to lend his expertise. His take on engineering and production is always enlightening. He’s also a total sweetheart! Native to England, he moved to America performing in bands and writing solo aliases including his own band touring across the US with Mayday Parade, There For Tomorrow and more. Later he started his former alias, IDestiny, gaining millions of plays across major blog sites and achieving releases on Warner Bros and EDM Network while producing and mixing for artists as his career developed. He currently develops upcoming artists, new projects and works with producers such as Richard Vission for song placements with major artists like Pitbull, Austin …
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Stepping It Up: From Amateur to Pro
Stepping It Up: From Amateur to Pro You’ve been working hard, but there’s just something about your music that is missing. What could it be? After spending countless hours whittling away at a song, you feel like all the blood, sweat, and tears have gone to waste. Let’s not get caught up in the artist’s struggle. In this post, we’re going to take a look at some ways to give your music a more polished and professional sound. su_divider top=”no” Learn Music Theory It is super important to have a basic understanding of music theory if you want to produce music that sounds good. Sure, having a strong intuition is helpful, but rarely can a producer get far without knowing their scales and basic triads. Learning music theory will help you understand why certain notes sound good together and provide a foundation for your songwriting. It will also …
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