Notes – Limiters

With acoustic guitars you will hear some strums that are really loud and some strums that aren’t quite as loud.  It could be very well played but you will still have some variation between strums.  Sometimes the dynamic is quite loud and a compressor sometimes just can’t get a hold of that because the difference Read More …

More Quick & Dirty Synth Stuff

A few notes for me. How about a simple sine wave in Ableton or a similar DAW. Add in some distortion or Over drive. Draw in some automation. ofc, you can double the track. Add space with an octave. Add chorus, by bumping one of them. Normally I grab sounds and use default settings, but Read More …

Minor Illusions

The third song on my first album, Initial Experiments, was started as chords on the bass which is how the song starts.  This is the first tune I recorded with live instruments along with VST instruments.  Once I came up with the chord progression, I manually entered it into Ableton using the pencil tool.  All Read More …