10 Kick Drum Mixing Tips
This guide offers a few suggestive mixing techniques to help you get starting at shaping your kick drums. Learn how to get more punchy and powerful kicks.
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How To Make Writer’s Block a Thing of the Past!
Icon Instructor Malachi Mott identifies writer's block and offers several tips on how to overcome creative hurdles and finish music more productively.
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Mixing with Expanders
Gain a better understanding of upward and downward expansion and learn how to use expanders to enhance sounds in your mix.
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Ableton Live 10 First Look!
Icon Instructor Jerry “BigJerr” DiPhillippo takes you into Ableton Live 10 for a first look exploration of what's new in this highly anticipated release.
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5 Free VST Plugins: October 2017
This roundup of freeware plugins features a stereo imager, set of one-knob effects, a chord generating tool, vintage vocoder, and a transient designer.
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Plugin Spotlight: Toraverb 2
This plugin spotlight features Toraverb 2, a high-quality reverb unit developed by D16 Group that offers unique sound shaping and modulation possibilities.
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Ableton Live: Multiband Effects Processing
Watch Icon Instructor Paul Laski enhance a pad sound with a custom multiband effects processing rack created in Ableton Live. Free Chorus Rack download!
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Sound Design: Synthesis w/ Roland Juno-60
Multi-instrumentalist and former Icon Instructor GRiDWORK takes us through the controls onboard Roland's classic Juno-60 polyphonic analog synthesizer.
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