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Suggestions for controlling one aspect of a mastered music track?
So here's the setup: I am working with a piece of cello music that layers bowed cello with plucked cello (filling the role of percussion). The director is asking whether I can inde …
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Do any of you compose, as well?
I got into sound design when an open-source game I was on was flooded with composers, and we needed a sound designer. None of the composers on the game had anything beyond Finale …
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Anyone done work for a music video before?
I'm curious, because I've never done any work for music videos. Specifically, I'm wondering if they use similar dialnorms to standard television programming. Is there anything that …
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Sequence in Mixing?
I've recorded voices for a good time now and I am currently learning how to mix.
First question about mixing I have is:
What is your sequence?
Do you level the voices and balanc …
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Background Music: When to make it disaapear?
When laying the dialogue over background music, let's say it's a party scene. Are you concern with portraying the reality, by keeping the music throughout the dialogue, Or you fade …
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Making dialogue more intelligible through M&E
Dear All,
I have a question about trailer mixing that hopefully some of you have an answer to:
When mixing a trailer, or any mixing for that matter, what's your preferred method …
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Best uses of contrapuntal music in film?
First off, if you don't know what contrapuntal music in film is (correct me if I'm not explaining correctly): Music opposite to the emotion expected from the narrative. So for exam …
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converting Images into music masterpieces
I wrote a article on this subject at my blog and was wondering people thoughts on it.
As in do you think that these forms of experimental music will they ever be able to build a r …
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Composition versus sound design, what’s the difference?
A documentary maker called me a sound designer. At first I thought he forgot to mention my composer role. I told my girlfriend about it and she was like sound design is what you do …
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Types of Computer Generated Music Software
As an Artist and also a Software developer I have always Loved the idea of computer generated music. I was just wondering about all of the types that there are. I have written seve …