If you want to make faster progress when you’re in the studio, then this post is for you. The music production business operates at an incredibly fast pace. You’ll need to implement as many of these strategies as possible to keep up and maintain high standards.

19 Timesavers to Streamline Your Music Production

If you want to make faster progress when you’re in the studio, then this post is for you. The music production business operates at an incredibly fast pace. You’ll need to implement as many of these strategies as possible to keep up and maintain high standards.You can hit the ground running with every session and get fast results by using a template. The last thing you want is to be spending the first 15 minutes flicking through synth sound banks or choosing a drum loop. Why not have a ‘Starting Point’ template with some great samples already loaded, maybe even a drum groove and a few of your favorite synths. This way you can open a project and get straight to writing music. You can change the sounds later to suit the notes you’ve already written.When you open a plugin you want to get to work as quickly as possible. Overwrite the factory default with a starting point is right for YOU.There will be times where you spend hours creating an incredible channel strip. Get the most out of your efforts by saving the channel strip and refusing it in the future. You might need to tweak it to work with your new material but you won’t be starting from scratch.

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Many producers work ‘chronologically’ and forget the bigger picture of the mix. Picture this scenario… Let’s say you work on the lead vocal. You get it sounding perfect by itself. You move on to the backing vocals and get them sounding perfect when soloed. Now you want to get all the vocals sitting in the mix, but the Lead and BV’s don’t fuse together well and feel foreign within the context of the mix. You now have to rework the vocals and spend more time to get a good result.The timesaving remedy to this scenario… Start by listening to the whole mix and focus on how the vocals sit in the mix. You can now EQ, compress and make any other changes to get the Lead sounding great in the context of the whole mix. Once that’s done you can work on the BVs to compliment how the Lead sounds in the context of the whole mix. This way you only have to do things once.Endless tweaking will lead to hundreds of unfinished tracks piling up. When you’re confident you’ve got a specific channel sounding great, print it. If you’ve ‘worked backwards’ as stated in the previous tip, then you know how the channel works in the context of your whole mix anyway, so you shouldn’t have any nasty surprises later. Just make sure the source material is awesome enough to commit to keeping it.Keep your ears calibrated on how a great mix sounds. On your next mix or master try listening to at least 6 seconds of a reference track every minute and watch how fast you achieve your results. Check out the 15 day free trial of our referencing plugin to save even more time.

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Endlessly adding layers and channels will result in a cluttered and congested mix. AND it will take more time to work on those extra channels. Keep your productions lean and focus on what your track really needs. Some of the best mixes I’ve worked on have had less than 30 channels in total. The most difficult have had over 80 channels. With that in mind, consolidate channels when you can. For, example if you have 5 different claps all panned differently, bounce them down into one manageable stem.Don’t get stung by the same time-consuming mistake more than once. When you run into something that’s held you back, put in a new system to resolve the issue. Invest minutes now to save hours in the long run.When you have a roadmap in your mind of the steps needed to complete your track, you can keep moving forward towards that goal. Without a plan, you’re aimlessly shooting for an unspecified target. If you want a resource to help you with this, I put together my most valuable information into a 124 page eBook called ‘Never Get Stuck Again’. It will help you turn your musical idea into a quality finished track.

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19 Timesavers to Streamline Your Music Production - Mastering The Mix

Teasing in a melody line by using fragments of it before unleashing the full tune can prove to be hugely effectiveIn the ongoing quest to make your tracks as memorable, dynamic and exciting as they can possibly be, understanding what makes a great melody is as essential as knowing how to program beats, sit a vocal properly in the mix or effectively negotiate any other part of the overall production process. Step 1: We start with a fully supported melody line. We’ve got a tune, supporting chords and a whole beat structure, and everything’s playing at once. But this certainly doesn’t sound like the start of a track. Let’s build an introduction to work up to this point.Step 2: We move the track back a few bars and copy only the elements playing the hook to the start. The first of these is a house piano sound, and we start with this, stripping out the syncopated notes between the melody note completely, to produce something much more sparse.

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Teasing in a melody line by using fragments of it before unleashing the full tune can prove to be hugely effective

How to tease a melody for maximum musical impact

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Finding the right sounds and building a groove is one thing (OK, two things), but if you don't have an arrangement, you don't really have much of a track. Here are 10 things to try if you're struggling to make your arrangement work or you're looking for new ways to spice yours up...

Better arrangements 

Turn your collection of ideas into a cohesive whole

10 ways for electronic music producers to create better arrangements

<a href="https://www.landr.com/en/online-audio-mastering?utm_source=blog&amp;utm_medium=organic&amp;utm_campaign=Engagement_Mastering_EN_Core_Blog&amp;utm_term=prepare_music_landr_mastering&amp;utm_content=MasteringGuestsite">Mastering </a>is one of the most misunderstood parts of music production.Even though you can save a lot of time and effort by using <a href="https://blog.landr.com/mixing-mastering-style/">AI to master your music </a>, you still have to pay attention to the finer points to get the best results.In fact, there are several essential things you need to do in your mix to prepare your tracks for mastering.In this guide I’ll show you the 5 steps to make sure your song is ready for LANDR mastering.

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Learn how to prepare your tracks for the best possible LANDR mastering. Read on, take notes then get back to making music.

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Keep bass and percussion and swap in loz edit midi with melodic elements

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Discover 25 hand-picked mixing tricks that you can use to gain a cutting edge in your electronic music productions and mixes Take your mixes to a whole new level Take advantage of road-tested mixing techniques used by electronic music professionals and inject them into your music. Get an exclusive peek into 25 definite mixing tricks that will make your music sound better. Learn about five different categories of mixing: Mix Essentials, Mix Clarity, Drum Sweetening, Special Stereo Width and Advanced Mixing Techniques, each category containing 5 different tips! Why use ELECTRONIC MUSIC as your mixing reference? <ul> <li>Easy-to-follow, Straight to the point -guide</li> <li>Step-by-step, handbook-style tutorials</li> <li>25 Mixing Tips in 5 different categories</li> <li>Get a professional sound in your mixes</li> <li>Learn, have fun and take what you learn to the next level!</li> </ul> Here's a preview of what you'll learn... <ul> <li>Proper Gain Staging</li> <li>Achieve a solid mixer fader balance</li> <li>Musical Side Chain Compression</li> <li>EQ for Clarity</li> <li>Kick Drum Tuning and Processing</li> <li>Parallel Compression Punch for Drums</li> <li>Advanced Stereo Effects</li> <li>Advanced Automation for Special Effects</li> </ul> Get your copy today! Take action today: Get rid of your insecurities in mixing electronic music and learn how the pros are doing it!

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<ol><li>Break down your big goals into daily tasks . You can't add "Get in shape" to your daily to-do list, but you can add "spend 30 minutes on my bike."</li><li>Consider your week as a whole. You likely have multiple goals. Some goals benefit from daily activity, while working towards others a few times a week can create momentum.</li><li>Add your have-to-do tasks last. We often fill our to-do lists with have-to-do tasks that crowd the whole day. Adding it last forces you to fit your have-to-do tasks around your goal tasks.</li></ol>

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It’s dedicated time to think about the past week, reflect on what went well and what didn’t, and plan for the week ahead.

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There are some general areas that all of us should prioritize in order to function well and generally make life worthwhile. These areas are:<ul><li>Health and fitness . Bad health and fitness habits add up over time and have a knock-on effect in other areas of our lives.</li><li>Sleep and rest . Inadequate sleep leads to unstable emotions, impaired learning, imbalanced hormones and a compromised cardiovascular system.</li><li>Friends, family, and relationships. It's hard to mend relationships once they've been frayed. Be proactive about being the connector and decide beforehand what you won't miss out on.</li><li>Productive work . Instead of working harder, we should work smarter (more strategically.)</li></ul>

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12. To add excitement to strings, pads and other musical parts during key moments, try layering them up with another version of the part pitched up one or two octaves.

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21. Chopping up all the beats of a bar before a chorus and then rearranging and/or muting them can have a dramatic effect. You can combine this trick with some sidechained gating, using a dedicated (and unheard) signal to create a chopping effect on your track at key moments. Check out the debut album from Mylo, Destroy Rock &amp; Roll, to hear the kind of thing we mean.

19 Timesavers to Streamline Your Music Production - Mastering The Mix

How to tease a melody for maximum musical impact

10 ways for electronic music producers to create better arrangements

How to Prepare your Music for LANDR Mastering | LANDR Blog

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