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THE HOTTEST STUDIO TIPS from the worlds most excentric producers

SPACE - Sound is a 3 dimensional occurance in space, remember that there is not
only left & right but also depth and even up and down.

AMBIENT MOOD LIGHTING - Try different colors of light in your studio at night.
And try different shades of dimmed light. Green, Red, Blue, Purple or mix them
together. See what effect it has on your music and mind.

AMBIENT FRAGRANCES - Just as different colors and shades of light can influence
your producing mood, so can smells. Fragance oils (mint, elderflower etc.)
incense, herbs etc. Or be like PRINCE and make your studio smell like lavender.

NAMING A TRACK - A good track title can be poetry by itself and strengthen the
songs impact. Just open a random book on a random page and find a snippet of
a sentence you can use as a title.

USE DUB TECHNIQUES - To make your music feel more alive. Record/Rerout your
tracks through a mixing desk with heavy delay,reverb, filter effects attached
to the AUX send and tweak the knobs live (Effects AUX, Sweep EQ etc.etc.etc.)
DUB is the foundation of techno.

BOSS CS-2 MOVING MUSH A tip from lazenbleep for Moving Mush Sidechaining.
Use the boss CS-2 compressor with a filter/eq pedal before it on an aux send.
You can make some cheap ass sidechaining if you send it kick and a pad, or just
use it to create a filtered moving mush that can be brought back in on a track
to add weight to your mix.

CONSULT THE OBLIQUE STRATEGIES - Designed by Brian Eno & Peter Schmidt in 1975
its a deck of 100 cards you can randomly pick if you have a creative block.
Each card has a cryptic sometimes ambiguous phrase that will help you move on
solving an (artistic) dillema by stimulating your lateral thinking.
Check it out here online.

MICROFIBER WIPES - A tip from POLARFOX85. Microfiber wipes are the perfect way
to clean your synths and mixers. They apparently come in cool colors such ocean
blue, peach orange and lizard green. I hope POLARFOX85 has more cleaning tips
soon!

MIXING DOWN A tip from DUYNN: Mixing down a track is always the hardest
part... or that's my opinion. After hours of tweaking, leveling and eq'ing and
such your ears get tired and well, for me I can't hear straight anymore. Leave
the track and the next morning when you wake up you poor yourself a cuppa
coffee / tea and sit on it first thing again. In the morning your ears are
fresh and you hear it best. Alter all the oddities that you find annoying.
Also listening to good recordings of classical music is good for your hearing.
It will rest your ears.