Developing Your Own Sound

Having a certain, recognizable sound comes down to having consistent characteristics. This meaning, having key elements and styles that you repeat in your work between various projects. Here are just a few ways I’ve been exploring in developing my unique sound. Remember that you don’t have to be completely original to be unique. Snowflakes all […]


Turn Down for What?! Dynamic Range, That’s What.

Over the last decade, the trend in the music industry has been to remaster music louder and louder, and this mentality has created a ‘loudness war’ of producers striving to be overly turnt which kills the subtleties of the dynamic range. Louder isn’t better. In fact, popular music that has been remastered to be louder […]


Not by Happenstance – Harmonic Resonance

Is there hope for healthy harmonious harmonic oscillation happening happily not by happenstance? All of matter (and therefore energy) can be expressed in either waves or particles. However, when speaking in terms of waves, we can plot the motion, potential/kinetic energy, direction, magnitude and get an idea of how this energy in motion will interact […]