Month: October 2018

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What is the best way to go about mixing movie audio, and what are the best plugins available to achieve the best sound after using a field mixer to record the audio?

Answered on Quora by Mark Urso, Owner at River Song Music

This is very ambitious! To “mix movie audio” is as deep a subject as mixing any audio. So the question includes a request for instructions on how to become an audio engineer and run a sound studio.

The answer is, the same way you would mix audio if it were not in a movie. Detach it first, bring it into your audio workstation, and fix it. I’d recommend doing your video editing first, if possible. If you can, then you know you won’t be slicing the video (and audio) and have to realign Continue reading “What is the best way to go about mixing movie audio, and what are the best plugins available to achieve the best sound after using a field mixer to record the audio?”

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What great chord progressions have you found, transcribing popular music?

For soft rock, people might be surprised at which songs are simple, and which use inventive and unusual chords. I’ve reverse-engineered hundreds of popular songs. I’ll toss out a few examples of what I’ve discovered:

The Easys

Certain artists, like Elton John and John Mellencamp, are not reinventing the wheel with the music they write. It’s extremely straightforward, usually 4/4 Continue reading “What great chord progressions have you found, transcribing popular music?”

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