The Fine Print

Fine Print For musicians, understanding the law of copyrights can be quite intimidating, but having a solid understanding of this side of the industr...

Top 5 Digital Distribution Platforms in 2021

Digital music aggregators make distributing your music both possible and potentially profitable. Companies such as Landr, DistroKid, CD Baby, TuneCore...

How To Use A Multiband Compressor

  Multiband compression can be pretty confusing for many producers, but it doesn't have to be! Follow along with this tutorial as Daniel goes...

How To Use A Compressor

How To Use A CompressorTranscriptIn this tutorial, Ill be going over what a compressor actually is, its basic controls, and how to use a compressor in...

How To Use An EQ

EQing is the toughest mixing skill to master. Follow along as Daniel goes in-depth in how to use an EQ! The tutorial covers: 1:04 What is an EQ?...

How To Use a Mid Side EQ

  Looking for Free Mid Side EQs? Check out all of the free EQ plugins on UpstreamSquad! FREE EQ VST Plugins

Gain Staging For EDM

Gain Staging For EDMTranscriptWhat is Gain StagingGain staging is a very important step in producing electric dance music. Basically, gain staging is...

How to Use a Limiter

Looking for FREE Limiter plugins? Check out all of the Limiter plugins that are available on the UpstreamSquad below! FREE Limiter VST Plugins &n...

How to EQ a Muddy Mix

Looking for FREE EQ plugins? Check out all of the plugins that are available on the UpstreamSquad below! FREE EQ VST Plugins

How to Use Reverb

Looking for FREE Reverb plugins? Check out all of the plugins that are available on the UpstreamSquad below! FREE Reverb VST Plugins

Networking For The Modern Music Producer

Networking For The Modern Music ProducerTo be successful in the today's highly-competitive music industry, we must think of ourselves as a business pr...

Do You Really Need an Artist Website?

With all the different popular social media platforms out there today, is it really necessary to have a website for your artist project? 🤔 In this...

How to Promote Yourself as an Artist on Social Media

As a musician, you have to keep a lot of plates spinning. Between writing and mixing songs, performing, and advertising your craft, managing your time...

Do Not Master Your Own Music

Mastering is the final process of the music creating process. It is simply taking an audio mix and preparing it for distribution through various pr...

How To Fix Phase Cancellation

How To Fix Phase CancellationWhat is Phase Cancellation?Sound is made of waves of force that travel through the air. When they travel out from the sou...

How To Use An EQ

EQing is the toughest mixing skill to master. Follow along as Daniel goes in-depth in how to use an EQ! The tutorial covers: 1:04 What is an EQ?...

How To Use A Multiband Compressor

  Multiband compression can be pretty confusing for many producers, but it doesn't have to be! Follow along with this tutorial as Daniel goes...

How To Use A Compressor

How To Use A CompressorTranscriptIn this tutorial, Ill be going over what a compressor actually is, its basic controls, and how to use a compressor in...

Gain Staging For EDM

Gain Staging For EDMTranscriptWhat is Gain StagingGain staging is a very important step in producing electric dance music. Basically, gain staging is...

How To EQ Vocals

How To EQ VocalsTranscriptIn this tutorial I'm going to explain talk about mixing vocals and how to EQ your vocals. Vocals are probably one of the mos...

Creating Separation In Your Mix

To create a professional mix, the elements in your track need to have their own space and be separated from one another.  The EQ is the number...

Gain Staging

Gain staging is an integral part of the mixing process.  Gain staging is the setting of the volumes of your individual sounds and groups of so...

Dealing With Low Mid Frequencies

Low Mid frequencies (150-500 Hz) are very difficult to deal with.  This frequency range is where most of the power for your track comes from.&...

How To Create A Song Arrangement

How To Create A Song Arrangement & Structure

Top 5 Tips For Finishing Your Musical Arrangements

Top 5 Tips For Finishing Your Musical ArrangementsSometimes an Idea for a song can come easily. You may get inspired by listening to new music or afte...

How To Keep Your Song Arrangements Interesting

How To Keep Your Song Arrangements InterestingSong ArrangementA term that has been so loosely thrown around among musicians, producers, songwriters, a...

3 Tips For A Better Arrangement

3 Tips For A Better ArrangementIt is no secret that the recipe to a well-crafted song is a solid musical arrangement. There have been countless tutori...

Leave Them Wanting More

When your audience is done listening to the end of a particular section of your track (drop, verse, intro, etc.), they should want to hear more of t...

How To Add Variation To Your Track

We have all been working on a project and then suddenly hit by a creative roadblock.  You run out of ideas and am not sure how to progress wit...

Why You Are Struggling To Make a Professional Track?

Making a professional song is difficult. In the modern production world, we are all expected to be producers, mixing engineers, sound designers, and...

Creating a Song Structure

Many producers struggle to create a compelling arrangement that interests the listener from start to finish.  In addition, they also struggle...

Saving Multiple Versions of Your Project

Every single creative or technical decision that you make when producing can have an influence on all subsequent producing decisions.  If you...

Leave Them Wanting More

When your audience is done listening to the end of a particular section of your track (drop, verse, intro, etc.), they should want to hear more of t...

How To Add Variation To Your Track

We have all been working on a project and then suddenly hit by a creative roadblock.  You run out of ideas and am not sure how to progress wit...

How to Make a Future Bass Synth

How to Create the Bouncing Ball Delay Effect

In this quick video, I will show you how to create the Bouncing Ball Delay Effect in any DAW and with almost any Delay Plugin. The Bouncing Ball De...

How to Write Chord Progressions for Electronic Music Producers

How to Write Chord Progressions for Electronic Music ProducersWhen It comes to music theory, electronic producers always seem to ask, "Why do we have...

Does Music Theory Really Help In Songwriting?

Does Music Theory Really Help In Songwriting? Does music theory really help with songwriting? This is a very hard question to answer without puttin...

Creating Memorable Melodic Progressions

Creating Memorable Melodic ProgressionsThere have been several golden formulas over the years teaching up and coming songwriters how to write hit song...