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Music Production and Mixing Tips for Beginner Producers | Inside The Mix#221: Finish Songs Faster, Mix Smarter — 7 Standout Moments of 2025 (Part 1)Ready to trade plugin FOMO and meter anxiety for moves that actually make your tracks better? Marc pulls seven stand-out moments from a huge year of conversations with producers, engineers and artists to help you finish faster, mix with confidence and stay creatively sharp.We kick off with a surprising angle on depth: shaping contrast with bit depth instead of defaulting to saturation. You’ll hear how assigning different resolutions to drums, pads, and leads can create three-dimensional mixes that hold up in mono and stereo. From there, dismantle the gear trap. Modern DAWs already include the ess...
2025-11-1816 minMusic Production and Mixing Tips for Beginner Producers | Inside The Mix#187: THE MIDNIGHT | Tyler Lyle: Unlocking the Secrets of Synthwave SongwritingIn this episode of Inside The Mix, host Marc Matthews engages in a profound conversation with Tyler Lyle, the singer-songwriter and one-half of the synthwave duo, The Midnight. Tyler delves into the enigmatic nature of songwriting, describing it as "a well-narrated hallucination," and likens the creative process to "trying to start a truck sitting on a block of ice." Drawing from his folk storytelling roots, Tyler shares how he seamlessly integrates evocative lyrics into The Midnight's nostalgic synth-driven soundscapes. He contrasts the tangible aspects of music production with the abstract challenges of lyric writing, emphasizing the importance o...
2025-03-2542 min