IDAN ALTMAN

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Music production used to require a lot of equipment and space but luckily that is no longer the case. In my latest video I explain why minimalism plays a big role in my production style and walk you through my minimal producti...

When the production part is over and your music is ready to be released its important to know how to publish it so that it can be uploaded to different streaming services such as Spotify, Apple Music, Youtube etc. 

In this tutorial I discuss how to independent...

Mixing is all about having a vision on how things should sound. This vision should guide you right from the start of the production process so that each decision you make (whether its choosing a specific guitar, effect, microphone etc) will bring you one step closer to...

When LANDR came out a lot people thought it would be the end of old fashioned mastering and in a way it was. For those who believed that mastering means making things louder, LANDR was definitely a useful tool but only to a certain point. Real mastering is a lot more t...

Back in the days when the music industry still made sense, songwriters wrote songs,  producers produced these songs and different types of engineers joined in along the way until the song was ready for release. Being an artist today is quite different: artists are requ...

With so many virtual instruments available today its very tempting to start adding endless layers of strings, brass and synths to your demo before the foundation of the song is finished.

In order to make the process more efficient make sure to ask yourself the following...

Recording to a click seems to be the default choice these days and it definitely makes a lot of sense. It allows you to work with loops, copy and paste different parts of the arrangement (for example a verse or a chorus), synchronize your effects (delays, LFO etc) to t...

One of the most important factors in getting a great take is Performance. Good performance requires confidence, focus and comfort and these cannot be achieved if you can't really hear what you're doing.

I find that using headphones can be a bit uncomfortable (especially...