8 Tips For Music Production In Home Studios

8 Tips For Music Production In Home Studios

- Vishal Ramakrishnan

We are in a world where everything is digital when it comes to making music. We don’t need anything more than a laptop with the right software and sounds. All we need is the right set of techniques for making your tracks sound good. Here are some production tips for efficient production.

1. Layering kicks and bass

Instead of using just one kick sample, you can even layer kicks for example, like if you are using say an 808 kick, you can add another layer of kick which doesn’t have the same characteristics of the 808 but compliments the 808 and adds to the highs of the kick. This gives you a round and fat kick sound.

Similarly, instead of using just one bass sound, it's good to layer a few bass sounds, this will cover more frequencies and will make it sound sonically good and fat. You can add a sub bass if you are not using an 808 and the add a synth bass over it to make it sound good. Sometimes even layering an acoustic bass sound might work out. But layering is never wrong.

2. Quantizing