Sound Design Is Ruining Your Music

<p> </p> <p style="text-align: center;"><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="TwC61zsIFHU" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/TwC61zsIFHU/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TwC61zsIFHU?rel=0&amp;wmode=transparent&amp;enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="450" width="800" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p> <p> </p> <h2 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span class="font_xl">Sound Design Is Ruining Your Music</span></strong></h2> <p> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Have you ever opened your digital audio workstation (DAW) because you’re in the mood to make some music, but then you end up spending hours searching for the right bass sound? Then, feeling frustrated because you’ve wasted hours and didn’t even find the right sound, you close your DAW and open Instagram instead.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">If you’ve ever done that, then we have a huge secret to reveal to you: <strong>forget about sound design, it’s probably the worst distraction in the music making process!</strong></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Now, we’re not saying that you shouldn’t spend hours on designing the perfect sounds. We’re saying that you should not be spending your time trying to design the right bass sound, when you haven’t even written the bass line yet. How could you possibly know what the right sound is for a bass line you haven’t yet written?</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Working on sound design before you’ve written the music, is like mastering before you’ve mixed.</strong> Yes, mastering is essential but it needs to happen after the mixing. Same with sound design. Yes, it’s essential, but it needs to happen after the writing.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">And of course, the sound you choose will usually affect what you write for it. For example, the line you’d write for a bass guitar will be different to the one you’d write for a bass synth. But (and it’s a BIG but), will the line you’d write for a Fend