Arman Sikder — Oklahoma City Recording Connection

Ahhh the finish line - Posted by Arman Sikder on 2016-11-02

Well i just passed this wonderful course with a 90% on my final. It feels good knowing im educated in this field. There are many more things i wish to learn and must learn but i believe all that comes with experience within the studio... Read More >>

Good to know Mastering - Posted by Arman Sikder on 2016-10-04

Mastering is a very important step in making your music comparable to the industry standard. As a producer tho I really try not to worry about mastering since i have my own mastering engineer... Read More >>

Acoustics make a difference. - Posted by Arman Sikder on 2016-10-02

This chapter was VERY informative when it came to terminology used for understanding the pysics of sound. Everything i read was so interesting because around when i first started to produce music i remember my rooms setup was in a cramped spot all bunched up in the corner of my room where so many sonic anamolies occurred... Read More >>

Automate my life - Posted by Arman Sikder on 2016-10-01

So what is emotion? the constant motion of feelings that we have within us. We can be happy, we can be sad, we can be mad, we can laugh, we can pout, we can express many emotions... Read More >>

MIDI is the future - Posted by Arman Sikder on 2016-10-01

How many times do you play something over and over to get that perfect succession of notes to create a unique melody? I spend hours sometimes just playing the keys to hash out something that sounds good, but the great thing about when i play is that i use MIDI information rather than an actual piano... Read More >>

Compression is your friend or your enemy - Posted by Arman Sikder on 2016-08-27

Compression is a very interesting topic to me. One thing alot of starting producers dont realize is that sometimes you DON'T need compression... Read More >>

Most important portion - Posted by Arman Sikder on 2016-08-27

This chapter covered, in my opinion, probably the most important step in the music making process. Making sure that you EQ out the unneeded frequencies is very important... Read More >>

Cutting out the freqs! - Posted by Arman Sikder on 2016-04-06

This chapter was real informative about the history of EQing. I honestly never knew that the origin of EQing was from getting better audio from transmissions... Read More >>

The mixing process - Posted by Arman Sikder on 2016-04-02

This chapter was not something new to me but definitely something to take note of. A lot of informtation within this chapter was actually quite useful and ive jotted quite a bit down... Read More >>

Learning my way around. - Posted by Arman Sikder on 2016-02-24

Theres quite the shortcuts to learn honestly. I've been checking out the whole PDF for all of them and i feel like the best way to remember all the shortcuts is to use them during a session... Read More >>