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  • Collecting royalty splits: getting each share paid to the right person

    A split sheet says who owns what. It pays nobody. Money only reaches each collaborator when every royalty stream, master and song, has its own split set up at the place that actually pays it. Here is how to map the streams, where each split gets entered, and how to catch the gaps before they eat a year of royalties.

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  • Registering a sound recording in India: what the Copyright Office asks for your master

    A recorded song is its own copyright in India, separate from the composition and the lyrics, and its author is the producer. This guide covers what the Copyright Office expects when you register a master: one application per track, Rs 2,000 per recording, consent from everyone who played or sang on it, and a 60-year term. Sources read on 24 Oct 2026.

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  • De-essing vocals: how to find sibilance and tame it without a lisp

    Sibilance is the hiss of "s", "sh" and "t" sounds that jumps out of a bright vocal. This guide shows how to find it by ear and with a de-esser's listen mode, set threshold and range, choose wide-band or split-band processing, and fix the worst cases by hand. Checked against the FabFilter Pro-DS manual and the Ableton Live 12 manual on 25 Oct 2026.

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  • Drum programming basics: groove, velocity and swing

    A programmed drum part sounds stiff when every hit lands on the grid at the same strength. Three controls do most of the work of fixing that: velocity, swing and groove templates. This guide explains each using the MIDI 1.0 message list, Apple's Logic Pro guide and Ableton's Live manual, read on 24 Oct 2026.

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  • Ear training for producers: a practical 15-minute routine

    Ear training for producers is less about naming intervals and more about hearing frequency, level and dynamics fast enough to act on them. This guide sets out a 15-minute daily routine, the free and paid tools that support it, and how to carry the skill into real mixes. Tool details were checked on 25 Oct 2026.

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