Mart Thera

Music producer.
Available for ongoing production.
DM me.

[Mart Thera @martthera]

I write and mix music for independent artists. Looking for a long-term work.
Here's what I wanna know about your music:
1. What do you want from your music?
2. What do you like about it and what's bothering you?
3. What kind of result do you actually need?

DM me with what you're working on

[Mart Thera @martthera]

@natemixing Next morning I'm fixing great decisions I've done late at night

[Mart Thera @martthera]

The mixer’s main job is making the listener hear the song and its emotion as a whole, not the individual elements of the mix.

[Mart Thera @martthera]

Stop endlessly scrolling through plugin presets hoping they will instantly do all the heavy lifting for your mix. They won't.

[Mart Thera @martthera]

@TopRaverRadio Periphery 2

[Mart Thera @martthera]

Ironic how making perfect music actually means adding imperfections like pitch drift, timing variation, that kind of thing

[Mart Thera @martthera]

@TayeOlusola Mf out there lip-sync to AI tracks and perform like that. Such a shame.

[Mart Thera @martthera]

I believe automation can even fix certain arrangement mistakes, and can definitely enhance it.

[Nathaniel W. @natemixing]

If you have 0 automation between verses and choruses, I’d consider it a mistake.

Songs are different but you have to add at least SOME movement.

[Mart Thera @martthera]

Any melody can fit in any genre. I love that about music.

[Mart Thera @martthera]

Never mix with your eyes. Listen when you change a parameter, if it feels right, it is right. If you have a physical controller, use it. Actually feeling the sound in your hands, instead of just watching numbers, can change a lot

[Mart Thera @martthera]

@natemixing Cut every frequency that belongs to notes that are out of the song's key. TRUST ME!

[Mart Thera @martthera]

Working with reference tracks.

A reference track gives you an anchor and speeds up everything from the first idea to the final master.

Whether you're picking a synth patch or balancing a full mix, a reference gives you a real target for tone and balance - how bright or thick something should feel, how loud each element sits against the rest.

Arrangement works the same way. A reference shows you movement, how tension builds before a drop, when an element pulls back and returns.

In mastering stage a reference tells you exactly how loud and how balanced a finished mix is supposed to feel, so you're not guessing.

I use ADPTR Metric AB to reference tone and balance while mixing and mastering. While writing though, I'll route a separate reference track straight to my headphones, bypassing the master, that makes building structure way easier.

One thing to keep in mind: use one or two references per track. Every reference has its own logic. Pull an ideas from too many at once, and those logics stop agreeing with each other.

[Mart Thera @martthera]

@treywxlker @BusyWorksBeats My bad🤣

[Mart Thera @martthera]

@natemixing Too many YouTube videos where sidechain = relationship between kick and bass

[Mart Thera @martthera]

@rhynowashere Average listener doesn't know how most songs sound without mixing -> average listener doesn't care

[Mart Thera @martthera]

@THROWEDTOBIN I still have my projects from 2018 - my treasure🥹

[Mart Thera @martthera]

@schmiddi090 If u can finish a song

[Mart Thera @martthera]

How to write a great music? WRONG answers only

[Mart Thera @martthera]

All non-physical 1176 and LA-2A just look cool in a DAW. And do not get me wrong, I love it

[Mart Thera @martthera]

Most compression plug-ins can be replaced with Pro-C2 + saturation