Faster Kill Pussycat – Analysis
What happens when you cross pop music and trance icons? Not trance, that’s for sure but you do end up with a guilty pleasure of mine. Back in 2006 Paul Oakenfold graced us with this…
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Dissecting Chill Part 4: Sia – Breathe Me
Finally… part 4. Way back in December or so I promised you a four part series on song structures and production techniques used in some of your favorite chilled out works and I have delivered. I actually…
Going 64-bit in Logic Pro and Ableton Live
Although there isn’t tons of chatter about 64bit applications too much these days, slowly but surely the industry has been migrating toward microprocessor technology that’s been in consumers hands since the early 2000’s. Recently I…
Dissecting Chill Part 3: Moby – Porcelain
Well folks I realized I promised you another song analysis quite a while back, and in fact, I promised you different songs, but hey – things just didn’t work out that way. This week’s track…
Dissecting Chill Part 2: Late Night Alumni – Rainy Days
Dissecting Chill Part 2: Late Night Alumni – Rainy Day And as promised we’re back again with another analysis. Today we’re taking a close look at Rainy Day by Late Night Alumni. This is a…
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Dissecting Chill – Part 1: An analysis of In the Waiting Line
Dissecting Chill – Part 1: An analysis of In the Waiting Line Early on I learned the value of really listening to the music to learn how to make mine better. There are so many…
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Acoustic Panel Placement for Mixing
A couple of posts ago I embarked upon an acoustic journey that I really had no hope of doing justice, but I figured I would try anyway. I’ve got some great feedback and as we…
Room Acoustics Part 2 – Diffusers
Told you I’d be back with the quickness. In the last post I talked a bit about acoustic paneling and why you might want it. I hinted at all kinds of things (and also hinted…
Next Step Audio – Trifonic’s awesome tutorial series
Next Step Audio – Trifonic’s production blog I was writing another musician today, talking shop and I remembered a favorite website of mine that I hadn’t been to in a while – Next Step Audio.…
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Midi Control Messages Explanaition
Hey folks – came across this today which you might find useful if you feel your midi programming is lacking expression: http://www.apejrolo.com/amo/2012/06/11/tip-knowing-the-midi-messages-that-are-available-to-us-when-sequencing-for-acoustic-instruments-part-2/ Granted this is an article to help a guy sell his book its…