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Great article about the theory of sound traveling. Helps you understand the way it moves and react in your studio. How sound travels in your studio

Another very important article from samplecraze.com. Here-> Speaker placement for optimum listening spot. Its is critical to find the sweet spot in your studio if you want to have the most versatile mix possible. Of course some room will require some acoustic treatment( which i will do a DIY real soon) but you will see an improvement by just placing your monitors and your chair at the right spot. All you need is this article, will power and a measuring tape!

Here is a simple diagram of an ideal situation:

This is the first single of the A crack in the Bridge mixtape from Chubb Rock and Wordsmith. It is a prelude to the Bridging the Gap album due JUNE 9TH on Godigital/Unruly/Koch records. Produced by yours truly!

Mr Blaze gives view on the itis. Gives out a very important tips, leave place for the artist. Upcoming producer tends to fill up the beat because you don’t have a artist in studio with you. The classic quote “Less is More”

Also goes into a situation he had with Beanie siegel about a vocal sample he had to fix up to make space for his vocals. Using Eventide H3000

That what I like about Just (beside his dope production), He gets in details and explains very well his point and views. You can tell he know his ish…

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Great site with a load of BPM info on tracks. Whats good about this one is that it is not only singles but also album cuts and it has a bunch of other gnere like rock, dance, pop, metal, reggae! You can also search by bpm, freakin usefull when you want to slap some vocals on a track you have for reference.

Definately bookmark material

Enjoy:

djbpmstudio.com

So the interview is postponed until next week! same time and day!

FALSE ALARM

Tune in if you are in the Montreal area if not you can listen online at http://tinyurl.com/ac5jrr and I will post the audio when it’s available. I will premier a couple tracks tonight new Chubb Rock/Wordsmith of the Crack in the bridge mixtape and New Wordsmith/INC of the Baltimore Martini album….

Using Waves Renaissance’s De-Esser in pro-tools, Bassy Bob shows how he to de-ess a vocal without losing the details in the voice. Good advice from a legend!

De-Essing tutorial video

*Due to blip.tv autoplay of video I can’t embed it!

I stumbled on this last ngiht and I think it is such an amazing tool for producer like myself who have notes/chords/scales notion but were never train to remeber them by heart. Let’s say you working on a bassline, you know which note is the base note but you dont know by heart which other are in the same scale ( and you’re to lazy to count with the intervals) click click click boom, you got it!

Piano Chords and Scales made easy

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A great 3 part series from Remixmag with Timbalands protegé, Danja Hands. He goes into the details about how he put together the beat for Dj Khaled We takin’ Over. He names the synth he uses for each part, how the drum tracks were built. Using Logic 8 Good studio anectdotes. Lots of good info here…

In part 2, his engineer Marcella Araica, talks about her recording chain, tips on stacking snares and working in the studio with Timbo. She lists her fav’s plugins….too much info to list.

MUST watch for all producers!

In Session with Danja Hands part#1
In Session with Danja Hands part#2
In Session with Danja Hands part#3

WATCH ALL PARTS PEOPLE!

This is the song that are talking about!

This is FRESH

via the man Jay Smooth on twitter.

This is that old video of Aftermath’s producer FOCUS doing a crazy beat. I must have watched that video a dozen when it came out. He’s adding a lot of synth sounds and a sick live bassline. This seems to be the full version of this session.

props to The S Ence for digging that up!