Starting a music production from a live demo recording can be a challenge - typically live demos are not recorded with a click track.
This article shows you two ways of conforming live demos to a set tempo in Pro Tools - includes audio examples.
Starting a music production from a live demo recording can be a challenge - typically live demos are not recorded with a click track.
This article shows you two ways of conforming live demos to a set tempo in Pro Tools - includes audio examples.
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Mike Thornton from Production Expert shows in this 3 part series of short videos how the growth of music streaming services and how they deliver music to the consumer is changing the way we need to mix and master content, especially for music streaming services. In part 1 Mike gives an introduction and takes a look at the history and how average loudness normalisation is changing the way we master music tracks.
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Pro Tools Expert team member Paul Drew posted this article on our sister site Studio One Expert outlining his past experiences of dealing with rejection in the Music Industry.
Rejection is a hard thing to take. Songwriters, Producers and Mixing Engineers usually have to deal with rejection more than the average guy.
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We have all heard the expression "a mix is never finished, it’s abandoned”. When does any recording artist know when to put their audio brush down and declare that their masterpiece is done?
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We have featured a number of posts from Sreejesh Nair's excellent blog. On this occasion we are going to feature an excerpt from Sreejesh's post entitled The Light Bulb Theory of Audio. We have been talking about loudness and intelligibility for broadcast content but what about music. We are seeing changes in the way music is being delivered with more and more streaming services normalising to loudness but there are other issues at play here too. Over to you Sreejesh...
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It has been a long time coming and it is not over yet but we now know the name of Steinberg's new scoring package. Dorico will be a new take on the 600 year old problem of printed music.
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Whilst his long career started with engineering and programming for some of the UK's most successful artists, Andy is perhaps best known for his work as a film and TV composer. In this video you can find out how using Sonnox plugins has helped in the scoring of an upcoming SyFy Channel series.
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Mix master and friend of the blog Andrew Scheps has announced that the gear he packed into crates from his US Punkerpad West studio is now part of Monnow Valley Studios in the UK.
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Is it possible to take the guesswork out of writing a hit song? Well a team who met at MIT have contacted Pro Tools Expert and are claiming their new software can do just that. The software 'Hit or Miss' is based on an algorithm that has processed every song released since 1940, when Billboard published their first Music Popularity Chart. The software analyzes the melody, harmony, chords, tempo, and even lyrics and using the algorithm can predict the likelihood of a song being a hit or a miss to within 98% accuracy.
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We have featured a number of videos covering a range of aspects of the low budget film Norman. In this video by Joel Guelzo, the composer Daniel Ciurlizza explains and demonstrates how he went about composing and recording the music for this film.
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Hot of the back of the Andrew Scheps double bill we shared with you recently, our friends at pureMix.net has just released a mixing tutorial video featuring Grammy winner John Paterno mixing hit artist Robbie Williams' song "Don't Stop Talking".
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Our friends at HHB Communications Ltd recently supplied and installed an interesting music production recording system at the Alness campus of North Highland College, part of University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) in Scotland which they describe as a hybrid system.
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Learning to EQ properly is probably one of the hardest and most challenging aspects when mixing. You can expect that you will struggle a lot with learning to EQ, and how to get it to interact well with the track if mixing are new to you. First I would like to say that there is no easy or magical ways to learn how to EQ perfectly, but I am going to share with you some guidelines that work really well for me when I am mixing.
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As of January 2016, Waves have announced that they will stop supporting the TDM format. Any plug-ins installed or updated via the Waves Central application will not support TDM and will cause previously installed plug-ins to not support TDM.
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To get a good mix I need to work quickly, not so quickly that the important work hasn't been done, but not so slowly that I've used up my ability to listen with clarity. Not too quick, not too slow but just right - The Goldilocks Mix Zone.
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In this video Mike Aiton reviews Slapper, a new multi-tap stereo & multi-channel delay plug-in by our friends at Cargo Cult. Watch the video and find out why Mike has given it the coveted Pro Tools Expert Editors Choice Award.
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In part 1 of this report on the PureMix Masterclass with Mick Guzauski and Fab Dupont in New York, we learnt from competition winner Aaron McCourt what went on during the first day of this two day masterclass. The track was arranged by Fab and recorded by Mick. So day 2 - The Mix....
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There has been some discussion on what loudness to use for audio streaming content including iTunes Radio, Spotify, YouTube etc. Currently there is no standard unlike broadcast workflows that have settled on one standard all be it with a number of delivery specs around the world. Consequently we still have issues with loudness when listening to streaming related content. But bodies like the AES are starting to bring sense to this area.
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Red Triangle - songwriting/production duo Rick Parkhouse and George Tizzard - have between them sold over 5 million records and worked with a multitude of artists from the UK and USA.
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EastWest, have been in touch to tell us that their new subscription service Composer Cloud has been nominated for a NAMM Technical Excellence & Creativity (TEC) Award for 2015 in the category of Musical Instrument Software.
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