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Item Title: Logic Pro Tutorial: Using Side Chain Compression - Tips & Tricks
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More info - bit.ly In this tutorial, Dubspot Electronic Music Production and Sound Design Instructor Evan Sutton will demonstrate two techniques for sidechain compression in Logic Pro in the context of dance pop production. These techniques can be used in a number of different musical contexts, and can be even more handy when made part of a Logic template. The first technique will involve simple ducking of a bass in order to make room for a kick drum. When mixing, subtractive equalization is very important to make sure that there is room for all of the sounds, and that they're not clashing. With this technique, we can have sounds share a particular frequency range, while also creating some interesting rhythmic effects. The second technique uses an instance of Ultrabeat with the sequencer turned on, to create a ghost sidechain. In some cases, you may want to create a rhythmic ducking effect, even though there is no other instrument useful as a sidechain. That's where this trick comes in, and it's simple to build into templates. Ultrabeat's unique features make this one possible. Simple automation can create a transition between rhythmic ducking, and no ducking, so as to create a dynamic, evolving sound. These two compression techniques are grounded in principles that are portable to all DAWs and compressors, but Logic's unique interface, and features like Ultrabeat's sequencer make it perfect for use with alternate and unique routings. |
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Item Title: Propellerheads Reason 6 Tutorial: Pulveriser x 3 - Bass Compression, Filter Effects +
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More info - bit.ly In this tutorial Dubspot instructor and electronic musician Chris Petti takes you through three very powerful uses and applications for the versatile new Pulveriser effect processor in Propellerhead's Reason 6. Pulveriser brings together crunchy compression, dirty distortion, a multimode filter and flexible modulation in a single sound-crunching effect. Crush, mangle, and destroy your sounds. Apply careful parallel compression to bring out the details of a sample or recording. Use the envelope follower when recording live instruments for responsive, expressive filter effects. |
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Item Title: Percussivo Mundo Novo (Brazil) @ Dubspot: iPad / Guitar Hero + Afro-Bahia Percussion
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More info - bit.ly Brazil's Percussivo Mundo Novo ("New World Percussion" in Portuguese) stopped by Dubspot NYC recently for a live streaming workshop. Here is the video recap and interview. Lead by the band's songwriter and video game controller wiz Mikael Mutti, PMN truly embodies the vision their band name suggests. In this video re-cap of PMN's Dubspot workshop you'll witness Mutti perform synth magic on his iPad-driven Guitar Hero controller before taking to the Nintendo Wii controller for a drum solo. In addition to demonstrating his 21st century production techniques, Mutti discusses how his roots in Afro-Bahia rhythms are an integral element in PMN's sound. By capturing a vast array of sonic possibilities with new technology, PMN maintains the irreplaceable sound quality and energy that comes with live drum performance. |
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Item Title: Intro To Reaktor: Sound Design Tutorial w/ Native Instruments Komplete
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bit.ly Dubspot instructor and Sound Design & Synthesis curriculum co-designer Evan Sutton will walk you through some of the basic principles of using Reaktor, Native Instruments' versatile and highly customizable modular software and production tool. Starting with simple library management, and working through various naming and organizational concepts, you will achieve a basic understanding of the Reaktor environment. The last thing he explains is how to customize a factory ensemble by adding an effect. |
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Item Title: Mark de Clive-Lowe (Tru Thoughts, LA) Dubspot Interview + Maschine Training
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More info - blog.dubspot.com Los Angeles based multi-instrumentalist producer, composer, DJ, and performer Mark de Clive-Lowe recently dropped by Dubspot NYC to check out Native Instruments Maschine and discuss his approach to music production, performance, and workflow. The New Zealand-Japanese keyboard extraordinaire is an incredible live performer, known for bringing the studio to the stage utilizing drum machines, keyboards, and effects. He sat down with Dubspot Instructor Heinrich Zwahlen for a session on workflow and beat making with Maschine, NI's versicle groovebox which is currently redefining the intersection of hardware and software, production and performance. Mark has lent his unique sound and production techniques to artists ranging from Lauryn Hill to Leon Ware. He has collaborated with musicians including Sheila E and Pino Palladino, and released music on labels such as Louie Vega's Masters At Work Records and prestigious jazz imprints such as Verve and Impulse! MdCL has a forthcoming album titled Renegades on Tru Thoughts. |
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Item Title: Ableton Live Tutorial: Intro to Warping + Slicing Audio - Thavius Beck
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bit.ly What exactly is Warping and Slicing? One of the things that makes Ableton Live such a unique and powerful piece of software is a fundamental feature which completely changes how you are able to interact with your audio. This feature is called Warping. Warping allows you to manipulate the tempo and pitch of your audio independently of one another. This means that you can change the pitch of a song to fit the pitch of another without changing the tempos, or you can slow down or speed up a piece of audio without altering the pitch. As someone who came from using hardware samplers like the Akai S-900, Roland W-30, and even the MPC 1000, you can imagine just how mind-blowing a discovery this was for me at the time... when you learn how to effectively warp audio and apply it to your songs, every sample becomes a new piece of elastic to be stretched to your liking. |
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Item Title: DJ Spinna @ Dubspot - Interview: Talks DJing, Hip Hop, Electronic Dance Music +
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more info - blog.dubspot.com DJ Spinna maintained a strong output in the underground independent hip hop scene of the late 1990s and early 2000s, but no doubt had many reasons for his move towards house and electronic dance music. For one, the over-saturation of the hip hop genre resulted in massive amount of mediocre records being created and released in the mainstream and the underground. Early this Summer, ahead of an appearance at Brooklyn Museum's First Saturday dance party and performance event, Dubspot caught up with the genre-defying, prolific producer and crowd-rocking, crate-digging DJ for an interview in which he discussed a wide array of topics from his philosophy on DJing (DJing is a performance and crowd engagement is paramount) and production (every record should have a purpose, channel a feeling, an emotion, and communicate something) to having a unique voice, not conforming to industry standards, particularly in terms of formulaic production standards, embracing different genres, and more. Spinna has produced and remixed records for artists such as Mos Def, De La Soul, Stevie Wonder. |
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Item Title: Sound Design w/ NI's Reaktor: Rolodecks (Twisted Tools) New Multi-FX VST + Maschine
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More info - bit.ly One of the interesting things that I find in my travels working for Native Instruments, is that there seem to be a whole lot of people out there who don't really understand what Reaktor is. Reaktor tends to be the one instruments from NI that actually scares people because it looks so complex and sophisticated. Reaktor is a completely modular system that allows you to build virtually any digital audio device that you can imagine. At Dubspot, we teach our Sound Design & Synthesis students how to dive deep into Reaktor's guts to create their own custom synthesizers and gain a greater appreciation for modular synthesis. |
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Item Title: Ableton Live Tutorial: 'Stutter Gate' Real-Time Vocal Gating Techniques
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More info - bit.ly In this tutorial, Dubspot Instructor and Ableton Live Curriculum Designer Professor Nalepa explains and demonstrates a great technique to create real-time stuttering gated vocal effects where you can adjust the rate of the gate on the fly. You can use this live on vocals or other instruments, but it also works great in the studio. To accomplish this, you utilize all three types of Ableton's built-in tools: Instrument, Audio Effect and MIDI Effect. |
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Item Title: Dubspot @ Electric Zoo 2011 - NYC's Massive Electronic Dance Music Festival
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More info - blog.dubspot.com We spent Labor Day weekend at New York City's massive electronic music festival Electric Zoo at Randall's Island. We caught up with some of the DJs and performers, including the newly reunited duo Gabriel & Dresden, legendary progressive house producer, DJ, and label owner John Digweed, rising Swedish DJ and producer Alesso, beatboxer and electronic musician Beardyman, among others. They share their advice for aspiring DJs and producers looking for a successful career in music. Electric Zoo is a three-day festival held in New York celebrating electronic music. This year's event drew over 85000 attendees throughout the weekend. |
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Item Title: FaltyDL (Planet Mu, Ramp) w/ Badawi @ Dubspot - 'Wireless' Interview
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More info - bit.ly For this episode of Dubspot's Wireless interview series, Dubspot instructor Raz Mesinai talks with New York producer FaltyDL (aka Drew Lustman) about his history as a flutist and upright bass player, as well as his use of Propellerhead's Reason. Click Here for More: |
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Item Title: Goth-Trad (Deep Medi / Japan) Interview: Dubspot Workshop @ Together Festival, Boston
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More info - bit.ly Japanese electronic music producer and Deep Medi Musik artist Takeaki Maruyama aka Goth-Trad headlined Dubspot's series of workshops and panels on electronic music production and performance at the Together Festival, Boston 2011. Goth talked about his early influences, from Kraftwerk and techno to Warp Records and trip-hop. He also talked about designing his own metallic musical instruments, performing live with the Boss RE-201, the underground dubstep scene in Japan, and much more. Other presenters included experimental electronic music artist Richard Devine and Dubspot Instructors Steve Nalepa and Pat Cupo. |
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Item Title: NI's Komplete 8 Tutorial: Studio Drummer - New Drum Kits, Effects, EQ
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More info - bit.ly In the third installment of our video tutorial series highlighting the exciting updates to Native Instruments' comprehensive producer bundles, Komplete 8 and Komplete 8 Ultimate; Dubspot instructor and NI's product specialist Matt Cellitti explains and demonstrates why Studio Drummer from Native Instruments truly makes Komplete more "kompleterer". Komplete has always had good options for sequencing acoustic drum parts, but this is the first acoustic drum instrument from NI that allows the user total control over every necessary aspect that a musician will need when making realistic, acoustic drum tracks. You are able to pick from over 3500 drum grooves, simply dragging and dropping these grooves into your DAW arrangement as needed. |
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Item Title: Interview: King Britt & Rucyl (Saturn Never Sleeps) @ Dubspot + Ableton Live Workshop Recap
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More info - bit.ly On Friday, July 29 legendary Philadelphia-based producer, DJ, and remixer King Britt stopped by Dubspot with singer and collaborator Rucyl Mills for a music production and performance workshop with Ableton Live. The duo performs live and release music under the name Saturn Never Sleeps, and this video, they share insights into the recording process for their debut album Yesterday's Machine, which is out now on their own SNS imprint. The bulk of the record was constructed in a live, improvised, one-take fashion, combining the duo's intuitional musical sense. The two point to the work of avant-garde jazz revolutionary Sun-Ra as a major source of inspiration, drawing from his value in art's of-the-moment process. Read more about King Britt's history, as well as what Rucyl calls, "the Chakakhantroller," a MIDI controller that she wears on her body, over on the Saturn Never Sleeps website. |
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Item Title: NI's Komplete 8 Tutorial: Sound Design w/ Guitar Rig 5 + Maschine - New Effects, Container
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More info - bit.ly In the second installment of our tutorial series highlighting the exciting updates and additions to Native Instruments' comprehensive producer bundle Komplete 8 and Komplete 8 Ultimate. Dubspot instructor and NI's product specialist Matt Cellitti showcases Guitar Rig 5 as a dedicated effects unit, which is something that NI have been making a conscious effort to do in recent years. While Guitar Rig is most obviously known for having great guitar amp models and classic guitar effects, the program also has tons of unique sound design possibilities with other instruments like synths, drums, and vocals. |
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Item Title: DJ Shiftee: Shocking Photo Scandal
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America's Best DJ Candidate, DJ Shiftee exposed in shocking photo scandal. * "the 'no more questions...next question.'" is due to Dave Linnenbank and his video "Senator Linnenbank's War On Children" |
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Item Title: Tutorial: Mixing & Mastering w/ iZotope Ozone 4 - Using Multiband Compression
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More info - bit.ly Dubspot Instructor and Mixing & Mastering engineer Daniel Wyatt is back with more invaluable techniques, tips and tricks using iZotope's versatile mastering plug-in Ozone 4. In this new tutorial video, Wyatt shares an amazing technique using Ozone's Multiband Compressor to gather up all the low end frequencies (foundational elements such as kick and bass) of your track and boosting them up and giving them compression pressure, while maintaining a dynamic of sounds. Daniel Wyatt starts by explaining the essential settings and parameters of the multiband dynamics section, and further shows you how to utilize some of the incredible features such as the real-time visualization dynamics and solo-ing of each band of the four bands, so you can compress, fine-tuned, and boost specific frequency range. Once again, Wyatt is using Ozone 4 mastering plug-in, but dynamic range compression is a universal mastering technique you can apply using any host application. |
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Item Title: NI's Komplete 8: Kontakt 5 + Maschine Tutorial - Filters, Effects, Timestretching +
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Read more: bit.ly In this new tutorial, Dubspot instructor and Native Instruments product specialist Matt Cellitti shows off some of the incredible features in NI's brand-new Kontakt 5 which is of course included in the upcoming Komplete 8. Cellitti explains hat many of these features had remained unchanged since version 2, which came out several years ago, so they were due for a nice update and now sound better than ever! Some of the new features explored in this tutorial includes new filters, effects, time-stretching capabilities, and more. Many people look at Kontakt and just play the instrument presets provided without ever going "under the hood" and creating their own instruments. Kontakt is such a powerful sampler that you can use it for radical sound design and to re-invision loops via time-stretching and effect processing. I really like that Dubspot teaches these techniques in the Sound Design and Synthesis course so that the students can learn to harness the full power of this beast! I also wanted to show off the fantastic new Time Machine Pro feature while loading Kontakt as a plugin inside of Maschine. Tons of Maschine users really want timestretching in Maschine and now they have a valid option by using Kontakt 5. I stretched the Funky Drummer loop down about 15 BPM, while maintaining the original pitch, and then quickly and easily re-sampled it right into Maschine. |
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Item Title: Friends of Friends (LA): Label Spotlight & Interview w/ Leeor Brown
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In our final installment of the Friends of Friends video recap series, we present the tie that binds all these artists together—FoF label owner and PR wiz Leeor Brown. In this Dubspot-produced interview, Brown chats about the origins of the label, his business philosophy, and why he doesn't like CDs. |
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Item Title: Mexicans with Guns @ Dubspot: Ableton Live Workshop Recap
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Read more - bit.ly On June 10 2011, experimental electronic musician and producer Ernest Gonzales, better known as the man behind the moniker Mexicans With Guns stopped by Dubspot NYC in for an Ableton Live workshop. This video is a recap of that workshop which was broadcasted live, as well as an interview in which Ernest talked about his early musical history, his influences (from hip hop and drum and bass to Amon Tobin and Mexican shaman Maria Sabina) and how he began producing, sampling old and obscure records; taking portions of sounds and reusing them to create something totally different and fresh. Furthermore, he talked about developing musical concepts and ideas, creative workflow, the process of putting together his debut album as Mexicans With Guns Ceremony, studio and production techniques, performing with Ableton Live and having an exciting stage presence. |
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Item Title: How to Create Smart Playlists + Organize Your Music in iTunes: Dubspot Tutorial
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More info - bit.ly In this video tutorial, Dubspot instructor and DJ product specialist for Native Instruments Mike Henderson aka DJ Endo shows you how to create Smart Playlists - playlists that will automatically organize and filter your music for you based on "tags" you write into your tracks such as Artist, Genre, Year, Album, Play Count, Import Date, and Comment. Rather than having to spend hours making playlists, and remembering what you've "playlisted," Smart Playlists do all the work for you. |
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Item Title: Nickodemus (TOTH, Wonderwheel) @ Dubspot: Learns Traktor / Maschine + Talks DJing, Advice
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More info: bit.ly In this Dubspot-produced video interview, legendary NYC DJ Nickodemus talks about learning Native Instrument's Traktor and Maschine, touring, and his label Wonderwheel. |
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Item Title: Anenon Interview @ FoF 2-Year Anniversary by Dubspot
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More info: bit.ly Last up in Dubspot's Friends of Friends video recap series is Anenon (aka Brian Allen Simon), founder of Los Angeles label/collective Non Projects, and saxophonist, beat maker extraordinaire. He talks to Dubspot's Professor Nalepa about his live setup with Max MSP and Nano Control, as well as his upcoming hardware only full-length. |
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Item Title: Jonwayne Interview @ FoF 2-Year Anniversary by Dubspot
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More info - bit.ly Moving right along in our Friends of Friends video recap, we have rising FoF star Jonwayne and Alphapup artist delivering his potent brew of swampy LA hip-hop, and talking with Dubspot's Thavius Beck about his SP-404 setup. |
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Item Title: Baths Interview @ FoF 2-Year Anniversary by Dubspot
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Third up for Dubspot's FoF video recap series is Anticon artist and FoF friend Baths (aka Will Wiesenfeld). In his conversation with Dubspot instructor Thavius Beck, Baths shares info on his Akai MPD setup, and his excitement at seeing high school friend Groundislava perform for the first time. For more information: www.dubspot.com |
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