Mike Chav is back. This time dropping some knowledge on parallel compression on snares… I just tried the low pass/comped trick on the snare and it works spectacularly. This is definitely a great way to get a good drum sound going. Thanks for the knowledge Mike Chav!
This is a must watch video. Any time a legendary Engineer/Producer sits down and gives you mixing/recording tips, you listen!
“Before his nineteenth birthday, Andy Johns was working as Eddie Kramer‘s second engineer on classic recordings by Jimi Hendrix and many others. In a career spanning more than thirty years, he has engineered or produced records by artists ranging from Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones to Van Halen and Rod Stewart, whose sales total in excess of 160 millions copies.”
I’ve watched this a million times. There are a whole bunch of good tips in there for you to improve your drum sounds. He even tells you how be got the drum sound for the Led Zeppelin drum break classic “When The Levee Breaks”.
This video was included with the Platinum Samples Andy Johns Classic Drums expansion for the BFD software sampler, which I highly recommend.
Here is a very interesting tutorial video from Engineer Mike Chav. He explains a technique that he uses to mix kick drums and other stuff too. I heard from a couple sources this is how Dre mixes his drums as well & Mike Chav has worked with Dre… So take that as you will…
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A bunch of people have been asking me how I placed the “Bright Lights Big City” track with Jim Jones. It was pretty easy actually. I Didn’t need a grand scheme or plan (which has worked for me before). I’ll try to make this sound as interesting as possible… but its really not. This is a straight forward example of how real networking pays off.
Soulseek (A peer to peer file sharing program) may very well be the greatest thing in the world for hip hop samples. Here are some tips for power usage on Soulseek…
There are times when you are going through some old music & you get hit with a musical moment of perfection that is so great, you go back and listen to it over and over again. We will call this a REWIND moment.
