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DRUM EQ TIP

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:29:30 -0500

My go to article for eq’ing and mixing drums

Can’t wait to read!

"Chocolate Puma tells me on Twitter that bitcrushing a sample and then turning up the high..."

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 15:35:30 -0500

“Chocolate Puma tells me on Twitter that bitcrushing a sample and then turning up the high frequencies (or running it through Waves VEQ4) can give it added sheen to “bounce” off the speakers. Sharing is caring…”

- (via dannydance)

abetterdancingday: dannydance: Tonight! Hear me chop it up...

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 09:40:05 -0500

abetterdancingday:

dannydance:

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Ahhhh yea! Let’s talk about DANCE, baby!

Going to be on an internet radio show tonight and I’m sure music production will come up! ;)

dannydance: People on my mailing list are going to kill me for...

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 00:36:58 -0500

dannydance:

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dannydance: Pulled an all-nighter editing my new House Dance...

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 11:11:02 -0500

dannydance:

Pulled an all-nighter editing my new House Dance Youtube clip…I’m thirsty!! ;)

dannydance: And here we go! Back in action! Let’s get at...

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 09:59:13 -0500

dannydance:

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dannydance: If we make it about the music, DJing can be...

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 09:46:49 -0500

dannydance:

If we make it about the music, DJing can be art.

Yes.

dannydance: On your mark… So much new mmmmmusic.

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 12:16:36 -0500

dannydance:

On your mark…

So much new mmmmmusic.

dannydance: Lollololol!

Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:13:48 -0400

dannydance:

Lollololol!

dannydance: A letter to sports columnist @Sheridanscribe about...

Fri, 03 Aug 2012 20:18:18 -0400

dannydance:

A letter to sports columnist @Sheridanscribe about @MichaelPhelps ‘s small impact on me.

Phelp’s story has affected me very deeply.

dannydance: They say Olympians train an average of 24 hours a...

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 01:15:00 -0400

dannydance:

They say Olympians train an average of 24 hours a week (30 if you’re an elite Olympian like Michael Phelps. 60 if you’re a Greatest-of-All-Timer like Tiger Woods). 24 hours a week breaks down to 3 hours, 25 minutes every single day, 365 days a year.

If you practice something that much, then after 8 years, you’ll rack up about 10,000 hours of practice. At that point, you will more or less be world-class at that thing.

I want to be a world-class House Music producer. Starting today, I’m putting in my 3:25. What do you want to be? Join me.

(download the hi-res picture at http://bit.ly/325worldclass)

[DIAF005] Before We Had The Time (Radio Edit)

Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:41:00 -0400

dannydance:

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Song structure:

Pre-intro “better believe it, babe” - Intro (16) - Verse (16) - Bridge (16) - Verse (16) - Breakdown (8) - Buildup (8) - Chorus (16) - Bridge (2) - Chorus (12) - Bridge (2)

dannydance: A summer love song. Friday. Here. Summer and love...

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 23:44:13 -0400

dannydance:

A summer love song.

Friday. Here.

Summer and love definitely go together. A new release drops on Friday.

Must-see, and a superb reflection on the state of copyright and...

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 21:06:43 -0400

Must-see, and a superb reflection on the state of copyright and sampling law.

dancetipshd: abetterdancingday: dannydance: So there I am,...

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:15:21 -0400

dancetipshd:

abetterdancingday:

dannydance:

So there I am, happily dancing into the dusk on the beach, swaying to the House Music in my headphones as I House Dance on the boardwalk (which I do daily before making music each night), when I suddenly feel the flick of two fingers on my face. A female bicyclist had decide that me dancing in the amply wide boardwalk merited a subtle slap in the face. A lane so big, on a boardwalk so wide, that five dancers and five bikes could together not take up the entire thing. It was a stupid thing for her to do, taking advantage of her motion on a bike to strike me as she kept riding.

So imagine the surprised look on her face when I caught up to her 150 meters down the path, to give her a large piece of my mind. Her bike lost to my cardio; her action lost to my words.

Everybody along the strip was impressed. Including her.

Haha. Dance cardio for the win! ;)

LOL! I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: dancetip 001:

“In House Dance, the quads burn up FAST. Try to jog 4x a week!” ;)

The modern producer must be well-rounded, ready to tackle any challenge—in and out of the production studio ;). Seriously, though, it’s important to stay healthy and fit, even if you spend a lot of time in your DAWs making music.

dannydance: Time can buy experience, and money can buy...

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 18:20:34 -0400

dannydance:

Time can buy experience, and money can buy knowledge, but nothing can buy the joy of making music.

Some mags I just picked up. A few articles are cross-posted, but I think the knowledge in these two bookazines are well worth the $52.98 total. Here’s to what these 268 pages will do for your music.

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I can’t overstate how helpful Chocolate Puma’s...

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 23:22:37 -0400

I can’t overstate how helpful Chocolate Puma’s Studio section is over on their blog! Even though they only have a handful of articles, they are extremely helpful. This Match EQ Tutorial was particularly helpful, though I’ll warn you that sidechaining your bass to the kick drum for Template Learn/Match purposes (see their step by step instrux) really takes the wind out of the bass, even at a low Apply Percentage like 17%. This means you’ll definitely have to add 1 or 2 additional bass layers to pack enough oomph in there. Well worth what it does to carving out problem frequencies, though!

From

Studio Tips: Separating two sounds with Logic’s Match EQ by Chocolate Puma

Say you got a fat kick drum and on top of that a fat bass line. They both sound great if you solo them, but tend to clash when you play them both at the same time.

There are a few tricks to separate them. Most of the time you decide which one of the two is covering the sub frequencies, and which one is covering the higher bass frequencies. So say your kick has the most energy at 60hz and your bass line the most energy at 100hz, then you can be sure that you’re quite safe.

But what if you have trouble separating the two with just using your regular EQ? And what if you want to have a really low subby kick AND a really low subby bass line? Of course you could sidechain the bass line with a compressor. Or program your bass line, so that it doesn’t play at the same time as your kick drum.

But there’s another way: For example in our remix for ‘Mike Dunn’s Gitcho House On‘ we wanted to have both a low kick AND a sub bass line, the bass line played at the same time as the kick, and sidechaining wasn’t sufficient.

Bring on Logic’s Match EQ:

1. Put Match EQ on your bass line channel.

2. Go to the upper right hand side and choose your kick drum channel at the Side Chain dropdown menu.

3. Click ‘Template Learn’, press play and let Match EQ learn the characteristics of your kick.

4. Press stop, set your Side Chain to ‘None’.

5. Click ‘Current Learn’, press play and let Match EQ learn the characteristics of your bass line.

6. Click ‘Material Match’.

7. Set ‘Phase’ to ‘Minimal’ (especially with low frequencies this is important, if you use it to separate higher sounds, use ‘Linear’)

8. Slide ‘Apply’ to a minimal value (say -20% or something).

9. Use ‘Smoothing’ to fine tune.

10. Use Fade Extremes to cancel out frequencies you don’t want to be affected (click the triangle in the lower left hand corner to unfold).

Presto, you just separated your bass line from your kick drum!

Now you can also use this method to separate strings from a vocal. Or if you use a positive value at step 8, to match one sound to another sound.

Using the Klopfgeist to add serious lower end to your basslines....

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 09:37:15 -0400

Using the Klopfgeist to add serious lower end to your basslines. Great vid!

Give Me the Beef: How to Beef Up Drums in Logic Pro A few...

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:41:00 -0400

Give Me the Beef: How to Beef Up Drums in Logic Pro

A few resources I found/read today on beefing up drums. Your mileage will vary, and don’t forget to do your own research and experimentation :)

Prime Loops: Fat Drum Mixing in Logic [PDF]
Point Blank & Danny J Lewis: Layering Kicks In Logic [VIDEO]
Platinum Loops: Use Logic Pro’s Multipressor to Beef Up Drums [VIDEO]

Batch Inserting Inserts to Save Time in Logic Pro Got a simple...

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:05:00 -0500

Batch Inserting Inserts to Save Time in Logic Pro

Got a simple tip for you guys, something I did by accident yesterday (should have read the manual ages ago, but that’s a lost case) that will save you time: in Logic Pro, you can add the same insert to a bunch of audio channels simultaneously through the Mixer. For example, I use Voxengo’s free and awesome spectrum analyzer ‘SPAN’ on all my inserts audio channels, instrument channels, aux channels, and, of course, the Master channel. Before, I had to insert the insert into one of the channels, and option-command-drag to each channel one by one. Tedious as all hell. The easy way:

In Apple Logic, go to Window > Mixer
At the very bottom of the mixer, click and drag across all your channels
On any of the channels, click an empty Insert slot and navigate to the Insert/Plug-in you want
Voila, now all your channels have the same plug-in in the same slot position, without extra hassle