Zen And the Art of Producing

iLFSN | 10.05.2017 | 890 MB

PDF Book + M4V Video Clip

In this companion book to Zen and the Art of Mixing, Mixerman discusses the art of producing records. Mixerman lays out the many organizational and creative roles of an effective producer as budget manager, time manager, personnel manager, product manager, arranger, visionary, and leader, and without ever foregoing the politics involved in the process. As Mixerman points out, “Producing is an art in which reading and understanding people nearly always trumps any theoretical knowledge – whether musical or technical in nature.” Whether you’re currently positioned as musician, engineer, songwriter, DJ, studio owner, or just avid music fan, Mixerman delivers you a seemingly one-on-one, personal lesson on effective producing.

Producing Professional Voice Overs

SYNTHiC4TE | Dec 02 2020 | 230 MB

Studio guru presents comprehensive voice over production video tutorials! Learn how to record and produce professional sounding voice overs for commercials, movies, video blogs, podcasts and more. Chris takes you step by step from the beginning, all the way to exporting your final product. These voiceover production tutorials are for those who are new to recording voice overs, or just want a refresher course on getting the best sounding voiceover possible. Chris welcomes you and starts with the basics like using the right recording environment and selecting the right microphone for the job, followed by how to set up the mic and make sure your recording levels are correct. Then you’ll see how to optimize your performance before recording with proper dynamics, delivery, and distance from the microphone, and tips for optimizing your time in front of the microphone when you do record.

Producing Music With Reason

Team iLLiTERATE | 21 September 2020 | S1: 1 GB | S2: 1.7 GB

Level: Beginner and intermediate level user

This series of videos is an introduction class to the music production software: Reason.

Producing Disco House In Live

FANTASTiC | 12 May 2020 | 1.85 GB

Following the success of his Classic House course in Logic Pro, Maison Records label owner Ian Bland is back to create another comprehensive set of tutorials, this time on creating upbeat, funky disco house in Ableton Live. With a huge amount of experience in the electronic music scene, dating back from his early days with rave outfit Dream Frequency on XL Recordings, Blandy’s depth of knowledge and passion for teaching make the tutorials well worth a watch. On the course, Blandy shows his hands-on, old school methods for creating a grooving disco house track from scratch, using a combination of Live’s devices and 3rd party plugins. Starting with drums, he adds layers of funky bass, guitar licks, brass, strings and a soulful vocal to create a classic disco vibe. The course also goes through the entire arrangement process, teaching how to structure a track with builds and drops that will keep the dancefloor on its toes. The final videos then focus on Blandy’s mixing and mastering techniques, ensuring the track sounds polished and professional.

Producing In Ableton Live 11

Team DECiBEL | 26 Feb 2021 | 917.8MB

31 Videos / 1h 47m

Ableton Live 11 is here, and so is this course by Ableton Certified Trainer. Join him and learn how to produce a track in the box with Ableton Live 11. This course includes a Live project resource file. There’s no better way to study Ableton Live 11 than with a Certified Trainer. In this course, Noah guides you through his creative process and shows you how to build a track from scratch in Live while explaining and demonstrating the new features introduced in the latest version of the software. This course is all about learning good workflows to optimize your creativity when creating music with Live… so join in! First, Noah explains core concepts of Ableton Live to help you quickly get creative when beginning a new project. He then starts creating a track by programing a main beat, and adding variation and interest to the pattern with the new Chance tools. Next, you learn tips to quickly generate new musical ideas, and create chord progressions, bass lines and arpeggiated synth lines.

Reason 11: Producing a Track

FANTASTiC | 21 February 2020 | 323 MB

Reason master brings you awesome Reason 11 production video tutorials! See how to utilize many of Reason 11’s new features and functions to build a killer electronic track from scratch, including effect and mixing tips & tricks. Reason Project session included! These videos are designed for intermediate Reason 11 users who know their way around the program. To begin, Paul greets you and then goes over the concept of using Blocks and the PolyStep sequencer to create quick arrangements and re-usable song sections, as well as to input sequences that would otherwise be too fast to play in realtime. Next, you’ll see how to craft Baseline and Pad parts for the song, including cool sound design ideas, and how to use Reason 11’s Automation features creatively. Moving on, you’ll learn program the drum parts by using extracted drum hits from REX loops to build a killer kit in Kong, as well as use the Drum Sequencer device to sequence Trap style hats alongside conventional note clips. You’ll then see how to design a basic patch in the included West Coast Modular synth, Complex 1, plus how to organize your project, and then test out the arrangement using the powerful Blocks lane feature.

Low End/Sub-Bass TUTORiAL

FANTASTiC | 22 February 2020 | 689 MB

Low End and Sub-Bass tutorials! Learn how to produce and engineer proper low end and sub-bass for your tracks and productions, creating impact and power. These sub bass production videos are designed to help you create a great bottom end for your songs, giving them a fat, tight sound. Adam welcomes you and first talks about the differences between Low End and Sub-Bass, then how to properly monitor the bass and make adjustments, helpful info on Pitch, Frequencies, and Harmonics, why layering bass isn’t always a good idea, making bass a mono signal, adding reverb to bass and other topics related to the low end. Next, Adam gets into tons of cool techniques like High Pass Filtering and ways to use it effectively but not destructively, creative ways to remove clicks from your tracks, using Sine Waves for bass, splitting your chords up and playing the lowest notes in unison for a higher sound, and much, much more.