Uncle Fanu promised to get back to the breaks in September, and he's not one to eat his words, so here we go!
This is a very unknown break, but hey now you know it!
"Paa Break" by Didier's...
It took me a while to learn this one, because there was a period (ca. 2000-2010) when I was almost exclusively working with hardware samplers that weren’t that precise in terms of seeing...
2024-08-31 07:13:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Topic #1 I nag to clients about, hands down. Poor mono.
Hell, even a lot of great producers don't check their mono, and then it's my job nag about it. I know, I know, I've been complaining ab...
2024-08-25 09:36:02 +0000 UTC View Post
A lot of people do this one, especially some house producers.
Learn to hear when it's too much...in some chunky, organic styles this isn't really needed. Nothing like hearing some jungle for ...
2024-08-23 08:38:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Some of the somewhat most challenging premasters or initial mixes I always get from producers that are not doing any referencing. I still find it really important.
How do you know how your so...
2024-08-18 08:45:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Some people are lazy (I'm lazy too, with some things, like cooking).
They'd like to paint (mix) by numbers and adjust their mixer levels for elements based on what someone is telling them. Th...
2024-08-14 12:50:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Analyzing DAW projects every now and then (instead of just hearing a .wav file), I'd say this can be fairly common especially with less experienced producers. Less is often more.
Reason 5 (ne...
2024-08-11 15:17:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Mix nugget 3/9 here!
Should be obvious, but hearing a lot of music out there today (also hearing some of the premasters and stems I get), this one is not obvious.
So trying to raise some awar...
Reason 2/9 why your mix is lacking power! You probably don't have to do this one.
2024-08-04 11:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
In August, I'm dropping 9 video tips/thoughts on why some mixes lack power. All this I deal with daily in my audio work. Here's video 1/9. I may do even more, as the list got pretty long, but tried...
2024-08-01 12:15:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I already this one as UAD Native and their Spark version, and I happened to see I have a license for this on my Loopcloud account. I'm not 100% sure how long it'll stay – I remember seeing the of...
2024-07-31 11:38:51 +0000 UTC View Post
I recently got the dope Amigo Sampler, and got a song going with it. Wanted to give you a little look into how the Amigo Sampler works...it sounds dope!
The break I happened to use was very ...
2024-07-26 08:59:43 +0000 UTC View PostI'm getting busy with an explosive one! "Soul Drums" by Bernard Purdie.
Man, Purdie is tight and funky, and he got soooo many more breaks, I prob gotta cover some more in a later BBOTM episode.<...
I recently posted an IG clip about the loudest stem master I've done for a client this year. It raised many com...
2024-07-11 07:52:29 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been getting Qs about gain staging again, so let's have a refresher to keep our dynamics decent. After all, gain staging in a modern DAW is fairly simple and there's only a few rules to follow...
2024-07-08 09:53:09 +0000 UTC View Post
You asked, and I’ll answer. I recently asked you to ask me questions and I’d do a video reply.
Part 1 is now on Youtube (see timecodes at the end of description there).
I got waaaaa...
2024-07-07 10:31:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Phew, just kicked off a 2-week vacation (time off of my main grind, i.e., mixing and mastering music).
I thought, maybe a "ask me anything" type of thing could work: you could send some quest...
2024-07-01 11:29:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Well it's definitely been a bass month, hasn't it! And that's what we'll finish June with, too: bass.
As an engineer, it’s my job to make sure that many things are well in place.
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Mixing/mastering is largely a customer service job.
Do your best early on to find out what it is the client wants.
Ask for reference songs (it’s ok to ask for f...
2024-06-18 10:30:47 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time to talk about side signal mindfulness.
In my daily work, I hear a lot of audio where everything has been made really wide. It is effortless to make things wide today, but making...
2024-06-16 11:44:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Phew, I have created a new Collection (aka a playlist): MIXING COLLECTION (link)
Mixing is the...
2024-06-11 09:20:54 +0000 UTC View Post
In this 15-min video tutorial, I will show you how I correct the bass of a song I’m stem mastering.
I’m also showing why its bass ...
2024-06-09 09:46:40 +0000 UTC View PostLinear drumming means a style of drumming where only one drumsound can play at a time.
Prob the most famous electronic music track doing linear drumming? "2024-06-04 12:46:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Title says it all 💥
If you are new to music production and are not very familiar with making 808s, or want a recipe that's quick, you could do worse than check out this quick recipe from ...
2024-06-04 11:12:59 +0000 UTC View PostI wanted to brush up on using Vital (you can grab the free synth HERE) and wanted to share the session with you...let's do some neuro/ree...
2024-06-03 11:43:08 +0000 UTC View Post
It's drums processing time!
Ever since Chopping Science episode 2 I've meaning to get back...
2024-05-26 13:49:26 +0000 UTC View Post
I was having a great day on the balcony until…well you just have to watch it and see.
The first 25 seconds may be among the worst cinematography you’ve seen. Or maybe it’s the best?
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So I (with some help) have discovered a whole new break, which, I am pretty sure, hasn't really been used by the breakbeat community much.
What's the song and who helped me? Where did I use i...
2024-05-12 11:22:52 +0000 UTC View Post
My Ableton Live Basics video course (three parts) is finally FREE and available to ya'll – because I’m nice like that ;-)