Tonight was my last night, and it was awesome. I went and helped the crew set up and play at a gig. Of course, I was the intern that helped with the simple things, but I also got to look and learn about the intricate sound system. I can't believe LINK is already over and I will continue to make music and enjoy it for the rest of my life.
Today was my last production day with a mentor in the studio... :( Luckly, Whomp Truck saved the best for last. Just Ben, the founder of whomp truck sat down with me for around 4 hours and just explained what he knew and used in his productions. His technique of freezing tracks, and then warping them in the analog form is something that I will use forever because of the control you have on the sounds themselves.
Today was a work day with Ishe. I went to his basement studio which was really cool because he had spent a bunch of money to get the acoustics set up perfectly. Ishe has released tracks that have been bought so much on beat port that they have been in the top 3 charts for Glitch Hop. He is signed to Play Me records, which is actually a pretty big deal and a huge accomplishment. He just had me sit there and ask questions while he made a track from scratch. His knowledge of the synth Massive by Native Instruments amazed me.
Last night, I went to Trapfest, which was an awesome expierence and my first "real" electronic music concert. Brillz, Ookay, Getter, and a few local superstars played and it was freaking crazy. The energy was just unreal and you couldn't help but jump all around. I noticed that Brillz kept using a similar synth and I realized that he was speeding up a kick drum until it became a note because of the constant transients. I used that technique to make a really funky synth with my own flare I added to it by usin
I used today as a creative writing day. Sadly, I never really created a beat that stood out to me enough to finish and post, but hey, practice is practice.
Today I worked in the studio with Fonzie which is a Glitch Hop producer. Glitch hop is a genre of Electronic Dance Music that incorporates funky, bass heavy synths with mid tempo, swung drums with almost a hip hop feeling. It was really cool seeing the difference between Citrus and Fonzies techniques and takes on different effects and their use. I gained a bunch more knowledge on compressors and how they fit with snares to give them that "pop". I spent the rest of the day fooling around with the new ideas I gained.
Today I continued working on that beat and started a new one. I used a technique with bass layering that Citrus taught me. I used a sine wave to communicate the frequencies below 100 Hz. After that, I used a dynamic audio effect called Eq 8 to cut out all frequencies below 100 hz on all the other tracks. This made the bass clear and crisp and I have posted the clip I made on the project page. Its called womple...
Today was an independant work day which I used to make a beat with my guitar. I am not at all ready to release it to the public because it isn't anywhere near finished. I haven't done much work with live instrumentation and it gets complex when mixing and mastering which is what makes music sound crisp and equal across all frequency ranges.
Weekly MeetingToday was a very slow day for me music wise. Although I spent over three hours independently working on music, I didn't really come up with anything that sounded good. Alot of my focus for today was wave synthesis and producing synthesizer sounds that I found to be interesting and enjoyable to listen too. In the night I met up with the whomp truck group for their weekly meeting about sales, upcoming concerts, and other financial issues. It was really interesting to see the business side of electronic music production which I haven't had much exposure to.
Today was the first day I spent working with Whomp Truck. Actually, I worked with a sub group in whomp truck called Final Form. Final Form is a three man dj group consisting of whomp truck members Citrus, Just Ben, and Fonzie. It was an extremely interesting first day watching them put together their first mix. A mix is kind of like a mashup of a bunch of different songs and tend to be around an hour to two hours long. I've never seen or attempted to dj with more than one person so it was an eye opener watching three people beat matching and playing music at once. One thing that really stood out to me from what they were doing was that a Dj needs to be organized with their songs. The quicker you can find a song, the better because you need to be on your feet when three people are djing together. Sadly, I didn't get a chance to show them my tune I made yesterday.
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