Dance Music for Heroes
on to being a DJ and producer, he hosts the popular Melodics podcast and owns the Southern Exposure Music record label. As a producer, one of his recent releases “No Place To Hide” spent many weeks on the Beatport Top 100 list and has also released multiple tracks that broke into the top 10.
Today I’m joined by David López, an audio engineer, consultant, educator, producer, DJ, and Ableton Certified trainer. As Didactic, he performs in various genres from electronic pop to reggae to downtempo to house music. He has over 20 years of experience and holds a degree in audio technology from SAE where he also spent seven years teaching recording arts and sciences.
Today on the podcast we’re going to focus on tech house, a subgenre of house music that combines the minimal influences of techno with the grooviness of house music. We’ll be picking apart what that means, providing some examples, and giving you a sneak peak of a work in progress. Also, make sure you listen through to the end of the episode because I want to tell you about a terrific free opportunity you’re not going to want to miss.
Today I’m joined by Dan Giffin: an Ableton certified instructor, producer, and performer who has worked with Grammy winning artists helping them level-up their Ableton skills. As one of only 340 Ableton Certified instructors worldwide, Dan has taught Ableton Live workshops at SAE, Sweetwater, and dozens of recording studios. He offers private lessons and has … Read more
Today is our interview with Noah Lloyd, better known as Haterade, a full time musician who made his name with his distinctive so-cal Trap style which has been played by Diplo, Skrillex, Carnage, Krewella, and others. He’s been making music since he was 14 and is now directing some of his focus to other genres of music through the music collective Greater Than with Zak Jablow. When he’s not making music as Haterade for his 30,000 monthly listeners, he’s making samples and beats for Cymatics or teaching his private students about music production.
I thought a good way to start 2021 would be to recap the top lessons I learned over the last year as a result of this podcast and my guests. This will be a quick, but really important episode since it will not only give you some of the overarching themes from the previous year but can also serve as an index for some of the shows you may have missed.
This week I talk about a processor-friendly strategy for rapidly creating variations on MIDI-based melodies called preset thrashing.
Today I talk about how to fix hung MIDI notes in Ableton and share my thoughts on a friend leaving the music industry.
Today on the Producer Life Podcast I talk about how I processed the vocals in my recent pop track, “This Way.” I compare two different results, one using an iZotope Nectar 3 preset and then using a custom Ableton vocal processing rack (free download below!)
Thinking about livestreaming your DJ set? Today I’m sharing thoughts on audio setup, video setup, hardware, software, websites, and performance philosophy. During the podcast I’ll walk you through my setup and the reasons I made the choices I did.
