Dance Music for Heroes
Today I review Bandsintown, an incredibly useful free website for musicians to publish their upcoming live events and why you should be using it even during the pandemic. I also talk about why Musician’s Friend is my favorite place to get music gear.
Today I talk about how to fix hung MIDI notes in Ableton and share my thoughts on a friend leaving the music industry.
Today we look at the new iZotope RX 8 as a tool for extracting stems from tracks for remixes and mashups. We’ll compare it with Spleeter, some free software made available by Deezer, using a couple of my songs so you can hear how the two compare. I’ve also got an update on Facebook who clarified their recent music guideline changes and what they meant by “music experiences” for live streaming.
This week on the Producer Life Podcast we’re talking about the big changes to Facebook’s Terms of Service which you DEFINITELY need to be aware of if you’re live streaming your DJ sets.
Today is part two of my mentoring session with Producer Dojo Sensei Luke Rain, also known as Trap Jesus. If you missed part one make sure you go back and listen to episode 35 because we covered a lot of good stuff on his mixing process and it will help you to understand where this session picks up. This week we talk about his thoughts on automation, the question he always asks of his sounds, and why mixing is like science.
Everyone needs a mentor. One of mine is Trap Jesus, also known as Luke Rain, and we recently had a terrific Zoom session where he explained his mixing process in detail. I found the session so interesting, I had to share it with you and Luke generously agreed to let me use the audio. In this episode we geek out how to mix a track and dive into the weeds on compression, limiting, and workflow.
If you’ve got aspirations to play on a big club or festival sound system one day, you’ve got to tame harsh frequencies in your tracks or you’re gonna people’s ears bleed. Today we’ll dive into some techniques to reduce harshness in your mixes.
With TikTok’s future in question here in the United States, many artists are wondering…. Where do I take my short-form videos? Facebook thinks it has the answer to that question with their recently-launched Instagram Reels. In this episode I’m going to take a look at this new platform and see if it’s up to the task.
This week I passed a milestone with my 10th live stream and so I thought I’d share the top five things I’ve learned. I’m also going to talk about a new business that can help musicians get cash now based on projected music streams of their back catalog.
Today we continue our conversation with Zeb Lego, the musician, director, and mastermind behind not one but THREE major creative endeavors including the Spirit Swords art collective, the The Legend of Devn nonprofit community, and most recently his James Zero vocal and acoustic project which has already had over 12,000 streams on his videos since March.
