Dance Music for Heroes
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.
In this week’s episode, Richard Wang of 6TH STREET Music helps me finish an upcoming EDM track. During the episode, we talk about ways to help your kick punch through the mix, places to watch for mud, his favorite “magic” plugins, and why he doesn’t trust his sidechains. There was so much good material he shared, I consolidated it into this podcast.
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.
In this episode of the podcast we look at websites for DJs and producers: why you need a website, one approach for doing it yourself, and some words of caution. I share some of the lessons I’ve learned from running and maintaining this website since 2017, and why I made the decisions I did.
