by Music Software Training & Ableton Live Tutorials | Aug 10, 2015 | Audio engineering, Blog
How to fail your way to success To dispel any myths you might be thinking. Music production didn’t come naturally to me. It took years of making some pretty embarrassing mistakes & getting my ass handed to me to learn what works & what doesn’t. I...
by Music Software Training & Ableton Live Tutorials | Oct 29, 2014 | Audio engineering, Blog, productivity, songwriting
Producing is mostly problem solving Many new and old producers have a really difficult time looking at their own work and saying “This is done”. There is a huge paranoia that there is a gaping hole in our work that is immediately going to be spotted by...
by Music Software Training & Ableton Live Tutorials | Sep 2, 2014 | Audio engineering, Blog, productivity, songwriting
How Long Will it Take Me to Sound Like ______ ? This is a question I get asked often from new aspiring producers. They often ask me this after they have purchased a training course from me or joined my Producer’s Playground, so given their current mindset,...
by Music Software Training & Ableton Live Tutorials | Aug 16, 2014 | Audio engineering, Blog, songwriting, Video/video tutorials
Kick or Bass getting buried? Try this.. A big mistake that is made by producers, especially new ones, is setting your levels too loud when you are mixing & having everything too close to the red to nudge anything up when you realize something is getting buried. In...
by Music Software Training & Ableton Live Tutorials | Jul 13, 2014 | Audio engineering, Blog, sound design, Video/video tutorials
Steal This Ableton Tip: How to Crossfade in the Arrange Window This is a very quick & simple tip but can really com in handy when wanted to crossfade several audio files on the same track. This option has been around since Ableton 8, but there are still a lot of...
by Music Software Training & Ableton Live Tutorials | Jul 1, 2014 | Audio engineering, Blog, creative mindset, productivity, songwriting, sound design
Find your creative strengths, borrow the rest As a veteran producer, I am not great at everything & you shouldn’t have to be either. In another life, I was a guitarist in a Goth/New Wave band. I wasn’t a great guitarist, but I knew what I was good at...
by Music Software Training & Ableton Live Tutorials | Jun 8, 2014 | Audio engineering, Blog
Ableton Production Q & A As many of you know, I encourage my readers to email me with any questions they have regarding Ableton or production. Often the questions are too specific to be helpful to many others, but I do also get some questions worth sharing....
by Music Software Training & Ableton Live Tutorials | Apr 30, 2014 | Audio engineering, Blog, sound design, Video/video tutorials
Simple Stereo Widening Trick in Ableton Here is a simple Ableton trick that I use in nearly every song I make. It’s often easy to overlook the simple when you expect that it’s extremely complicated to get a professional sound. In truth, a professional...
by Music Software Training & Ableton Live Tutorials | Feb 18, 2014 | Audio engineering, Blog, creative mindset, productivity, songwriting, sound design
Attack Of The 8 Bar Loop So there you are, staring at your computer screen. 12 tracks of brilliance, or at least 15 seconds of it. You sit there listening to the loop on repeat over and over again, trying to convince yourself that you are being creative, instead of...
by Music Software Training & Ableton Live Tutorials | Jan 2, 2014 | Audio engineering, Blog, creative mindset, productivity, songwriting, sound design, Video/video tutorials
Best of 2013 – Ableton & Music Production Tips Denver Wow, this has been quite a year for myself as well as Ableton Users. I moved from Iowa City to Denver and quickly met up with some of the most forward thinking DJ’s & producer’s. I notice...
