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Join veteran Groove3 instructor and dance music guru Larry Holcombe for a video tutorial series on the all-important subject of gain staging, as it applies to dance music specifically. A topic that’s often overlooked by novices, this will help you take more control of each element involved in your mix—from metering to plugins and everywhere in between. By the end of the course, you’ll know you’re optimizing every signal chain stage. These gain staging videos are designed for users new to the subject. Larry starts off by discussing the theory of gain staging and why it’s such a necessary aspect of music production when working in a DAW. You’ll learn specifics about making sure plugins (especially vintage ones) stay in their “sweet spot” for the best sound, along with other tips for maintaining a healthy signal level. Larry also discusses various metering options, including VU meters and peak levels, to make sure you’re keeping your levels under control at all times. Then, after demonstrating the procedure for properly setting input levels, he sets up a good initial level for the kick drum, which will be used as the basis for building our mix. This ensures we’ll have plenty of headroom in the master bus.
Join the masterclass with Dj Promo and he will take you through his creative process. He will anwser a lot of questions asked by the community. Like making a file kick or for example the different approach as producing a track as Promo or as his alter ego.
Studio expert Larry Holcombe presents comprehensive Native Instruments GLAZE video tutorials! If you’re excited about dressing up your productions with this powerful and unique vocal instrument, this is the video course to watch! Larry takes you from the basics into the more advanced features, demonstrating all the while how you can create your own inspiring sounds. These videos are for new Native Instruments GLAZE users. Larry welcomes you and begins by familiarizing you with the interface and also demonstrates how to save and recall presets. You’ll then explore the Sound Editor, where you’ll learn how to manipulate the layer controls and lo-fi/wavetable effects to create some retro sounds. Next up, dive into the filter, LFOs, and envelopes for some customizable sound design, including routing an envelope to specific LFO parameters. Next, discover the linking of modulation sources and destinations and learn how to re-order effects, tweak effects parameters, save/load effect chains, and bypass the effects within the Effects Editor.
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Join electronic production guru Larry Holcombe for a comprehensive video course on creating and producing tech house music! In this series, you’ll learn how to select and create the right instruments, work with samples and loops, add effects to build tension and add excitement, layer sounds for maximum impact, and much more. Larry even shows you how to mix and master the track at the end so that it’s ready to share with the world. If you’re a fan of Tech House, you don’t want to miss this! These videos are designed for fans of tech house and other house music. To get things started, Larry welcomes you to the course by playing through the track that he’ll be creating throughout it, so you’ll have a clear idea of what you’re working toward. Then it’s down to it, and Larry starts off by focusing on the kick sample, demonstrating a handy oscilloscope technique for analyzing the sample. This is followed by a clap to help thicken the backbeat and hats (open and closed) and a ride to throttle the beat’s top end.
