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So you want to be a producer, eh? (Part 1 – Intro)
So, in spite of my warning, you’ve decided to take the plunge and Learn music production through Ableton with me. OK, you asked for it, you got it. Prepare to open your wallet and go down the deepest rabbit hole you have ever been down. For starters, I recommend that you find a way to…
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So you want to be a producer, eh? (part 0 – a Warning)
Here’s me in production mode, 2003: stack of Ramen, case of Capri Suns, and juggling 3 capstone research projects for my undergrad degree. After decades of amateur production experience and years of daily practice, I’m starting to get to where I’m feeling confident enough to teach other people basic music production and share my experience…
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Enduring the Veil
My covers album, Enduring the Veil is out on streaming services as of 9/4. This album has tracks that I started working on over 5 years ago and is the closest I have come to creating the music that I dreamed of producing when I started. You can listen to the album on streaming services…
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My dog had a bad treat habit and it was my fault
The problematic treat pattern The problematic treat pattern consists of trigger (e.g. pain or desire) and reward (treat, attention) that is coped with using an unsustainable solution. The manner in which that reward strategy is working creates problems within the system – Jam is resolving short-term problems (hunger) with a suboptimal solution (unhealthy treat) for…
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Boundaries
Until recently, I did not know what people were talking about when they told me I needed to use boundaries. People would say things like, “you need to maintain your boundaries” and “sounds like there are some problems with boundaries” and “establish some boundaries” and so on and so forth. I listened to what people…
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Spectral Painting (Easter Eggs)
It’s been a while since we released our track Ghosts and we figured we’ve waited long enough to reveal a little Easter Egg that was embedded within the track. If you open up the master from the Bandcamp page: https://ourfriendgus.bandcamp.com/track/ghosts And then open the track in a tool such as Izotope RX: You’ll notice that…
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Batch Rendering Ableton Projects (Windows)
We have created a simple PowerShell script to automate the rendering of Ableton projects. You can check it out on the Ableton-renderoor GitHub project page. This very basic script will find all .als files in the subdirectories of the folder where the script runs, will open each project in Ableton, will then press Ctrl+Shift+R to…
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Intersect by Cryptochronica
Our friend Cryptochronica recently released his album Intersect – his biggest release yet. Listen / purchase links for 9-track album can be found on Hypeddit. To us, this album explores the culture of dance music, the state of politics, and the connectedness of relationships and community. The album delicately blends genres such as boom bap,…
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Building LED Sticks with Our friend Gus
The following image shows some LED sticks in action: I’ve also included a video showing a few strips running at once. LED strips in nice diffusers can add really cool atmosphere to your party or event. Overview You will want to get the following parts: Then you will assemble them as follows: I recommend the…
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Table Manners
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ Background I would like to write a little bit about norms and courtesy that I have encountered in my limited experience within the music industry using the hospitality metaphor of Table Manners. Table manners (manners) come from the ground rules for being hosted by other people as a guest. The counterpoint of table…
