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Are you familiar with EVT (Estill Voice Training)?
Before I started studying recording engineering, I became certified in EMT and have been applying it to my own music activities ever since. However, in the United States — where EVT originated — I often come across recording engineers whose comments and behavior suggest that they understand EVT as well. Is it actually common for recording engineers there to study or at least be knowledgeable about EVT? At least in Japan, I have not been able to find anyone other than myself who approaches engineering with an understanding of EVT.
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Please help. What is/was your strategy for sound collection?
Again and again I keep running into the same issue - endlessly searching for sounds during creativity flow. Auditioning 200 snares and scrolling through presets and samples does not help the momentum. More and more this makes sense to me to have a collection of sounds prepared before producing. In recent Produce-A-Ton, Dane showed his collection of recorded sounds in Sampler menu. Now I’m eager to know whether ther’s like the best strategy for building my collection. What was your strategy? Did you organize by: Genre? Element (kicks, snares, basses, vocals)?Emotional character? Texture (warm, digital, dusty, aggressive, soft)?“Go-to” sounds that always work for you?
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BREAKING NEWS: inMusic acquires Native Instruments
inMusic is the parent company behind AKAI, Moog, M-Audio, and many others. The companies have an existing working partnership with the recent integration of NKS into AKAI and M-Audio hardware. Now, with the acquisition of Native Instruments, which entered insolvency in January of this year, inMusic will also own: - Native Instruments - iZotope - Brainworx - Plugin Alliance Comment with your thoughts below! Image credit: inMusic
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Do you align tracks to one groove template?
Last month I focused deeply on rhythm programming and groove. One thing that really stood out to me was learning not only how to create groove from scratch, but also how to extract groove from an audio file and turn it into a groove template that can be applied to any track. Then I watched Produce-A-Ton and didn’t find any discussion about the groove templates or aligning all instruments to one groove. It looked liked something not really important. But I’m curious about your workflow: How often do you actually apply groove templates to your tracks? Is it something you use regularly, occasionally for certain genres, or almost never? And when you do use groove, do you prefer creating your own feel or extracting it from existing audio?
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