Are you a beatmaker? Are you a producer? Are you both? This week Professor SentZ discusses the the terms and their hidden connotations while giving tips for both paths.

Episode Contents

Lab Report

• Facebook announces “Premiers”
• The Moog One Hits Shelves
• HD Vinyl Pushes Forward

Case Study

• Questlove’s “On the Hour” DJ Tchnique

Lab Technique

• The “K.I.S.S. on the Bus” Mix Technique
• K.I.S.S. = “Keep it simple stupid”. Keep your mixes simple.
• Mixing “on the bus” = Putting the focus on grouping  similar elements into  busses and getting a bulk of mix work done there, not on individual tracks
• Mixes tend to benefit from doing less, despite us having so many tools
• Today’s sounds and kits are processed and high quality. You don’t need as much individual track processing
• Beats you plan on selling tend to get mixed and mastered again after vocals are added. Get a good sound but be time efficient. Don’t spend a week mixing a beat.
• Gain staging, EQ and Compression are 3 techniques and get you 80% there
• Old computers benefit from the decrease in plugin use
• The more you do on the bus, the more individual tracks gel together. Buses put instruments in the same room.