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Kenny Gioia – Music Production With Pro Tools Vol 1 – Pop

Monday, December 7th, 2009

I just finished this great video course on pop music production by Kenny Gioia. It’s chock full of great tips, techniques and workflow ideas for all types of music production. And while it says it’s for Pro Tools, I didn’t see much that wouldn’t apply to any DAW.

This is your chance to watch over the shoulder of a real studio pro as he records and produces a song from scratch. Here’s a short preview video:

Using a screen reader? Click here to play the video.

I can highly recommend this. I learned just a couple of new keyboard shortcut applications that were worth the price of the entire video. I also recommend any of Kenny’s other video series as well.

Some time ago it was obvious to me I would buy whatever Kenny puts out, even before I know what it’s about. I know I’m guaranteed quality, useful training no matter what the topic is.

Here’s more information from the Groove 3 web site:

Kenny Gioia is a multi-platinum producer and engineer who has worked with countless name acts. In this exciting new series, he shows you his method for creating a professional, radio-ready Pop music production, out of nothing more than a rough guide vocal take.

See how it’s all done, from programming drum parts, laying down keys, synths and guitars, live bass, real drums, comping the perfect vocal take and more. You’ll discover many cool Pro Tools features and functions, as well as shortcuts and tricks that can be applied to any DAW.

This is truly a lesson from a master music producer, revealing the most common steps to achieving a professional Pop music production, as well as things you’ve never thought of. Take your production skills higher, get “Music Production with Pro Tools Vol 1: Pop” today.

Product Hightlights

27 Tutorials / Over 4.5 Hours Total Runtime

Shot in Pro Tools 8

For all intermediate to advanced Pro Tools 8 users

Tutorials written by multi-platinum selling producer Kenny Gioia

Simple to use video control interface for Mac & PC

Click here to visit the web site and learn more about this great training video

07.12.2009 Tracking and Mixing No Comments

The New TANGO Smart Console From “Mixing With Your Mind” Author

Monday, November 16th, 2009

Stav (Michael Paul Stavrou), author of “Mixing With Your Mind“, introduces his new pro-sumer level of DAW control surface based on his ARC technology in the Smart AV line. It’s called the TANGO Smart Console.

Unlike previous control control surfaces in this lineup, it now works with Pro Tools (via the HUI protocol) as well as most other popular DAWs. List price seems to be around $8,000.00.

He has an interesting catch phrase that basically says you can make any change on the console “faster than you can say it.” Have a look:

The TANGO Smart Console from Smart AV

Visit the official TANGO Smart Console web site

16.11.2009 Cool Gear No Comments

Weird Al Yankovic In The Studio – BOO-YAH!

Monday, October 26th, 2009

A behind-the-scenes look at “Weird Al” Yankovic and his band in the studio during the making of the “Straight Outta Lynwood” album.

If you were hired to play on one of his sessions I’ll bet it would be one of the more challenging assignments of your career; loads of fun, but challenging. (Thanks to @Gilligan204)

26.10.2009 Tracking and Mixing 1 Comment

How To Change The Tempo Of A Loop In Pro Tools

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

This is an example of how to smoothly change a loop’s tempo in Pro Tools. Follow this example and your loop will conform to any tempo changes you make in your Pro Tools session. In this example, Elastic Audio and the TCE Tool are used.

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24.10.2009 Mixing No Comments

Automated Mixing? Waves New Vocal Rider Plugin

Friday, October 16th, 2009

Waves Vocal Rider Plugin

Waves new Vocal Rider plugin was just introduced at AES 2009. Vocal Rider is designed to match your vocal tracks to the rest of the mix and then keep the relative volume throughout the song.

All you do is instantiate it on your vocal track, bus a summed instrumental mix to the side-chain, and hit play. The plug-in fader then takes over, keeping the relative volume of the vocals and the rest of the mix constant. And, unlike compression, Vocal Rider doesn’t crush the dynamic range or color the vocal track at all.

Intelligent adjustment of the vocal track based on the dynamics of the music
Saves time doing the kind of automation you would have to do manually
Writes automatic volume riding to the track as automation for fine tuning

So, will it work? Or rather, will it work well? The idea is more than a little interesting to me. I guess only time and a FREEeee hands-on demo will tell.