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Database: Sam Gellaitry On Mastering Backwards
“This is how I master everything: I have this [FL limiter] Maximus on the reverb..But there’s this preset I’ve made over the years that just compresses the low, mid, and the high–I’ve got that up really high. To mixers and engineers: they’ll probably look at that and get disgusted. Because this is like rural behavior:… Continue reading
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Keywords: A Longer Time Horizon
A Longer Time Horizon is a mindset, an approach to expanding music’s frame from short repeating bits to long non-repeating lines, where four-bar loops becomes forty-bar sequences, chords stretch beyond obvious counting, melodies evade easy whistling. A Longer Time Horizon keeps the producer’s ear on production’s vast vistas, sounds free of clichés and conventions, tracks… Continue reading
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Keywords: Ambience
Ambience is bonus resonance, a reverb that softens sound’s blow. To add ambience is to place a sound in a space whose dimensions and materials color how we hear. Tones now dissolve at their edges, like candle wax around the flame. Quick sounds get hang time, long sounds linger, beginnings and ends become one. Ambience… Continue reading
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Database: KMRU On Sound Banks Of Stories
“I use Ableton Push to arrange, structure and build upon the field recordings, layering them with new sounds to create different environments and soundscapes. Then I’ll use Ableton Live to sort out the recordings I did that day and make decisions on whether I need to edit, mix or cut sounds to create new recording… Continue reading
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Running As Psychogeography
Passing through a residential neighborhood in Queens about a mile and a half from where I live there’s a long road, 21st Avenue, with a series of hills that I look forward to running on most days. The road’s total length is maybe a mile and a half, but feels like an adventure to train… Continue reading
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