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Free unreleased download from the 2003 vaults: “Music For The Motherless Japanese Child”

It’s my birthday today, and birthdays involve gifts, right? Here’s one to ya’ll.

This track was recently sent to me a friend of mine from an encrypted hard drive that was almost forgotten, so big up to you, Mick “Muttley”, for going thru the trouble of salvaging this one…this one almost got lost forever.

This tune was made around 2003, and it definitely sounds like it in all its roughness…hardly any sub, the bass is quiet, levels are off, it’s distorting…yet it nicely displays the Fanu sound that was definitely forming strongly around that time. I made this one with a sampler and a bunch of floppies and a cheap mixer. Title is super deep, of course; it relates to a movie that I had watched prior to making the song.

Free download. Be easy on it…it’s old!

Ableton Live “versus” Pro Tools

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LATER EDIT: I dropped using Pro Tools for good and am now doing everything in Ableton Live.

Having been an Ableton Live user for so many years,  I recently gave Pro Tools a shot. Why? I had heard a lot of good about it in terms of its editing and mixing capabilities; that’s my job and that’s what I do a lot on my freetime as well, so I wanted to check PT out.
I ended up liking it, and prior to writing this, I put an order in, which means I’ll definitely be using it alongside Live.
I felt it might be interesting to jot down points about the differences Continue reading Ableton Live “versus” Pro Tools →

Multiband gating with Live 9 multiband dynamics

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After the video on Ozone 5 multiband gating that I did recently, I got some questions as to whether that could be done with the plugins in Ableton Live. Answer is: yes, check out its Multiband Dynamics plugin and play with its “B” (below) module, set ratios as low as you can and mess with the threshold.