Tarantic record is released - digital only for now...

I went to a record release party last night and totally didn't even realize that it was for the track Ivan-I and I did for Tarantic until I got there?! That's what I get for not finding out the title of the track we did the remix of.

TAR0016 - DJ Nathan & Amit Shoham - Hot Rod E.P.

Go to my releases page for information on places online where you can find the track. Word last night was that our remix on the E.P. was selling the best of all tracks on the release! Not too shabby.

I was also informed that this release should get an official vinyl release sometime soon. They decided to jump ahead and put it out in digital form beforehand to see what kind of demand and interest it garners. So help the situation out. Go grab the E.P.! Beatport, baby!

A few cool production tips - Pro Tools

So here are a few nuggets that I have discovered while perusing the Digidesign website over past months. I'm always trying to figure out how to make my beats sound more professional. These tips definitely do the trick:

"Adding boom to your loops"
Follow the instructions here (they can apply to any sequencer, not just Pro Tools) and you will find the kicks hit hard and bring the key of your song together. It also helps fatten a snare sound and add a little bit extra. The snare process seems a bit strange in theory, but when you mix it into the loop at just the right level, it really helps to make the loop sound more original and fatter.

"Creating massive kick drums with nudges and EQ phase"
This one helps to create a thicker kick, but not in the sense that it's boomier (at least not when I put it to play.) More so that the phase relationships between the multiple kicks that you choose when following this tip add a nice stereo effect to the kick... and as far as I could tell, not really in a way that would suffer when put into a large club setting. In the fashion that I used this tip, I left the lower frequencies alone. I applied this trick to the mid and high frequency parts of the kicks I partitioned off and the result is a pleasing separation from ear to ear. Be careful though. Make sure to check your mix in mono after tweaking this tip around. You might find parts of your kick dissapear altogether!