Extreme Music Making

My friend Carlos showed me this link the other day... It completely blew me away. Featuring Amon Tobin, a Brazilian born genius settled in Montreal, the series of videos shows how he makes music.

If you're into sampling, this one's your new favorite :) Check it out!

It's really inspiring how far some people can go to make music out of random sounds. I tried something earlier this evening and was pleasantly surprised to see what I could do with sounds recorded on my laptop's microphone and time stretching, pitch shifting and modulating those sounds. I'm seriously considering getting Max for Live so I can program my own plugins like my friend Alex Moss. He built a superb plugin from scratch that samples and loops a random sample that you feed into it. I fear I'll lock myself up for a month and just play around with the software and eventually get fired from my job if I start using Max!!

Another link that you might find interesting is http://www.everydaylistening.com/ . This is a brilliant and inspiring website showing some really innovative artistic work that people are doing all around the world.

Enjoy! :)

Pro Tools Tricks 1 - Recording

Here's something I learnt from Paul Pilsneniks, studio engineer at 301 Byron Bay:

When you record in Pro Tools, or any DAW that is capable of using playlists, simply create a new playlist before you even start recording. That way, your first playlist is now Playlist_01, which corresponds to take 1, Playlist_02 corresponds to take 2 and so on and so forth. You then use the master Playlist to edit and comp the final versions of all tracks, without having to edit individual playlists.

That way you don't lose any audio regions visually, and your takes correspond to the musicians' takes!!! How cool is that?