Category: Engineers

First Look: Vintage King’s VKLA Showroom

Pensado’s Place Presents an exclusive first look at Vintage King’s Los Angeles Showroom, VKLA. Vintage King’s Jeff Ehrenberg gives a tour of VKLA’s fully functional studio, three acoustically tuned private listening rooms, and all of the incredible gear!  


Ableton Tutorial – Music Theory Behind MJ’s I Can’t Help It – EMC

Go to: http://www.pointblankonline.net/electronic-music-composition-emc.phpto check out our online Electronic Music Composition Course where you can learn more techniques like this. Please get in touch with our course advisors at advice@pointblankonline.net if you want to find out more. In this tutorial Ski Oakenfull breaks down the chord sequences in Michael Jackson’s ‘I Can’t Help It’


iSTANDARD PRODUCERS – BEHIND THE RHYMES INTERVIEW – DA INTERNZ (2 Parts)

Behind The Rhymes takes you behind the scenes and closer to the hit-makers. In this episode host, and Co-founder of iStandard Producers J-Hatch sits down with Grammy nominated production duo Da Internz, Marcos “Kosine On Da Beat” Palacios and Ernest “Tuo” Clark at The Dragonfly Los Angeles. Special thanks to all the event sponsors: Novation…


Pensado’s Place : ITL #13 Side Chain Compression

Dave goes over Sidechain Compression techniques, Tape Saturation plug-ins, and Steven Slate’s Trigger in this week’s “Into The Lair”


Sonic TALK 274 – Strad or Bad?

 


Foster the People: Pumped Up Hits

  For several months in 2011, the radio hit “Pumped Up Kicks” by Foster the People was the song we couldn’t get out of our heads. For Mark Foster, who wrote the song, getting it out of his head — and into a demo — was no problem at all. Using Logic Pro, and playing…


DJcityTV: The Cutting Room

DJcityTV invited four local DJs to our DJcity studios in Los Angeles for an old fashioned scratch session. Not knowing what the final result would be, we present to you, “The Cutting Room.”


How To Make It: Engineering: Vibe

During this segment of “How To Make It” Big Sant along with audio engineer, Jonathan Friedlander, discuss the importance of “vibe” between artist and engineer.


Creating a Tech House Track in Ableton Live with Radio Slave Loops

In Ableton Live we have a fantastic tool to manipulate, chop and twist loops into your own interpretations all in real-time. This gives you the ability to create limitless unique tracks with the same loops and samples. In this tutorial Danny J Lewis shows some simple but very effective techniques to do this such as…


Pensado’s Place : Into The Lair #12 – Compression Techniques!

In this weeks “Into The Lair” (in HD!), Dave goes into the concepts of using compression in small amounts using multiple compressors. Dave A/B’s the track’s with and without the various compressors he is using to show you what he is getting out of them.