Office Hours
Weekly. Ask questions, get help, and connect. Included with residency.
Drop in with questions, get real-time help from an instructor, or just connect with other residents. Office Hours are your open door to the Beat Kitchen community.
Upcoming Sessions
Recent Sessions
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mixing vocals, listening to a student song and giving feedback, editing mouth sounds and plosives, sidechaining and all the different ways you can use it
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Covered recent updates to Logic Pro and the friction they introduce for experienced users — specifically the reorganized content library, changes to Drum Kit Designer, and multi-output routing. Also discussed a past project involving a video-sequencing app with a custom scripting language for audio and video, and briefly touched on Ableton's video sampling capabilities.
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Covered mix feedback and hands-on low-end mixing technique in this office hours session. Worked through frequency balance, kick/bass separation using the boost-and-scoop method, saturation for transient punch, vocal stacking EQ issues, and ear fatigue from monitoring too loud. Also addressed song structure and intro length as it relates to listener retention.
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Worked through the internal architecture of the Harmonic Synth, specifically routing a sidechain input to enable live re-synthesis and vocoder-style effects. Demonstrated the freeze-point scrubbing concept using a poly LFO, explored pitch bend as a high-resolution alternative to mod wheel for scrubbing, and discussed the broader application of nonlinear audio playback — scripting playback position changes that are typically only possible in a sampler. Also discussed a forthcoming songwriting incubator session planned for Wednesdays starting around the 12th, two hours earlier than the previous iteration.
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Covered an overview of the upcoming songwriting class format — six weeks of generative writing exercises, peer feedback, and working toward a completed piece. Walked through the Chordal ear training app in a live demo, including the interval identification game, chord density exercises, and a new harmony wheel mode in development. Discussed interval ambiguity, specifically why major and minor sixths are consistently the most misidentified intervals, with reference to tournament data collected from recent playtesting.
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