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This is a directional microphone and when I point it away from my face You might expect it to be quieter than this But the thing is when you hear me, you’re not just hearing me in one place You’re hearing me and you’re hearing the sound as it bounces around the room and that might surprise you Because even this shoddy Designed to reject as much of the environment as possible still picks up a lot of sound off-axis Where it might feel more like 60/40 rather than 80/20 I like to think of any microphone as if it has two signals and not one There’s the room sound which never really changes and a direct signal where you do have some control and what you should Understand from this is that maybe more important than this mic or this one or this one is the room You’re in and which way are you facing?

Diffusion and density.

Here’s a cool little trick you can do that’ll help you with your ear and with your DAW skills at the same time.

If you max out your signal and pan it to one side, you’re probably gonna clip your output.

Tricking yourself is just not a good long-term strategy.

You had a great session.

Stand by, this is going to be take three and rolling.

Two things in the studio you’ll never see me without.

Don’t look for a job in audio if you don’t understand this.

Believe it or not, I’m not trying to impress you with my pitch.

As a sound source gets closer to any directional microphone, it doesn’t just get louder.

If you go to school to be an audio engineer, one of the things they’re going to talk to you about is mid-side.

When you’re working in the box, you enjoy a luxury, which is that all of your plugins and settings snap to attention as soon as you open your session.

Folders and Logic, underrated.

There will come a point in your career where you will need to deliver stems.

The EQ in your DAW may have an edge over even some of the most coveted recording discs, but only if you know how to take advantage of it.

I’m a guy who loves to get my hands dirty.

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The goal of the upcoming musician basics elective is to get you to recognize that you can stack a bunch of notes together and create a chord.

Producer, professional, beatmaker.

Inexperienced producers tend to make a tactical mistake when they’re working with vocalists.

Logic Pro’s recent update adds support for 32-bit floating audio files.

It’s time I showed you how to wrap a cable.

We see both experienced and beginner producers at Bee Kitchen.

What makes music tick?

"Heh, Nathan." I initially responded to a mastering session and have never been replied to.

Okay, fair question. Beat building jams are an opportunity for a variety of instructors to identify inefficiencies in your workflow. They’re one-hour morning gym workouts in which each week a…

It’s time to hit the gym, but not this gym.

If your workflow is inefficient, nothing you learn in your DAW has much impact.

If you’re thinking about joining a Beat Kitchen class, or actually if you’re thinking about getting into music production at all, here are three things I don’t care about, and you shouldn’t do there.

Time and time again, I see students run into trouble because of assumptions they make around the word "stereo." I’m not trying to take you down a notch by making you feel like you don’t understand something that you thought you did, but signal flow legitimately trips a lot of people up, so I want to challenge you by thinking about this example.

The canvas for sound and music is neither digital nor analog.

(water splashing) - Teaching songwriting is a little like teaching someone how to ride a bike.

One thing that tends to confuse new engineers is the difference between phase and polarity.

I didn’t make something clear when I said the difference for me in moving from tape to digital was in that pause when you had to rewind after you did a take.

We’ll talk about these chords another day, because right now there are two things you need to understand about working with audio and working with loops.

Co-prime sequences are a backbone for evolving variations in pattern-based music.

The other day I made a post about how you should always run tape, which you should.

This old relic, this is your grandma’s motorized fader.

You know, it’s not an April Fool’s joke.

Logic doesn’t have a straightforward way to apply an LFO across a bunch of parameters.

So basically the way our classes work, we try and get you in and out of a DAW class as soon as humanly possible because we want to get to the fun stuff, the interesting stuff.

The flutter echo is created when you have two parallel surfaces.

In the beginning, you didn’t know what a DAW was.

How many chords do you know?

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Every DAW crashes. Every computer crashes. In fact, if you were using tape, your Capistan motor would run out at some point. When you sign on to do music production,…

After teaching countless people how to use programs like Logic and Ableton, I’ve decided to give up.

So you’ve seen a few Beat Kitchen videos and you want to learn more about the whole program thing.

If my recent videos on things like compression have helped you crystallize those concepts, you should consider joining our class.

What’s your first upgrade or purchase once you’ve set up the bare bones minimum for your studio?