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The Dark Arts | Air Mastering | Part 2

LoopTV — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:46:29 +0000

LoopTV present part 2 of 2 of ‘The Dark Arts’ Mastering series, our new extended interview and discussion with legendary mastering engineer Ray Staff. Recently filmed at AIR Mastering at the infamous AIR Studios in London – we explore the some of the questions surrounding the dark art of mastering.

AIR Mastering located within the confines of AIR Studios and is the newest division of the AIR Lyndhurst group. It builds upon over 40 years of experience in providing high end audio to world’s music industry. Established and headed up by MPG award winning mastering engineer Ray Staff and former Alchemy engineer Matt Colton.

Between them they have worked with artists including Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, The Clash and Black Sabbath. Most recently Ray has mastered albums for Muse and Corinne Bailey Rae.

Here Ray talks about the modern Mastering engineers role and offers some tips on how to best prepare your audio for the mastering process. Along with some advice on why exporting mono Left and Right audio files over stereo interleaved can yield better audio fidelity.

Enjoy!

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The Dark Arts | Air Mastering | Part 1

LoopTV — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:35:16 +0000

LoopTV are proud to present part 1 of ‘The Dark Arts’ a brand new 2 part extended interview and discussion with legendary mastering engineer Ray Staff. Recently filmed at AIR Mastering at the infamous AIR Studios in London – we explore the some of the questions surrounding the dark art of mastering.

Between them they have worked with artists including Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, The Clash and Black Sabbath. Most recently Ray has mastered albums for Muse, UK band Second Person and Corinne Bailey Rae. Other classics mastered by Ray include Led Zeppelin: Physical Graffiti & Presence, Supertramp: Crime Of The Century and The Rolling Stones: It’s Only Rock ‘N Roll.

Here Ray talks candidly about the modern Mastering engineers role and how technology has aided the development of this essential area of audio production in today’s music industry. We get Ray’s perspective on the industry and the current loudness wars and see why the future really does look bright for music production!

Enjoy!

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The Front Line | Producer Series | Recording Pop Vocals

LoopTV — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:17:00 +0000

LoopTV are proud to present part 3 of our new ‘Frontline Producer Series’ with industry veteran Laurance Traverso.

Producer and arranger Laurance Traverso has just 48 hrs to prepare a new pop music project to pitch to a record company!

In this episode we follow his workflow as he records his session singers pop vocal parts at the Strongroom studios, and takes us through some of the tracking process, showing us how to group takes and how to maximize your DAWs processing power.

Along the way Laurance offers some great tips and tricks for recording vocals and advice for anyone in a similar position – looking to add polish and serious pro-production values when up against it!

Remember…the clocks ticking!

Enjoy!

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Watch PART 1, PART 2, and PART 4 here.

The Front Line | Producer Series | Recording Acoustic Guitars Tips

LoopTV — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:00:04 +0000

LoopTV are proud to present part 2 of our new ‘Frontline Producer Series’ with industry veteran Laurance Traverso.

Producer and arranger Laurance Traverso has just 48 hrs to prepare a new pop music project to pitch to a record company!

In this episode we follow his workflow as he puts takes us through some of the tracking process and puts down some acoustic guitar parts with his custom made Patrick Eggle guitar, paying attention to mic placement, desk Eq and compression settings.

Along the way Laurance offers some great tips and tricks for recording acoustic guitar and advice for anyone in a similar position – looking to add polish and serious pro-production values when up against it!

Remember…the clocks ticking!

Enjoy!

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Watch PART 1, PART 3, and PART 4 here.

Label Focus | Drum Drops | Oct 2009

LoopTV — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:26:03 +0000

This month we take a closer look at what master drum collection label ‘Drumdrops’ has on offer and why this acclaimed label is still breaking new ground with their drum collections and formats.

Here we interviewed Mike ‘Prince Fatty’ Pelanconi – owner of Drumdrops to talk us through the unique appeal of the Label, the formats and the stella cast of international drummers he regularly uses to get the very best in genre authenticity.

On hand to help Mike was Legendary Drummer ‘Horseman’ who has worked with some of the best Reggae artists in the business including Max Romeo, Little Roy, Jah Shaka, Mad Professor and many more…

Enjoy!

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Artist Spotlight | Danny Byrd Interview

LoopTV — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:38:44 +0000

We have now re-packaged some of our initial podcast videos into our new LoopTV modular format. Here we have another look at UK Drum n Bass guru Danny Byrd.

He talks about some of the the creative processes behind his amazing ‘Supersized’ album, under Hospital Records.

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