To Insert or to Send Featured
Many people confuse INSERT effects with SEND effects. What are they, and where do you place them in a DAW during a mixdown project?
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Brand Spotlight Gipps Featured
Generals in Intelligence Performance and Perfecting Sophistication best known, as GIPPS is an emerging Pretoria based design house founded in 16/11/2006. The story of GIPPS begins years before it the actual lifestyle brand it has become presently. In 2002 founder and head designer Simon “GIPPS” Maleka used to hand make bags from worn out jeans and shirts in effort to…
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Master your Arranging
With the many levels of producing a track , arranging is one that is approached with both a creative and technical view getting the right arrangement can set your track on a hit path , get it wrong and your track will sound nothing more then a mix basket of sounds Taking some tips from the music radar tuition blog…
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Learning the plastic for new Deejays Featured
With the speedy progression of technology in the Dj realm, the vinyl era though still embraced by a small ethnic dj community has all but been forgotten in the new age world of djing with midi controllers , sync buttons and array of gadgets to assist Dj and new dj coming in to the industry , one usually ask the…
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Live Analogue Music Production
In a day and age where making music is as easy as turning the switch on your computer ,one would ask yourself why would you want to make music without a computer, there are many advantages to creating music without a computer, although the learning curb of producing music on computer is much more easier the challenge of tweaking knobs…
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5 tips to a successful mixtape series
If you looking at being a successful Dj one important channel of communication to fans and promoters is the good ol’ mixtape, back when there was no “soundcloud” “mixcloud” or other mix hosting services Dj’s use to record their mixtapes and burn them onto cd’s, these cd’s were duplicated and then passed on through to friends, family, promoters, strangers at…
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Get your focus on
Feel the need to gain the upper hand in understanding the urban music game. well at Multi-Racial UMI you can gain the knowledge through our experienced tutors and fundamentally set courses , touaght on a variety of equipment & hardware.
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7 BUDGET QUALITY MIDI CONTROL KEYS
Being on a budget doesn't mean you've to steer a way from.getting quality products this accounts for midi controller too, for a fair budgeted amount you can look into still getting a good solid midi keyboard,and even mobility if you are a touring try steer yourself towards the sampler 49 keys or the even.more portable and new 37 keyboards that…
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5 budget studio mics to maximize your home recordings
Considering buying a mic and feel that you need to lash out on a high end mic that you don’t have the budget for right now, why not look at an entry budget mic to get you started until you can afford that 10k-20k priced mic, there are some pretty surprising mics out there that you might think because of…
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Playing with USB's... Organize your music for creativity Featured
Since the advent of the usb port on CDJ’s I’ve seen a majority of djs shifting over to this new medium, what surprises me is many of the local dj’s here in South Africa overlook using softwares to organize their music they tend to just copy folders over to their sticks and comfortably play off this organizing system , however…
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Pioneer Dj turn of a new era
So rumours started to fly in the past week that the Pioneer corporation was selling off its Pioneer Dj division, for a couple of days this was thought to be a hoax , but it seems the ink has been put to the paper and Pioneer is selling off its “Pioneer Dj” section to investment equity company KKR for a…
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10Ways to BEEF up your sound
In todays times music, can be made on a whim from your mind straight into the box(computer) yet you find it difficult to get your sound as close as possible to all the urban music tracks around or even as close as possible to the pros , here is couple of tips to help you along the way to get…
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The Follow up - Oh the Dj license... Featured
The Dj license debacle has been trending through media for the last 3 weeks or so, last week I authored and article for this blog with the opinion derived from us asking SAMRO some questions regarding their take on the license, which tended to create more of a confusion based on the point that Dj’s paying for a license and…
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What IS this!!! DJ License ? Featured
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." Martin Luther King, Jr. The issue of a Dj license has been a buzz now on social networks for the couple of days here in South Africa with many comparing it to the Etoll scandal to swindle money from Dj’s pockets , the truth of the matter…
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