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Joshua Swann - 'Music Masterclass' LIVE Full Album Tascam 688 Jazz Rock Improv Addictive Drums 2.0


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This \"masterclass\" was a long time coming. Call it a rant, call it the ramblings of a half deranged engineer, call it an excuse for a live jazz-rock performance and slapping \"full album\" in the title? Call it what you will. This is a hit-and-miss \"masterclass\" that takes a jab at compression, the loudness wars, excessive use of guitar effects and the importance of preserving headroom for dynamic range within your mix. Its also an argument in support of the use of electronic drum samples. It goes into more of the philosophical realm of why dynamic range is important and yadda yadda you've heard it all before. Here I slog through roughly 20 minutes of improvised piano and drums with my tasteful ranting as the bitter icing on this saturated and sonically dense Tascam 688 cake.



The piano sound is coming from Logic Pro X and my TD11 is triggering samples that I custom tweaked within Addictive Drums 2.0. I think it sounds pretty damed good, nothing is overly EQ'd or anything, for the vocals I am using the Scheps 73 plugin and no external signal processing from the Tascam Midistudio 688. I'm not a fan of using compression (atleast not at this stage) but the 688 apparently has an inbuilt compression gate that does some nice things along with it's STELLAR DBX Noise Reduction. There are some glitches within the video where the video has trouble syncing up with the analogue tape playback so I had to make a few cuts to get it all to fit.



I guess you would call this style of playing jazz rock improv. It's just what I do when idly sitting at the piano or drums and cant think of anything legitimate to play and I thought I'd grab the old Sony HRX-NX30 and my Rode NT-1A and start filming and yapping like everyone else does on this rotten platform who likes to pretend that they know what they're talking about and see how it worked for me. Audio engineering, mixing and mastering is such an incredibly vast realm that is expanding by leaps and bounds every day and there is so much to learn but I guess what I was really wanting to say in this class was this. Learn all you can about your craft but don't try and sound like everybody else. Music was meant for free expression and there are opportunities to break the sonic mould and create something totally new. Having said that, it's a two way street. If you want your mix to translate and to be harmonically and emotionally impactful then that is where the fundamental rules apply. Balance all of these and you're on the right track.

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