The 5th instalment in Eddie Bazil's Audio Production Series, The Beat Production Bible is the perfect beginners guide to discovering the variety of technical processes involved in creating professional sounding hip hop and dance beats.
Throughout the 90 info-packed pages youll be taken step-by-step in the creation of an actual beat and along the way discover the theory and practice behind such topics as:
Beat Creation: picking sounds for a ---, grid & manual tick editing, ghost notes, stereo field sound placement, layering, sample management, using dynamics & efx, dynamic playing via velocity templates Quantise: understanding and manipulating quantise, extracting grooves from audio & midi material, creating custom quantise templates, understanding swing, getting that perfect timing in your beats.
Sample Manipulation: determine the key of a sample or song using spectrum analysers, old school key matching techniques, manipulating key, time stretching/compressing, slicing techniques for drums and instrument phrases.
Dynamics and Effects: compression, parallel compression (New York), stereo widening techniques, EQ, reverb/chorus, filtering redundant frequencies.
Polishing the mix: understanding sample management, multi format audio exports, grouping and soloing for mixing/production.
All concepts are clearly explained and underlined using actual audio examples and screenshots from popular music production software such as Cubase, Recycle, Battery, Soundforge, (including high resolution copies of all images so you can easily zoom in to get a closer look). Also included are individual audio tracks to let you recreate relevant portions of the beat in your own studio setup.
The Beat Production Bible is the perfect companion for production beginners/intermediaries who need a comprehensive grounding in the theories and technical processes required to make a professional quality beat. Download the pdf to get a taste of things to come and order now for instant download after purchase!!