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Better Drum Layers
Written By: Eric “Realistic” Michael
Has this ever happened to you??
Odds are is when you layered the two kick drums, some phase cancelation happened a few times in your life.
This occurs when two waveforms are stacked on top of each other & the waves are exact opposites of each other.
What happens is the waves start to weaken each other's signal & if it's perfectly out of phase, the result will be silence.
It's a quick fix though! If you find your layer is not quite as strong as you thought it would be, just flip the phase on one of the samples & there is a good chance your layer will sound stronger!
Most EQ & utility plugins have a phase invert switch on them, so you will be able to do this in any DAW with most stock or 3rd party plugins.
Just locate the phase symbol that looks like this: ø
If you do a lot of layering or mix professionally, we recommend grabbing a phase alignment plugin sometime in the future. Our favorite is one by Sound Radix called "Auto-Align"
Most of the stock plugins will only allow you to flip the phase by 180º - the exact opposite of what it was.
This would work great if the phase was always off by 180º, but oftentimes that's rarely the case.
You will find that some layers may only be off by 40º or maybe by as much as 220º.
Phase alignment plugins will detect exactly how much the drum layer wave is out of phase from the other drum layer wave & change the phasing, so you're perfectly in phase.
The result: HUGE sounding layers!
DESIGNERS
SoundOracle - Owner
SoundOracle (Chief Sound Designer for Timbaland, whose sounds have been heard in over 20 Grammy award-winning songs by artists like Drake, Jay Z, Beyoncé, Justin Timberlake, Chris Brown, and more)
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Realistic Production - Engineer
Realistic is a Producer/Engineer located in Atlanta, GA specializing in Hip-Hop, R&B & Pop music. Realistic has been involved in the music industry for over 15 years. He has worked on projects for Talib Kweli, Just Blaze, Musiq Soulchild, Pharoahe Monch, NBA 2k, Skyzoo, BJ The Chicago Kid, Madlib, Ayo-N-Keyz, Billboard Hitmakers, Atmosphere, Brother Ali, Rhymesayers, Hamburger Helper, & LoveOfPharaoh.
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COURSES
Courses from soundoracle.net give music producers the resources, information, and techniques they need to take their music careers to the next level. It doesn't matter if you're genres are hip hop, R&B, pop, trap, or boom-bap our courses have you covered.
PIANO FOR PRODUCERS
Everything You Need to Know About Hip Hop and Trap Music Theory, the Formulas To Hit Records, and How to Create Them Instantly
It is NOT another boring course on piano fundamentals & long winded theory talk.
It is NOT about just about teaching you scales and chord progressions - yet you will learn about these things, but on a deeper level than you could have ever imagined and your beats and songs will sound BETTER than they've ever sounded before.
It is NOT a course set up to have you just clone chords and melodies that someone else has done to make hit records. This course will give you the fundamentals and an understanding of how to quickly and easily create hit records yourself.
What’s included:
🎹 Over 55 videos of modern piano techniques
🎹 Over 6 hours of content
🎹 PDF guides to follow along
🎹 Chord & Scale cheat sheets
🎹 Techniques about trap melodies, bass lines, & modern chord progressions.
🎹 In-depth lessons from a renowned instructor with a full master degree in piano composition
🎹 Videos discussing & teaching the styles & musicality commonly used in Modern Hip-Hop, R&B, & Trap Music
🎹Original piano loops composed by Lokii The Composer himself
THE ART OF MASTERING
Everything You Need To Know In Order To Perfectly Master Records With Any DAW And The Plugins You Already Have
It is NOT just another mastering course that uses vague information that wastes your time and money.
It is NOT about just balancing the volume levels - yet this will happen as a result of using these secrets
and your beats and songs will sound BETTER than they've ever sounded before.
It is NOT just about showing you what settings to dial in - every project and every song is different. This course will easily explain the knowledge you need to know what to "dial in" in any situation.
What's Included...
Over 9 Hours Of Expert Techniques
Get years of experience & hundreds of thousands of dollars of education all packed into this professional, affordable course.
Mastering Cheat Sheets In PDF Form
These guides will come in clutch when you need to reference information quickly or are in a pinch when you’re not able to watch a video.
Easy To Understand, Concise Layout
Not only is the information easy to understand, the chapters are laid out in concise bite size format for quick reference to a specific technique whenever you need it.
THE ART OF BEAT MIXING
Our new online video course dropped last week & since then we have been flooded with orders!
The Art Of Beat Mixing is filled with industry mixing secretes like the simple drum summing technique that can get your kicks and snares to smack 10x BETTER INSTANTLY. SoundOracle used this summing technique on the Nicki Minaj & Mario song "Somebody Else". It works so well that the track didn't even need a baseline or an 808. The drums were that powerful!
The Art Of Beat Mixing is a full length video course with over 5 hours of content provided by a professional certified engineer! With 15 chapters packed into this course, each video gives you detailed visual guides on mixing your beats from start to finish.
What's included?
- Over 5 hours of expert techniques
- Mixing cheat sheets in PDF form
- An easy to understand, concise layout
- Small, digestible chapters with quick access to the info you need
- Everything you need to know to mix your beats professionally
THE ART OF VOCAL MIXING
Producers, beat makers, engineers, & artists - the perfect video course for guaranteeing your vocals have amazing professional quality is finally here!
Gone will be the days of your vocal mixes being cursed by muddiness, clipping, & lack of clarity.
The Art Of Vocal Mixing is a full length video course with over 14 hours of content provided by a professional certified engineer! With 20 chapters packed into this course, each video gives you detailed visual guides on mixing your vocals from start to finish.
You’ll learn how to achieve incredible vocal mixes with brilliantly designed short, easy to understand videos breaking down the entire process of mixing vocals professionally. Each stage of the mixing process has its own video making it easy to find the information you want to know, when you want it.
What's included?
- Over 150 high quality tutorial videos
- Over 14 hours of expert techniques
- Useful mixing guides in PDF form
- An easy to understand, concise layout
- A beautifully designed interface
- Small, digestible chapters with quick access to the info you need
- Everything you need to know to mix your vocals professionally
- A bonus sound kit made by SoundOracle himself!
