LSS Student Profile: Adrian Charras

Name: 

Adrian Charras

Band: 

Dario Nicolau Group

Members:

Dario Nicolau : Guitar and vocals

Marcos Giraudo: Bass

Adrian Charras: Piano and accordeon

Anibal Guevara: Percusion

Links:

http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Dario-Nicolau-Canciones-para-pobres-y-ausentes/198975810128994

LSS Courses: 
Mixing and Mastering

Featured Track: Remo 

Remo - Dario Nicolau Group - Adrian Charras by London School of Sound

Q&A With Adrian

- Where are you from?

Buenos Aires, Argentina - the Dario Nicolau band performs songs using the native rhythms of Argentina and Latin American, incorporating folklore in modern and simple context.

- What is the best city for music in the world?

Buenos Aires. London too. I love these two music cities!

-  When did you first start making music?

Don't even remember, my father is a musician so there was always music in my house, but professionally I started at around 18 years old.

-    What is your favourite/most used DAW? Why?

My favourite DAW is Pro Tools. It's easy and fast.

-    Who are your favourite artists and who inspired you the most to pursue your music studies and career?

I am a musician and sound engineer so the two vary. As musicians, from Latin America: Astor Piazolla, Cuchi Leguzamón, Bebo Valdez, Horacio Salgán ... many.

 As Engineers: Jorge Da Silva (a legend, and the best sound engineer from Argentina) Osvaldo Acedo, Eduardo Bergallo, Andres Mayo and many others.

-    How long have you been studying music production? Which courses at LSS did you take?

I have spent 16 years learning and practicing music production. I took the Summer Course in "Mixing and Mastering" at LSS. 

-    Why did you pick LSS?

For many reasons: for its prestige, because it was an advanced and short course, and because it was in London!

-    How do you feel your learning at LSS has contributed to your    musical development?

LSS has helped me see new techniques in mixing and mastering, showed me a different way to start a mix, correct common mistakes, and helped me to appreciate what is important in each song.

-    What happened after your time at LSS?

Working hard ! Trying to sound even better. Many of my customers appreciate the new techniques applied. I'm really happy with my experience in London.

-    What advice would you give prospective students interested in    starting studying music or music production?

The sound is not in the machines, or expensive equipment. The sound is in yourself. You just have to learn how. LSS is the place!

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LSS Student Profile: André Di Napoli

Name: 
André Di Napoli

Links:

http://soundcloud.com/de-di-napoli

http://www.facebook.com/E.R.DNA.MUSIC

LSS Courses: 
Music Production Essentials 
Structure, Form & Creativity


Featured Track: Dark Rainbow




Dark Rainbow - André Di Napoli (Full Track) by London School of Sound




Q&A With André

-    Where are you from?  

I'm from Brazil,Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre.

-    What is the best city for music in the world?

The best city in the world for music must be London, I have never found a place like this before.

-    When did you first start making music?  

I started making music when I was really young. My oldest memory is playing drums with my uncle in his music school. But I started to make music in a more professional way when I was 16. Piano, guitar, pen and paper.

-    What is your favourite/most used DAW? 

I don't even need to think about this question, Logic with no doubt, everything sounds better in Logic. Why? Well, Logic is a perfect platform for producing, mixing and mastering. Everybody says that Ableton is easier, but thats just because they don't know how use Logic. But that's just my opinion.

-    Who are your favourite artists and who inspired you the most to pursue your music studies and career?  

Roger Waters,Syd Barret, Rick Wakeman, Keith Emerson, Carl Palmer, Tiesto, Jimi Hendrix, Fat Boy Slim,Eric Clapton, Deadmau5, B.B. King, Kaskade, Gui Boratto. My Father and my Mother, definitely. They were always there for me and supporting me when I needed them.

-    How long have you been studying music production? Which courses at LSS did you take? 

I've been studying music production since 2006, but always online, I started to study with real teachers this year. Music Production and Structure, Form and Creativity.

-    Why did you pick LSS?  

Because I heard that LSS was the best place to study music production in Europe. After that I talked with a counselor at LSS, I felt like they where real musicians trying to teach music, and enjoying what they do.

-    How do you feel your learning at LSS has contributed to your musical development?  

I feel completely satisfied, I don't have not even one complain about the LSS, my teacher are the best ones on the market, and all of them where really nice. Let me put in this way, I have learned more in a day than 2 years studying in Brazil. I just have good things to say about LSS.

-    What tune do you simply wish you wrote?  

Thats a tuff one… But i think Roundabout by Yes.

-    What do you aim to do after your time at LSS?  

I will make my first album, open my studio in Brazil and keep my work as a DJ/Music Producer.

-    What advice would you give prospective students interested in starting studying music or music production?  

My advice is don't expect nothing for now. Study hard, and put your heart in to it. Start making your music with the same passion that you where studying, and if you do that, good things will start to flow in to your life with time.




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LSS Student Profile: Gabriel Aguilera

Name: 

Gabriel Aguilera

Links:

http://soundcloud.com/gabriel-aguilera

LSS Courses:
Structure, Form and Creativity

Featured Track: Illuminate

Illuminate - Gabriel Aguilera (Full Track) by London School of Sound

Q&A With Gabriel

- Where are you from?

My dad's from Chile and my mums British, but I was born in England so im technically just British.

- What is the best city for music in the world?

The music scene in Brussels is excellent, supporting a lot of up and coming dubstep artists as well as drum and bass. But really I have to say London due to how diverse the music scenes are, ranging from garage, uk funky, various forms of house and electro, jazz, reggae, indie and many more. 

-  When did you first start making music?

I first started making music when I was fourteen, circuit bending children's toys. I wouldn't really refer to it as music anymore, just creating bizarre noises. I created my first track when I was sixteen.

- What is your favourite DAW? Why?

So far I have only used Logic and Abelton, I found Abelton quite complex and not very user friendly. Logic on the other hand is straight forward, has some good synth presets and an excellent selection of EQ and compression.

-    Who are your favourite artists and who inspired you the most to pursue your music studies and career?

I listen to so much music its really impossible for me to specify who is my favorites are, but currently Synkro is producing amazing garage/dubstep. My main inspiration is an artist called Burial, he produces a combination of ambient soundscape and garage. His ability to create such emotion and thought provoking music really is inspirational.

-    How long have you been studying music production? Which courses at LSS did you take?

I started a one year course when i was sixteen and I then stopped for a year when it finished due to other college work. I chose Structure, Form and Creativity at LSS.

-    Why did you pick LSS?

I had heard good things about it so I decided to visit one of the campus's. I was shown around and met a few of the head teachers and it made a very good impression on me. 

-    How do you feel your learning at LSS has contributed to your musical development?

LSS has not only provided me with real head start in production, but a certain mind frame as well. I have progressed so much in the past 11 lessons and I have learned information thats invaluable.

- What tune do you simply wish you wrote? 

This has to be one of my favorite tracks of 2011, http://soundcloud.com/boddika/swims. The use of the cowbell is just genius and the bass line means business. 

 -    What happened after your time at LSS?

Im going to finish off an album i have planned that contains various genres such as dubstep, drum and bass, garage/uk funky, ambient and electro. Im going to give it out for free and try and get signed as soon as possible but with a label that respects the producers and I know will take me as far as possible. 

-    What advice would you give prospective students interested in starting studying music or music production?

I'm not even close to where I want to be in music as I think im still in a really early stage of my production so its hard for me to offer advice, but all I would say is dont give up and be as original as possible. 

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LSS Student Profile: Marco Viglino

Name:
Marco Viglino

Links:

http://it-it.facebook.com/people/Marco-Viglino/100003091050723

http://it-it.facebook.com/PolynomialB

http://soundcloud.com/polynomial_b

https://twitter.com/#!/Polynomial_B

http://www.myspace.com/polynomialb

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lenrAuBwR64

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UBxk9GOMf8&feature=related

LSS Courses: 
Summer Course

SU550 Mixing & Mastering

Featured Track: Higher Burry 

Higher Burry - PnB - Marco Viglino by London School of Sound

Q&A With Marco

-    Where are you from?

 I'm from Padua, Italy but I recently moved to Berlin, trying to push my music forward.

-    What is the best city for music in the world? 

I'm probably biased but actually Berlin is a real good place for music and for artists. And a great place to get inspired!

-    When did you first start making music? 

 I've been playing guitar in a hard rock band since 2001. In 2005 I started making music with my PC.

-    What is your favourite/most used DAW? Why 

 Ableton Live for sure. It's user friendly and has any tool I need. 

-    Who are your favourite artists and who inspired you the most to pursue your music studies and career? 

 I would say Danko Jones for the rock music, who still inspires my music. And T. Raumschmiere for electronic music because he was the first artist I heard, close to what I like to hear in a song.

-    How long have you been studying music production? Which courses at LSS did you take? 

 I studied sound engineering for three years in my town's Conservatory, then I picked the Summer Mixing & Mastering course at LSS which is designed to help improve mixing and mastering skills.

-    Why did you pick LSS? 

I've been studying sound engineering for 3 years but in a very theoretical way, nothing practical  on mixing or producing music, so I thought LSS would be a good chance to me  getting better. Also, I needed to unmask the secrets of mastering!

-    How do you feel your learning at LSS has contributed to your musical development? 

Better focus on "what I'm looking for" while producing and mixing music. Better knowledge of most important instruments used to produce music (vst, plugins...)

-    What tune do you simply wish you wrote?

Hard question... I can't decide - Scissor Sisters was the first track I loved, which came to my mind.

-    What happened after your time at LSS? 

After I have finished the LSS course, back home, I worked on my PnB project and I had some dates around North Italy. Since October 2011 I 've been living and working in Berlin for the PnB project.




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LSS Student Profile: Dominic Rippel

Name:

Dominic Rippel Links: www.microbang.com www.soundcloud.com/microbang www.myspace.com/gullwingclassic (previous band) LSS Courses:  MP151 Structure, Form & Creativity MP324 Advanced Mixing Featured Track: Nostalgia  Nostalgia - Dominic Rippel (Full Track) by London School of Sound Q&A With Dominic: -    Where are you from?   I was born in Las Cruces, New Mexico, where my mother's family is based.  Lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico until the age of 5.  Grew up in Connecticut, where my father was born and raised, until the age of 18, when I went off to the University of Colorado , Boulder.  After 3 years there, I transferred to the New School for Social Research in NYC, and lived/worked there for 15 years, before moving to London in 2008.  I'd consider myself a New Yorker at this point. -    What is the best city for music in the world? There are many many....  Brooklyn, New York, London, Austin, Los Angeles, Chicago, New Orleans, Boston, Manchester, Glasgow, Berlin, Paris, Toronto, and Seattle. -    When did you first start making music?   My life in music started around age 6, singing in concert choirs, which I continued until age 17.  At the age of 11 I had my first electric guitar, and was probably writing silly songs by the age of 15.  I really started getting into recording in my mid to late 20's. -    What is your favourite/most used DAW?  At the moment it is Logic Pro. This is because is it fast and easy, and the included plugins help generate a suite of customisable instruments and sounds that require a sizeable investment from the other big DAWs.  I started with Protools 10 years ago and still use it, though now I can achieve faster results with Logic.  I also enjoy using Reason 6 for my more electronic pursuits. -    Who are your favourite artists and who inspired you the most to pursue your music studies and career?   Short list off the top of my head...  Velvet Underground, Dinosaur Jr., Treepeople, Built to Spill, Ramones, No Age, Pixies, Led Zep, Pink Floyd, Brian Eno, Bowie, Flaming Lips, Eddy Grant, Primal Scream, Johnny Cash,  Beach Boys, Bob Marley, ACDC, Simon & Garfunkel, Eagles, Wings, Queen, Sea & Cake, Rolling Stones, Shuggie Otis, Shellac, Stone Roses, My Bloody Valentine, Autechre, Bon Iver, Elliot Smith, etc... -    How long have you been studying music production? Which courses at LSS did you take?  I've been self learning for more than 15 years and just started taking courses this year to learn the multitude of things that get overlooked when you are working by and for yourself....  Last spring was Structure, Form & Creativity.  Next spring is Advanced Mixing.  -    Why did you pick LSS?   It seemed to be the most straight forward and lean out of all the programs on offer.  There is no filler in the curriculum...  It is all very applicable to producing music. -    How do you feel your learning at LSS has contributed to your musical development?   It's really taught me how to use the tools I have, properly and more confidently. -    What tune do you simply wish you wrote?   Wish you were here.  Simple and great. -    What happened after your time at LSS?   I've built a recording studio from the ground up, in Dalston, London.  I just began to produce and record new material that I hope will get released in some shape or form. -    What advice would you give prospective students interested in starting studying music or music production?   Try to bring something new to the equation.  Owning a bunch of gear and learning how to use it according to the manual is one thing... but bringing inspired ideas and well crafted performances is whole other bag of beans.

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LSS Student Profile: Solomon Marshall

Name: Soli Marshall 

Links: 
http://soundcloud.com/solomonmarshall

LSS Courses: 
Professional Certificate 
MP 101 Music Production 101
MP181 Sound Design
MP151 Structure, Form & Creativity
MP261 Foundations of Sound Engineering.

Featured Track: Tired Old Shoes

Tired Old Shoes - Solomon Marshall (Full Track) by London School of Sound

Q&A With Solomon 

-    Where are you from?

I come from a town called Totnes in South Devon.

-    What is the best city for music in the world?

Well I'm going to have to say London.

-    When did you first start making music?

I've been making music since I was about 13 or 14.

-    Who are your favourite artists and who inspired you the most to pursue your music studies and career?

It's too difficult to decide who my favorite artists are so I'm just going to name some of my influences: definitely James Blake, Jamie Woon, Fat Freddy's Drop and I'd say Kanye West.

-    How long have you been studying music production? Which courses at LSS did you take?

I completed the Professional Certificate at the London School of Sound. This year long programme combines the MP101 Music Production course, MP181 Sound Design & Synthesis, MP151 Structure, Form & Creativity which focuses on songwriting, and MP261 Foundations of Sound Engineering.

-    Why did you pick LSS?

I chose to attend London School of Sound simply because it offered the course that most suited me. I liked the fact that it was nearly all hands on, practical work (rather than essay based).

-    How do you feel your learning at LSS has contributed to your musical development?

My time at LSS has helped hugely, mainly because I have acquired enough knowledge now to really get which ever piece I am working on to sound like (or very close to)  the original idea I had in my head. Which is harder than you think.

-    What tune do you simply wish you wrote? 

If there was any song that I wish I had written it would probably be "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" by George Harrison or maybe "Feeling Good" by Muse. 

 -    What happened after your time at LSS?

Since leaving LSS I have been doing various bits and pieces. As well as continuing to work and improve my own music, I also engineer and produce songs for other people. I've also been doing some Logic training for beginners. 

-    What advice would you give prospective students interested in starting studying music or music production?

My advice to anyone about to study music production would be just to stick it out. There will certainly be difficult moments but it is definitely worth it in the end.

LSS students and ex-students are available for collaborations, internship, work opportunities. Contact them directly using the links provided above or contact info@londonschoolofsound.co.uk if you have specific requirements.

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LSS Student Profile: Jassim Jaffer

Name: 

Jassim Jaffer

Links:

www.soundgood.biz

www.soundcloud.com/kukri

LSS Courses:
MP 101 Music Production 101
MP181 Sound Design
MP151 Structure, Form & Creativity

Featured Track: S.I.E. 

S.I.E. - Jassim Jaffer (Full Track) by London School of Sound

Q&A With Jassim 

-    Where are you from?

Muscat, Oman

-    What is the best city for music in the world?

Bristol or Havanna

-    When did you first start making music?

When I was 17 I started making acoustic music and transitioned to electronic at the age of 24.

-    What is your favourite/most used DAW? Why?

I like Apple's Logic mainly due to it being the main DAW that I have studied and used. It is very intuitive and I like the layout.

I would like to learn how to use something like Renoise.

-    Who are your favourite artists and who inspired you the most to pursue your music studies and career?

Favorite electronic artists are Mike Paradinas, Plaid, Del Dot, AFX, and Ochre (to name just a few)

-    How long have you been studying music production? Which courses at LSS did you take?

1 year studying and 3 years practicing. I took 3 modules at the London School of Sound: MP101 which is the Music Production 101 module including the Apple Certified Logic Pro Level One training; MP181 which is a course on Sound Design & Synthesis, as well as MP151 Structure, Form & Creativity which focuses on creativity and songwriting.

-    Why did you pick LSS?

Cause it seemed to offer a more hands on approach to music production.

-    What tune do you simply wish you wrote?

Within A Sound by Mu ziq

Fer by Plaid

-    What happened after your time at LSS?

I started working as a sound designer and recordist for student films and built my way up to corporate jobs and low budget feature films.

-    What advice would you give prospective students interested in starting studying music or music production?

Learn from the pros at LSS ;)


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LSS Student Profile: Stephen Acuna

Name:

Stephen Acuna

Links:

https://www.facebook.com/mythoben

LSS Courses:
2 Year Diploma Certificate

Featured Track: Typecast

Typecast - Stephen Acuña (Full Track) by London School of Sound

Q&A With Stephen

- Where are you from?

The Philippines, born and raised. But go I home to Italy now because my family lives there. My step dad's italian.

- What is the best city for music in the world?

Where else.. London!

- When did you first start making music?

When I was sixteen. I wrote a song for this girl I was trying to get together with. It was really cheezy but I got with her ;)

- What is your favourite/most used DAW? Why

So far still Logic Pro, It's the jack of all trades I guess. It does everything ok but not great. Pretty simple interface, decent plugins, and you don't need much 3rd party stuff to get a good product out of it. Typecast was all Logic. But I think Pro Tools is still superior in many ways. Just need to get better at using it.

- Who are your favourite artists and who inspired you the most to pursue your music studies and career?

Ahhh....hate this question because my answer for this changes all the time. What I say now might not be the same next year. Currently I would have to say: Thrice, Bon Iver, QOTSA, Deftones, Paramore, Jimmy Eat World. And when I was younger Incubus and The Foo Fighters were bands that really inspired me.

- How long have you been studying music production? Which courses at LSS did you take?

Almost 2 years now. Well pretty much all of our courses as I did the Music Diploma Certificate.

- Why did you pick LSS?

Good atmosphere to work in with great people and staff. Really involved and knowledgeable tutors. Great industry standard equipment.

- How do you feel your learning at LSS has contributed to your musical development?

It was huge. Before LSS I was mainly just a musician still reliant on the powers that be (i.e other musicians, sound engineers, mixers,) to get a final product out. Now I can do everything on my own. Compose, Produce, Mix. And even with the things I still can't do great, I atleast have the knowledge and connections on where to go.

- What are your plans after LSS?

Same as I'm doing now. Making music, and performing as much as I can.

- What advice would you give prospective students interested in starting studying music or music production?

It's never too late to learn something new. There's always something you still don't know. And you get what you put in.

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GarageBand for iPhone - yes please!

Apple announce GarageBand for iPhone and iPod touch......

Yes please!!!!!

Way better than playing Scrabble on the go (sorry Scrabb).

Here's what's new:

• GarageBand 1.1 - universal app designed for iPad, iPhone, iPod touch
• Create custom chords for SI's
• 3/4 and 6/8 time signature support
• Reset song key without transposing original recordings
• Transpose songs
• Additional quantization options for recordings (straight/triplet/swing)
• New audio export quality settings for AAC and AIFF
• Arpeggiatior
• Adjustable velocity settings
• Other enhancements incl audtomatic fade out, improved audio import options, etc

Next....... iCloud support please!!!

299 pennies at the app store.

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Logic Pro X coming soon?

A Japanese site reports that a new Logic is under development.

If you have been following what happened (and is still happening) with Final Cut Pro X you will know that is frightening stuff.

Which is not to say that we don't enjoy FCP X tremendously. Having only used iMovie three times in my life I have to say that playing around with this latest Final Cut was easy and a lot of fun. But we don't actually work with video, so it's no surprise that all the missing features are not a problem.

And in time it will no doubt realise its amazing potential. But let's see what we know and don't know of the next version of Logic...


Well, actually we don't know a great deal. This page is written in Japanese and some kind of translated English, and I suspect that it reads better in Japanese. I am waiting for confirmation from my friends that can read it.
What it says is that it will NOT have a Garage Band interface. This is welcome news. Not that I thought they would, but nice to hear anyway.

The only other information is that appraently they will be dropping Soundtrack Pro (and that's just fine, it was a terrible application and no one used it) and they will be incorporating the functionality of Wave Burner directly inside Logic. This makes sense and should be fine, except maybe that if you have ever used Wave Burner you should have noticed its main functionality was to crash a lot. But anyway, OK, we can compile and master a CD directly in Logic.

Lastly, they would be selling MainStage as a separate app. This also makes sense. In the grand scheme of things we can expect that Logic will retail via the AppStore for even less that it already was, and so if you want MainStage you should buy it separately. I bet the sum of two is still cheaper than the current Logic Studio package.

But which other revolutionary game-changing features are we going to have (or not have)? Well, the one I'd expect the most is on-clip non-destructive processing: in other words, if you want to apply an effect to just one word of your song you should be able to open a plugin just on that section of audio instead of affecting the whole channel. Soundtrack Pro had it, Wave Burner had it, and I was very surprised to see that it didn't make it in to Logic 9.

But this takes me to my greatest fear. What if, in a wave of new radical thinking, they decide to do without tracks? This is the way the new Final Cut Pro X works: you never see tracks, you simply drop audio in a arrangement area and assign effects to it, including automation directly on the region. The tracks are sort of created and deleted in the background by the software so you can hear as many objects as you like, but you are never aware of how this is possible. You never see horizontal lines, you don't see a mixer as such. And while this is a very intuitive way of working for someone that simply needs to drop bits of audio on to a film (and you can group them, hide them, change volumes and add effects directly on the regions) it would be a very bad thing for us.

Imagine wanting to add some reverb to a vocal. Hundred of regions after careful vocal comping, punching, editing, overdubbing. It is very convenient that anything that is on that track will take the effect. If instead I had to go and select all the regions and somehow put them in a group to add the effect, well, it would be a massive waste of time.

Maybe I worry too much, but I can see how someone that doesn't actually work with audio might be tempted to innovate and get rid of the tape recorder / mixing desk paradigm: make the most of new technology and drop the old way of doing things.
Certainly there are a lot of interesting things we could try in developing new software and new working methods. But the thing with Apple is that when (rarely) they get it wrong, they get it wrong a lot and all of a sudden. So I will keep my fingers crossed for now and pray.

Now it's your turn to think of the most crazy ideas of what could go in or out the new Logic, but if I were you I wouldn't wait to buy the software in case the new one comes out. I would rush to buy the software precisely because the new one cold come out.


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REASON 6

Just when you thought no more fun could be had using Propellerhead's award winning music production software Reason you'd quickly be made to gasp in excitement at what their announcement of the latest installment to the series has to offer in it's delightfully colourful world of infinity rack unit heaven.

So what's new here you ask, trying to maintain an air of decorum and class..after all you've seen so many like this and have the best production tools plus Reason 5 already working away for you...well there isn't a revolution going on to be blunt but for the fact that the team at Propellerhead have decided to make you benefit from the best of two of their products from one box! The software "Record" which was introduced to us two years ago as an able to capture, edit and mixdown audio takes within the now familiar Propellerhead Studio user interface has been integrated into Reason...and there you have it!

Could it be that Reason might now be referred to as a DAW without risk of getting an elitist put down? Maybe, who knows! Reason 6 is really no different from any of the other known brands at this point, it will let you seqeunce/edit your MIDI parts, record/edit any audio required and apply any effects at the mixing stage...master bus inserts/sends and all that jazz. It still has no VST support unfortunaltely so what they give you is what you get, this isn't a bad thing to be fair as the instruments and effects units here have delivered previously and should continue to do so, the disadvantage of not having a third party plug-in support feature lies in not having those options...without this we are not limitless in creativity!

There have however been some additions to the upgrade, five to be precise and they are unleashed upon you as The Pulveriser, The Echo, The Alligator and Neptune, all of which are used for effects. The finale of the new bunch is the new look mixer..it has colourful knobs that'll make you feel like a winner indeed, it's the dream you've always had of owning an SSL desk...only not quite the same.





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Some songs that rock...

Some random songs that rock...




Bad Brains - Attitude

Bad (Brains) but still rocking...




The Remains - Don't Look Back

Accountants but still rocking...




Iggy Pop - Consolation Prizes

Will show you his penis but still rocking..




The Saints - This Perfect Day

Who ate all the pies but still rocking...




Iron Maiden - Prowler

Needs a square meal but still rocking...




Flipper - Ever

Burning fat woman but still rocking...




Meat Puppets - Split Myself in Two

Inbred but still rocking...




Cabaret Voltaire - Nag Nag Nag

Nagging but still rocking...




Human League - Almost Medieval

Human League but still rocking...






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My Favourite New Song

If only all songs were as on the money as this peach...

My girlfriend turned me onto this, should be number one all over the world, if I had a label this would be my first release

Lover Hurts by Clemmers





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Phone music on Public Transport?

Why do people play music in public through a phone?

Does anyone think it's normal / acceptable / incredibly annoying?

Have a look at this...


www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13749313

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Students learn how social media helps Eric Prydz sell more records

Terry Church is an award winning dance music journalist and editor with over a decade of experience in the industry. He has worked for DJ Mag as their News and Web Editor and at Beatportal.com as the Editor. He now runs Terry Church PR and has clients such as Dubfire, Eric Prydz, Adam Beyer and Sebastian Leger.

Last week the students of London School of Sound were treated to a lecture by Terry where he went through how he helps his clients sell more records and become even bigger successes.

Terry began the lecture by discussing brand attributes and the characteristics we associate with artists who indeed have their own brand. When you think of an artist you may or may not realise that they do indeed embody a brand and culture. Lady Gaga is a brand, Deadmau5 is a brand, the moody local DJ who refuses to do interviews is a brand. It is what we become addicted to, what we feel when we hear their music. Terry asked each one of us in the room to write down a list of brand attributes that we want to associate with ourselves and our music (for those interested mine were eccentric, wild and uplifting...yeah baby). This was a powerful thing actually because nearly all of us had never even thought about this, or even that we can control it.

Most of us just make music and let the world decide how to perceive us. But what Terry made us see is that because of the changes in the world today we have a lot more control on how the world perceives us. Super celebs can directly communicate with hundreds of thousands of their fans in seconds via updating their status on Facebook or sending a tweet out on Twitter, it's astonishing.

He went on to discuss exactly how we can showcase our brand attributes via Social Media. In today’s world we can access our fans and target market directly through Facebook, Twitter, Soundcloud and blogs. Terry went through each one and discussed how they play a part in the branding process and how we can utilize each to become a household name. Facebook on one hand is great for talking directly to fans and getting feedback on tracks you may be working on. Twitter on the other hand is good for networking with companies, labels and major artists directly to gain good business connections.

Terry closed the show by discussing how to start a label in today’s digitally enhanced world. Overall Terry was a delight and was great afterwards handling the students questions too.
I really took away a lot from the lecture, knowing what it takes to market your own music and yourself makes you incredibly more likely to be successful and signed to a major label. Labels today want to know an artist can create their own following and have done so, meaning knowing how to do this with the wonderful world of the Internet is a major plus.

This was one of a series of free lectures we organise from time to time. Some are exclusive to LSS students, others are open to everyone; each lecture is unique and will not be repeated. Subscribe to our newsletter to hear about future events as soon as they’re announced.

For more information on Terry Church visit his website www.terrychurchpr.com/


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