Clickproduce is a great new online rescource for computer based music producers looking for low-priced, royalty free samples, loops, instruments and FX. For those more interested in the end result, rather than the actual process of making music, they offer complete song-building packs – great for beginners. Whilst for those that like to get their hands dirty ‘under the hood’, they also provide individual instruments, to tweaks and effects for adding that little something in post-production.
All samplepacks & loops, instruments and one-shot hits, are sorted by instrument and musical genre …

This post is a work-in-progress. I’m currently clearing out my personal collection of Vinyl. A heart-breaking thing to have to do. I always said I’d never sell, but times and circumstances change… and storage grows smaller. If you’re interested in any of these drop me an email at patrick@escmodemusic.com. These will ship from the UK, posting & packaging will be £2.50 for 1 record, £1.50 for each additional. Home pick-up would be ideal though.
Jimmy Smith – The Cat.
Verve Records. 1964
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Excellent Condition
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Celebrating its 40th anniversary, this year’s Glastonbury festival has been hailed as the best ever. With 3 days of uninterrupted sunshine, we proved to the world that we Brits at least know how to throw a party, with a huge and eclectic mix of drunk people getting their groove on in a field.
Check-out this monster of a mixing room. What you see on the left is 600,000 watts of power pumping out 110db of sound at 100 meters from the stage, via 54 speakers weighing over 15 tons. What’s even …

Putting theory to practice; racks 101 and a couple of general tips.
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Personally I like a bit of grit on my percussion so I suggest we drop a Dynamic Tube and a Compressor in there.
Some rather extreme settings on that Dynamic Tube but it really drives the midrange out in that dirty fashion. After listening to it one realizes that its too dirty. The trouble with that is that we still want to retain the dirty but still have some not-dirty …

Multiband processing. That magic trick that all producers talks about but never explains exactly what it is. Sure, we all know that there are several multiband compressor vst plugins available, and even a couple of multiband effect suites, but exactly what is multiband processing, and how does it work?
Why do you need it, and why would you want to use it?
The basic concept of multiband processing is to take an audio source, split it up into frequency bands (consider a basic DJ eq; low, mid, and hi), then process each …

Free Software worth $149 with Novation Nocturn Midi Controller

Launched back in 2008, Novation’s original Nocturn was an innovative addition to the budget midi controller market. Priced at £69 in the UK (  $99 in USA) it is ultra affordable and doesn’t fall short in terms of features, providing a vast array of control that unleashed the full potential of our favourite VST instruments and effects. It does lack one thing though -  a midi keyboard. Thankfully,  late 2009 Novation followed-up with two Nocturn Keyboard models available with 25 and 49 keys …

Infinity Competition Winners
Esprit Records recently announced winners for Goro & Dephzac – Infinity remix competition originally posted here.
Winners are:
1st place: Dosage remix
Dosage (aka Paistyboy) are young dubstep producers from Watford, UK. Goro & Dephzac judged this as the best remix saying it was a ” fresh and original dubstep remix with a decent sonic quality”. Don’t be fooled by the fairly weak and commercialized intro – this is nasty once it kicks in.
2nd place: Ketz & Wreckage Machinery remix
Ketz is from Essex, UK and Wreckage Machinery is a young producer …

Module 2: Creating a Bass Track using SIMPLER.

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