Workflow Strategies with Mason | Producer Masterclass | Part 1 of 2

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Amsterdam-based house producer Mason invites you into his studio for a creative session.
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[@alexsonic7]

- 8 demos / day > you'll have hundreds of ideas a week - phase one : getting a good idea - phased two: : finishing a track - learn a daw quick and stick to it > at the end of the day, it's about music not technicalities - work on ten projects a day - build a template to start off with - bass in mono - treble very stereo - reference tracks compare frequencies / feelings

[@D1smacK]

Wow all those ideas for just one vocal. So much effort, appreciate this very much

[@hatsaok8153]

9:30 "analog console" the way he said that made me want some french pastries

[@FatalFriction]

Can't wait to hear toilet paper

[@spamfriendly6489]

Mason, you are a extraordinary guy !!!

[@D1smacK]

Relaxing voice and good advices 🙂

[@FatalFriction]

All the demos sound amazing though

[@Lekan675]

An interesting approach, 8 demo a day, the choice of the best.This is useful

[@alexwalker9017]

Good stuff computer music

[@rawfare]

what's the studio desk? looks great and spacious 👀

[@Audiojunkk]

Totally agree with Logics I/O plug-in. That latency is really frustrating!

[@rbboca]

eminem does that , look for lose yourseld dem,o version , total demo and a totally difrent song lyricwise

[@mrfleamino9350]

Cool 😎

[@szeredaiakos]

Funny enough, high frequencies do not carry directional information. In a club setting it is almost pointless to pan them.

[@hearmenow909]

How does the Neve summing mixer solve the latency issue?

[@Audiojunkk]

He has hard wired all of his external hardware into that Neve summing box. So when he is running the whole of his track out through the Sum he can hit that little "insert" push button on each channel and it will route the signal through the hardware he has connected to that particular channel without having to use the I/O plug in in logic. Because it's staying in hardware it doesn't have to go through the D-A -> A-D conversion that it would if he just used the I/O plug-in in Logic. So whilst this may be a less flexible approach it also results in no latency when using a piece of outboard.

[@clivemathieu9386]

Cool dude. Cool ideas.... not enough synths

[@edglue6138]

Haha

[@szeredaiakos]

Songs are like babies. Some of them are not worthy for this world. You just have to leave them out, maybe bisect and harvest their stems and use it to make your other babies stronger.

[@a.1111]

Weird analogy but i see u haha

[@tomik6537]

um ok

[@Paradroidx]

Try out progressive psytrance, don't have to work so hard

[@georgekefalas1703]

Is psytrance easy?

[@Paradroidx]

@@georgekefalas1703 Not really easy, but it follows the basic 4/4 beat as trance and techno. Its just more moody and cool lol

[@jevsdisjava]

trap producer make tracks (the loyal name actually is trash) in 10 minute. everything (beat, and lyric and vocal) is done un 10 min. and it usually those same 808 subbooms and hihat kkkrkkr and migos type stupid flows and that is it. dumb market, easy money.