Music Technology Private Tuition

Because each learner has a unique learning style, a private tutor can embrace that style and teach in a way they fully understand, often unlocking previous learning challenges. The personalized touch enables learners to feel confident and secure.  With distance learning you are always riding the learning style wave of the tutor and not your own.  With distance learning you never get the opportunity to ask questions or even make mistakes.  With distance learning you never get to have fun.

Here is a list of topics I currently tutor.  If you see something not listed then please contact me.

General

Mixing

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Music Production

Together lets build a song from scratch.  Learn all the sneaky production secrets the pros use.

Digital Audio Workstations (DAW)

Cubase SX3/4/5

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Logic Pro 8/9 (and old PC Logic 5.5.1)

Logic Pro 8, a powerful music production application, features an intuitive new interface that makes it easy to write, record, edit, and mix music—all with the legendary sound quality and rock-solid timing that have distinguished Logic products for years.

Live 8

Ableton Live 8 renews the core of Live, with enhancements to the audio engine including 64-bit mix summing, new and improved devices with side-chaining capability, better MIDI timing, and hardware integration. We have also included the most-requested features, such as time signature changes, video export, multiple automation lanes and much more.((


)Waveform Editing

Sony Soundforge

The Sound Forge 9 professional digital audio production suite includes everything you need to quickly get from raw audio to finished master. Use this suite to create and edit stereo and multichannel audio files with speed and precision. Efficiently analyze, record and edit audio, digitize and restore old recordings, model acoustic environments, design sound for multimedia, and master replication-ready CDs.

Recycle

ReCycle is a creative tool that helps you make the most of your grooves. In simple terms, ReCycle lets you do with sampled loops what you can do with beats programmed from individual drum sounds – like alter the tempo, or replace sounds and process them individually. A tool for quickly editing sampled parts, chopping up riffs, remixing and doing mash ups.

Plug-ins

Waves (all)

Waves comprehensive products support over 20 different audio editing environments, both for CPU-based operation and DSP accelerator solutions. With over 150,000 users worldwide, Waves offers the broadest selection as well as the highest quality set of software solutions available.

I can show you around all the Waves plug-ins enabling you to get that pro sound you dream of.

Virtual Instruments

Stylus RMX including Time Designer

Stylus RMX is a completely new groove-based virtual instrument plug-in for Macintosh and Windows. Stylus RMX is the first product to offer the combined power of Groove Control™ with Spectrasonics Advanced Groove Engine (S.A.G.E.™) technology giving users dramatic new control over groove production and performance.

Omnisphere

This epic ‘Power Synth’ breaks completely new sonic ground by combining a wide variety of hybrid realtime synthesis techniques, an epic library of remarkable ‘Psychoacoustic’ sounds, and many innovative features that have never been seen before in any hardware or software synthesizer. The new instrument is the first to be based on Spectrasonics newly developed STEAM Engine.

Techniques

EQ

Learn an incredible technique not even most pros use to improve there sounds. 

Compression

Learn various compression techniques that will blow your mind. 


Modulation Effects

Movement

Cracking Reverb/Echo

Learn an amazing technique to create the most impressive reverbs.