Producing drums is a delicate process, each style has its own sound. Here we see examples from large and small rooms. Additionally, a glimpse behind the scenes playing the drum pads, the nord drum 3 is a blast!

Adding acoustic guitar to a production can provide a unique timbre that can provide rhythmic lift, melodic counter lines, or add a new soundscape to song structures. Many times I’ll start a song on acoustic with lots of strumming but as the song progresses I find my self seeking further separation of parts. Often this separation is found with smaller a voicing, or spread a voicing.

In the first video I am adding final touches to a song by Emily Nicole titled Mask. Emily is a piano player and that is where this song originated. The second video is a clip from a session where I had the pleasure of producing Waves Of Love 2.0 by Al Jardine. We began this song many years ago back in Boston from an aold ADAT tape. I extracted original Carl Wilson vocals and with the help of my colleague Taylor Barefoot produced the final track for producer Larry Dvoskin.

From my earliest memories I wanted to become a guitar player. Guitar playing is a life long journey that allows me to learn, relearn and reshape musical ideas. Adding electric guitar to music productions can provide a unique texture. Nate offers a broad palette of sound specializing in modern, classic rock, acoustic, jazz or ambient styles. This is a growing thread of video post from sessions I have done over the years.

Logic Pro is a favorite DAW of mine to work in. I find it to have a great creative work flow. Because I grew up using ProTools I find myself repeatedly seeking tutorials. This post is a collection of my favorite Logic Pro editing tips. I find that searching YouTube can be incredibly dense and loaded with mediocre content. I intend this thread to be a growing collection of my discoveries. Below are two of my finds.

In my ever growing exploration of synths this thread is a collection of my resources related to research. I am constantly expanding my collection and always practicing settings, patches and connections. These are some of my current resources.

Here is the first preset from the Moog Matriarch patchbook. I found it useful, at least in my first exploration, to have a sequence playing while I patched the schematic. I discover about halfway through this video that there is an issue in my signal flow, and furthermore the setting is suggesting Arp not sequence. After fixing this I found a nice chord sequence.