My guest is John Fields, an internationally recognized, multi-platinum writer/ producer/ mixer who has worked with some of the biggest names in the music business - from rock bands like Switchfoot, Jimmy Eat World, Lifehouse, Goo Goo Dolls and Andrew W.K., to chart-dominating pop acts like the Jonas Brothers, Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez, Miley Cyrus, Pink and Backstreet Boys, to dance/electronic artists like Har Mar Superstar, The Presets and Cut Copy.

A multi-instrumentalist virtuoso, John will quickly jump behind the drums or piano, or pick up a bass or guitar to lay down a part when needed. This ability combined with quick decisions in the studio make for a super fast, efficient, and fun session. In fact Jordan Valeriote also a guest on the podcast had mentioned assisting with John on a session where he got to watch John in action. Jordan described as seeing tracks being created in the studio a lightning speed that sounded like a finished record before they even got to mixing.

John is also an in-demand co-writer, having penned songs with Dan Wilson, Nick Jonas, Selena Gomez, Australian superstar Vanessa Amorosi and others. And occasionally he will hit the road with an artist, as he's done playing bass with Nick Jonas and the Administration, The Rembrandts and Soul Asylum.

This combo sounds incredible!

Here is what you need to get:

1 - Go To The Drum Broker​: HipHopSamples.com

• Go to the top of the left sidebar menu and you should see the FREE menu item.
• Add the item to your cart. And got straight to checkout! (Just skip past the offers for now unless you see something you like)
• https://hiphopdrumsamples.com/collections/free-drum-samples

Brainworx bx_subfilter

Overview:

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Polishing your mix’s low end can be tricky. Bass DI tracks can sound mushy, and kick tracks can lose their “pop.” Sometimes everything below 100Hz can become such an undifferentiated soup of noise that you just don’t know where to start! Start here: The bx_subfilter is just the ticket for adding clarity and definition to tracks that have troublesome low frequencies. There are lots of expensive and complicated EQ plugins out there, but when it comes to shaping your low end, the bx_subfilter is unique for its ease and simplicity. With just a few quick adjustments to its four-knob interface, you can breathe new life into those 808s that have been muddying your mix.

The bx_subfilter is a free plugin that borrows from the “Filter” section of its larger counterpart, the bx_subsynth. It’s the perfect plugin for anyone who loves the bx_subsynth’s unique approach to low-end filtering, but doesn’t need the subharmonic synthesis. If you think that cleaning up your low end shouldn’t break the bank or require twenty knobs, we’ve got a plugin for you.

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FEATURES

• Tight Punch knob implements a resonant high pass filter that’s especially formulated for cutting problem frequencies in bass-heavy tracks
• Resonance selector applies three peak settings to the filter – Low, High and Extreme – for accentuating punch while taming low-end rumble
• Low End control applies a post-Tight Punch fixed bandpass filter, to achieve that perfect frequency balance
• Input/output gain controls for level matching and preventing clipping

SPECIFICATION

Supported Plugin Formats
AAX DSP, AAX Native, AU, AAX AudioSuite, Venue AAX, VST2, VST3

Supported Operating Systems
Mac OS X 10.8 through 10.12
Windows 7 through 10
Pro Tools 10.3.10 or higher or any VST/VST3/AU-compatible host running on a supported operating system

Mac
Intel CPU only (minimum 2 GHz recommended)

PC
Intel-compatible CPU with SSE2 instruction set (Pentium 4 compatible or higher; minimum 2 GHz recommended)

System Requirements
Display resolution: 1440 × 900px or 1280 × 960px or higher
Memory: 2 GB RAM

DOWNLOADS

Use the links below to download your free copy of this plugin.

bx_subfilter Installers

• Installer v1.0 (Mac, 62.28MB)
• Installer v1.0 (Win 32-bit, 21.80MB)
• Installer v1.0 (Win 64-bit, 23.27MB)

Installation Manager

• Installation Manager v1.0.1 (Mac, 908.97kB)
• Installation Manager v1.0.1 (Win, 2.49MB)

Manuals

• Manual (English, 1.35MB)
• Activation Manual (English, 3.67MB)

Chris Selim is a musician, music producer and recording/mixing engineer. Chris is renowned for his work in the French Christian music industry, having produced and mixed artists globally in Canada, USA, France, Belgium and Switzerland. Chris has mixed and produced more than 75 albums over the past fourteen years. And remarkably works remotely with many of these artists over the internet from his home recording studio near Montreal, Canada.

Chris’ credits include: Canadian Christian Artist, Lianna Klassen, a Covenant Award winner (Canadian version of the Dove Awards) and Juno nominee. and French Christian Artists Impact, Seb Demrey, Luc Dumont, Andreanne, and Peggy Polito to name a few…

Chris is also the creator of Mixdown.Online , a resource website and Youtube channel designed to help you with your music production, recording and mixing skills through cool tutorial videos and blog articles.

Jesse Cannon is a musician, engineer, producer, and multiple author. His new book, which you can now find on Amazon & Kindle, is called Processing Creativity: The Tools, Practices And Habits Used To Make Music You’re Happy With.

Over the past two decades, Jesse has worked in nearly every aspect of the music business. Most notably, recording bands like Animal Collective, The Misfits, The Menzingers, Man Overboard, Basement, Transit, Thank You Scientist, Somos, Leftover Crack as well as mastering records for acts like Brand New, NOFX, Bad Books, Real Friends and over a thousand more.

He received his pedigree under producers like Ross Robinson and Steve Evetts with groups like The Cure, Limp Bizkit, Dillinger Escape Plan, Saves The Day, Senses Fail and A Static Lullaby, and spent years working under esteemed mastering engineer Alan Douches at West West Side Music.

OVERVIEW

Together with Spitfire, BT has combined over 20GB of his own personal bespoke new libraries (following on from Breaks from the Nu Skool and Twisted Textures) into a convolution synthesis engine that allows you to sculpt, filter, rhythmically cut and pulse impulse responses that are tonal, melodic and harmonic. Most importantly you can play them polyphonically.

This synthesizer, sound engine and bespoke library package represents years of diligent searching for new awe-inspiring sounds and sound design techniques. If you, like BT, are looking for a new wave of inspiration for your compositions that are evocative, emotional, expressive and truly new, you owe it to yourself to check out Phobos. It is a well of endless inspiration.

One of the greatest solutions Phobos provides is for composers wanting to engage their audiences for extended sequences and cues without things sounding repetitive or ‘loopy’. Phobos allows for an all new real-time interface interaction that allows the user to evolve, warp and transform their molecular patterns according to nuanced changes within a scene.

BACKGROUND

What is Phobos?

One of Mars’ moons? A synthesizer? A tool for creating massive cinematic and electronic rhythms? An engine for endless spectral combinations of wide, lush pads and ambiences with propulsive rhythmic figures? Is it a sound library of bespoke percussion, beats, micro rhythms, field recordings, live acoustic and orchestral treatments, textures and a massive vintage synthesizer collection? That is just scratching the surface.

At its core, Phobos is a synthesizer based on the unexplored precept of polyconvolution as a synthesis engine. BT came up with this idea many years ago doing sound design. What does that mean exactly? Polyconvolution as a synthesizer? Well, it means instead of using convolution for reverb or modeling an amplifier's distortion circuit, why not make a “reverb” impulse response tonal?

Combining something rhythmic with something tonal (as an impulse response) yielded some of the most modern, liquid and percolating ambiences and textures BT had ever heard. These are the kinds of sounds he has been searching for whilst scoring; those elusive sounds where the director asks for “movement and a feeling of drive, yet subtly”. That’s not to say that Phobos only excels at subtlety - it can sound massive, driving and aggressive, like an army of monsters in its scope and power.

FEATURES

• Revolutionary polyconvolution synthesizer, across 3 separate convolvers
• Contains more than 2000 unique sounds, created by BT, that can be used both as a source or as an impulse response
• Over 650 presets showcasing the possibilities of Phobos
• Plugin that loads directly into any DAW that supports VST / VST3 / AU / AAX.
• IRs in Convolvers are polyphonic, track pitch played and render in realtime
• Loops as sound source / or as IR track host tempo
• MPE Compatible (for use with multidimensional controllers such as ROLI Rise or Roger Linn Linnstrument)
• Dedicated Gate Stages and Filters on each sounds source / convolver unit
• All controllers mappable to controller and / or multiple LFOs

Please visit the Spitfire Audio website to learn more about BT Phobos

Cowboy Keith Thompson is a record producer, live sound engineer, tour manager, and record label owner. Inglehood Records is a boutique label based out of east Nashville, that makes classic style recordings of vintage hits from the 40s to 60s with its hip rhythm and horn sections.

Originally hailing from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Keith was a bar owner, children's TV show host, radio host, record producer, and live sound engineer. He moved to Nashville 20 years ago to pursue pro- live sound engineer, doing live sound for the likes of Peter Cetera and even Wonder Woman's Lynda Carter.

Some of Keith's credits include managing the Original Blues Brothers Band featuring Steve Cropper, Blue Lou Marini, Tom Malone, John Tropea , Murphy Dunne and Leon Pendarvis.

When he is not running his label, producing records, or touring, he records and mixes all the music performances for the hit CMT TV show "Sun Records".

Jeff Turzo is a musician, producer, and founder of Overstayer Recording Equipment, a company that designs cool audio gear for the studio. Jeff started out as a musician and spent a decade producing and touring with his band, God Lives Under Water. His band was signed by Rick Rubin to American Recordings in 1993. GLU went on to record multiple albums with a heavy guitar, synth, loop driven pop sound that landed them a movie soundtrack hit for the Keanu Reeves film, Johnny Mnemonic, and airtime on alternative rock stations and MTV. This led to years of touring for his band sharing the stage with other heavy pop bands like KMFDM, Korn, Filter, Deftones, No Doubt, and Sublime.

In the studio Jeff was a multi-instrumentalist and producer with synthesis/sampling knowledge, sometimes producing with Matt Mahaffey (episode 69), but also with his GLU partner David Reilly, staying busy with remix projects that included Skinny Puppy, Rob Zombie and Messiah. He also organized For the Masses: A Tribute To Depeche Mode in 1998, and released Up Off The Floor with GLU in 2004.