Lynch Audio

Resources for music production, music education, and all things audio.

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Synthtopia put together a great list of 50 Ableton Live shortcuts to help speed up your production workflow. 

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Part of the "Monster List of Audio Sites" series.

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Wait, are we still suposed to be afraid of home taping? I forget. 

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I'm definitely trying this with my Novation Launchpad... tomorrow. Today is for football :)

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Interesting picture of a growing and prosperous entertainment industry. 

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Pretty Awesome. Reznor & Ross make their mix stems from "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" soundtrack available for free download. Go have at them! 

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Check out my LoopTV exclusive tutorial on the fastest ways to layer your drum sounds in Ableton Live! 3 minutes to bigger drums!

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The Evolution Of Music Online This is an amazing mini documentary on music blogs and websites. It also shortly features our contributor The Needle Drop and is the best example why bullshit bills like SOPA and PIPA shouldn’t pass. The video features: Jon Cohen, Co-Founder, FADER Label Ryan Dombal, Senior Editor, Pitchfork Blake Whitman, VP of Creative Development, Vimeo Anthony Volodkin, Founder, Hype Machine  

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Right on. 

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Check out the Covert Operators final sale. These guys put together some great Live packs!

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Kinda want. Looks like a solid piece of gear for $500.

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Great list of 2011 EM!

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‘Street Spirit’ is our purest song, but I didn’t write it. It wrote itself. We were just its messengers; its biological catalysts. Its core is a complete mystery to me, and, you know, I wouldn’t ever try to write something that hopeless. All of our saddest songs have somewhere in them at least a glimmer of resolve. ‘Street Spirit’ has no resolve. It is the dark tunnel without the light at the end. It represents all tragic emotion that is so hurtful that the sound of that melody is its only definition. We all have a way of dealing with that song. It’s called detachment. Especially me; I detach my emotional radar from that song, or I couldn’t play it. I’d crack. I’d break down on stage. That’s why its lyrics are just a bunch of mini-stories or visual images as opposed to a cohesive explanation of its meaning. I used images set to the music that I thought would convey the emotional entirety of the lyric and music working together. That’s what’s meant by ‘all these things you’ll one day swallow whole’. I meant the emotional entirety, because I didn’t have it in me to articulate the emotion. I’d crack…

Our fans are braver than I to let that song penetrate them, or maybe they don’t realise what they’re listening to. They don’t realise that ‘Street Spirit’ is about staring the fucking devil right in the eyes, and knowing, no matter what the hell you do, he’ll get the last laugh. And it’s real, and true. The devil really will get the last laugh in all cases without exception, and if I let myself think about that too long, I’d crack.

I can’t believe we have fans that can deal emotionally with that song. That’s why I’m convinced that they don’t know what it’s about. It’s why we play it towards the end of our sets. It drains me, and it shakes me, and hurts like hell every time I play it, looking out at thousands of people cheering and smiling, oblivious to the tragedy of its meaning, like when you’re going to have your dog put down and it’s wagging its tail on the way there. That’s what they all look like, and it breaks my heart. I wish that song hadn’t picked us as its catalysts, and so I don’t claim it. It asks too much. I didn’t write that song.

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This is a great trick for programming unique drums, from Pat Cupo at Dubspot. Not only is it super useful, but it really speaks to the flexibility and depth of Ableton Live. 

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Check out my new Ableton Live tutorial on using follow actions to create glitch patterns. In the description of the video are links to my other videos about exactly how to setup follow actions, in case you're beginning from that point. Hope you enjoy!

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There's some great stuff in here. From vocal production to glitch drum tricks. Check them out.

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One of my favorite music theory teachers always said that, "rhythm is the fundamental syntax of music." This is a really great introduction to some rhythmic concepts every producer/musician should understand. 

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Muddy mixes? Dull vocals? Stepped-on drums? Check out this quick explanation of important frequencies and how to hear & adjust them.