Kyle Ellis — Los Angeles Recording Connection

Week 26 - Exporting and Faux Mastering - Posted by Kyle Ellis on 2018-09-04

Week 26 was on exporting and faux mastering, which was a great read. Overall, I have been using other plugins to do my mixing/mastering like Neutron 2 and Ozone 8, but it was nice to see that Ableton Live offers some useful tools for this process... Read More >>

Week 25 - Mixing 101 - Posted by Kyle Ellis on 2018-08-26

This week's chapter was on mixing 101, which was a great review for what I've learned in the studio. The tips about what compression settings to use (generally) depending on the type of instrument (drums, vocals, etc... Read More >>

Week 24 - Finishing Tracks - Posted by Kyle Ellis on 2018-08-20

This week's lesson was on finishing tracks, which seemed like a general overview of common sense when discussing people's workflows and when to call it quits on a track... Read More >>

Week 23 - Editing 201 - Posted by Kyle Ellis on 2018-08-13

This week's lesson was on editing 201, which again stressed the importance of familiarizing myself with the shortcut keys to improve my efficiency and workflow... Read More >>

Week 22 - Arrangement View Recording Workflows - Posted by Kyle Ellis on 2018-08-08

This week's chapter focused on Ableton's arrangement view for recording workflows, which was a great refresher for what I mostly learned in the studio and just playing around with Ableton up to this point... Read More >>

Week 21 - Recording Audio 201 - Posted by Kyle Ellis on 2018-07-28

This week was very insightful as it discussed recording audio and went into a good amount of detail for a beginner who's learning about microphones... Read More >>

Week 20 - Sound and Hearing - Posted by Kyle Ellis on 2018-07-23

This week's chapter was on sound and hearing, which was very interesting to learn. Reading about air molecules, atomosphereic pressure, psychoacoustics, and the anatomy of our ears was very enlightening! During this week's lesson, we worked on tuning the cover vocals of slow hands in Melodyne 4, which has really come a long way... Read More >>

Week 19 - Impulse and Drum Rack - Posted by Kyle Ellis on 2018-07-15

This week's lesson was on Impulse and Drum Rack. Luckily Alex from The Abstract had already showed me how to set up my own drum racks... Read More >>

Week 18 - Sampling - Posted by Kyle Ellis on 2018-07-08

This week's lesson was on Sampling, which was awesome to learn more about Simpler's and Sampler's powerful tools... Read More >>

Week 17 - Recording Audio for Sound Design - Posted by Kyle Ellis on 2018-07-01

This week was on recording audio for sound design. Luckily I have gotten more familiar with simpler and sampler as they are very powerful tools, but I know I could experiment with this more to really get unique sounds... Read More >>