BASS SUB BASS should sit 1-2 octaves below root note. No reverb on bass Length of kick decides room for bass

Bounce MIDI to AUDIO. - its good practice committing to ideas - it enables you to see your ideas in a new light - Better stability in your DAW

COLOR CODE! - It keeps project organised - Its nice on the eyes/mind

SIDECHAIN COMPRESS before playing in parts. Bass and instruments.

OFFSET claps. - This stops claps getting lost in the mix

PRACTICE WORKING FAST. Learn your DAW shortcuts

give your song a NARRATIVE/Set the tone. -using samples, like vocal samples

Theres no relation between TIME spent and QUALITY of music. -The same applies to how many tracks there is in a song

FOCUS on IMPORTANT rhythmic/melodic ideas early on. Dont waste time layering sounds

Fix from SOURCE whenever possible. KEEP processing clean & calculated REMOVE silences for a cleaner mix

THINK: in terms of ENERGY, RHYTHM, VIBE, EMOTION. NOT: punchy, clean, analog, mono

Only EQ/COMPRESS when needed.

when you see a SPECTRUM ANALYSER, think in terms of OCTAVES

BOUNCE REVERB to AUDIO. then you can filter/ precisely control it

SYNCOPATION IS KEY TO DANCE MUSIC. Syncopate a vox sample and synth or kick

USE WHITE NOISE to fill empty space subtly

MONO is LOUDER, so use it when you can.

ALWAYS START your track with an interesting IDEA

AUTOMATION - Name your automation channels. E.G filter sweeps

Create TEMPLATES in your daw. Work from these rather than blank projects. Speeds up the creative process when laying down new ideas.

DRUMS SIDECHAIN EVERYTHING to KICK DRUM Test KICK and SNARE on multiple sources make the KICK the loudest peak in the song (makes mastering alot easier)

LEADS group layers turn off individual track fx use 1 compressor/ reverb on whole group delay>reverb>saturation

VOCAL SAMPLES make more SYNTHS/FX from VOX SAMPLES. - humans love human voice.

It's more in my nature to be optimistic, I think. I'm one of those people who gets up on the right side of the bed in the morning.

Music is not a contest, it's not a competition, so giving out trophies seems a little bit like the sporting world I left behind when I was a kid.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.

Cherish believes that God made her with a special purpose. Like any teenage girl, she has her insecurities, but for the most part she has a real healthy self-esteem.

I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.

One day, I saw a magic show, and I was like, 'I have to learn how to do this!' Every time I went to Las Vegas, I had to get at least two or three tricks from the magic shops.

Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon Johnson is assistant leader of his party. In four years he is the leader of his party.

It is hard being a football loather, a football unfan. I sometimes feel as lonely as the sole survivor in the last reel of a Zombie film, as, one by one, old friends reveal themselves, with their glassy stares and outstretched arms, to have succumbed to the lure.

My parents made no money whatsoever, but they really knew how to see, as artists. So a big adventure might be, on a hot, dreadful day with no place to go, to go out and draw our chickens with pastels. My parents gave me a sense of wonder.

Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don't think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.

Dont you EVER break someones heart because they only have one. Break their bones they have 206 on those

Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there was nothing utopian about it.

I'm a chameleon. That's my personality in the band.

People say, 'I love 'Snatch,' I love 'Lock Stock,' but I want to be more than a movie name. I'd love to be more of a household name.

Barack Obama's military triumphs will come neither in long wars nor even short ones, but in a series of raids.

But just as I was ready to call it quits, I got the necessary money from a third party, who had been instructed by Bing to help me out, without letting me know where the help came from.

I have been honoured to serve the whales, dolphins, seals - and all the other creatures on this Earth. Their beauty, intelligence, strength, and spirit have inspired me.

I would love to have my own lingerie line.

Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?

Going with the flow is for some people an excuse for not taking action and it refers usually to ones life situation.

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

In a perfect world, I would never give another speech, address, talk, lecture or whatever as long as I live.

I have no regrets, none whatsoever.