SIDECHAIN COMPRESS before playing in parts. Bass and instruments.

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

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)

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

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.

Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.

At the end of the world the sunset is like a child smashing a pack of crayons into God's face.

There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.

I'd much rather be in the expanse of the wilderness because it feels like part of my world. It's a unique perspective. You're this tiny speck in a huge environment, and it's nice to be reminded of that.

Cowboys dont take bath they just dust off.

By the late 1970s a fashion-concious yet highly irreverent version of 'retro' crept into English, where its meaning remained fluid and vaguely negative; for many it represented a desire to recycle the past in a somewhat exploitative manner.

Unfortunately, I suffer from insomnia, so my bedtime is as soon as I start to feel the least bit sleepy.

Who told these people with dreams, goals and ambitions they could take time off?

As an actor, we are, in a way, a mirror of other people.

A master lives in the world of transformation not the world of loss and gain.

I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys.

It's impossible. You try to have any kind of relationship with your family, with a man, or with a friend, and you have to be on the phone and the Internet the entire time.

Each one of us has the power to be the change we want to see in the world, making the world a better place.

On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize accept and celebrate those differences.

The idea of a youth-based society that you live in for a certain time and then you no longer live anymore is an interesting idea for a movie, but you need young people that people want to go see.

If certain songs become popular enough to the point where I'll be playing them the rest of my life, I don't want them all to dwell on the same down moment that I'll have to keep reliving.

Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.

Beef is beef, you know. Beef comes, so Beef is real.

The Holy Ghost is a personage of Spirit: a separate and distinct member of the Godhead.

Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn exactly like its enemy life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

A dream acting role would be Matt Damon in the Bourne series. I would love to do something like that!