(HOLLYWOOD PRESS CORPS) — SEPTEMBER 20, 2017 — Pro Mix Academy founder and producer/engineer Warren Huart (Aerosmith, Ace Frehley, The Fray) has teamed up with Grammy Nominated engineer Ariel Chobaz (Nicki Minaj, Rihanna, Drake) to release a new ProMix Academy video on mixing hiphop. Chobaz has mixed and recorded over 40 GRAMMY winning or GRAMMY nominated HipHop and R&B artists from Eminem to Snoop Dogg.

In this 4 + hour course, you’ll learn techniques, tips, and tricks that big-time mixers use to craft massive hits. Chobaz takes you through his entire mixing process from start to finish and explains his thought process and the mixing techniques he uses in real time.

Chobaz walks the viewer through every step of the way from completely raw tracks to a radio-ready mix, and takes you through the common issues you face when mixing HipHop and shows you how to handle them with confidence. This tutorial explains how to mix knocking kick drums and growling 808s, how to acieve a raw and in your face rap vocals sound, how to to use various special FX to liven up your samples, create breakdowns and build tension in your mix by using automation, and how to take your mix to a competitive level, so it can stand up next to any commercial release without losing low-end impact, causing distortion, or a ‘pumping effect.’

To learn more or purchase the course please click here;

Mixing Hiphop with Ariel Chobaz

Warren Huart interview with Ariel Chobaz on Produce Like A Pro;

3 Tips for Music industry Success from Grammy Nominated Mixer Ariel Chobaz

Dustin Brown

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(BURBANK) September 19, 2017 – Kevin “Brandino” Brandon celebrated his 63rd birthday at Tallyrands in Burbank. So many friends, family and jazz legends stopped by to pay their respects and say Happy Birthday to Brandino. The evening was all about Brandino, but the amazing Jazz talent that was in the room was astounding.

A few of the people that watched Brandino blow out his candle were; LA Jazz legend John Heard. John is known for his work with Pharaoh Sanders, Count Basie and George Duke. Chatting with John was LA Jazz singer Janis Mann. Janis sings at clubs like Charlie O’s (when it was still around), Catalinas and the A Frame.
San Francisco Jazz bass player, Karl Vincent, stopped by to pay his respects to Brandino. Karl was relaxing and chatting with session jazz violin player, Crystal Alforque. Crystal has done session work with Brandino.

Kenny Elliot was also at the party. Kenny is known for his work with the Lou Rawls band. Kenny had a great time and seemed to get everybody laughing.

James Leary is a legendary bass player who has played with Count Basie and Dizzy Gillespie. James was at Brandino’s side when Brandino blew out his candle.
Also hanging out and posing for pictures was Quentin Denard. Quentin is a legendary drummer from Detroit.

For those who don’t know, Brandino is a 7 time Grammy Awarded, Producer, Composer, Arranger, and Bassist. There are really so many projects over the years that it’s hard to tell his story in one article. Brandino created a tune called “Singularity,” which was nominated for Best Pop Instrumental Album of the Year in 2011. Brandino recorded this with Robby Krieger of the Doors. Brandino has worked with Michael Jackson, Bootsy Collins, Justin Timberlake and Mary J Blige. Brandino has worked with so many people. Andre 5000, Stevie Wonder, and so many of the jazz legends have worked with Brandino. Check out the link to Brandino’s website to read his incredible story;

http://www.brandino.com

Also another link to check out is Brandino’s latest project. It’s called Summer Love featuring Ty G and of course, Brandino on bass;

Dustin Brown

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(HOLLYWOOD PRESS CORPS) — SEPTEMBER 7, 2017 — The Produce Like a Pro team had the great pleasure of taking students from the Los Rios Rock School to Sunset Sound for a recording project. But not just any recording project, Studio 1 was set up and in one day the students recorded the album Van Halen I in its entirety.

Check out the website for Los Rios Rock School here;

The Best Rock Music School in Orange County

The significance of being in Sunset Sound, and in studio 1 is that it is the exact room that Van Halen made that very album. The studio is great at keeping records and they looked into the archives and found a copy of how Van Halenhad the studio set up for tracking and it was recreated as closely as possible for the student’s recording. Drums, amps, microphones, the console and echo chamber were set up the way that it was documented that Van Halen did it 40 years ago.

Produce Like A Pro and the Sunset Sound team mimicked the exact set up, in the exact same room and The Los RiosRock School kids came in extremely well prepared with the guidance of the schools highly trained instructors and Teacherzone.com .

https://www.teacherzone.com/

To recreate Alex Van Halen’s drum sounds the following microphones were used. The two kicks: Shure 546 Dynamic Mics, snare top and bottom both 546, the 3 overheads are AKG 414 EB, toms are top Sennheiser 421 and bottom Shure SM57. The sole Room mic is a U87.
For Michael Anthony’s sound The Bass Amp was mic’d with a RE20 and for Eddie Van Halen’s guitar sound the guitar amp was mic’d with a pair of SM57’s.

The videos from the Los Rios Rock School recording can be seen here;

Kids record Van Halen 1 Live in One Day at Sunset Sound!

Dustin Brown

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