"that~boy" public announcement: Online ENT

My site management team (me) was reviewing my site and giving me suggestions on how to make the blog beta. Well what they told me was that the articles were interesting but there was nothing to keep readers entertained while reading. Naturally i was like "WTF!!!", "boring my ass, My blog IS FUN!". I knew what I had to do though. Since then the team has integrated a music player onto the blog. Now while you reading articles, you can listen to some "that~boy" tunes and keep yourself entertained. Hope it makes you log on ,more. There are downloads available as well now. Enjoy!

Free Beat

"that~boy" is selling Beats now. Yeah...true story...(nodding head slowly) this is a free one though. I'm ma be giving off some older beats to the public for them to use. If you do use it please credit me appropriately. Hope you enjoy it
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Mixing on the Behringer MX900

Depending on how low to the ground your production ear you’ve probably heard someone somewhere who has finished making a beat/track saying that all that’s left for them to do is for them to mix it. Ever wondered what they meant. Well all that they meant was that they have to change the audible volumes and frequencies of the different instruments and or voices in a track so that none of them clash with or mask each other. There are two ways to do this, through a mixing desk or a DAW (digital audio workstation) like pro tools, cubase, cool edit or acid. To start mixing first export all the different files used in your beat separately as wave files. By the way, by saying all and separately I mean, just the kick drum alone then the snare, then the piano etc. Once that’s done, import the all required files into the DAW of your choice and start changing individual levels, panning sounds and EQing out unwanted frequencies. Unfortunately there is no by the book way on how to mix so I can’t even give you instructions on how loud each instrument should be. Each mix is different and must be done by ear until it sounds right to you. As a start though, you may want to listen to a well produced song that you like and try to imitate the way that song was mixed. It’s a great way to get yourself started in this field. Things to remember: Bass is generally panned too the middle (mono) Kicks must be heard throughout the song (mono) Vocals must never be masked by other sounds and must sit comfortably in your mix. (mono

Mixing desks

There are three types of desks you can get as a producer making music. 1) the one you saw in your friends bedroom studio. 2) the one you heard they have at Krystrodrm studios 3) the one you saw on an American hip hop video. Lol..okay, let’s get back to business. The three types of desks available to you are a normal channel desk, an inline console desk and a split console desk respectively. The normal channel desk can probably be seen in use at any big church with a PA system put up in it. This desk will typically have a set number of input channels, a gain section, a simple EQ section and a stereo output. If you are lucky though, your desk will also have bus/sub-group outputs. These desks are not the most convenient for production as complete reconfiguration of cables would be needed to switch between input mode and mixing mode of the desk.

Inline console desk

An inline console desk is typically bigger than the normal channel desk. It will have 16 or more input main channels which will double up as monitoring channels, a larger Parametric EQ section, bus/sub group outputs, direct outputs a stereo output. These desks serve the mixing purpose better than the normal console because by simply pressing a button labelled “FLIP” on each channel you activate an extra input where you can connect input signal that will allow you to mix your track.

Split console desk

A split console desk is the biggest of the three types of desk. It will have two totally different sections, the recording and monitoring sections, separated by a master section. What this means is that