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Mixing Dance Music Course - Preview Video

Being able to properly mix-down your tracks is often the difference between amateur producers with potential and producers who are releasing their records. A track may sound good in your bedroom, but big club sound systems can be a lot more unforgiving, amplifying any imperfections in the mix. Mixing techniques such as EQ, compression, effects, sidechaining and automation are vital to adding the necessary professional sheen to your tracks however they are by no means easy to comprehend, and this is usually the stage in the music production learning curve where people come un-stuck.

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A Guide to DIY Recording and Home Production

One of the tutors from our audio engineering courses Ian Button has recently been scribing an in-depth guide to DIY recording and home production. Below you can find part 1. . . for parts 2-4 head over to Thee Awkward Silences blog where it was originally posted. Like all of the Point Blank tutors, Ian has a wealth of experience as a musician and producer. Not only does he teach the Music Production HNC Course but he is also the guitarist for Death in Vegas, drummer and producer for Thee Awkward Silences, as well as having sessioned for Pete Doherty and many other well-known artists.

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Radio One Star Annie Mac Reveals The Secrets Behind Her Success

We were delighted to welcome BBC Radio One DJ Annie Mac to Point Blank Music School this week as the next instalment in our series of celebrity guest lectures. Studio 8 was packed to the rafters with students lucky enough to get a spot in the audience, all eager to hear the story of how she rose through the ranks at Radio One to become one of the nation’s most in demand club DJs. Annie has just taken over Pete Tong’s prime-time Friday 7-9pm slot on Radio One.

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The Cut Up Boys Guide to Mash Ups

If you want to give your DJ sets a unique flavour and guarantee entertainment on the dancefloor, creating your own mash ups is a great way to go about it. A mash up can be defined as a song comprised of elements of two or more pre-existing pieces of music. The undisputed kings of the mash up are Bournemouth based duo The Cut Up Boys having released 6 highly acclaimed Mash Up Mixes on Ministry of Sound.

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FREE Studio and Recording Sessions for Bands throughout November

Calling all bands and musicians. Throughout November Point Blank's Music Production HNC students are looking for bands to engineer and record at our state of the art studios in Hoxton, East London. We are giving you the fantastic opportunity to get free studio time and audio recordings of your music. The available dates are as follows- SUNDAYS 8/11/09 15/11/09 22/11/09 29/11/09 10 am - 7 pm. Please send your demos to jc@pointblanklondon.

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Mon, Feb 08, 2010 - 12:35pm

MIDI Fighter Mapping for Traktor Pro!! http://bit.ly/bN6Q3z

Mon, Feb 08, 2010 - 12:16pm

DJs who love the Traktor Kontrol X1 http://bit.ly/aTVv3N

Mon, Feb 08, 2010 - 10:17am

Juno Plus review the Akai Miniak A virtual analog synth http://bit.ly/d8EbAS

Mon, Feb 08, 2010 - 10:13am

How To Make Fat Compressed BeatsFrom Music Radar http://bit.ly/avMmzC

Mon, Feb 08, 2010 - 10:06am

RT @Rgartenb: times like these i wish i was at @point_blank already! <<Looking forward to having you on board!

Fri, Feb 05, 2010 - 4:12pm

DIY MIDI Controller Made With a Cigar Box!! http://www.djtechtools.com/2010/02/04/diy-mod-cuban-midi-crisis/#more-4747

Fri, Feb 05, 2010 - 3:49pm

A-Track, Dust La Rock and Nick Catchdubs on everything Fool's Gold The day to day runnings of a label today http://bit.ly/c6QGAV

Fri, Feb 05, 2010 - 2:46pm

New Blog Post + vid Mixing for electronic music http://bit.ly/bDUr2F

Fri, Feb 05, 2010 - 10:13am

Check out our latest vidA preview of our Mixing Dance Music CourseEssential tips on mixing-down your tune http://bit.ly/dcVjlS

Thu, Feb 04, 2010 - 5:11pm

RT @blaharper: Learned some cool production tricks from @Point_Blank this week!!! <<Cheers man! Glad we could impart some wisdom!

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