About This Course

In this class, Chris shares insightful knowledge on working with non-digital sounds, field recordings and found sounds that can be recorded anywhere and used creatively in numerous ways.

You will learn: 

• Using Room Noise In A Mix
• EQ Sweeps
• Making Percussions From Found Sounds
• EQing Field Recordings
• Making Pads with Field Recordings

Lessons: 

1. Using Room Noise in The Mix

Looking at artists like Four Tet and Burial who use field recordings in their tracks. Their creative way of sampling real world recordings makes their music stand out.

2. Making Percussion Out of Found Sounds

You can create toms, claps and other percs from recorded material that will be more sonically interesting than most digital sounds

3. EQing Field Recordings

Sculpting recorded sounds is crucial to working with them, with a wide frequency range, Chris shows us how he would sweep the sounds to identify harsh and unnecessary frequencies.

4. Making Pads With Field Recordings

Getting creative with looping recordings to create textural pad sounds.

5. Recap & MIDI Mapping

Using the found sounds to enhance the groove, Chris adds MIDI mapped effects to the foley including Delay, Auto-Filter, Reverb & Sidechain Compression.

6. Recording Automation

Recording live automation can take the sound from being dry to an interesting sonic sculpture with effects that are constantly moving.

7. Instrument Samples

Having used his daughters drum kit, recorded on an iPhone, Chris explains that you don’t need expensive equipment to create interesting sounds, he adds in the drum sample and works it into the track.

8. Mixdown

Some insightful information on how Chris would mix his tracks down, he states that makes all low-end in mono and increases the stereo image as the frequencies get higher.

9. Recap & Q&A