Philipp Zumbrunnen's blog

Have you ever missed a shortcut to open the I/O Setup or to delete selected empty tracks in Pro Tools? Here is the tip of the month for all MacOS X users:

A quick tip on fades:

Hi all

I hope you are all fine and tautly waiting for Christmas Eve. I‘m sure after snowy days you will have some original Swiss Fondue with friends while chilling to downtempo music in your warm and snugly living room.

Pro Tools Basic Course (taught in english AND german) is a four-week running through Pro Tools that covers the basic of operating on a Digidesign Pro Tools System and starts in January 2010. The main issues contain tutorials, movies and downloadable exercise session files which can be opened in every Pro Tools version up to version 8.

You will learn

how to create a session and objects you need for recording and mixing
how you setup a Pro Tools System
the most important parts of the main windows
how to navigate through the Edit window

Did you ever want to record a drum like pros does? What are reasons why your drum recordings doesn‘t sound like a tight and punchy one from Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater)? What is a good sounding room and a bad one? Need to know how you can quantize drums in your software?

That‘s what I like to introduce you the Drum Recording Course (http://saeonline.com/course/drum-recording)

Listen to several drum recordings and understand, why your recordings could sound better as you ever done before.