"Some Pagan" , Charlie: >On a similar thread, how many 313 producers out there (either list or famous) are coming from a more traditional background ie classical training or garage bands or something of that ilk. ________________________________
Yes, it helps to know about musical structure before embarking on mixing - how otherwise can one distinguish beats, bars and sections? Although I haven't produced for a long time, I do gladly DJ. My original training is classical (piano, various recorders) and some jazz (saxophone, piano), plus some serious muso record listening, which means sitting around with your mates and picking your favourite music apart into its minute details, such as structures, sound textures and vocals/solos (never mind where the samples come from....) And that helps enormously in developing one's DJ skills, from researching and shopping, to programming and the technical aspects of mixing. Hillegonda.
