Finding music in misery – Enter KC Styles

KC Styles is a very active member of our Benz Blog community and also a great Imaging diretor.  He was so kind to share the following video by  CTV in Calgary. Learn more about KC’s studio, his life and his work. If you’re interested in joining one of KC’s volunteer projects, feel free to drop [...]

The Sidechain Prince Pt.2 or how Oli “The Captain” becomes David Guetta!

He recently won the DJ Mag Top 100 DJs voting. He’s on tour all over the world in the biggest clubs. Every track he works on, becomes a worldwide chart hit. He’s the most popular and successful DJ/Producer in Pop and Electronic Music at the moment. You know who I am talking about ….who’s that [...]

Jez B in the Mix! Enter Adobe Audition Beatmixing made in Australia

Guys like James Smith or Nic Kelly have proven it: Adobe Audition is a hot topic in Radio Imaging. In the last time, we heard a lot of great imaging  produced with Adobe Audition. There is some very hot beatmatching – and all this without the help of a ProTools grid mode. Morning Show producer [...]

London Randomness with Paul and Andy or epic Amy

This week I had the great pleasure to catch up with my friend and Imaging Legend Paul Armstrong. Paul gave me a great London tour and we had the chance to hang out for a few hours in his office to discuss about imaging techniques, script writing and further development of Benztown in the UK. [...]

Useful Links: The best ProTools tutorial videos ever……

YOU want more videos! You get it! How can you improve your workflow in a few minutes? How can you learn from the industry leading imaging directors and production legends? Just watch the videos below and learn stunning new features, awesome production tricks, get inspired and safe resources by checking out the 3 most inspiring [...]

The Echo Freeze Effect – Andre’s Production Diary Part 35

Hi guys, it’s Andre. It’s now my 35th Production Diary, so it’s my 35th week at the Benztown Studios and I’m still learning evergything about radio imaging and production. We’re always looking for new ways to spice up transitions between songs. A few days ago, Today, I’m showing you another way to create smooth transitions [...]

The HOLY GRAIL of mixing desk routing – add Massive Stereo Width to your production

Today Oli is gonna show you how to create an unbelievable stereo width with almost no plugINs, means only by routing. The only gear you need is an EQ or other PlugIN, which is able to invert phases.

Get rid of that latency! Andre’s Production Diary Part 28

Today’s imaging is working completely working without classic outboard gear. The Plugins are getting better and better, nothing’s impossible anymore. There are Plugins for almost everything in radio imaging or music production. And here starts the problem. The more, your Plugin can do, the more CPU power it needs. Not everyone owns a 12-core Mac [...]

Video tutorial… It is getting mean and dirty!

Many stations are on the look for the most polished sound possible. BUT, some Imaging pieces need to sound dirty, rough and edgy. I created a Lollapalooza Promo for our CHR library and used a plugIN from the Sound Toy Family, I never used before and it made the VO unbelievable dirty and rough. Love [...]

Video Tutorial: Monster ROCK Brandings or the FILTER strikes back!

Today Fabi our skateboard loving Rock Imaging Director will show you how to handle extremely complicated music cuts proper by producing a Monster ROCK branding using a FILTER Automation. You can use the same technique also while creating beatmixes, promos or anything where you need to cut music and it is a challenging task to [...]