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 [...]

The Northern Europe Beatmix Inspiration

Beatmixing….YES, again! Our blog subscriber Raul sent me this link and I think it was more than worth to share this freaky shit with you guys. The Heavyweight of beatmixing has a new challenger. (Remember Konsky’s XXL beatmix): http://norwegianrecycling.net check the audio section… unbelievable! Can you do this? Sure? Send your mashup to blog@benztown.com and [...]

Do one of the hardest DJ techniques in a few minutes or do a Double Drop in Pro Tools – Andre’s Production Diary Part 30

Hi guys, it’s Andre. It’s now my 30th Production Diary, so it’s my 30th week here at the Benztown Studios in Stuttgart. After my last Tutorial about creating a DJ Mix in Pro Tools, I’m getting a bit more deeper into DJing with Pro Tools. DJing is not only about beatmatching, it’s about timing, too. [...]

Become a Pro Tools DJ – Andre’s Production Diary Part 27

Hi guys it’s Andre. It’s now my 27th week as volunteer at Bentztown Studios in Stuttgart. Do you know what really sucks being an Old School DJ still using vinyl? It’s not the exorbitant prices for vinyl, the heavy cases you have to move to every gig, buying new needles from time to time, it’s [...]

Add speed and energy to slow songs – Andre’s Production Diary Part 23

Hi guys, it’s me Andre, It’s now my 23rd week here in the Benztown Studios and I’m stull learning echa and every day here. CHR Imaging is all about energy and speed. With the most songs  played in CHR, it’s no big problem to create energetic imaging. Most of them range between 120bpm and 130 [...]

Get an Imaging Superstar or The Nic Kelly Files!

Nic Kelly  from Oz. Right, there was this 15 year old self marketing imaging genius. In my opinion, Nic is one of the guys, who will rock the imaging scene in the future. I know no guy having his age, who has the same skill set and industry connections. There are great imaging guys, who [...]

Beatmixing Madness Part 2 – And the Beat keeps going on…From Dubai to Denver

After getting so much different beatmatched stuff and beatmixes last week, we thought, you’d have enough of this… apparently not. So I feel free to start with a benztown piece from last week and after that  introduce you to the stuff we got sent from Mike, Tom and Pavel. Enjoy the guys amazing work, get [...]

Beatmixing Madness – Or how a short video creates that massive amount of sounds

After getting so much love for Oli’s Beatmixing Tutorial , Andy asked our users to send in some beatmixes and beatmatched stuff and your response was MASSIVE! We received tons of beatmatching demos, which we don’t want to deprive you of. So check out the beatmixes we received and let us know what you think [...]

The best Pitch and Time Compression Effects in the world PT2!

In my 5 minute work out excercise a few weeks ago, I promised you to show you how to do the best Pitch and Time Compression Effects in the world using Serato Pitch’n’Time. I even promised to do a second Part using ProTools 8 and elastic Audio and guess what : I was lying. My [...]