Saw this on his Facebook feed as follows:

Claude VonStroke

Recently went back to Point Blank HQ to do a tutorial. Explaining the process I went through to create Le Fantôme.

http://youtu.be/4lDwZsXbRKk

Nice one, enjoyed it. Makes me want to take up ableton, has some very nice features I could use to help seal my tracks. I also work the same way in terms of mixing down while creating.

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Yeah, plus CVS is super down to earth, which makes it even more pleasant to watch. You don't have to be an audio engineer, composer arranger extraordinare to make excellent, memorable tracks, as long as you catch the "feeling" of a track and understand the dancefloor the way he does.

He touches on 5-10 different things that are simple but worth mentioning.

I agree, hes one of the few djs I try to make it out and see when hes in town which is usually once a year. His tracks go down very well.

i applaud his ability to not just insert jokes every few minutes where people are not sure if he is joking. Bored me to death tho. I mean i prefer this approach than say Illgates who comes across as a used car salesman selling hype.

The thing i hate about these types of thing is they just lack focus. Talk about one thing in detail. This is just the same shit over and over and over. This could of been given by anyone with that silly ableton certification. Nothing really that personal.

And in a master class type setting, using your artist name is sort of lame. I mean you can say hi, my name is Barclay, many of you know me as that dick that combines a french name and a Germanic Royalty prefix because I'm an ignorant american. Some of you also know me as Tim ALlen's hairy co star in home improvement.

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A little bit more focus would be nice on certain topics, but it's still worth watching. Being able to accurately convey what you're doing in the studio is pretty difficult.



He's drunk in this interview and pretty open about it, it's actually pretty damn entertaining.

It was interesting to see someone using the same technique/methods (or most of them) in their production process - I guess I'm not alone or most important -> I'm not doing it the wrong way lol, ......... oh maybe different then anybody else

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that DRUM RACK sample scrolling trick he shows at around the 45min mark is awesome.

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Originally posted by Looney4Clooney And in a master class type setting, using your artist name is sort of lame. I mean you can say hi, my name is Barclay, many of you know me as that dick that combines a french name and a Germanic Royalty prefix because I'm an ignorant american. Some of you also know me as Tim ALlen's hairy co star in home improvement.

It's VonStroke, not von Stroke. Im guessing it's a play on either the Bourke one-stroke engine or perhaps the idiom.

The von-title was also used extensively by non-nobles during the Middle Ages. All german nobles are/were von, but not all vons are noble.

But to go back on topic for just one sec, thanks for posting the vid, I'll prolly learn alot about ableton that i havent already figured out

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Originally posted by Looney4Clooney The thing i hate about these types of thing is they just lack focus. Talk about one thing in detail.

nubs have the same questoins


wut fx? wut vst? mix and master? what daw? how 2 eq? how 2 compress?

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Thanks for this, I would seriously lurve to be that laid back. He seems very comfortable in his own skin and never afraid to say he doesn't understand all the techno babble.

Interesting approach to getting mastering involved. He said he sends the file pretty loud and just views mastering as a little sugar on the cake.
Danny Byrd also takes this approach and they both say they get thier tracks pretty much where they want them in terms of loudness prior to going to mastering. I mention this as people forever say you must send a quiet untainted untouched file to the mastering house. As ever, rules are there to be broken just like Ussain Bolt drinking n partying when all the coaches tell him that's against all the rules.

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i'm pretty sure if you read every interview from every mix engineer in the last 10 years, 90% of them will say that they do most of the dynamics and leave that little extra for mastering.

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