Teft’s Blog

What happens when you convert a jazzy R&B beat to some electronica dirty groove? You get my remix! And that’s what I did to that “American Boy” track on the radio right now
Here’s the YouTube version …

I found the accapella online and was thrilled because

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So you’re a DJ and you love a radio hit that’s currently topping the charts. But you don’t have a club’ish remix …. Why not make one! I remixed Rihanna’s Umbrella track (sorry, it’s rough … I spent about 2 hours on it) to give it a more housey 4 to the floor […]

It’s that time of year when new always seems “better“. That new 8-core MacPro looks nice and shiny! Think of all the plugins I could run with an 8-core machine! It would stomp all over my dual G5, right?
Let’s jump into a theoretical upgrade see what happens for a moment:

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Okay .. First one hour song of the year … well, not quite an hour. More like hour and thirty minutes (it’s always the lyricists fault!). My best bud Jesse Janzen was up from LA and sat in on this session. Anddddd .. We had Kate Janzen as the “Director of Photography” […]

So I decided to try out the demo of the new compressor by FabFilter called “Pro-C“. I’d imagine “C” stands for compressor. I’m a huge fan of the FabFilter products … Twin, Timeless, Volcano … there all great! But I’ve always thought of FabFilter tools as synths and funky effects. Not […]

So you’ve got some guitar amps laying around that don’t get use anymore because your head is always in the computer building beats … use them for the beat creation process! Just like you’d use Amplitube or Trash, REAL guitar amps are the pinnacle of crunchified dirty sounds. And what takes dirty processing […]

Finally! Another 1 hour song! We’ve been trying to find time to do another tuneback for weeks … but we made it happen two days ago! And this time with one of my best friends, Jesse Janzen. Jesse has been known to collaborate with us from time to time, so we […]

A lot of people ask me when they first get started in building a home studio “what do you recommend I buy?” It’s such a broad question! So many choices, options, and paths to walk down. Do you dance with Digidesign and the ProTools money pit? Or do you amalgamate a […]

I remember when I first started out in music production not having a single clue how samples and loops were constructed. I was like “how do people produce these sounds?!” One the goals for this blog is to help people learn production techniques and to give away production material (loops, samples, kits, etc). […]

Recently, Judy (Mom) came back from a spiritual retreat. A lot of it focused on what messages mother Earth is giving to us (mankind). We had written this ambient track a while ago (last September) and shelved it because it didn’t fit the artistic vision of “Mimi & Teft”. When Judy got […]