Results for Eddie Bazil

Stretch That Note has announced a Holiday sale, offering its sample libraries at a limited time discounts.

Mince pies, egg-nog and turkey aren’t your only route to a fat bottom end this Christmas — because Stretch That Note’s Layered Sample Madness sale kicks off on Friday 14 December. Lasting right through the holiday period, the sale gives you a whopping 40% off a collection of the very best kick- and bass-layering instruments you could wish for!

Everything you need to spend your Christmas and New Year carefully crafting the tightest, phattest and freshest of beats has been wrapped up in two tidy collections.

• Offer 1: Sort out your low-end (NI Kontakt modules) $100

  Comprising all three DruMM libraries (DruMM 1,2 & 3) and two bass instruments from the same series, L.E.W.D. and PULSE, which combine kick and pitched synth sounds to give you an earthquake-inducing foundation for your tracks.

• Offer 2: Layered Sample Madness (WAV samples) $100

  Comprising samples from all three DruMM libraries (DruMM 1,2 & 3) and the new RAW layering Kits. These aren’t just ‘sample libraries’, though — drawing on STN founder Eddie Bazil’s decades of experience in sound design they combine the expertly chopped and layered attack, decay, sustain and release elements of various acoustic and electronic drums giving you unparalleled and dynamic control over the sound. The sophisticated layering techniques also make clever use of frequency-specific phase cancellation and Mid/Sides processing, giving you — quite literally — an added dimension to your layered sounds.

The offers are available for $100 USD (over 40% off regular of $170). The sale ends on 2 January 2013, at 5pm GMT.

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Samplecraze has announced the release of The Art of Drum Layering Advanced video tutorial by Eddie Bazil.

The Samplecraze Art of Drum Layering Advanced video tutorial continues where the highly successful book The Art of Drum Layering and the SOS Drum -layering Masterclass left off. Why wade through hundreds of drum sounds hoping to find the best one for your song when you can create your own unique drum sounds that will sit well in the mix without clashing with other elements or causing frequency smearing?

With over an hour of new content demonstrating all the techniques in real time, you’ll learn how to assemble new sounds using ADSR elements, how to morph them into new sonic textures using creative phase and phase cancellation techniques, and how to work with filters across multiple drum layers to avoid frequency clashes.

Eddie Bazil also reveals specialist mid/side techniques that add width, depth, and overall thickness to your final sounds, and even demonstrates how to stack layers for incredibly deep and hard-hitting drum sounds like those featured in his acclaimed DruMM libraries. If you need innovative drum sounds across a wide range of genres that slot perfectly into your mixes, this advanced video tutorial is the key.

The video tutorial is available to purchase for $15 USD.

More information: Samplecraze / The Art of Drum Layering Advanced

Stretch That Note has announced a range of seven Kontakt 3/4 compatible DruMM modules: one free, and six more that each cost just $8 per module, or $40 for the complete suite.

Choosing the best sampled drum sounds for modern tracks can be extremely challenging, especially if you want them to cut through a busy mix. With this in mind, industry veteran Eddie Bazil has launched Stretch That Note, a new label specialising in Synthesis and Sound Design, along with its first set of products – a range of NI Kontakt Drum Modules.

Each of the seven available DruMM kits contains sixty carefully chosen drum sounds with bags of street character that can be individually or globally warped via a comprehensive engine, along with several sophisticated effect chains that alter Phatness and Crunch, add Vinyl grunge and alter Width. You can therefore quickly and easily create your own unique sounds with very versatile possibilities.

However, the pièce de résistance is the clever use of Mide/Side treatments, polarity inversion and phase cancellation, to allow multiple kits to be layered without suffering from the normal thinning and frequency cancelation problems. Just load up two or more different kits and trigger them simultaneously for some of the biggest drum sounds you’ve ever heard; almost guaranteed to cut through any mix when required.

Over the years Eddie has programmed new sounds for outfits as diverse as Pet Shop boys, Art Of Noise, Public Enemy and Emu/Ensoniq as well as many others, and his sounds have featured on many chart hits. Now you have the perfect chance to add them to your own tracks.

The DruMM modules for Kontakt are now available to purchase. Sign up at Stretch That Note and receive the first module DruMM free of charge.

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Samplecraze has announced the availability of 1-2-1 Tutorials, personal tuition courses by Eddie Bazil.

Wouldn’t it be great to have an expert looking over your shoulder and offering advice on your sound design, composition and mixing skills? Many musicians reach a point where they don’t know how to solve a particular problem, or how best to move forward, and at times like these having an experienced tutor on hand can be invaluable.

Eddie Bazil of Samplecraze has written music for film and theatre productions, produced artists in a variety of different musical genres and remixes for artists such as Buster Rhymes, has a background in sound design for companies such as Emu, Propellerheads and Native Instruments, his sound libraries and custom samples feature on many acclaimed albums, and his video tutorials have already helped many musicians around the world.

Now, via the wonders of the Internet, he’s offering the benefits of this expertise on a 1-to-1 basis to individual students in the comfort of their own studios.

More information: Samplecraze