Rashad Becker on Mixing, Mastering and Composition | Red Bull Music Academy

In his 2014 Red Bull Music Academy, Rashad Becker explained how (and why) he creates chewy and complex music, and how you can mix, master, and manipulate your sounds to do the same.
TOPICS:
7:06 - Beginnings in mastering
13:31 - Mastering questions
19:24 - Comparing sound
23:23 - Graphing sound
44:51 - Recording sound
1:15:01 - Tired ears
MUSIC:
55:53 - Rashad Becker - "Dances II" • Rashad Becker - Dances II
Around Berlin, Rashad Becker’s name is synonymous with sonic brilliance - a mastering engineer at Basic Channel’s Dubplates & Mastering studio, he put the finishing touches on over 1,200 of your favorite techno, dub, and house records. Following Basic Channel, Becker set up his own Clunk studio in Kreuzberg, where he created his compelling debut for the PAN label, 2013’s Traditional Music of Notional Species Vol. 1. The record is a disorienting three-dimensional thrill ride inside Becker’s mind, full of overlapping layers, links, and elastic audibles that stick and twist in your mind.
The Red Bull Music Academy is a global music institution committed to fostering creativity in music. We celebrate music, its culture, and the transformative minds behind it. Begun in 1998, the Academy has taken the core principles that underlie its annual workshop for selected participants and applied this curatorial approach to events, lectures, and city-wide festivals throughout the year.
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[@saxophones]

WHEN THEY PLAY HIS OWN TRACK AND HE STARTS POURING THE WATER TO ADD A NEW NUANCE TO THE TRACK. I SEE YOU, RASHAD. YOU CHAMP.

[@arekkrupinski3249]

he is like Werner Herzog of sound

[@movimentodoscacos]

His response to the first question is so much better than it had to be.

[@djsichuan622]

I would love to have his skill set, and ear. Incredibly informative w relation to mastering.

[@bevboyz]

very informative and interesting

[@udomatthiasdrums5322]

love it!!

[@redspinner]

About the different sounding of same sequence recordered at the begining of disk vs end of disk, IF indeed is the same sound sequence, and not two different sounds, the cause may be the different relative speed of diamond on the groove (higher speed at begining of disk, and lower speed at the end of disk) which assure increased dynamics at the begining - let's make an analogy and think to different sound quality assured by different speeds of reel-to-reel players.
Also, there is a different stylus angle on the groove at the begining vs end of a disk, and this may have an influence - this hypothese may be verified using a linear tracking turntable, where the stylus is perfectly tangent to groove from the begining to the end.

[@elisabethsyou]

isnt he lovley!

[@leonardolaleonardo4924]

@1:10:50 lewis can cut asking the big questions-rep burn city!

[@orvardzapanta9729]

40:08

[@therealchickentender]

No! Talk about tape - TALK ABOUT TAPE!

[@qwertyvoodoo]

54:00

[@qwertyvoodoo]

1:00:00

[@pjthunder]

ASMR

[@portra_services]

Guess I'll have to do google now,why he's not convinced by tape...

[@dazeofheaven]

Why doesn't he like tape?

[@ar_xiv]

He was talking about delicate phase relationships. Possibly tape tampers with this type of thing in a way he finds undesirable. Just a hunch. Also noise floor and more equipment to maintain of course.

[@portra_services]

Is this Yung Palms Trax on the left at 34:05 ?

[@user-ob9zo9cr4c]

yes