Free Downloads: Wize “Freedom”

June 6th, 2010 • Blog
Tags: Champs-Elysées, Freedom, Jean-Claude Petit

Freedom is a track inpired by Jean-Claude Petit’s soundtrack for the 80′s TV Show Champs-Elysées! Feedbacks, comments & supports welcomed!

Freedom by wizemusic

DJ DLG vs Rozalla – Everybody’s Free

June 2nd, 2010 • Blog
Tags: DJ DLG, Everybody's Free, Rozalla

Sometimes, you listen to a track and think this is exactly the kind of track you would have loved to produce. DJ DLG’s rework of Rozalla’s famous track “Everybody’s Free”, is definitely that kind of track! Big, powerful, melodic, with a huge hook this new shot by DLG really has everything! And the best part : it’s FREE!

DJ DLG vs Rozalla – Everybody’s Free

10 Essential WordPress Plugins For DJs & Producers

May 31st, 2010 • 2 comments Blog
Tags: All In One SEO Pack, Contact Form 7, eShop for WordPress, Facebook Connector, Gigs Calendar, Lifestream, Popularity Contest, Twit Connect, WordPress, WordPress Download Monitor, WPaudio

I heavily use the web to promote my work. And WordPress is the starting point of all my communications : news, music, gigs, newsletter, etc… WordPress is now a key tool for anyone in the music business.

Here are 10 essential plugins for WordPress, a DJ or a musician just can’t leave without!

1. Contact Form 7

Every artist needs to keep in touch with his fans, and being able to be contacted straight from his website is really important. Contact From 7 does just that: creating simple or advanced forms you can embed in a page or a post. The only thing that misses for me is the ability to generate form with dynamic data (such as a list of posts to be selected.)

2. WPaudio

WPaudio is a simple yet clean Flash Audio Player for WordPress. It automatically replaces any mp3 links with a nice minimal player. I tested a lot of different players over the years, but this one has the most neutral style and is easy to custom (select Style in the option of the plugin.)

• Example: Selections By Wize – May 2010

3. eShop for WordPress

If you need a small digital shop for your site, eShop will perfectly fit your needs. You upload a track, put a name on it and, this is the most interesting feature, you embed it to a post. For me, the fact that you can put your digital product straight into any post or page, without the need for the visitor to go to a specific catalog page is very interesting. I just regret the poor style of the initial layout.

• Example here

4. Gigs Calendar

Gigs Calendar is the only relevant Gigs management plugin I found. I implemented it for my friend RLP. You create your venues, gigs, tours, and every event is linked to a post so that you can attract visitors to your site. It also generates very useful pages and widgets to be implemented to your site, and also a rss feed that you can embed in an email signature if you like.

• Example: here

5. Twit Connect

Twit Connect allows your Twitter fans to directly comment your post using their Twitter account. Also your fans can connect to your site with their Twitter account without the need to register. Very interesting feature that I start to heavily use on my sites.

6. WordPress Download Monitor

This plugin is one of the most important plugins for me. It allows to tracks downloads of any file on your site, you can also limit the download to registered users. I use it for Free Downloads reserved to my members only. Very easy to configure and flexible for quite tricky customisations such as the modification of the output of your links (you can add the size of your file, an icon linked to its type, etc…)

7. Lifestream

This plugin aggregates your social activity to a single and very classy stream you can display in widgets. You can add a lot of social portals such as Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, etc…

8. All In One SEO Pack

Simply one of the plugins I can’t live without. Almost no configuration and it works like a charm optimizing your blog for search engines. Great and effective plugin to have in its WordPress intallation.

9. Popularity Contest

This is a very famous plugin that classifies almost everything in your blog by popularity. Very useful to put in a widget like “Most Popular Posts”.

10. Facebook Connector

Facebook Connector brings Facebook to your blog. But it’s quite tricky to configure and needs some skill in PHP, Javascript and Facebook API. People can comment on your blog from their Facebook account just like Twit Connect does.

Sismic Music Podcast Invites Wize

November 12th, 2008 • Blog
Tags: Artego, DirtySouth, Electrobios, HernanCerbello, Monkz, Phunktastike, Pryda, TheAdjuster, TimVersace, TonyBlunt

Hi all! Just a few words to present you my brand new 1 hour mix which is available on Sismic Music Podcast!

Here is the tracklist:

1. Wize – Grand Voyage (T.B.S Remix) – Sismic Music
2. Phunktastike & Electrobios – On My own – Baroque Records
3. Tim Versace – Linda (Original Mix) – CDR
4. Artego vs Pryda – The Nebo And Zemlya`s Gift (Wize Dub – Ricky Ryan Mashup) – CDR
5. Hernan Cerbello – You Are Divine – Baroque Records
6. The Adjuster – I Want It – Dumbest
7. Monkz – Lifetime (Jay Lower Jr. Remix) – Radiocity Records
8. Wize – Grand Voyage (Original Mix) – Sismic Music
9. Dirty South – The End (Tocadisco Loves Techno Instrumental Mix) – Vicious
10. Tony Blunt – Nearly – Epsilon Trax
11. Wize – Grand Voyage (Artego Remix) – Sismic Music

You can subscribe to the podcast here.

3 Steps To Get A Killer Kick

November 3rd, 2008 • Production Tips
Tags: Direction Mixer, Kick, LinnDrum, Logic, Roland, TR 808, TR 909

Etape 1 : Choix du Kick et Sommation

Il va varier selon le ton donné de la production, un vaste choix de banque de samples reprennent les sons des TR 808 et 909 de chez Roland ou encore du LinnDrum qui sont réputés pour leurs qualité et leur efficacité.

Si un sample ne vous satisfait pas suivez ces indications sinon passez directement à l’Etape 2 avec le sample choisi :

Prenez un Kick avec une attack longue et frappant dans les bas et prenez un deuxième avec une attack très courte avec un ton sec puis mettez les sur deux pistes audio.

Afin d’éviter de passer dans le rouge au niveau de la sommation une bonne équalisation fera l’affaire .

• Pour le pied bas :

Sonalksis SV-517 Mk2 Equaliser Plug-in

• Pour le pied sec :

Sonalksis SV-517 Mk2 Equaliser Plug-in

Envoyer les deux kick dans un même Bus.

Etape 2 : Mix & Compression

Réglez les niveaux des pistes en fonction de l’effet désiré, le principal étant de ne pas saturer, traitez la panoramique afin de ne pas créer un hors phase lors de la sommation à l’aide d’un plug par ex Direction Mixer de Logic.

Direction Mixer by Logic Studio

Mettez une compression sur le bus avec une attack très courte 0,08 ms par ex, plus la release sera courte et plus elle rallongera votre pied, un ratio de 4.1 sera suffisant afin de ne pas écraser trop le kick avec un seuil à -8 db.

EQ

Etape 3 : EQ

Afin de redonner du punch au kick rajouter après la compression un EQ en remontant les bas vers 120 hz.

Sonalksis SV-517 Mk2 Equaliser Plug-in

Par Edu O