Master Essential Skills & Creative Techniques of Outdoor Photography.

https://www.puremix.com/library/tutorials/interviews/how-to-tune-vocals-with-melodyne

Vocals are the heart & soul of a song. Because if this, it is essential that you learn to treat them with the detailed attention they deserve. Melodyne is a powerful tool that allows you to tweak a singer's (or instrument) performance to a tasteful amount of perfection. But like any powerful tool, it can be confusing and overwhelming. No need to worry, Fab’s got your back. Follow along as he shares his refined approach to using Melodyne in the most musical way possible.

https://www.puremix.com/library/tutorials/interviews/drum-set-1-mic

Fab moves an AKG C12 around until the drum set sounds good with just one microphone.

https://www.puremix.com/library/tutorials/interviews/drum-replacement

The Kick drum is an important part of the mix that is often hard to record, hard to play consistently, and hard to tune. This is where replacement with samples can come in handy. In this Puremix exclusive, Andrew Scheps shows you a few ways he uses drum replacement to enhance kick drums in his mixes.

https://www.puremix.com/library/tutorials/interviews/dangerous-music

Fab explain what is analog summing and takes a deeper look at the Dangerous 2-Bus Summing box specifically. The video makes it easy to understand what a summing mixer is and how to set up your session when you have to send your tracks out to a summing box. If you have been Summing curious lately, this a great way to get into the scene.

https://www.puremix.com/library/tutorials/interviews/creating-dj-edits

Fred Everything is known for his diverse, genre-defying, and unique DJ sets across the world. To keep things fresh for every performance, Fred had to come up with a technique that allows him to quickly add excitement within songs through creative arrangement editing as well as composing new instrumental parts to incorporate in his sets on the fly.

https://www.puremix.com/library/tutorials/interviews/compression

In this Puremix Exclusive, Fab Dupont returns to the How To Listen Series. This time, It’s the Compression Edition. Compressors are one of the most valuable tools we have as engineers. Offering us the ability to control dynamics and shape the tone and behavior of the source material.

https://www.puremix.com/library/tutorials/interviews/brazilian-girls-the-critic

Brazilian Girls are a funky and eccentric dance music group from NYC and in this full-length mixing tutorial Grammy winner Carlos “El Loco” Bedoya mixes their single “The Critic” from start to finish. The production is deceptively simple, learn how El Loco Bedoya builds the mix track by track, applying EQ, compression and effects that bring out the details and energy of the song. To add an extra layer of difficulty into the mix there are two entire sets of drum tracks that combine together into an intricate and complex groove, not your typical dance music production.

https://www.puremix.com/library/tutorials/interviews/beat-detective-in-pro-tools

In this video, Ben Lindell shows us how he uses Beat Detective in order to lock an acoustic drum performance to the grid. The main challenge when using Beat Detective is to preserve the groove and feel of the track. Fortunately, Ben came up with a protocol that allows tightening of the performance without sucking the life out of it.

Saray will help you discover your target sales average and package prices based on how much you want to make in a year, using simple math separate from whatever anxiety you feel about asking for that money. She’ll also help you explore what you value in life, what is important to your clients, and how what you offer provides long-lasting value for them. This isn’t about offering a large quantity of products or adding in bonus frills, but rather about discovering the value in the time you give and the quality of the images you provide.

Saray will help you discover your target sales average and package prices based on how much you want to make in a year, using simple math separate from whatever anxiety you feel about asking for that money. She’ll also help you explore what you value in life, what is important to your clients, and how what you offer provides long-lasting value for them. This isn’t about offering a large quantity of products or adding in bonus frills, but rather about discovering the value in the time you give and the quality of the images you provide.

https://theportraitsystem.com/course/personal-branding-shooting-to-sell-with-nikki-closser/

Go behind the scenes with Nikki during 2 different personal branding photoshoots.

https://theportraitsystem.com/course/networking-with-angie-whitten/

Sue covers what you need to prepare for one of the big “Hallmark” holidays: Mother’s Day. Covered in this course is Prepping, Shooting, and Marketing.

https://theportraitsystem.com/course/mothers-day-prep-shoot-market/

Sue covers what you need to prepare for one of the big “Hallmark” holidays: Mother’s Day. Covered in this course is Prepping, Shooting, and Marketing.

In these tutorials, Peter walks you through his approach to creating low key images. He first builds a lighting set up using a large light source and then brings in modifers to really shape the light to his taste. After two styling changes, he then shows you how he does low key with only natural light.

Join Peter and Julia as we take you behind the scenes of another of Peter’s ‘play’ shoot. As always, it begins with Julia selecting her own moodboard from Peter’s inspiration folder when he then asks her to explain what she like the most & why she selected the images she did – this further understanding will help building the light + styling to get a final look they both love.

Peter has been working with dancer Jackson Fisch for a few years before his move overseas to pursue full time dancing. He was home to visit his family and contacted Peter for another dance shoot, which is of course Peter’s favourite with the incredible shapes they can pull. These tutorials follow the lighting set up for the shoot, as well as a fly-on-the-wall look at Peter and Jackson working together.

Tahan is an influencer who from time to time gives Peter a call to help with the content for her social media accounts, this shoot should have been one of their typical ‘insta fashion’ shoots but the stylist supplied by Tahan decided it was his shoot not Peter’s, which dragged the shoot out & made it much more complicated than it needed to be.

This video has been put together to teach you how Peter works in ugly locations; how he sees light, how he understands it, and how he uses it. Most importantly, how easy it is to do this yourself, in any location.

There is no one way to do high key and it can be achieved using a whole range of different lights. Join Peter and Bec as they show you 4 quick and easy ways to do high key, using natural light, one light, two and finally 3.

Andrew Scheps opens up his final mixing session for the song "Young and Wild" and walks you through track by track how he applied his tastes and techniques to amp up the song.

Each step along the way he shows you before and after examples of his creative processing that adds the perfect touches to complete the song's sonic vision.

Fab has been playing, writing, producing, and mixing music live and in studios worldwide. He's worked in cities like Paris, Boston, Brussels, Stockholm, London, and New York to name a few.

Fab has received many accolades worldwide, including wins at the Victoires de la Musique, South African Music awards, Pan African Music Awards, US independent music awards. He also has received Latin Grammy nominations and has worked on many Latin Grammy and Grammy-nominated albums.