ProducerHead Loops: Your Grid Is Lying to You | feat. Dan Giffin

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This Loop:

In this ProducerHead Loop, Dan Giffin talks about something simple but transformative. Get off the grid.

Coming from a drummer’s background, Dan sees producers get overly locked into the visual structure of their DAWs. The grid becomes law. The lines become rules. But rhythm is not supposed to feel perfect. It is supposed to feel human. Swing the hi hats. Let the snare breathe. Trust the push and pull.

He also challenges the way we rely on visuals when producing and mixing. Spectrum analyzers, waveforms, grids. They all provide information, but they can trick us into producing with our eyes instead of our ears. Dan’s philosophy is clear. Trust your ears before your eyes. Feeling is more important than what you see.

From Episode: 029. Part 1: Getting Out Of Your Head And Into Your Body feat. Dan Giffin

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This episode was co-produced, engineered and edited by Matthew Diaz.

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