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DJ Khaled – I’m the One (GARAGEBAND TUTORIAL)

For his latest GarageBand iOS tutorial, Arvid has dived into DJ Khaled’s collaborative hit ‘I’m The One’. Check out how to recreate it on your iPad or iPhone below:

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      1. Thanks for the reply – at least I can stop banging my head looking for a way.
        ALSO nice article on EQ. You know, on the PA side of things, +’ing EQ bands quite often creates distortion in that band.

        The physics: it takes 2X amp power to get 3dB more. So, using an example of a 100 watt power amp to make #’ easy and assuming your output is only at10%, creating 10 watts across 20-20K
        If you are at 0 @ ‘X’ Hz (‘X’ being one band of your EQ), you are asking the amp to make 10 watts. Easy, right?
        – If you go to +3 @ X Hz, you are asking the make 20 watts – no prob
        – If you go to +6 @ X Hz, you are asking the make 40 watts – still no prob
        – If you go to +9 @ X Hz, you are asking the make 80 watts – still no probs
        – If you go to +12 (and who hasn’t) you are asking the amp to make 160 watts – THD goes up, IMD (Inter Modulation Distortion goes up, the cost of replacing drivers and diaphragms goes up)

        Now lets say you change your output to 20%
        – If you go to +3 @ X Hz, you are asking the amp to make 40 watts – no prob
        – If you go to +6 @ X Hz, you are asking the amp to make 80 watts – still no prob
        – If you go to +9 @ X Hz, you are asking the amp to make 160 watts –
        – If you go to +12 @ X Hz, you are asking the amp to make 320 watts out of a 100W amp – now you have BIG probs
        -if you go to +15 @ X Hz, you are asking the amp to make 640 watts out of a 100 W amp
        The amp is dumb and will do what it can to obey; your distortion goes up faster than finding someone else’s nose candy before they did 🙂

        If it is not a pure class A (non switching amp) I believes the distortion will be coincidental to the outputs’ transistors/tubes switching, which occurs on other class amps will become augmented in a similar fashion. Many amps which are labeled class A are only class A to a point, then switches to class A/B (Switching). To exemplify this switching, If you were to picture a wave on an oscilloscope, the top of the wave (like an upside-down U) is handled with one set of outputs. At the zero point, or the crossover point (the horizontal line across the middle of the oscilloscope), the top outputs turn down or off and the bottom part of the wave is handled by the other set of outputs which turn on or up. To product a middle A, this happens 880 times a second and the switching on a non class A amp is audible. Where they trade off creates Switching Distortion; a class A amp never shuts any of the tube off and eliminates the switching distortion. Pure Class A Amplifiers also eliminate efficiency, outputs’ life and most funds in your wallet.

        Similar, but a bit skewed, the affects are also on a boards preamp EQ settings, even if it’s just Treble Mid Bass. Moral of the story, your highest point on your EQ needs to be at 0. You can keep the exact same curve, lower the curve until the highest band is at 0 and you are free to raise the output CLEANLY and get the exact same corrections, but do not cross above the 0 line.

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