Marty and Blake do some quick mixing to help all the instruments (and vocals) have their own space in the mix. This episode is another 'live' workshop where the duo adds the finishing touches to their their song Instinct Cringes. Marty also shares a fun bonus vocal effect at the end.

Blake and Marty set out to finish the song they started in high school. Finishing songs is hard! This episode is a 'live' workshop where the duo adds finishing touches, hones in on certain vibes and creates the official end to the song. Marty also reveals his favorite default vocal effects for amazingly clean vocals.

Spoiler - no one can't play piano. Marty shows Blake a fun trick to play in any key without any experience or knowledge of theory. Go fool your friends!

How you organize you files can help you be more creative? Marty talks best known methods to organize files, reduce friction and never lose anything ever again! Blake and Marty also detail naming conventions, backups, soaps, trash bins, subfolders and the VAULT (ault, ault, ault...).

It is time to do vocal chops to aid the transition in Marty's work-in-progress song. This is a great technique used all over pop and EDM music to make hooks, textures and pads. Marty shows off a number of different chopping effects and the duo work together to ideate, problem solve and create in this "live" episode.

Marty and Blake continue to workshop the transition of Marty's song. This episode features a classic production trick we call "reverse reverb sweepies" which works wonders with reverb, delay, formant and more.

Here we go workshopping a transition in Marty's song. Idea generation is on, and Marty and Blake feature automation as a tool to build up a transition point.

Marty reveals the secret instrument from last episode, tells about an amazing historical instrument, demonstrates horror music, and the thinking behind the uniqueness of junk.

How does the harmonic series map to string instruments? Blake and Marty show how harmonics work, and what they sound like, and play examples from many greats including Alan Gogall and Victor Wooten. Marty ends the show with a mystery instrument. Try and guess what it is!

There is a difference between throat singing and overtone singing. Marty breaks it down and shares more stylistic choices from singers around the world, and out of this world (The music of Dune). In this episode, you will hear something you have never heard before!