Find the EXACT best tempo for your routine
I’m sure you’ve noticed that there are some songs where your dancers are constantly being held back by the tempo…
Tips for recording Voice-Overs for dance routines
More and more folks are interested in recording voice-overs of various kinds for their dance routines. Since Squirrel Trench Audio…
Don’t Let Your Audio Degrade
When editing, cutting or mixing music yourself, don’t let the audio degrade. Be careful when you do audio editing. Sometimes I…
The reason you don’t want audio from YouTube videos
There are many reasons why it’s a bad idea to extract audio from YouTube. 1) It’s illegal. 2) Even pristine audio…
CD-quality versus mp3-quality – What’s good enough?
A recent comment on a dance facebook group asked for some further explanation on the differences between CD-quality audio (lossless…
Put a button on it
Definition of Button, from a Broadway Glossary: Button: The payoff moment in a song; the moment when the song is…
Clean your dance, clean your music
Competition season for dancers is here in earnest. This past weekend featured two studios utilizing Squirrel Trench music for their…
Pump Up The Volume
Just finished bringing up the volume of another movie soundtrack song (based on a Broadway show tune) for a dance…
Time to fix things up
Most group music is probably now finished for the season. Perhaps a few solos still need to be created. In…
Determine the tempo first
Here’s a tip that will make all of your music edits (or cuts) much, much easier. I just got an…