Audio Editing Tips
For all of you fabulous choreographers who edit your own music: When saving your music as an mp3, NEVER save it at anything less than a 256k bit rate. Why is this important? Because when you save it at 128k or lower, you are throwing away some of the detail
Miscellaneous
Did you pick out a song that has taps in it, but now you need them removed for competition or any other performance? You are in luck. Squirrel Trench Audio now has the capability to remove embedded tap sounds in music. Click to hear a before and after sample (with
Music Selection Ideas
With so much tragedy in the world today, I offer to you, this small token of peace. Please enjoy this mash-up of Aura Veris' orchestral cover of John Lennon's Imagine, with a poem written and performed by Suheir Hammad titled "What I Will." There
Congratulations/Results
Is it possible to fuse funk with Irish Dance? The answer is yes, as proved beautifully by Tara Shaye Lynch. Tara's mother asked me to create a 90-second custom clean edit of Uptown Funk last year, and congratulations to Tara for winning Ms. Cheshire Outstanding Teen of
Congratulations/Results
It is always with great joy that I get to see a video of a dance routine for which I've done the music editing. The latest comes from Roberta Ryder, whose daughter Eden performed contemporary choreography by Ausia Jones, set to the song Death of Murad by Nathaniel
Miscellaneous
The organization Youth Protection Advocates in Dance (Y.P.A.D.) recently came to my attention via tap dancer Kaelyn Gray. Kaelyn was upset by some dance routines displayed on YouTube where very young dancers (younger than 10 years old) are seen performing with overly sexualized costuming, music, and choreography.
Audio Editing Tips
I'm sure you've noticed that there are some songs where your dancers are constantly being held back by the tempo of the song. When this happens it's almost like there is an invisible force subtly sapping the energy out of the routine. Conversely, there
Music Selection Ideas
Confident by Demi Lovato is a hot new song that has a great beat for dance. There is both an Explicit version and a Clean version on iTunes. However, even the clean version has some lyrics that are not suited for kids. Squirrel Trench Audio now has three great-sounding
Miscellaneous
One of my greatest joys in creating, editing, and remixing music for choreographers is to see the amazing dances performed by their students with that soundtrack. However, since I work with dance teachers around the country and even in other parts of the world, I don't get to
Audio Editing Tips
More and more folks are interested in recording voice-overs of various kinds for their dance routines. Since Squirrel Trench Audio works with dance teachers and choreographers all over the world, we usually can't come to you in order to do the recording. This means you are on
Miscellaneous
Please don't confuse Squirrel Trench Audio with Squirrel Truth, even though the first ten letters of the domain are the same. One site is for music, the other is for comedy. http://www.squirreltruth.com/
Music Selection Ideas
After the smashing appearance in the opening number to the recent Dancing With the Stars episode, Emergency by Icona Pop has been flying up the charts. Unfortunately, for dance teachers and choreographers, the only version currently available on iTunes is Explicit. Squirrel Trench Audio now has a great-sounding version