With a career spanning 22 years and a backlog of releases, Leon has been busy to say the least.
Stemming from a musical background, leon specialised in lead guitar as his first instrument and spent most of his teenage years in various bands performing anything from Heavy metal to 60's-70's Rock'n'Roll.
He first started programming music in 1992 and then bought his first studio setup in 1998, soon to follow was his debut release in 2001 on Unkut Recordings.
2002 saw the birth of Defcom Records along with the partnership of Kryptic Minds, and a massive passion for deep dark Drum and Bass.
With releases on imprints such as MetalHeadz, Frequency, Freak, Monitor and Penetration to name just a few, he had recorded and remixed for some of the scenes true pioneers and then 2007
was to see his debut Album 'Lost all Faith'.
2008/9 and a change of tempo and name, pushed him into the limelight. Now writing under the Kryptic Minds moniker, the 'One of us' album was released on Swamp81 and the international touring started.
Reaching places as far as New Zealand, Australia and Hong Kong and then out to places such as Moscow, Siberia, Ukraine, but not forgetting nearly all of europe in his home times...
The releases continued on imprints such as Tectonic and Osiris Music Uk and then Black Box released the 'Cant Sleep' Album in 2011.
2013 and Hollywoods motion picture 'Elysium' features his track 'Six Degrees' at a pinacle moment in the film and then The 'Namaste EP' got released and saw the long awaited 'Badman VIP' hit the shelves.
2014 saw Leon branch out on his own again and imediately sign to the legendary Distance's imprint Chestplate, with his debut tracks Deadlock and Persepolisia, alongside his long awaited 'Leon Switch Presents Deep, Dark Dubstep' sample pack for Loopmasters.
2016 and his secound release on Chestplate - Intrepid backed with Overlook, and then he released his 'Leon Switch Sample Series Vol 1', with accompanying tutorial series videos.
2017 'Leon Switch - Construction Kits' is released, and then Leon's album 'War Trax' which was written and produced as the soundtrack for R8Games ltd. Fusion Formula, the AG racing game of 2017.
Leon has several collaborations on the go with many artists and companies, including:
Italian composer, arranger , producer and guitarist Eraldo Bernocchi, in an album project called Rotor.
Endorsed by More Superior Wear Clothing company and working alongside Subpac.
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Thanks very much Leon Switch! Really insightful tips. When the melody got brought in, I couldn’t help but break into a skank. And I dunno if it was my computer or not but video was a bit glitchy – still learned lots though! Peace.
Ah thanks for your feedback, I’m stoked you found this tutorial insightful! My apologies for the occasional glitch, its not a problem I have encountered before but hope it didn’t affect the learning process…
Much Love!
Sir….. any content by you in my books is always gold, whether that’s a release or a turtorial… Was very interresting seening your work flow, really helps to put things into perspective and structure an artists approach when producing, Thank You
Dam tho, you got a lot of external hard disks though….. , your well on your way to using half the alphabet of drive letters that can be assigned
I bet there like 5TB each as well, Lol
Ah thanks for the kind words, glad you enjoyed the tutorial…
And lol at the amount of hard drives in my machine, to be fair they are just the internal fixed ones, not the external portable ones that pretty much do fill the rest of the alphabet…. Lol!
Well Played! I got a lot out of this. Great insight into your overall project layout as well as your mix down info. Cheers
Stoked you enjoyed it mate! It’s a fairly simple approach but it works for me 🙂
Thanks for the feedback!
Been on the fence about getting a membership until i noticed that u had a course on here. Great course!
Ah really glad you did! Lots of cool content to follow!
Amazing walkthrough, I dig that Ableton skin. Would love you see how you came up with the sounds prior to freezing, especially the mids. Look forward to more pro tips. Also, thanks for the DL, great tune!
thanks for doing this tutorial and showing us some of your workflow, its cool to see how you mix all the elements together . i also would like to see more on how you got some of them sounds down before you bounced them(maybe something for a future tutorial)? Also, what is that buss compressor vst u using exactly , is it the actual SSL native one?
I don’t think the plugin windows are coming up in the video
Hey, what part of the course are you referring too?
i am glad i went back to re-watch these. Watching how you were mixing every channel one by one was very helpful. Also, i took like two pages worth of notes from this. Thanks again for this. 🙂
Also do you know if the download link is still active for this tune? It is not working on my end.