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Remixing Loops
Stuck searching through sample packs or sound design tutorials looking for something that will spark some inspiration? Chances are you’ve already got thousands of samples lying around in your library, yet I can bet you’re still tempted to get your hands on the next best thing… So here’s a super quick way to breathe life…
Creating Tension in your Buildups
Do you struggle with building tension in your breakdowns? Here’s a super quick tip to add that feeling of raw excitement that gets everybody ready for your track to drop and makes the place go crazy! By borrowing existing elements from your main theme, creating variation and fading new layers in, you can easily build…
Adding Groove to Boring Drums
Ever find your drums are lacking the kind of groove and swing often heard in your favourite tracks? Rather than reaching straight for your library’s groove pool, this technique uses the power of the triplet grid to create and experiment with bumpy grooves perfect for house, garage and many other dance genres. Whilst I’ve used…
Write a Killer Bassline in under 30 seconds!
If you’ve been looking for a quick way to create deep and groovy basslines perfect for house and techno… Look no further! This super effective technique uses a percussion sample as a framework to build your bassline within, so you know you’ll be creating something that carries the groove and rhythm needed…
Quick Drum Layering with Simpler
Looking for fast inspiration and a cool technique for adding texture to your drum loops? Look no further! Foley sounds like the water droplets sample I’ve used here provide an endless stream of inspiration for layering, especially when combined with the power of Ableton Live’s Simpler. All you have to do is load your foley…
Getting Deeper with Arpeggios
Arpeggiators are a simple but effective way to give standard chords rhythm and movement. And whilst it’s fairly simple to set up an arpeggiator in your DAW, in this video I show you how to take it a step further by recording the arpeggiated chord to a new MIDI track, editing the MIDI data, and…
How to Create Bass from ANY Sound
The never ending pursuit of a unique, warm and rich bass sound is every producer’s bug bear. We surf presets, emulate our favourite artists, and endlessly search YouTube for the perfect tutorial. Well I’m here to break that trend and tell you that almost any sound you can record can be shaped and sculpted into…
Enhanced Percussion with Filter Delay
Have you tried this trick yet? If you ever struggle to create groovy, interesting percussion in your tracks, this technique using a Filter Delay is an incredible way to generate new ideas at a rapid pace. This tip can not only be applied to a variety of percussive sounds, but also works on melodic hits,…
Easy Drum Fills
If you’re looking to maintain interest throughout your track, you can’t go wrong with a classic drum fill… In modern music production, fills can be created with a huge array of sound sources, one of my favourites being toms. Here you want to load up a drum rack of different toms samples, duplicate one of…
Thickening Drums with Gated Reverb
Reverb is a great tool for thickening out various sounds in your track, but how do you REALLY thicken things up and still have it sit tight in your mix? Gated reverb! This classic 80s trick still work wonders today and is ideal for many modern electronic productions from big room techno (like this example…
