I hope you've stayed productive. To me, autumn is definitely a creative period. I'm still kind of "recovering" from finishing my recent album, Classy Coffee Cuts, but I'm definitely enjoying working on new ideas etc (finished a new song this weekend, yay!)
đź“ąI have exciting stuff lined up for ...
2023-10-29 14:52:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Time to get busy with some sample-based beatmaking!
I’ve always loved hunting down samples and making stuff around it.
I don’t always build things “around it”, but this time I’m doing just that.
I’ve seen some people say stuff like sample-based music is on the decline, and hearing that alone was enough to put my FatGyver pants on and do this for ya’ll!
Goin...
2023-10-15 09:36:52 +0000 UTC View Post
My new album, “Classy Coffee Cuts”, is out now.
All arenas, Bandcamp preferred:
(The actual selling price of the album is more than the lower tiers – I can link producer tier members to ...
2023-10-06 11:52:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Bass class is in session! If you like filthy gnarly basses, this is for you, my bass junkie friend.
I've been using Saturn 2 for creating new bass sounds out of existing basses.
This video will show you how. And it's much less about saturation than you might think.
You can get experimental and squeeze some new filthy basses out of your existing basses...so let's get our hands ...
2023-10-01 09:09:52 +0000 UTC View Post
If there is one thing I’d want to help every single producer in the world with, it’s their mono signal – even just to make my daily work a bit faster (especially when it comes to mastering only where I can't fix this, while I can in mixing when I have the stems).
Hence the public video (one reason I made this is I can point my patrons/students/clients to this instead of writing about ...
Alright, it's time to do some acid lines with Renoise/Redux!
Can be done with both, and hey, technically this technique can be applied to any sampler in the world, basically! I just want to keep things varied, and there's something really nice about doing this with Renoise/Redux (and some of you have been asking), so here we go.
Also, you can download the 2023-09-10 11:36:17 +0000 UTC View Post
There's this one thing (or two) that I do on many masters that have a breakdown and a drop – a lot of electronic music – and I wanted to share.
Working on a song of mine here to keep it copyright-free and all that.
See if you can hear the difference, and try it on your songs. No epic mastering skills or anything needed (literally anyone can do this with any DAW), but putting it ...
2023-09-02 13:21:54 +0000 UTC View PostI promised recently to show how I created the Operator basses in the recent project I posted, so here we go…get all wubsy with it!
If anyone says stock DAW tools aren't powerful these days, I'm going to slap them around with a very large trout.
More bass stuff in the near horizon; I jus...
2023-08-20 15:10:37 +0000 UTC View Post
I’ve got two plugins serials to give away:
PolyMAX synth from Universal Audio (no UAD interface required) and 2023-08-13 13:57:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Alright, dear students, so let's do something different.
I will soon post a video about how to do some very techy Ableton Operator basses.
However, before that, I want to prep you for it!
A good student is also curious, and I've always wanted to raise that curiosity, because that is what makes you dig these things and learn techniques of your own instead of only absorbing materia...
That subject may be a bit cheesy or whatever, but it serves its purpose!
I haven't done a written post in a while, but I've been meaning to; got many on my notepad ready to go (there are many videos on the way, so trying to keep it a bit varied, too).
One I have had there for the longest is lists of short thoughts relating to one's career/success etc. These could be applied to being a...
(I don't do videos for Youtube often anymore, but helps to throw in some people to my Patreon, which I want to grow as much as I can and keep it as part of my living)
Having been a creative being for 31 years (I started making music in 1992), I've always been interested in philosophy and also "tips" relating to making music – and getting things done.
I wanted to put...
2023-08-02 12:34:40 +0000 UTC View PostWorking on another song idea, I wanted to share some thoughts regarding distributing the energy in a song, this time mostly relating to using a breakbeat but also some other song elements.
2023-07-22 07:47:01 +0000 UTC View PostA few thoughts relating to bass as I'm working on a song.
• Solid sub for a 2-osc bass
• Using Ableton Multiband Dynamics for sub boost + control
• Hive 2 triangle bass
2023-07-15 10:35:08 +0000 UTC View PostNew beat walkthru time! Also I've got some drum samples for you (check end of post for links).
So in this video, I'm covering a song called "Slow Progress" from the recent FatGyver album.
Going thru the bass and drums (Addictive Drums 2), mostly, as that's mostly what the son...
2023-07-01 06:08:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Chopping Scientists need to know about good tools for chopping ✂️
If there's something that'll always get me all stoked, it's good samplers.
Redux sampler offers very fast and light choppery. This is one of my favourite tools to chop up a drumbreak really quickly. Obviously it can be used for ANY samples.
I'm also showing you how the FX work an...
2023-06-04 10:26:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Heyhey, a quick tip on making your hihats classier.
(🎥 BTW there'll be a Redux sampler video coming soonish, as promised. Got many msgs about it – just wanted so say here, you've been heard! 🎥)
Thought I might make a video of this, but this technique really is as simple as it gets.
Most hihats have resonance peaks in them that may create annoying "hollow" rin...
2023-06-02 10:42:50 +0000 UTC View Post
So Ableton Push 3 is out today.
Available as a standalone and non-standalone versions.
I was happy to receive my unit early and I've been a tester for a while.
So, wanted to create this video for release day.
Hope you like!
2023-05-23 08:18:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Being an audio nerd and engineer, this sort of stuff does fascinate me. Came across this article on the interwebs (shouts to Owen Palmer) and wanted to share.
There’s some interesting stuff about how minimum phase filtering affects the decay and amplitude of low frequencies.
Read up! And don’t high/lowpass that master ;-)
Phew, sorry for possibly several notifications for this today…you don't even want to hear why I had to do this again not once, but twice…so here, maybe the third time's the charm and this is it!
Was supposed to be a quickie, but ironically ended up taking tons of time!
(e.g., second time, I tried uploading the video to Patreon's own system, skipping YouTube, and it worked and l...
2023-05-11 12:28:18 +0000 UTC View PostChopping Scientists need to know about good tools for chopping!
TAL Sampler is by far one of my fave samplers, because it's very light, quick to use, grrrreat for chopping – and it sounds banging! And that is why I want to tell you about it. Gotta love it.
PS: Will also do a similar video about Redux, too, as it's great for chopping as well
PPS: Will do anot...
2023-05-09 08:08:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Lemme slap you with some samples!
(Btw don't forget to check the earlier samples or 2023-04-30 07:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
This video for Ableton Nordic Youtube channel is waaaaaaaaayy overdue.
But hey, protips don't age.
Hope you like some of these!
Let's take a look at what happens in Reverse Dawn (Dispatch Dubplate).
I'll show you the drums and point you to the source, talk about a bit about the drum pattern, discuss song structure and voice my opinions on today's DNB structures in general, and so on…
Always willing to inspire people to work on fresh drums, I want you to see what's happening with the drums in No Horizon (Metalheadz).
2023-03-26 08:57:54 +0000 UTC View Post
First, hi!
Second, thanks to everybody for the support and hanging around.
Third, letting you in on what's coming.
Soon, I'll go through some drumwork stuff on two new releases (I may split that to two videos).
I always aspire to inspire, so I'll let you in on the drumworks of No ...
My new Metalheadz EP is here, and so is the walkthru for the opening track, Headgames!
🎥 VIDEO HERE (no sharing: it's all Patreon-exclusive!) 🎥
I talk abo...
2023-03-01 12:52:35 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm slamming you with Chopping Science episode 2 to get you into the mood to work on some drums!
(no sharing the link!)
Who's gonna work on some drums this weekend? Well, I know I am?
Anyways, here I continue ...
2023-02-10 11:26:57 +0000 UTC View PostHey ya'll!
Chopping Science vol. 2 will come in Feb, but peep this!
I wanted to share a few techniques in layering drumbreaks.
Going thru some plugins and techniques to really squeeze some added tone out of a supporting break while keeping a main break on top.
I can guarantee there’s especially one plugin you’ve probably never used before which can really enhance the...
2023-01-29 09:37:19 +0000 UTC View Post
The most requested thing from me, by far, has been relating to chopping drums and making breakbeats.
And that’s what I will present to you, in the form of Chopping Science video series.
First episode is up on Patreon now (40+ minutes).