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26.08.2022

12 min

Mixing

Production and Mixing Tips for Better Drums

Mixing and sound designing drums There are countless ways to create and mix the drums in a track since it all depends on the genre and what purpose the drums have in the mix. In a downtempo ambient track it is probably best not to compress and distort the living hell out of a drum […]

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09.08.2022

6 min

Sound Design

Creating kick drums from scratch in Ableton Live

Finding the right kick drum sound can be a bit of a time consuming process, and there is especially one thing to take into consideration when looking for a kick drum sample fit for your track. The fundamental frequency of the kick drum, since this will affect the phase correlation between the kick’s sub frequencies […]

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23.08.2022

5 min

Mixing

Sidechain compression in Ableton Live (4 techniques)

If you make electronic music, you’ve most likely heard about sidechain compression since most producers use it.It’s a great technique to use when two sounds are completely overlapping each other, for example, a kick drum and a bass sound playing simultaneously. Sidechain compression is really just volume automation, but there are a few different ways […]

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Recording

What is Reverb in Music and How to Use It Like a Pro

What is Reverb? In a purely definitional sense, reverb (short for reverberation) is the extension of a sound beyond its natural endpoint. This process can be natural, using the size and dynamics of a recording space, or synthetic, using digital audio effects. For example, when a guitar string is plucked the string will stop vibrating […]

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Interviews

Tech House From Start to Finish with Grammy-nominated Producer Timofey Reznikov + Interview

Timofey Reznikov, the Grammy-nominated producer behind chart-toppers and platinum productions by artists like David Guetta, Jack Back, DVLM, and many more, invites you into his studio. In this video tutorial, Timofey shares his step-by-step process in producing a Tech House track from start to finish using solely Ableton Live and samples from illements library. Timofey […]

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Mixing

Production and Mixing Tips for Better Drums

Mixing and sound designing drums There are countless ways to create and mix the drums in a track since it all depends on the genre and what purpose the drums have in the mix. In a downtempo ambient track it is probably best not to compress and distort the living hell out of a drum […]

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Mixing

Sidechain compression in Ableton Live (4 techniques)

If you make electronic music, you’ve most likely heard about sidechain compression since most producers use it.It’s a great technique to use when two sounds are completely overlapping each other, for example, a kick drum and a bass sound playing simultaneously. Sidechain compression is really just volume automation, but there are a few different ways […]

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Sound Design

Creating kick drums from scratch in Ableton Live

Finding the right kick drum sound can be a bit of a time consuming process, and there is especially one thing to take into consideration when looking for a kick drum sample fit for your track. The fundamental frequency of the kick drum, since this will affect the phase correlation between the kick’s sub frequencies […]