In the “Drums” section of this tutorial, we focus on the fundamental elements necessary to create powerful, clear, and attention-grabbing drums. Through an in-depth exploration of a complete drum group, we meticulously examine each plugin and process involved in achieving robust and impactful dr...
If you’re using acoustic drums, you definitely want to add a bit of room ambience since listeners are subconsciously expecting to hear the drums in a physical location. You have a lot of creative freedom here, but keep in mind that the ambience should be appropriate for your mix once you...
Class OverviewIn this class, we will delve into the world of dance music production. You will learn the basics of creating a dance track from start to finish using most popular digital audio workstation Ableton Live.This music production class will teach you everything you need to know to be...
Ableton is easily one of the most popular DAWs in the music production industry today. If you’re getting started with making music, you likely want to know how to learn Ableton. Fortunately, after years of development, theDAWhas become more and more intuitive and easy to use. But that do...
« 9月 <> Reid Stefan Realest Puppet In The Game mixing and mastering a Hip Hop track in Ableton. This course covers Reid’s workflow, template, and signature plugin settings for mixing Synths, Drums, 808, Vocals, and Mastering.
The songs changed when I played with the plug-ins, but I didn't know where I was going with the mix. There was no balance to the instruments, and the vocals sounded glued on and fake. The low end was boomy, the drums sounded boxy, and the balance was always either too harsh or ...
The genre’s house and techno influences bring huge drums into the mix, especially in drift phonk. Producers will often juxtapose heavy four-on-the-floor house kicks, claps and hats with low-key hip-hopdrum programming. So if you want to produce interesting phonk music, learn how to program...
How to Make a Beat in Reason Here is an example of how to make a beat. Even though the beat below is made in Propellerhead Reason, the same thought process can be applied to other music programs and hardware. Lay out your drums, add instruments, and arrange your beat into a full song...
We settled on a format where we each sent the other two ‘sketches’, basically 1-2 minute long ideas with drums, bass, chords, and a melody in a quick arrangement. Basically the intro into the first drop. Then, we each picked one of the two ideas to move forward with and build int...
However, do this with a level control plugin (like Ableton Live’s “Utility”) rather than the channel fader, as if you want to adjust the levels in the mix later on, you’re gonna have to move all the automation on your channel fader (and that’s a massive pain!). This technique...