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Ableton Live Mastering Tutorial In 9 Simple Steps (Step #8 is my favorite!)
Estimated reading time: 17 minutes If you're searching deep within the interwebs for an Ableton Live mastering tutorial because you want to learn about how to master your own music, you've come to the right place. What are the best ways of mastering audio in Ableton...
Tips On Writing Happy Or Sad Melodies For Your Leads
How do you go about writing happy or sad melodies, or convey any other emotion or vibe in your electronic music? There are many techniques, that I will share with you in this quick video. The art of writing a great melody for electronic music of any genre is an...
Why You Need To Know Your Electronic Music Genre!
This is the first sneak preview of the Composition Masterclass webinar course in collaboration with Haywyre, which opens for enrollment once or twice each year. I believe that it is essential that you know your electronic music genre inside out, if you want to excel...
Four Easy Time Management Tips For Making Music
Recently a number of producers in our community have gotten in touch with me asking about how they can manage their time more effectively and be more productive for making music, so I decided to put together these tips for you - 4 easy time management tips for making...
Nine Secret Tips For A LOUDER Mix!
Here are nine lesser-known secrets that you can use as tips for a louder mix (without crossing the zero line of your master channel!)! I've been getting tons of questions from a lot of you about mixing EDM. A number of you have asked me how to make your mixes sound...
Using Linear Phase EQ on Snares
In this tutorial video below (one example from our Breaking Beats course), I want to show you how to use linear phase EQ on snare drums, to colour them differently to using a regular EQ plugin. I learned about this technique from the interview I did with MakO on the...
A Quick House Chords Tutorial
For those of you who like some chilled sounding chords in your songs (useful with house music and chillstep, for example), you might find this quick house chords tutorial video useful, helpful, insightful, inspiring and ingenius (I hope!). This Massive patch is very...
Monster Bass / Growl Bass Tutorial – FM8 Vs. Massive
If you make bass heavy music, whether it's dubstep, electro house, drum and bass, glitch hop or something else, you'll probably want to check out this bass growl tutorial, or 'monster bass tutorial' - whatever you want to call it. In these two videos, you'll discover...
Multiband Distortion And Saturation On Bass
If you make bass music, you'll have heard how multiband processing, multiband distortion and frequency splitting are all the rage these days. However, distortion is an additive process and even if you split your frequency bands, distortion will add all kinds of new...
Advanced Gated Reverb Techniques For Bass
In this tutorial I'll walk you through a technique that revolutionized my audio mixing skills, and I'm sure it will do the same for you. This is actually a tutorial from my Ultimate Mixdown Guide course, which contains over 10 hours and 52 videos of mixdown tutorials,...
Multiple Filters In Parallel On Your Basses
In this tutorial on mixing bass, I demonstrate how you can use different filters in parallel to create movement in your basses, while also retaining the overall largeness of you bass (without cutting too much out from the sound). The tutorial also covers a technique...
An Interview With Aaron Simpson Of Simplify Recordings
If you love listening to high quality bass music then there's a good chance you'll already be familiar with many of the artists whose music careers have been boosted with the help of Simplify Recordings - artists like Tut Tut Child, Love & Light, K Theory, Kezwik,...