These days I’m mostly fairly active on my Patreon page, so have a look there.
I also offer music production tuition.
Also see a Youtube playlist with all music-production-related videos by yours truly.
This page lists all the music production related posts published on this website, old and new.
- Breakbeat Of The Month episode 7 is out
- Breakbeat Of The Month Episode 6
- Get your sub bass right! [video]
- Ableton Live Basics video course now free on Youtube
- Breakbeat Of The Month – a new series starts
- 200th Patreon post! Short Studio Masterclass ep. 4
- Phase Plant bass nuggets! [video]
- Ableton Live 12 features checkout
- Let’s make a custom breakbeat
- Making a sample-based hip hop beat [video]
- SICK basses with Saturn 2! You prob haven’t tried doing this…
- Fix your mono!
- Redux/Renoise aciiiid! [video]
- Mastering tip for breakdowns and drops [video]
- Operator wubs! [Ableton video]
- Lesson prep material: Ableton bass sound design
- Music is work! Motivation will fail you. Discipline gets the work done!
- Song walkthru: FatGyver – “Slow Progress” (+ drum samples)
- Redux sampler checkout
- TAL Sampler RULES! Let’s chop some drums and play bass [video]
- Ableton Live protips 2023!
- “Headgames” [Metalheadz] walkthrough [VIDEO]
- Layering Breaks [video]
- Chopping Science [VIDEO]
- “Should I limit my master?”
- Techstep DNB beats with Alien Girl drums [video]
- Create a healthy Reese bass with Serum (fix the Reese bass / two-oscillator sub bass drift problem)
- Sound design tip: oldskool jungle style timestretch!
- Song walkthrough video: Amos Keato – Some Dread Purpose (Fanu Remix)
- Sunny day…let’s make a beat with Ableton Live!
- Four ways to control dynamics with Ableton Multiband Dynamics [VIDEO]
- “Black Label” (Metalheadz) DAW walkthrough [VIDEO]
- [video] Classic FM bass with Ableton Operator
- [video] Let’s talk about making songs!
- [video] Bass filth with Serum (+ a little bit of Ableton help)
- [video] Reese bassline with Ableton Wavetable
- [video] Mixing kicks
- [video] RX8 by Izotope vs Neural Mix Pro by Algoriddim for sample isolation
- Reference songs for producing/mixing/mastering
- Making jungle drums with Addictive Drums 2 [video]
- Sinewave enhancement tips
- How to put yourself out there as a new artist
- [video] Baretta (Metalheadz) DAW session
- [Video] Bass tone design with Saturn 2
- [Video] Session with Steinberg Backbone
- Mixing tips – part one (21 mixing tips)
- Ableton auto filter tip
- D&B BREAKS SAMPLE PACK out now
- [video] pro-q3 dynamic sidechain
- [video] gating with izotope trash 2
- [video] sidechain width in ableton live
- techstep weed – separate tracks (download)
- vocal mixing chain
- video: Ableton live gain staging, audio engine and headroom
- microbrute basses back online
- Ableton advanced out now
- excerpt from ableton live basics video
- Ableton live 10.1: 3rd party plugin sidechaining
- Ableton live basics video selling now!
- About mastering compressors
- VIDEO: How to add white noise into snares with Ableton Live
- Corpus for kick subs in Ableton Live
- 808 bass with Ableton Live
- [VIDEO] Pro Tools vs Ableton Live for mixing
- About overcooking transients in the mix
- DOs and DON’Ts of working with a mixing/mastering engineer
- Announcing music production tuition / “help service”
- [VIDEO] Ex Tempore Beatmaking Session #1
- Plugin recommendation: Gullfoss EQ
- New series: plugin recommendations
- [VIDEO]: Short mono reverb to fill in gaps between drums
- [Video] VLOG #3: Advice for young producers
- [VIDEO] Vlog #2: thoughts on free mixing/mastering/beats
- [VIDEO] Creating a noisy harmonic bass out of a sine wave
- A quick thought re: mixing kicks
- [VIDEO] “Negative time” / insert samples before songs on Ableton Live
- [VIDEO] How to get a phat kick
- [VIDEO] Using Ableton Looper for bounce-type functionality
- Ableton Live limiting tip
- Finishing songs (part 2)
- [VIDEO] Plugin check: Trackspacer
- Tools of the trade part 1
- Tools of the trade part 2
- Sub bass tip
- How to randomize midi in Ableton Live
- Mardi Gras break…no bells
- [Video] Short Studio Masterclass part 3 – doing drums in D&B
- SP1200izer effect rack for Ableton Live
- [Video] Short Studio Masterclass part 2
- [Video] Short Studio Masterclass part 1
- SOUNDS GOOD BRO! Or does it?
- Improve kick drum with Ableton Sampler FM synthesis
- 121 mixing tips from experts
- [VIDEO] How to improve sample punch with Ableton Sampler (part one)
- [VIDEO] D&B style bassline with Ableton Operator
- Free mixing guide going strong
- [VIDEO] Create a lush synth pad sound from a kick drum
- [VIDEO] How to give your bass some presence using saturation
- [VIDEO] A boom bap beat with Akai MPC Live / 2.0
- Thought of the day: audio engineers
- [VIDEO] Dynamic EQing in Ableton Live
- Motivational preachin’
- [VIDEO] How to do dynamic EQing (part 1)
- [VIDEO] Compressing a song
- [VIDEO] Compressing vs limiting a song
- [VIDEO] OK to run tracks red in a DAW?
- [VIDEO] Ableton tip: how to modulate sample start point in Sampler
- “How loud should my mix be when submitting to mastering? -6?”
- [VIDEO] Sample degradation tip for mix clarity
- [VIDEO] Favorite plugins for boosting highs
- Success
- “A Crash Course In Mixing” – a free mixing guide
- Year 2016 – introspection
- Loop 2016 – thoughts
- If you feel “lost” with your musical genre
- Vlog # 1: Motivation
- Advice for young producers
- Productivity: easily create songs with Ableton Live’s session view
- Free and sucky Max For Live device by Fanu: Dub Delay!
- Ableton Push 2 and Simpler: warping modes, slicing audio in Simpler, and step sequencing
- How to become a mastering engineer?
- Ableton Live “versus” Pro Tools
- Multiband gating with Live 9 multiband dynamics
- Mixing a muffled kick: adding presence using saturation and Trigger 2
- Breakbeat basics: how to reverse loop drums with any sampler
- D&B breakbeat basics #1
- “Full songs or nothing!”
- Giveaway: Circle2 synth license
- Ableton Live 9.5 Simpler: warping breaks and using Glide for effects
- Ableton Live 9.5 Simpler: warping vocals to do chords
- Quick Ableton Live 9.5 filter tips
- Badass plugins post
- Checkout: Serum synth
- Lush oldskool DNB style pad with Serum in 15 seconds
- About high-passing your beats
- “Is it OK to run tracks red in a DAW?”
- A quick tip on gating drums to make them tighter
- Ableton Live drum hits category hack
- Synth bas(s)ics: how to create a boom/808 bass with Serum
- About compressing your song
- About “too attractive” mastering deals (and competition in the field)
- Tip on layering breaks
- A point about mastering / loudness these days
- About high-pass filtering your songs
- A little sampler shootout
- Sample Pack by Fanu vol. 1
- Tips for aspiring producers (and advanced ones, too)
- Dynamic EQing / frequency-specific compression in Ableton Live 9
- How to find unwanted/ringing frequencies in your mix and carve them out?
- AMA session over at Reddit (@ /r/EDMproduction)
- Production: get your sub bass right!!
- Reddit AMA session Nov 24 (@ /r/dnb)
- Reese bass in Ableton Live
- Ableton Live lesson text hack
- Giving something back to the producer community: analog bass samples
- “Should I make music?”
- On perfectionism
- Keep the creative juices flowing and inspiration ignited…how?
- On productivity
- Ableton Live tutorial: using chains
- On inspiration
- Ableton tips: quick FX switching
- On getting that work done!
- Ableton tips: drum rack basics
- On patience, hard work, and being an artist
- Some thoughts regarding production
- A few thoughts about creating art