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Sidechaining is an extremely important aspect of dance music production that will help you achieve a dynamic, punchy mixdown. In this video, Tascione will demonstrate the basic concept of sidechain compression, as well as some more advanced sidechaining techniques that will take your productions to the next level.

Saturation is a powerful effect that can add pleasant warmth to your sounds when used appropriately. In this video, Shanahan will take an in-depth look at how you can utilize a few different saturation plugins – FabFilter Saturn and Kramer Tape by Waves – on your master channel to add warmth to your productions!

EQ and Compression are the two most important tools in a mix engineers arsenal. Many producers and engineers find it difficult to know when and how to use them together. Often times they are used too much, or at the wrong times. This book was created to clear up any confusion regarding EQ and Compression as well as to streamline your mixing process so you get better results.

There’s an often repeated cliche that mastering is a kind of ‘dark art’ – a deep and impenetrable science that is beyond the capabilities of mere mortals. However, given the amount of tutorials, courses and mass-market plugins out there, all designed to tackle the mastering process, this is clearly nonsense.

The new issue of Electronic Sound finds us in Berlin, yet again. This time round we’re taking a look at the past, present and future of a total Berlin institution – Tangerine Dream.

This is it. If you want to learn some of the coolest tips and tricks for Propellerhead’s Reason, look no further. Reason guru Paul Ortiz reveals some of his favorite production nuggets that are sure to open your eyes and your mind when producing with Reason.

Have old electronic music songs that you’ve never finished and are now a little dated sounding? Producer pro Chris Herrera delivers a video series designed to help you take stock of your old songs and productions, and discover ways to make them up to date and relevant again.

FL Studio is a powerful DAW that is loaded with useful, customizable features that many producers can take advantage of. One of which is the ability to design your own custom plugins through Image-Line’s Patcher – a stock plugin that comes with FL Studio.

Additive vs. Subtractive EQing has been a long-standing debate amongst many producers and engineers. In this video, Maxim will explain how each of them serve a different purpose and why neither of them are superior over the other.

The Rock Foundry SDX was recorded at Bob Rock’s choice studio The Warehouse in Vancouver, BC, and designed to give you the most flexible selection of drums, ambiences and options possible. It’s configured as two individual SDXs, one ‘Main’ and one ‘Mono.’ The ‘Main’ features six kits captured with a traditional multiple microphone technology whereas the ‘Mono’ configuration was recorded using a minimal setup. In addition to the seven individual kits, a large selection of extra snares, kicks and cymbals are provided, making The Rock Foundry SDX an incredibly broad palette of raw material to use to craft drum mixes within the powerful framework of Superior Drummer 3.

As many of us know, the volume of the track is very important in the music industry. The track that sounds louder will always be more noticeable on the background of those tracks that sound quieter. Therefore mastering is the most important element in the final processing and releasing on the label. We have developed the best mastering template for you to get high RMS-output, which you can use for many genres: Trance, Progressive, EDM, House, Pop, Trap. You can make any changes, customize it for yourself or use this template with our settings, getting an excellent result.

Ultra Pop Elements Vol 1 from Maverick Samples includes five Construction Kits containing everything you need to build hot Pop hits, including leads, percussion and FX, all 100% Royalty-Free.

A lot of the time, a good melody can’t shine without the proper sound. The melody might be great, but sometimes the lead just won’t sit right. To help you overcome this barrier we created one of our best collections of leads called Elements for Serum.

In this tutorial, Jake walks through five helpful MIDI tricks within Logic Pro X. While each DAW has their own MIDI tricks, Logic Pro X has its own crazy secrets.

Jake Shanahan covers an extremely important topic in this tutorial. Logic Pro’s ‘Flex Mode’ is crucial to your vocal tuning, timing, and overall perfecting. While it’s still a somewhat new feature inside Logic, it’s become one of the most popular features.