Free Beat Making Guide
How to Setup Studio One for Fast Beat Making

If you've been following me for a while then I'm sure you know that I love to make beats by playing in my notes in using physical hardware. I don't often click things in but I am using that technique more and I have to admit that sometimes working purely inside of a DAW is much faster,...

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An Easy Tool for Sound Design | Baby Audio's Super VHS Review/Demo

In this week's post, we take a look at the Super VHS plugin which is the second entry into the plugin world by manufacturer Baby Audio. Super VHS is a multi-FX processor that aims to emulate some of the LoFi and vintage sounds of the 80s. Like with any audio tools, how you use it is completely...

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Making a Beat With The 808 VIP Pack by BVKER

In this week's video, we make a beat using the 808 VIP pack by BVKER. BVKER is a fellow producer who reached out and asked if I wanted to check out his latest pack and seeing how finding good 808s is really hard for me I said yes.

The pack is primarily an 808 sample pack but it also comes with...

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PreSonus ATOM Review/DEMO |The Easiest Way to Make Beats in Studio One

If you've been following me for a while then you know that I love to make beats using physical equipment. There is nothing wrong with clicking your notes in if that's your thing, but I grew up playing instruments so being able to incorporate some of those tactical characteristics into my beat...

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My 3 Favorite Tips to Get Rid of Beat Block

A big part of being a producer and a creative individual, in general, is occasionally getting stuck in your creative process. For us, in the producer community, we often refer to this as beat block and it can be frustrating, especially when you want to be creative but can’t seem to be able...

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The Best Way To Organize Your Beats

Being a producer is so much more than just making beats. There are so many other things that we have to be really good and the only way to be effective while balancing all that we do, in my opinion, is by staying organized.

There are many different ways to stay organized as a producer but one of...

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How to Be A Better & More Effective Producer in 2020

The start of a new year is always am interesting time because although nothing has really changed, it gives an opportunity to mentally reset and allows us to re-align ourselves with what we want to achieve in our lives.

With that being said today I want to tell you about 3 tips that when applied...

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Is Nexus 3 Worth It?


Nexus 3, the long-awaited update to the very popular VST FINALLY dropped last Friday. If you've been producing for a bit then chances are that you've heard of Nexus because for a while it was the go-to VST for most electronic and urban producers.

Now although reFX, Nexus' parent company, has...

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The Best Black Friday/Cyber Monday Plugin Deals for the Studio

It's that time of the year again and if you're like me then you've been waiting for this all year long because this is the time when most of us can stock up some of those new music toys that we've been eyeing at some discounted prices. Every year I do a roundup of some of the best and some of my...

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The EASIEST WAY to Parallel Compress

As urban producers, we are always looking for ways to get our drums to knock and cut through the mix. The methods for this vary but today I want to look at achieving this with parallel compression.

Parallel compression can be a bit difficult to understand at first and it does take a bit of work...

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How to Make Chords More Interesting

I think it's safe to say that there are plenty of pieces of software out right now that can help you make music and now more than ever you don't necessarily even need to understand music theory to create because these tools do it for you.

I don't have anything against these tools, I use them...

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How to Mix Beats Faster in Studio One 4

Recently I published a post titled "How to Make Beats Faster in Studio One 4" and you guys seemed to really enjoy that so today I thought we’d finish it off by talking about the other side of the equation, which is mixing and more specifically a mixing template.

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