How to Record a Kick Drum
Learn how to record a kick drum from the production team at Silicon Beats with this detailed turorial with audio examples, images and videos. Step 1 – Decide what type of kick drum sound you…
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How To Program Drums – Tutorial
Programming drums can be a lot of fun, whether you’re using a hardware drum machine, a virtual instrument or a sampler. Learn how to program drums for realism and your beats will instantly sound more…
How To Mix Drums and get a Killer Drum Sound – Part 2
This is the second article in a two part series of detailed articles focusing on how to mix drums. This article focuses on how to process and mix your multitrack recorded drum tracks. To make…
How To Mix Drums and get a Killer Drum Sound – Part 1
This article is the first in a two part series of detailed tutorials on how to mix drums in a studio recording . For the full info how to prepare for a good drum mix…
How To Master Your Tracks Using T-Racks 3 Deluxe
There are a lot of mastering suite plug-ins available on the market today. Some are cheap. Some are expensive. Some are great. Some are rubbish and everything else in between. With that being said, let…
How To Use Compression and EQ
The Basics Principals: Achieving a professional sounding mix is essential to having your music taken seriously. It’s considered the best practice to get your mix sounding highly polished long before you take it to the…
The Modern Day Recording Studio
When Inspiration Strikes It’s 3AM, you’re in bed but you can’t sleep. You just had a great idea for a song and you need to get it down quick before it evaporates. What are you…
How To Convert Drum Loops into Drum Kits
How To Use Ableton’s -To-MIDI Feature On Your Drum Loops Over the last few years no major DAW has gained more steam and popularity than Ableton Live, and rightfully so, as it is the most…
How To Import Apple Loops Into Garageband for iPad
How to Import Apple Loops for Ipad Want to know how to import Apple Loops? We’ll give you the good news first. Yes you can import your own third party loops into Garageband for…
How To Create a Dubstep Remix
In today’s demonstration we’ll teach you how to create a rough but bangin’ Dubstep remix in a matter of minutes using quality loops and samples. Here’s a snippet of the Dubstep remix we’ll be creating….
How To Make A Wobble Bass Synth in Garageband
Who knew that Garageband has such powerful synth sculpting tools? That’s right, you can easily create your very own screaming Wobble bass synth for Dubstep and electro house production using just the tools that ship…
How To Route Impulse Pads to Audio Tracks in Ableton
Having often needed to use this technique ourselves during the production of our electronic drum loop products we figured we would share the knowledge and show you how it’s done. Ableton has a really cool…
How to use Abletons Arpeggiator
Always wanted to get that cool arpeggiated synth affect but just didn’t have the hardware of virtual synth to make it work? No worries, Ableton already has the power to add this great effect to…
How to use Abletons ‘Impulse’ Drum Sampler
It’s no secret that Ableton Live is our favourite DAW but if you’re not familiar with Impulse this cool video tutorial will show you how to make the most of this awesome drum sampler. We…
How To Create a Reverse Reverb Effect
It’s an oldie but a goodie. You’ve heard it thousands of times before but maybe never realized how the effect was created. You know the sound, where a piano or vocal slowly fades in from…