Taken from Tech Tips Vol 86 ‘Tech House Production Tips’ with Haterade: https://www.sonicacademy.com/courses/tech-tips-volume-86-with-haterade Haterade’s back with a new set of Tech Tips, and this time he’s put together a set of tutorials aimed at beginners wanting to create Tech House. From creating your own uplifting beats, along with designing your own epic bass sounds, acid,…
Category: Production Tips
Using Ableton’s Redux
Watch more here: https://www.sonicacademy.com/ In this quick video Haterade looks at using the much overlooked ‘Redux’ bitcrushing plugin in Ableton Live to help hi-hats push through in the mix and add some interest to a chord pattern. Check it out! 00:00 – Introduction 00:20 – What does a bitcrusher do? 01:05 – Bitcrushing percussion 02:27…
How To Get Motivated Again!
Watch more here: https://www.sonicacademy.com/ Have you hit a wall? Are you struggling to get anything down that you’re happy with? We’ve all been there, and it’s frustrating, disheartening and annoying. Well, Bluffmunkey’s here to share some sage advice to help you rekindle that spark. If you’re sitting in front of your DAW with a complete…
Complex Macros in Bitwig 5
Check out the full course with Protoculture here: https://www.sonicacademy.com/courses/what-s-new-in-bitwig-v-5 Last month Bitwig Studio announced that version 5.0 is coming to users in Q2 2023 and will be a free update to anyone with an active upgrade plan at the time – (April 11, 2023). Currently available in Beta testing, Protoculture has been checking out some…
Combining Reverb and Chorus – a classic!
Taken from Tech Tips Volume 85 ‘Creating FX Chains’ with Bluffmunkey : https://www.sonicacademy.com/courses/tech-tips-volume-85-with-bluffmunkey Bluffmunkey’s back with a new set of Tech Tips, looking at combining effects plugins in various ways to get some cool sounding and super useful results. Instead of just throwing a plugin into your chain to get a delay, reverb or compression,…
Find out how to use it in your tracks!
Watch more here: https://www.sonicacademy.com/ Bluffmunkey’s back with a quick video looking at how we can use Audio Rate Modulation in our sound design. First we check out what Audio Rate Modulation actually is before using it to modulate different parameters such as pitch and filters in our synth. The result can produce a ‘gritty’ and…
Third Party Plugins – When and Why To Use Them?
Watch more content like ‘Third Party Plugins When and Why To Use Them? with Kirk Degiorgio’ here: https://www.sonicacademy.com/ This week we welcome back Kirk Degiorgio to tackle another issue that gets a lot of attention in forums and discussion. Do you actually need third-party plugins when your DAW already includes stock plugins that can take…
What are Polymeters?
What are Polymeters…?Let’s find out.
Walkthrough of Kick 2’s French House Preset Pack
Get Kick 2 Presets Volume 12 – French House here: https://www.sonicacademy.com/products/kick-2-presets-vol-12-french-house With the new release of our awesome new Preset Pack for Kick 2, we proudly welcome Harry from MixReady Samples to showcase the French House pack he’s created, along with some super-useful tips and tricks when using Kick 2. Starting with a completely initialised…
What should the ideal Kick look like?
Taken from tech Tips Volume 84 – watch more here: https://www.sonicacademy.com/courses/tech-tips-volume-84-with-protoculture-and-haterade This week Protoculture and Haterade are back with a set of Tech Tips focussing on the all-important kick. If you’re producing electronic music, the kick can make or break a track, so it’s super important to get it right. Here we look at what…