Music Production Tutorials

What Plugins and Sounds Do You Need? Gold Clip by Schwabe Digital Kilohearts Bitcrush [Free] 90s Boom Bap Drum Kits Hip Hop Samples Native Instruments Komplete 15 (India library) E-MU Proteus Kontakt Library FL Studio In the 90's, hip hop focused on making beats from samples. Mainly because there was a lack of instrumentation and gear available in the community.  Hip Hop Music Producers who couldn't afford to hire an orchestral ensemble or a session band had to grab existing ideas from records, this is known as sampling.But, the samples weren't the only "magic" in the 90's hip-hop sound. It was...

Three Companies Control the Game There are three companies at the top of the music industry: Sony, Warner, and Universal. Every opportunity flows down from them. Your job is to figure out how to get into their circles. Master Your Craft and Build Your Brand Want placements? It’s not enough to just be good at making beats. You need to be known for something. Are you a genius with K-pop, or do you kill it with Neo Soul? Whatever it is, people need to associate you with a specific skill. Your personal brand matters just as much as your talent....

BELIEVE IN YOURSELF It sounds so cliché... “believe in yourself.” What does that even mean? Of course I believe in myself, I exist. That’s what most of us think when we hear the vastly overused idiom. But, what if I told you that wasn’t the whole story?! To believe in yourself means to have confidence in your abilities. To love yourself and accept your decisions to be true. To know you’re doing the right thing without complete evidence of results. Confidence means ‘with trust’... To believe in yourself, you must have full trust in your proven abilities to create results...

Step 1 - Hard 808s To make your 808s hard, you have to choose 808s that have a transient energy. Some 808s don't have an initial knock and you can't mix knock into an 808. You can run your 808s through saturation to make them translate across many more speakers and listening systems. If you're in FL Studio, you can run your 808s through Fruity Waveshaper with a convex curvature and turn your mix level down to balance the saturated tone with the dry signal. Running your 808 through the Fruity Soft Clipper is the real secret for the Southside...

Cymatics Buys Producergrind and DELETES Busy Works Beats Interview  Yeah, the producer cultural goldmine was just sold. A sad day for the music producer community as they now risk cultural staples like the Producergrind interview with Metro Boomin.With new leadership, NOTHING is guaranteed to remain on the Producergrind Platform as these live streams proves they will delete history at any moment. Cymatics Buys Producergrind and TB Digital Speaks Out In this video, TB Digital speaks out about the recent purchase of Producergrind.It's a sad day because the leader of the business matters!Why? Because they set the intent for the rest of...