Looking for high quality drum loops and samples? You've come to the right place! 

This article is focused exclusively on providing you with the best loops and best drum samples so you can elevate your drum tracks to the pro level. 

So whether you want acoustic kick drums, trap...

While the flanger was originally hailed as a guitar stompbox, in the digital world, we have the ability to use its unique characteristics to spice up our mixes and add a bit of space-age flavor. A good flanger plugin is a valuable asset for any producer or mix engineer, as it is one of the...

If you’re mixing in Garageband and you want to tighten up your vocal tracks, you might consider using a quality auto-tune plugin. In my opinion, auto-tune is often misused or misunderstood. However, in modern music, it’s become an essential tool, just like compression, EQ, or...

You may have heard that mid-side EQ could potentially be the savior for your mixes, and even though you’ve heard about it a million times, you’re still questioning what it is and why so many engineers say it’s so useful. 

Luckily, you’ve come to the right place,...

There is so much more to Reason's Dr. OctoRex than meets the eye. In this in-depth video tutorial, I'm going to teach you the ins and outs about using Dr. OctoRex so you can easily elevate your productions to the next level.

What's Covered in this Dr. OctoRex Tutorial?

First, you'll...

In mid-May, 2022, it was announced that Shutterstock had purchased Pond 5. Pond 5 is one of my favorite sites for licensing music, so I am certainly alarmed by this development. However, I don't think this will necessarily be a big deal? 

Why?

Watch the video to see!

Nowadays, we do so much of our production and mixing work in the box that having tools that cover all of the bases is necessary. The phaser effect has long been one of the most popular modulation effects around and is one of the most important tools for any engineer to have in their...

If you’re an independent musician releasing music for the first time, then you’ve probably come across the names CD Baby and DistroKid several times. 

Deciding which of these services to choose for releasing your music can be quite overwhelming. While both of them serve the...

At the end of April Reason Studios launched a new effect for Reason: BV-X. BV-X is being marketed as a vocoder, and yea, it does that pretty well. But as you'll hear in the demos below, it's actually way more powerful just a Vocoder, though. It works amazing as a gated filter that can...

Waves has plugins for just about any type of processing you could imagine. However, when it comes to mastering, there are SO many excellent plugins from Waves that you’d never need to look to another manufacturer to get what you need. 

Today, I want to dive in and explore some of...

Even once you’ve shaped and EQed your kick drum track, you may still not be happy with how it’s sitting in the mix. 

This is the point where compression comes in.

The dynamic range of your kick drum will have a MAJOR impact on your mix. Very similar to bass, you want the...

Compression on guitars is not uncommon. However, in my experience, the effect is often misunderstood. The thing about compression is that it’s not all that difficult to understand, though it can be difficult to apply.  

Some guitars have too much dynamic range for their...