One of the most frustrating parts about making beats is spending a bunch of time creating only to realize that your drums still aren’t sounding as good as you thought they would. There are a bunch of different ways to get your drums to sound right but today I want to share one specific...

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...

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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Izotope recently released the latest version of Ozone, which if you're unfamiliar is a mastering suite, sort of like a one-stop-shop for all of your mastering needs.

I've been using Ozone for quite a while now and I think it’s hands down one of the easiest and best ways to master a song...

A huge part of music creation is deciding how loud a song should be so that it sounds good and it competes with other music. Over time there have been different metering methods that we have used to measure loudness and some of those include peak signal, RMS, & LUFS just to name a few.

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As producers and engineers, we are always on the hunt for new tools to help us get our jobs done. Although it can be argued that everything we need to make great music is already at our fingertips in the form of stock plugins, sometimes 3rd party plugins can make our jobs easier (or simply just...