Bass management

One of the most often questions we get concerning hip hop beat production is – how do you get them to sound so loud and so clear? There are many factors that influence the sound of the produced beat. For example, it’s the control room you are mixing in, the quality of the recorded sound material you are using (… well, sometimes we do distort the instrument’s sound on purpose to make it sound cooler, but still the quality is crucial, in other words, you have to control what it gives to the whole picture of the mix), the equipment you are using to listen to your mix, trained ears to hear the difference of the EQ settings, etc. There is, however, one very important aspect which stays present during all of the phases of creating a beat, whether you are recording an instrument, playing VST instrument with your keyboard or spinning the hot rhythmic pattern with your MPC sampler: low end frequency range. The lower we go by frequency in spectrum the longer the wave of the sound becomes and it gets harder adapt that BIG wave to the mix. Let’s go through some basic steps to get us prepared to deal with the low end so it serves the sound of the music we create instead of destroying it.

Danjarous Percussion 1 tutorial.

Ready to make a hot beat using this percussion set from Thaloops? Here we’ll take a deeper look into the elements of ‘Danjarous Percussion 1 demo’ and explain several techniques used to make the demo beat.

We asked our production team to use Sony Acid PRO 7.0 with 16bit 44khz wav samples from the sound set in the demo. We will show you some aspects of how you can create beats with Sony Acid PRO DAW plus using 3rd party plug-ins such as ‘Waves TrueVerb’, ‘Waves SuperTap Mod’.  

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