5 Ways to Use Repetition Without Boring Your Audience
Why Repetition Makes Your Music Stronger?! Have you ever made a track and wondered if it was too repetitive? Too boring? When I was attending music school, the primary criticism…
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Tutorial: From An Idea To A Song
In this tutorial I will show you an arranging and song structure related method that might help you to make a full song out of your musical ideas. Or at…
Method For More Complex Synth And Basslines
In this tutorial, I will show you a production technique that may help you to create a bit more complex bass- and synthlines. Here’s an audio example: Ok, that wasn’t…
How To Create Deep House Chord Stab With Sytrus
In this tutorial I will show you how to create deep house chord stab with Sytrus. I’ll show you how to program the chord straight into the patch. Here’s an…
How To Create Sequences In Harmor
Harmor is one of the most versatile and features rich soft synths existing today and in this tutorial, I will show you how you can easily create rhythmic sequences in…
Downlifter Idea
In electronic dance music, you need uplifters for building up the tension. But downlifters are very useful as well. For example, they are good for ending a section in a…
How To Make Drops Hit Harder
In this tutorial I would like to draw your attention to a mixing method that may help you to make the drop section of your EDM song hit harder and/or…
How To Make Huge Impact Snare Sound
In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to create that huge snare sound that can be heard in countless of modern EDM tracks (especially in the ‘build-up’ section,…
How To Use Round Robin In FL Studio
In this tutorial I will show you how to use Round Robin in FL Studio. If you wonder what Round Robin is, in audio production it’s a sampling method and…
How To Use Velocity Mapping In Harmor
Velocity mapping is a great way to add more life and variation to your synth sounds. In this video tutorial I will show you how to activate velocity mapping in…
How To Quickly Add More Excitement To Your Mix
Do you find your mixes a bit dull and weak – lacking that “something”? In FL Studio you have tools which you can use to try to quickfix this. One…
Mixing First Aid For EDM
In this tutorial, I will show you a simple and very basic mixing technique/approach which may help you to create ok sounding mixes. I’m using it every time I mix…
Increasing and Decreasing Energy In Your Track: Part 2
In the unofficial part “zero” of this energy series, we opened up a discussion about an important but overlooked part of music production — Energy in your tracks. In that…
Increasing and Decreasing Energy In Your Track: Part 1
A colorful representation of an energy flow — My previous guest post on howtomakelectronicmusic.com opened up a discussion about an important but overlooked part of music production — energy in your…
How To Sidechain A Specific Frequency Range
Everybody probably knows how to sidechain “pump” bass, lead, pad, and everything, but what if you want to sidechain only some specific frequency range – i.e low frequencies? In this…