Sampling and Drum VSTs have been a part of modern music for many years. For a long time sampled drums were primarily limited to the electronic genre, but now they…

On the list of must-have mixing effects, reverb is pretty high up there. It’s grouped in with other time-based effects, including flanger, delay, chorus, and more. Once upon a time,…

Having quality plugins is a must when you’re mastering in the box.  You’re going to need a good EQ, compressor, limiter, and a handful of other tools to get the…

Whether you’re bopping near the front stage at a musical festival or sitting in the backseat with the subwoofer’s bumpin’, it’s the bass that gets you moving. Bass is such…

Over a period of three decades, the 808 has become an important sound for hip hop, trap, and other electronic music genres. Not many sounds in modern-day music have had…