Design Your Deep House Lead
"Deep house" is a mellow, melodic house music subgenre. However, since its inception in the 1990s, Deep House has seen significant evolution within the electronic music scene. Most modern deep house tracks exhibit a prominent central theme that holds a prominent...
Put The Kick Drum in Front of Your Mix
One of the core elements of every mix is the kick drum. It can determine how your tune feels, moves, and sounds. The kick can be used to identify genre and era. For instance, a kick drum with less sub-content sounds more like music from the 1970s. Multiple processes...
Add Tonal Balance to Your Leads
A melody-carrying synth lead is often considered one of the crucial components of many modern electronic music tracks. Choosing the right sound is only half the job; the other half is to use it appropriately in the context of the overall mix. Keeping this in mind, the...
Design Your Own Kalimba Sound
Because the sounds of real instruments are heavily influenced by temperature, humidity, and many other factors, they often sound more appealing than their digital counterparts. This causes minor variations in tuning, which our ears then interpret as timbre. Keeping...
Use Vocals to Create a Buildup
Transition effects are an unavoidable component of modern electronic music. They are audio materials used for progressing from one section of a track to another. It can be created using various audio samples, such as noises, synth lines, and so on, but in the...
Make a Melodic Techno Drop FX
Melodic Techno and House's captivating aesthetics transport listeners on an emotional voyage. It comprises hypnotic percussion, memorable arp sequences, beautiful soundscapes, and simple yet effective baselines. In the following tutorial, I'll demonstrate how to make...
Add an Extra Texture to Your Melodies
Musical texture describes how many musical layers are mixed to create the overall sound of a piece of music. Occasionally, using just delay or similar effects isn't enough, and we need to use other techniques to add texture to the original melody, creating a better...
How to Pan Instruments in Your Mix
Panning is a technique skilled mix engineers use to generate audio images, set balance, generate contrast, and create tension and resolution. They consider that signals panned in the middle, to the extreme left or right, or both, tend to catch our ears' attention...
Design Your Own 303 Sound From Scratch
The 303 sound is one of the most widespread sounds in dance music. It originated in the 1980s from the famous Roland TB303 synth. Chicago Acid House and Techno artists popularized this sound. Now, it is dominant in everything from Trance to Ambient music. In the...