Have you ever wondered how to create a disco track? Learn how from this tutorial on producing disco music using…

We use Waves’ new lo-fi chain plug-in, Retro Fi, to add warm analogue-style textures and character to a house beat.

There’s more to compression than just clamping down on dynamics. We show you three ways to expand your compression toolkit.

We put Soothe2 to the test on the stems and mix bus of a deep house track.

It’s important to learn how to sound treat a home studio. In this piece, we’re going to look…

Nothing screams classic house music more than house piano chords. In this tutorial, we show you how to make classic…

In this article, we are using a bass hit one shot in Ableton Live and applying modulating filters plus bi…

We use compression, EQ, modulation and spatial widening to balance a disco mix and create focus.

If you want to sharpen your sound design skills, we’d recommend looking at the excellent suite of plugins from…

We take a deep dive into the combination compressor and saturator and use it to add shine and presence to a house track.

Rhythmic effects can inject energy into synth lines. We use Baby Audio’s Spaced Out delay and reverb plugin to bring groove to a tightly quantized chord stab line.

There’s a difference between raw drum machine samples and production-ready ones. We show you how to get your percussion samples in shape.

In this tutorial we look at five techniques that can add a more personal touch to Seq and Arp-style synth presets.

Spectral processing is a popular music production technology and is currently all the rage but what is it exactly? We use Sonible’s smart:EQ 3 to help explain.

The Moog Grandmother is surprisingly flexible for a two-oscillator monosynth. We use a Dark Series edition Grandmother to create a Boards Of Canada-style ambient track in Ableton Live.

We use Baby Audio’s Super VHS to add a faded lo-fi vibe to a house track.