This post is a response to a request I’ve had multiple times in the past year alone: What do I think are the best Waves plugins?
February 27, 2017
Piracy – Why Shouldn’t You?
There’s a request I keep getting regularly. It comes in different shapes and forms but the gist is always the same. Here’s an example of an email I received: “I began with the program Logic pro X. But i have a problem: I want to get some plug ins for this program, i’d like to […]
Continue reading... February 10, 2017
Why You Should Be Using Presets to Learn Sound Design
This is a guest post by Jake from www.cryonautmedia.com. To learn how to get started with sound design, download his free 10 step guide to sound design here. If you were to ask 100 producers whether they use presets or create their own original sounds, you would probably find the results to be pretty evenly split. […]
Continue reading... October 23, 2016
My Essential Saturation Plugins
In this blog post I’m showing you a bunch of saturation plugins that I absolutely love. I will also talk about the different ways I use saturation and how each of the plugins ties into that. I’ve also created short videos of each plugin and embedded them into this post. This way you can see and […]
Continue reading... June 5, 2016
What’s On My Mix Bus
I’ve been steadily improving my mix bus skills and setup in the past few years. I wanted to share with you a little bit of my thought process as well as show you some of my favourite plugins. Whether I’m working on one of my own tracks or doing mixing work for a client, these are […]
Continue reading... February 23, 2016
Why I’m Using Two DAWs to Make One Track
I’ve used many different DAWs in my 20 years of making electronic music. These days I mainly use two different ones: Ableton Live and Pro Tools. It often confuses people to hear I am actually using both DAWs to work on the same piece of music. I get asked about why and how I do […]
Continue reading... February 18, 2016
Best Free VST/AU/AAX Plugins for Mac and PC (2016 edition)
It’s time again to update ourselves on the current state of free VST, AU and AAX plugins for Windows and Mac. This is not an attempt to list all available free plugins. Rather, I’ve hand picked the best of the best free plugins for you. All of the listed plugins work on both PC and Mac computers. […]
Continue reading... December 4, 2015
Identifying Procrastination
The latest lesson in Smart Productivity for Musicians is about dissolving procrastination. Before you can deal with procrastination, you must identify procrastination. And it’s not as simple as it may seem!
Continue reading... November 26, 2015
My Black Friday Recommendations
Black Friday is here again. Like it or not, it’s the best time of the year to make investments on plugins and sounds. For many of the deals to happen again you are going have to wait another year go by. I’ve been saving up cash for the past 6 months to invest on some tools […]
Continue reading... November 26, 2015
A Solution for Overcoming Chronic Lack of Time
This week’s lesson in Smart Productivity for Musicians is about how to overcome stress, procrastination and chronic “lack of time” – while at the same time enabling your brain to focus on what it does best: being creative. I wanted to share some thoughts on the topic here on the blog too.
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