We recently had our Instagram @ProductionMusicLive taken over by our fellow Techno/House producer Emanuel Satie. For a day, we got to follow him around Istanbul before playing an insane set on the huge venue Zorlu PSM. If you want the full experience, check out our Instagram and watch our saved stories. He answered a lot of questions for you producers who are just starting out, and gave some great tips on hardware and best starting DAW. Let's get started... What's your best advice for producers who are just starting out? Don't focus on quick success. Focus on learning your craft...

In this video, we are producing percussion loops and drums in the Style of Ben Böhmer - Vale (Anjunadeep) using only Ableton Live 10 stock effects and instruments.  We are setting up our own drum groove using sounds from Ableton and then we are applying Resonator processing on top of the entire percussions group. We are using the Resonator setting "Berlin" to achieve our sound.   Full Course on How To Make THIS Track: Course: Melodic House Track from Start To Finish   Keywords: How to Ben Böhmer, Melodies and Chords in the style of Ben Böhmer from Anjunadeep /...

In this video, we are making a track in the Style of Ben Böhmer - Vale (Anjunadeep) using only Ableton Live 10 stock effects and instruments. This is Melodic House Writing Session (#5) with Francois. We are re-writing the track in E-Minor and having a walk through the elements of the track as well as some general thoughts on Arrangement, Groove and Harmonies. Timecodes for the video: 00:00 Example 00:34 Intro 02:00 Chords & Bass 08:00 Arpeggios / Plucks 12:00 Free Library by Taqsim 14:00 SAW Chords 15:45 Percussion Loop 19:15 Hihats 20:15 Duduk (free instrument by taqsim) 20:30 Longer...

  Are you struggling with finishing your tracks? Do you have a habit of getting tired of your track half-way through, putting it to rest in your unfinished project graveyard? You’re not alone. This is a destructive habit many producers get in to, and many assume this is just the way it is. But don’t worry, there are four very simple steps you can take to finally start finishing your tracks. It’s just a matter of discipline, letting go of control and enjoying yourself more. Doesn't sound too bad, does it? Finishing tracks is easy, once you enter the right...

What is the best plugin for mixing bass? And what plugins do you even need to properly mix bass? In this article, we’ve compiled 9 of the best VST plugins bass mixing, covering everything you’ll ever need for mixing floor-shaking bass. From subharmonic generators to multiband compressors and saturators. Having these plugins in your arsenal is the key to taking your bass mixing from average to bone-shakingly boombastic. Why Analog and Bass Works Most of the plugins in our list are analog modeled. Why? Because it sounds amazing on bass. Analog color and saturation work wonder on lower frequencies, literally...

  Professionally mixing your vocals requires the best VST plugins. In this list, we’ve compiled the absolute best plugins, ranging from stereo wideners to make your background vocals stand out, to powerful equalizers, compressors, exciters and more. Let’s begin.    1. Scheps 73 (by Waves) Warm and Welcoming Vocals There’s a sound to analog hardware that simply can’t be beaten – and now you don’t have to spend five figures to get it. With the Scheps 73, enjoy the warm, fuzzy tones of the 1073 console’s EQ and preamp module cheaper, and right in-the-box. Developed and tweaked to perfection by...

In the jungle of free VST plugins, there are many gold nuggets to be found, if you know where to look. Some of the free plugins out there hold such a class that they could easily go for several hundred bucks. And there are a lot. Firstly, we would like to give a big thanks to all the VST plugin creators out there, who are willing to give out their amazing work for free. If you see a donation button anywhere on their websites, buy’em a cup of coffee, will you? Given how advanced and thought-out some of these plugins...

Ableton Live’s new update has plenty of new features, from which we chose our top 5. Let’s dive right in! 1. Freezing tracks with sidechain compression When using CPU-heavy synth patches, freezing tracks is a life-saver. However, if only you used sidechain, this option was unavailable. There used to be two workarounds. You could record onto another audio track, which was very time-consuming. Another technique was to ”group” the track, put sidechain on the group and freeze the source track. Now it’s possible with a simple click of a mouse. This simple-but-useful solution is going to save you a lot...

One of the most common struggles of a music producer is to create a sense of vibrant, realistic depth in a track. It usually comes together with the feeling that “this could be done way better”. Maybe you’ve had to endure comments like “your track sounds too flat” or “that’s way too two-dimensional” on your creations. You’ve probably realized that you need to work on your depth-creating abilities when producing music, but how and where do you start? You probably already know that reverbs emulate the echoing acoustics of different spaces… but throwing a bunch of reverbs in randomly doesn’t...

One might say that there’s no mistakes when producing electronic music, as long as it sounds good. However, when giving feedback to fellow producers, I find myself noticing the same things I don’t like over and over. I thought I’d list these issues in an article, so that you guys make sure you’re not making these ”mistakes”. I’m also going to include techniques of dealing with these problems, which should greatly impact the sound of your tracks. Let’s get started! 1. Overproducing I’d say that the most frequent mistakes producers make is producing without a strong core idea. It could...