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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
Identifying Procrastination
In the Smart Productivity for Musicians course I have created (update 6th Jan 2018: course not available anymore) there is a full lesson about dissolving procrastination. Here are some further thoughts on the topic. Before you can deal with procrastination, you must identify procrastination. And it’s not as simple as it may seem!
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 […]