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Analog Sensibilities, Digital Realities: What Can the Right Signal Flow Do for Your Sound?
The Advantages of Hybrid Tracking and Mixing
By PETE MARRIOTT, BRANDONF42088, and AMIR SAID (SA'ID)…
Don’t Market Your Beats Like a Pack of Cheap Steak Knives
If We Don't Respect the Trade Value of the Beatmaking Tradition, Who Will?
By AMIR SAID (SA'ID)
Despite…
Are You Using Compression as a Friend or a Foe?
Understanding How to Effectively Use Compression
By CUS and AMIR SAID (SA'ID)
Mixing hip hop/rap music…
O.C. Smith and Gordon Parks – “Blowin’ Your Mind”: Skill, Rhyme, and Rhythm
The Single Most Important Thing About Rhyme and the Significance of the Core Rhythm and Groove
If…
Convey Feeling in Your Beats, and You Win
Method and Process is One Important Dimension, But the "Feeling" of Your Beats Should Always Be a Part of…
Guard Against Beat Block
Shifting Emphasis to Practice May be the Answer
By AMIR SAID (SA'ID)
Beatmaking is a meticulous…
Think Outside the Box for Custom Snare Sounds
Presets Get the Job Done, But Customized Sounds Help You Create Your Own Style and Sound
By AMIR SAID…
BeatTips MusicStudy: Bobby Boyd Congress – “Dig Deep In Your Soul”
Early Funk From Obscure, Little-Known Band
By AMIR SAID (SA'ID)
One of the things that…
BeatTips Tutorial: Sampling Live Instrumentation: Guitar Riffs
Sampling Your Live Playing and Making It Sound Like a "Sample", Not Just Live Instrumentation Re-Recorded…
BeatTips Readers Poll™: When You Make Your Beats, Do You Start with the Drum Sounds or Non-Drum…
For Many Beatmakers, Getting the Beat Started with the Drum Sounds or Non-Drum Sounds is Part of a…