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Essential Guide to EDM Song Structure
EDM song structure is essential if you want your song to "make sense." Learn how to structure your next dance record in our latest article....
The 10 Best Synth Plugins & VSTs for Every Genre
The best synth plugins are needed to make the best possible music. So we broke down the ten best soft synths to add to your digital arsenal....
Ultimate Guide To Drum Programming
What separates basic drum programming from outstanding drum programming is all in the details. A generic house pattern on an 808...
Hyperbits Masterclass Student Spotlight: Adam Turley
Adam Turley is an alumni of the Masterclass who is crushing it in the pop music industry. After getting tired of poor quality tutorials...
Remix Competitions: 10 Ways to Actually Stand Out in 2021
It can be hard to deny the allure of winning a remix contest, but even harder to actually stand out from the crowd. Follow our ten tips...
The 10 Best SSL Compressors in 2021
SSL compressor are critical in adding attitude to a vocal, controlled expression to instruments and synths, and drive and presence to a...
The 10 Best Vocoder Plugins in 2021
In this article, we discuss our favorite vocoder plugins; their cost, type of plugin it is, quality of the sound, design, and more....
The 20 Best Studio Monitors For Music Producers in 2021
Here are the best studio monitors in 2021. These monitors can help you make better music while making the process of doing so more enjoyable....
Hyperbits Masterclass Student Spotlight: Joel Freck
Joel admits that, before taking the Masterclass, he lacked the confidence needed to bring his productions to the next level. If you...
Why Reference Tracks are the Secret to Professional Sounding Music
How should you go about choosing reference tracks? You aren’t choosing the best overall tracks out there. You are selecting the tracks...
Our Top 20 Best Delay Plugins for Music Production in 2021
Delay adds a variety of new dimensions to your music. You can create width and size, fill out empty space, add a spatial dimension to a...
Autotune Plugins: The 8 Best in 2021
Because there are so many EQ plugins in the music production landscape, I think it’s necessary to create the be-all, end-all list of...
The Ultimate Guide to Writing Bass Lines in Electronic Music
Writing bass lines is a notoriously tricky task. The best bass lines are simple, yet tasteful and intricate. They create a familiar...
Stereo Imaging: The Complete Guide to a Wide Mix
We perceive width when there is a difference in what we are hearing in each ear. Essentially, we aren’t really hearing width as much as...
100+ Home Studio Design Ideas & Inspiration
Check out our favorite studio design concepts that are sure to inspire the direction you take your studio setup....
How to Remix a Song: 50 Essential Tips
Remixes are super useful to artists because it’s an easy way for them to extend the life of a release while they work on new music and...
The Top 20 Best EQ Plugins in Music Production
Because there are so many EQ plugins in the music production landscape, I think it’s necessary to create the be-all, end-all list of...
The 25 Best Music Production Schools in the World Today
Being on the frontlines of working with thousands of music producers every single year, many of which voice their prior frustrations...
Hyperbits Masterclass Student Spotlight: Flowaver
As fate would have it, Hyperbits Masterclass student Flowaver's first DJ support came after his first-ever release, from his favorite...
The 15 Best Reverb Plugins in 2021
Before we even get into discussing the best reverb plugins available, it’s important to talk about why we should even care. When I was...
How to Sample Any Sound: The End All Guide
I’m writing this article to give you the ultimate, end all, be all guide of how to sample any sound. We’re going to give you...
Hyperbits Masterclass Student Spotlight: Nurko
Fresh off his performance at Proximity’s Digital Mirage Music Festival, we sat down with Nurko to ask him about his recent explosive...
Slate Digital Plugins: Is this the Best Deal in Audio?
Slate Digital Plugins and the Slate bundle are constantly growing. Since I became a subscriber in 2018 there have literally been dozens...
A Guide to De-Essing: It’s Not Just for Vocals Anymore
De-essing is easily one of the most overlooked tools at your disposal that can make or break a mix. Historically known as a technique...
The Ultimate Home Studio Setup: 21 Pieces of Gear You Need
You love music — so much that you started actually producing music. Now you need the right tools. This guide will help breakdown all...
12 Serum Sound Design Tips You Need to Know
Today, we’re going to look at a few of our favorite sound design tips with Xfer’s Serum that you can apply to your music right away....
Making Money In Music With Multiple Income Streams
Don’t get me wrong, making money in music isn’t just something you’ll be able to pull off overnight. Quite frankly, it takes a lot of...
7 Backward Lessons in Music Production That’ll Piss You Off
What are good melody writing techniques that you can practice? Are there rules you can follow to write better melodies? The answer is...
7 Ways to Write Better Melodies: Techniques & Rules
What are good melody writing techniques that you can practice? Are there rules you can follow to write better melodies? The answer is...
How to Master a Song in any DAW
You can master a song in any DAW. Yep, that’s right — Ableton, Logic, FL Studio, whatever you’re using, you can do your masters right...
The Top 10 Microphones for Vocal Production
When it comes to microphones for vocal production, some mics are better-suited for recording instruments while others are good for...
5 Ways to Find Your Sound as a Music Producer
If you want to find your sound, there is no shortcut to putting in the hours to actually find it. “The greatest challenge as a musician...
How to Mix Music: 8 Technical Steps for Beginners
So, how do you actually mix music? How do you make your volume levels right? How do you get rid of muddiness? How do you make music...
8 Creative Ways to Use Sample Packs & Soundbanks
Once you’ve spent a few months (or maybe even years) building your sample library, you’ll come to realize that there are some extremely...
10 Strategies to Heal Lower Back Pain for Music Producers
Over the years, I've seen aggressive lower back pain, but, I've also subsequently seen my lower back pain completely dissipate due to...
3 Reasons Music Producers & Musicians Fail
The only thing I actually care about is helping you make better music. If I succeed in that, everything else in my life falls in...
9 Best Ways to Learn Electronic Music Production
By focusing on proven techniques and methodologies, an up and coming producer can drastically lower the learning curve ahead of...
Sampling Kicks: How to Sample Kick Drums from Any Song
Some producers swear by stealing kicks, while others claim it’s immoral and downright cheating. This article will breakdown and unpack...
Our Top 10 Free Plugins For Music Producers in 2021
Anyone who tells you don't need third-party plugins outside of your DAW is lying to you. In 2021, third-party plugins are necessary to...
Redefining Sound Design: 5 Innovative Techniques
With this article, I want to arm you with the tools you need to go back to your DAW with a discerning ear and an innovator’s mindset....
The Best Way to Learn Music Theory
The purpose of this article is to show you how to learn music theory. I’ll cover that top 20% at a high level, and link out to...
12 Songwriting Tips For Music Producers
Sure, beat-making is a blast. And it’s satisfying to dial in reverb to get it to sit just right. But writing a song… that’s the real...
How to Use Reverb: The Ultimate Guide for Music Producers
I’ve put together a comprehensive guide for how to treat reverb like a professional. Just like anything within music production,...
The Ultimate Guide to Starting Songs: 22 Foolproof Techniques
Remember this: where a song starts is less important than the fact that you’re making progress. The important things is to get started,...
The 7 Deadly Mistakes New Music Producers Make
My hope is that this articles sparks the latent professional within you. My dream is that everyone who reads this comes out with a...
20 Lessons in Running an Online Music Business I Wish I Knew When I Started
I wanted to write a letter to myself highlighting everything I’ve learned in building and running a music production school over the...
The Artist’s Library: 40 Must-Have Books for Music Producers
Books are one of the most powerful tools at your fingertips when it comes to growing as an artist, producer, and individual. These have...
Top 8 Entry Level Hardware Synths
What about hardware synths? There are old and new brands. Prices are all over the board. And on top of that, there’s additional...
8 Strategies to Humanize Your Music
To create a handmade, personal feel in your tracks, you must be intentional about creating the right imperfections. In essence, you are...
10 Reasons to Upgrade to Ableton 10
Ableton Live 10 brings some serious improvements to the table. I’ve spent the better part of this year testing the new features in my...
A Guide to Automation and Movement in Music
Learn how to make people move to your music. Learn that working in the digital domain gives us the ability to find and sculpt advanced...
The Art of Arranging a Song
Soon you’ll find that arrangement becomes an inseparable part of your workflow, all the way from the initial idea through the mixdown....
Writer’s Block Isn’t Real: 4 Limiting Beliefs in Music Production
Any time you feel stranded in the sea of writer’s block, know that there’s always a way out: action. You don’t write music by thinking....
How to Use a Compressor: The End All Guide
Compression was built for one purpose (to reduce the dynamic range of a signal), but it can be used to achieve many specific results...
Dynamics in Music: The Key To Emotional Productions
The concept of Dynamics is at the heart of what makes music memorable, special, and relatable to our lives....
8 Things You No Longer Need to Focus on as a Music Producer
It can be tough to stop doing things that used to be effective strategies not too long ago. That said, it is time to change and stay...
Mixing & Mastering Electronic Music in 2021
Mixing and Mastering electronic music is extremely hard. So today, I'm going to share the most popular mixing and mastering mistakes I...
8 Audio Editing & Warping tips for Ableton Live & Logic Pro
Here are 8 of our absolute favorite techniques, tips and strategies (complete with video demonstrations for each) to help you take full...
Music Industry Connections: How to Win Friends & Influence People
We’ve all heard stories of insanely talented artists getting accidentally “discovered” – but, that only happens to an incredibly small...
65+ Online Tools for Music Producers & Artists
Here are over 65 of my favorite tools that I’ve used over the past 10 years to help me create music, manage my projects, tame...
A Simple Man’s Guide to Basic Music Theory for Producers
Any online music theory course will present the same exact information in their course as what is in this article, albeit with some...
The Ultimate Guide to Multiband Compression: Tips, Techniques & Plugins
Instead of aimlessly tweaking and adjusting knobs and parameters because it's fun to touch (and I admit, it is), let's demystify...
How to Know if Your Music is Good: 8 Ways You’re Ruining Your Music
In music production, however, there are some common poor practices that many producers do not even realize are part of their workflow...
103 Music Production Tips: Mixing, Mastering, Sound Design, Composition & Mindset
In reality, music production is a grind. It’s a true struggle – a beautiful pursuit that pairs a musical art-form with the...
10 Ways to Steal Like an Artist
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. And it is through our influencers that we borrow, chisel, mooch and acquire the necessary...
How to Achieve the Ultimate Kick Bass Relationship
Ahhh. That elusive kick-bass relationship… There are few things better than perfectly nailing the low end of a track. For me, it’s up...
The Ultimate Plugin Guide for Electronic Music
Rules are meant to be broken. And the professionals break them every day. They just do it with a sense of purpose and reason. There’s...
How to Start a Song in an Empty DAW: 8 Creativity Hacks
How many times have you sat down at your computer with the intention of producing a track – only to be intimidated and hindered by the...
The Ultimate Guide to the Loudness War
So, why is the loudness war over? Well, all the streaming platforms have individually decided to match the loudness of the music on...
20 Lessons In Music Production I Wish I Knew When I Started
Hyperbits here. Guess what? It’s story time, kids. But I’m not writing to you… I’m writing to myself. Well, the old me. I’m writing to...
The Best Guitar Amp Software and How to Use It
Famous guitarists from the likes of Steve Vai to Kirk Hammett to Eric Clapton to Jimmy Page, were well known for their obsession with...
4 Stock Logic Synths You Need to be Using
The stock synthesizers in Logic provide a unique suite of tools to create some high-quality sounds. While often written off as inferior...
Ultimate Guide to Layering & Humanizing Pianos in Electronic Music
Electronic music, by nature, is digital. And when things get overly digital, productions sound flat, predictable, even boring. But that...
7 Must-Know EQ Tips with Fab Filter Pro-Q2
The purpose of this video isn’t to show off the bells and whistles of Pro-Q2, but rather to show what you are capable of as a producer...
6 Tips for Effective EDM Build Ups
Don’t skimp on the details in your buildups. Your drop is only as good as the anticipation you create before it. Build ups are an...
How to Use Reverses in Logic: 5 Creative Techniques
Using reverse techniques in your music is a great way to add details, to add intricacies, to add energy and movement, or even just a...
8-Step Finishing Checklist
Finishing music is hard. In fact, I would argue it’s the most difficult aspect of the creative process. It’s just a lot easier to...
Top 12 All Time Most Influential Music Production Videos
These are the music production videos that changed my life as a producer. Not the hundreds, if not thousands of little tutorials and...
The Mono-Build Trick
“Wow. What a great trick. I would definitely buy a book filled with things like this.“ – Some dude on Reddit....
Top 20 Saturation & Distortion Plugins for Electronic Music
In short, saturation is THE most effective way to add analog edge and warmth to your music – often meaning the difference between...