Fanu/FatGyver

Pro-Q3 kick/bass sidechain

Pro-Q3 kick/bass sidechain

So in a nutshell, place the EQ on your bass track.
Activate sidechain view to see the sidechain frequencies.
Create an EQ node, a...

Amazing speech sample source

Always willing to inspire others, I wanted to let you know about this cool speech sample source site because it's quite unrivaled!

Basically that site allows...

Gotta love good EQing! (static vs dynamic EQing)

I'll soon have a new batch of fresh drumsounds coming for you, but check this.  Cutting the audio gunk out of your signal AND then boosting – dynamically! – the good parts of it can make such a big differ...

Can you kick it? Have some fresh kickdrums! (DOWNLOAD)

Who wants some kickdrums?

Grab them HERE!
(no sharing!)

Basically, I was creat...

Why should you limit your master?

I got this question:

"Would there be any benefit to temporarily putting a limiter on the master in order to highlight any issues in the mix (I mean would it highlight anything too loud in the mix or annoying frequencies)?" 2022-11-06 08:49:37 +0000 UTC View Post

Filthy modular bass action with Ableton Oscillot (Max For Live)

Modular bass growl filth with Ableton Live from scratch? Hold my beer!
Using the modular Oscillot synth (a M4L pack).
Let's build a basic one-osc synth and get growly…the ...

Breakbeat session: Rock Dirge [video, 40+ mins]

So let's get this breakbeat thing rolling!
Got lots of requests for that.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/hrefo8z49ypnq3b/dirgepatreo...

Breaks content will come…on Patreon

Ez ya'll!

Just letting you know that I've been planning the Patreon horizon, and a lot of the recent requests have to do with jungle and chopping breaks.
I've been into that for some 25 years now...still as fun as it ever was!

Sooo...

Denoising a drum loop with new Bitwig Loud Split plugin [video]

Audio enginerding stuff here!

Seems the Loud Split plugin of Bitwig's new Spectral pack is pretty nice for controlling the amount of noise in a signal. 

Making drums less noisy here, and also going super noisy!

2022-10-07 11:50:14 +0000 UTC View Post

Vital synth bassics!

A good request was, "Could you show how to create basses with Vital?" so hey let's do just that!
Vital is a great-sounding FREE wavetable-synth you should grab.
So let me show you how to create a nice, moving, Reese-ish bass sound as well as...

Let's create dope new drumsounds from scratch or emulate them with Backbone DrumGAN! [video]

I really want to let you know about this new DrumGAN feature of Steinberg Backbone.
It can create new drumsounds for you from scratch OR emulate a drums...

Let's create techstep DNB beats! (Alien Girl drums) [25-minute video]

I recently did a nice session with a patron using a drumloop he gave me, which is the original drumloop that was used in the classic Alien Girl tune by Ed Rush, Optical and Fierce.

So here's me having a go with it, layering things a bit and...

Create a healthy sub bass with Serum (fix the Reese bass / two-oscillator sub bass drift problem) [video]

It's easy and fun to create two-oscillator basses such as Reese basses with Serum, as they sound lively due to the movement caused by two detuned oscillators.
However, this often causes a problem with sub bass, which will also drift in and out...

Clipper vs limiter [20-minute video]

Today, I'm telling you about using limiters and clippers.
Where they differ, what's similar, when you should use either, and so on.
Join me for this 20-minute audio engineering lecture!

2022-08-07 08:00:34 +0000 UTC View Post

Short Studio Masterclass #3 [video]

👉🏻Watch here 👈🏻
(no sharing, as it's Patreon-exclusive)

So in this series, I want t...

Coming up this weekend…exclusive video stuff!

Aye ya'll!

Just letting you know briefly that very soon I'll be publishing the first episode of my new miniseries, Short Studio Sessions.
In those sessions, I'll go thru things relating to making songs I've been ...

Twitch stream 24 July (video archive / download)

First STEAMY SUNDAY STREAM on Twitch is done!

• Watch/download the video from Dropbox&n...

First Twitch session (Jul 24)

So I’ve decided to start streaming DJ sets via Twitch (I may make downloads Patreon-exclusive)

First test stream is happening today, and very soon.

2022-07-24 10:25:59 +0000 UTC View Post

Free download from the archives

Here’s an old one from the archives!

Fanu: “Hämärä”

(Soundcloud has downloads enabled)

This is 10–15 years old!

I sampled a Finnish vocal group back then, and I was excited about this....

Let's talk about mixing kicks! [VIDEO]

I received a good question: what do I take into account in mixing kicks?

VIDEO HERE (25 mins)
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Get SP-12 drums! .wav, Ableton drum rack, Bitwig, Redux/Renoise! (download)

Slamming you with SP-12 drums sampled from my SP-12 AND instruments for Ableton Live 10 & 11, Bitwig Studio, and Redux/Renoise.

If you've been hanging around on my Patreon long enough, you'll remember that I originally did a rack for Ab...

Sound design tip: oldskool jungle style timestretch! (Bitwig)

Been digging more and more into Bitwig Studio, and wanted to find out how to do this oldskool jungle type timestretch effect. Here's two similar ways!
First method is very interesting and more Bitwig-specific, but the second one is more applic...

Song walkthru video: Amos Keato - Some Dread Purpose (Fanu Remix)

Class is in session!
Here comes a video (47 mins) walkthru of my recent remix for Make Or Break label:

2022-06-12 15:52:01 +0000 UTC View Post