Yall know me, I love drums. I’m super critical when it comes to drum samples and I never feel like you can have enough. When it comes to commercial, radio ready, pristine sounding drums…only a couple names constantly come up. Sonic Specialists is one such name. I first heard about them a few years back, [...]

Whas good yo! Back with another review for ya, this time we switchin it up from loops and libraries to sound effects! I know what you’re thinking, but trust me, just go along for the ride Who is Wave Alchemy and what is the SFX Collection? Good question, Wave Alchemy is a sound design company [...]

I spent the two days re organizing my sample library. I’ve been wanting to do it for a while, but up until now had only managed to do maybe one or two collection. However, I just decided to get it done. My sample library file system Basically what I do is this. I have two [...]

Is it Friday already!? Dang! Well it’s time for another edition of Big Fish Friday…time to take a look at some more samples sent to me by big fish audio. This week, we’re gonna get a lil jazzy on ya! Talkin all that Jazz… This isn’t one of those “hip hop jazz hybrid” collections, this [...]

I get a lot of folks askin me about how to use ableton live like an mpc. Specifically how to play your chops so they cut each other off. I also cover how to make your own custom presets for when chopping samples. If you want to chop and automatically add fx and such, you [...]

It’s Friday again, so you know what that means! Time for another Big Fish Friday! This week they sent me a guitar sample collection from the “Off The Hook” Series. This is a well known series in the sample cd market for urban and hip hop production. Let’s check it So what exactly is Off [...]

Welcome to the first official “Big Fish Friday” Each Friday I will be taking a look at something from bigfishaudio.com They are one of the largest and most well known providers of sample cds and sample libraries in the industry. I have established a relationship with the company where they will send me out various [...]

Yep, another one, I gotta keep em coming cuz we all like new sounds right? This one is for those that like to travel on the more laid back side of the drum beat, jazzy, chill, downtempo, ambient, smokey, lounge…whatever you wanna call it. Let’s get into this smooth sample collection. Is there really magic [...]

Aight, got a new company for ya today. Today we are checking out the first pack I’ve used from novaloops.com The co owner Don used to be the ceo/pres at p5audio and also brought out a lot of that library while there. That don’t really matter though, what matters is if these sounds are dope [...]

It’s no denying it, we’re in a recession. This is true…but we still gotta make beats and we constantly want to get new stuff. Many of you may remember Kicksandsnares.com they were one of the ILLEST drum providers online. Do to sound pirating and sharing, they shut that site down. But the drum fiends wouldn’t [...]

I know I know…what up wit Scott Storch? He blazed the charts for a while, then….I dunno, last I heard it was some money issues. It’s all good, things happen, what you can’t front on is that dude is NASTY when it comes to the keys. So today we looking at some Storchy style piano [...]

So, I’ve been learning and playing with Maschine from Native Instruments…I must say it’s awesome. I’m currently using the beta update so as soon as the full update is released I’ll give you my review. But I’m still going to show you little tips, tricks, and some of the workflow. In this video I just [...]