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🙏🏻 Blind faith and serendipity in field of music 🤞🏻

I hope you've stayed productive. To me, autumn is definitely a creative period. I'm still kind of "recovering" from finishing my recent album, Classy Coffee Cuts, but I'm definitely enjoying working on new ideas etc (finished a new song this weekend, yay!)📹I have exciting stuff lined up for ya: e.g., I have Ableton Note tutorial, new DAW stuff (!?), new album song walkthru video, plugin giveaway etc etc…you just wait! 📽️I want to inspire people, and maybe this littl...

Making a sample-based hip hop beat

Time to get busy with some sample-based beatmaking!I’ve always loved hunting down samples and making stuff around it.I don’t always build things “around it”, but this time I’m doing just that.I’ve seen some people say stuff like sample-based music is on the decline, and hearing that alone was enough to put my FatGyver pants on and do this for ya’ll!Going thru my usual workflow, I talk about my sampling aesthetic, I discovered something really useful about my audio editor that I gua...

New album "Classy Coffee Cuts" out today

My new album, “Classy Coffee Cuts”, is out now.All arenas, Bandcamp preferred:• http://fanu.bandcamp.com • Spotify (The actual selling price of the album is more than the lower tiers – I can link producer tier members to the download of the album, so just DM me if you want it)Man, it’s tough to describe music with words, and I’ll let the music do the talking, but I decided I’d write an honest album intro in one single sitting using 10 mins on it tops, so here it is.This one took ...

SICK basses with Saturn 2! You prob haven't tried doing this...

Bass class is in session! If you like filthy gnarly basses, this is for you, my bass junkie friend.I've been using Saturn 2 for creating new bass sounds out of existing basses.This video will show you how. And it's much less about saturation than you might think.You can get experimental and squeeze some new filthy basses out of your existing basses...so let's get our hands dirty and create new bass pressure suitable for DNB, dubstep, and similar styles!Whats your fave way to create b...

Fix your mono!

If there is one thing I’d want to help every single producer in the world with, it’s their mono signal – even just to make my daily work a bit faster (especially when it comes to mastering only where I can't fix this, while I can in mixing when I have the stems). Hence the public video (one reason I made this is I can point my patrons/students/clients to this instead of writing about it detail every time). I hope as many producers in the world will get to see this as possible. Feel fre...

Let's make some acid with Renoise/Redux! [video]

Alright, it's time to do some acid lines with Renoise/Redux!Can be done with both, and hey, technically this technique can be applied to any sampler in the world, basically! I just want to keep things varied, and there's something really nice about doing this with Renoise/Redux (and some of you have been asking), so here we go.Also, you can download the project or the instrument used in the video (the instrument can be loaded into Redux VST).Aceeeeeed!

Improve the drop of your song (mastering, video)

There's this one thing (or two) that I do on many masters that have a breakdown and a drop – a lot of electronic music – and I wanted to share.Working on a song of mine here to keep it copyright-free and all that.See if you can hear the difference, and try it on your songs. No epic mastering skills or anything needed (literally anyone can do this with any DAW), but putting it under mastering tag, as it sort of falls there.Man I got a stupid amount of stuff lined up, so especially video-w...

Operator wubs! [Ableton video]

I promised recently to show how I created the Operator basses in the recent project I posted, so here we go…get all wubsy with it!If anyone says stock DAW tools aren't powerful these days, I'm going to slap them around with a very large trout.More bass stuff in the near horizon; I just discovered something really cool and new I want to share next month.So keep your eyes locked on the page....Uncle Fanu aka Lil Wubsy's got you covered with bass!

Plugin giveaways!

I’ve got two plugins serials to give away:PolyMAX synth from Universal Audio (no UAD interface required) and Morph EQ from Minimal Audio.Should you want one, just leave a comment (don’t DM me please). I’m making a wild guess that there may be several peeps wanting some, so to give everyone an equal chance, I’ll randomly pick a winner by rolling some virtual dice on Sunday, 20 Aug.

Lesson prep material: Ableton bass sound design

Alright, dear students, so let's do something different.I will soon post a video about how to do some very techy Ableton Operator basses.However, before that, I want to prep you for it!A good student is also curious, and I've always wanted to raise that curiosity, because that is what makes you dig these things and learn techniques of your own instead of only absorbing material/info.(Btw, anyone had those annoying teachers at school that showed you a bunch of text which you had to write ...

Career protips / thoughts

That subject may be a bit cheesy or whatever, but it serves its purpose!I haven't done a written post in a while, but I've been meaning to; got many on my notepad ready to go (there are many videos on the way, so trying to keep it a bit varied, too). One I have had there for the longest is lists of short thoughts relating to one's career/success etc. These could be applied to being an artist, being a freelancer, running one's business, working with labels, etc. So let's do th...

Music is work! Motivation will fail you. Discipline gets the work done!

(I don't do videos for Youtube often anymore, but helps to throw in some people to my Patreon, which I want to grow as much as I can and keep it as part of my living)Having been a creative being for 31 years (I started making music in 1992), I've always been interested in philosophy and also "tips" relating to making music – and getting things done.I wanted to put forward critical core thoughts in terms of how you should approach music IF you want to get it done and not just me...

About breakbeats and transitional energy in songs [video]

Working on another song idea, I wanted to share some thoughts regarding distributing the energy in a song, this time mostly relating to using a breakbeat but also some other song elements.

Let's talk about BASS!

A few thoughts relating to bass as I'm working on a song.• Solid sub for a 2-osc bass• Using Ableton Multiband Dynamics for sub boost + control• Hive 2 triangle bass

Song walkthru: FatGyver – "Slow Progress" (+ drum samples)

New beat walkthru time! Also I've got some drum samples for you (check end of post for links).So in this video, I'm covering a song called "Slow Progress" from the recent FatGyver album.Going thru the bass and drums (Addictive Drums 2), mostly, as that's mostly what the song offers.Peeping a few plugins too and hearing what compressor can do to drums to get their aggression up quite a bit.Giving LoopCloud a look too and see how it works…I think it's dope!Here's two ...

Chopping Science! Redux part 1: chopping + FX [video]

Chopping Scientists need to know about good tools for chopping ✂️If there's something that'll always get me all stoked, it's good samplers.Redux sampler offers very fast and light choppery. This is one of my favourite tools to chop up a drumbreak really quickly. Obviously it can be used for ANY samples.I'm also showing you how the FX work and unravelling the modulation side of things.Also at the end, I'm having a great moment of teaching where I learn something new about ...

Make your hihats classier

Heyhey, a quick tip on making your hihats classier.(🎥 BTW there'll be a Redux sampler video coming soonish, as promised. Got many msgs about it – just wanted so say here, you've been heard! 🎥)Thought I might make a video of this, but this technique really is as simple as it gets.Most hihats have resonance peaks in them that may create annoying "hollow" ringing. Even the classic Roland drum machine hihats.A lot of times, you don't necessarily (realize you) hear them un...

Ableton Push 3 [video]

So Ableton Push 3 is out today.Available as a standalone and non-standalone versions.I was happy to receive my unit early and I've been a tester for a while.So, wanted to create this video for release day.Hope you like!

About lowpass and highpass filtering

Being an audio nerd and engineer, this sort of stuff does fascinate me. Came across this article on the interwebs (shouts to Owen Palmer) and wanted to share.There’s some interesting stuff about how minimum phase filtering affects the decay and amplitude of low frequencies.Read up! And don’t high/lowpass that master ;-)Anyways here’s the article! 📝PS: Plenty of video stuff coming…wait till you see what drops on Tuesday ;-PPPS: I rarely low/highpass anything!

Why new samplers don't sound like old ones

Phew, sorry for possibly several notifications for this today…you don't even want to hear why I had to do this again not once, but twice…so here, maybe the third time's the charm and this is it!Was supposed to be a quickie, but ironically ended up taking tons of time!(e.g., second time, I tried uploading the video to Patreon's own system, skipping YouTube, and it worked and looked good…until I hit post and checked it all a bit later and noticed there literally is no video insid...

Chopping Science tools: TAL Sampler – it rules! Let's chop some drums and play bass [video]

Chopping Scientists need to know about good tools for chopping!TAL Sampler is by far one of my fave samplers, because it's very light, quick to use, grrrreat for chopping – and it sounds banging! And that is why I want to tell you about it. Gotta love it.PS: Will also do a similar video about Redux, too, as it's great for chopping as wellPPS: Will do another sound design video with TAL Sampler soon!

Sample Shack for May (download) [bass & drums]

Lemme slap you with some samples!(Btw don't forget to check the earlier samples or downloads)Most of these are from some of my most recent released songs, but I also added a few extras there.There are kicks, hats, snares, and basses. I wanted to bounce these into audio so I could use them again myself, and hey, I want you to have them too.Got a new video coming soon, so stay tuned for that!

Ableton protips time! [video]

This video for Ableton Nordic Youtube channel is waaaaaaaaayy overdue.But hey, protips don't age.Hope you like some of these!

"Reverse Dawn" song checkout [VIDEO]

Let's take a look at what happens in Reverse Dawn (Dispatch Dubplate).I'll show you the drums and point you to the source, talk about a bit about the drum pattern, discuss song structure and voice my opinions on today's DNB structures in general, and so on…VIDEO HERE (no sharing!)Make a classy brew and join me on this 30-minute song walkthrough video.

"No Horizon" drums + sample [VIDEO]

Always willing to inspire people to work on fresh drums, I want you to see what's happening with the drums in No Horizon (Metalheadz).Video here (no sharing!)Also revealing the source sample and who sent it to me maybe 15 years ago and also used it in D&B before me (has only been used once before, afaik).You can download my edited+processed version here.

What's coming soon

First, hi!Second, thanks to everybody for the support and hanging around.Third, letting you in on what's coming.Soon, I'll go through some drumwork stuff on two new releases (I may split that to two videos).I always aspire to inspire, so I'll let you in on the drumworks of No Horizon (Metalheadz). It has a drumbreak I'm almost 100% sure you've never heard of – especially not in D&B context. I wish more people used it, as it has a lot of great drumhits. I actually want to us...

"Headgames" [Metalheadz] walkthrough [VIDEO]

My new Metalheadz EP is here, and so is the walkthru for the opening track, Headgames!🎥 VIDEO HERE (no sharing: it's all Patreon-exclusive!) 🎥I talk about the arrangement, how the song sections work, the importance of transitions, emotional elements, drums of course – and why you should sometimes take a break from your usual style.Any Qs, hit me up!(PS: I can't share the EP, as it's owned by the label)

Chopping Science episode 2 [VIDEO]

I'm slamming you with Chopping Science episode 2 to get you into the mood to work on some drums!(no sharing the link!)Who's gonna work on some drums this weekend? Well, I know I am?Anyways, here I continue from where I finished in Episode 1.I'm making the drumloop more aggressive and talk about how to do it, while showing you, of course.Talking about the importance of different drumhits in a drum pattern and how they accentuate the energy.Let's take a mellow drum pattern and make...

Processing layered breaks [VIDEO]

Hey ya'll!Chopping Science vol. 2 will come in Feb, but peep this!I wanted to share a few techniques in layering drumbreaks.Going thru some plugins and techniques to really squeeze some added tone out of a supporting break while keeping a main break on top.I can guarantee there’s especially one plugin you’ve probably never used before which can really enhance the energy in the signal.Add these tips to your mixing/processing toolbox and start creating your own monster layer breakbeat with...

Chopping Science episode 1 [VIDEO]

The most requested thing from me, by far, has been relating to chopping drums and making breakbeats.And that’s what I will present to you, in the form of Chopping Science video series.First episode is up on Patreon now (40+ minutes).VIDEO HERE (No sharing!!)I’ll show you how I chop my drums, what I look for in a break, what device I like to use, and I’ll create a breakbeat loop in the end.The techniques I use are universal and not DAW-specific.With this series, I will help you build your u...