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Archive for the 'Primeloops Blogs' Category

Pop music <3s video games

This blog was written for primeloops.com – check them out for some ace samples and to see my blogs 2 months earlier!

Over the past few decades, video games have become a vital part of the music industry.

With licensed soundtracks, original theme songs and games that are entirely music-based dominating the video game charts, they certainly pack a punch when it comes to promoting popular music.

So let’s take a look at some of the matches made in heaven between popular music and video games… Read the rest of this entry »

Category: Primeloops Blogs, Video Game Music | 3 Comments »

Top 5 Ways to Make Robot Voices!

This blog was written for primeloops.com – check them out for some ace samples and to see my blogs 2 months earlier!

So you’re entering the dehumanising world of robotic voices…

Attempting to find the right sound for you amongst the sharp, emotionless and downright alien sounding tones you can get from digitally processed vocals can be a veritable nightmare – so here are 5 different paths you can take to start your computer communicating with you!  Read the rest of this entry »

Category: Primeloops Blogs, Production Techniques | 4 Comments »

Indie Hip Hop

This blog was written for primeloops.com – check them out for some ace samples and to see my blogs 2 months earlier!

Hip Hop has long had a specific stigma attached to it.

Whether it’s the masses’ misinterpretation that it’s all self-promoting arrogant rhymes over simple sampled beats or chart-fodder for people who can’t operate an auto-tune unit, it has been misunderstood for a long time.

But now Hip Hop has well and truly grown up in the eyes of the mainstream… Read the rest of this entry »

Category: Hip Hop / Rap, Primeloops Blogs | 4 Comments »

Top 5 Tips for a Dirtier Dubstep Wobble Bass

This blog was written for primeloops.com – check them out for some ace samples and to see my blogs 2 months earlier!

So you’ve exhausted the conventional simple start of “generic wave into modulated filter cut-off” as the extent of your dubstep wobble and are looking for something a bit more interesting to make your sounds stand out?

You’ve come to the right place, my friend!   Here are 5 sweet suggestions that will help you keep wobbling innovatively into the future! Read the rest of this entry »

Category: Dubstep, Primeloops Blogs, Production Techniques, Tips & Tricks, Top 5 / 10 / 20 lists | 5 Comments »

Introduction to Distortion

This blog was written for primeloops.com – check them out for some ace samples and to see my blogs 2 months earlier!

Man, all this electronic music is just so clean!   If only there was a magical button to give it that edge… that grit… that audible equivalent of teenage angst.

Well, it sounds like you need some distortion… Read the rest of this entry »

Category: Introduction to..., Primeloops Blogs | No Comments »

Top 5 pieces of hardware to improve your mixes

Okay, so “everyone” says that hardware is redundant – plug-ins are the way to go, hardware is just extra money for stuff that looks nice, but you could emulate just as well with a computer, right? Wrong. Well, sort of.

You see, hardware often has side-effects. A little bit of extra warmth, excitation or (the word to use where you can’t quite tell what it’s done, but it sounds better) character. Digital plug-ins don’t generally have the same happy accidents when recording with them.

So, without further ado, I present the top 5 pieces of hardware to add that all important character to your sounds… Read the rest of this entry »

Category: Primeloops Blogs, Production Techniques | 1 Comment »

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