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There is no reason to settle for lackluster kick drum sounds on your home recording. This article explores some great mix recipes for equalizing and compressing your kick drum tracks. While every kick drum has an individual sound there are some general guidelines you can follow to get a great start in shaping your drum’s sound. Start by trying a few of these eq and compressor settings and tweak them in to suit your specific starting drum sound and desired results. All you need in your home studio is a four band eq to start shaping the kick drum sound of your dreams!

Beati Sounds has released their EDM Bigroom with a very Future Electro vibe. Grab your copy now:

Touch the Rainbow – Single

Listen to Touch the Rainbow – Single on Spotify. Beati Sounds · Single · 2016 · 2 songs.

Beati Sounds has proven his abilities in delivering high-quality music and he certainly established himself as one of the best in the business. He seems to continuously increase his skills and he doesn’t look to slow down too soon! That’s why you should keep your eyes on Beati Sound, he is up to big things! After he broke the barriers with his massive track “Winter Beats”, he went one step further and delivered another hard hitting track.

At Dancefair we followed the remix competition of Laidback Luke​. The assignment was:
-Receive some stems from one of his tracks
-You have two hours to remix it.

Don’t know the difference between lossy and lossless? What’s the deal with bit rates? Let us explain.
If you use iTunes or if you buy and download digital music, you’ll have come across a number of terms and abbreviations that describe digital audio files. This alphabet soup can be quite confusing. What are codecs or audio file formats? What is a bit rate, and what’s a sample rate? What does it mean when music is “high-resolution?” When you buy a CD, the audio on the disc is uncompressed. You can rip (or import) CDs with iTunes or other software, turning the CD’s audio into digital audio files to use on a computer or a portable device. In iTunes, you can rip in two uncompressed formats: WAV and AIFF (other software allows for other formats). Both formats simply encapsulate the PCM (pulse-code modulation) data stored on CDs so it can be read as audio files on a computer, and their bit rate (you’ll learn what the bit rate is below) is 1,411 kbps.

The ways in which we have experienced music, and how it has been recorded and consumed, have changed dramatically, and different formats have created some pretty iconic pieces of paraphernalia over the years. These have come to represent specific eras in the past century: think of the gramophone, vinyl, cassette tapes, compact discs and the rise of digital music, MP3 and now dedicated streaming services.