Fanu/FatGyver

Breakbeat Of The Month #6: an underrated break – techstep DNB time! [video + downloads]

Uncle Fanu promised to get back to the breaks in September, and he's not one to eat his words, so here we go!

This is a very unknown break, but hey now you know it!
"Paa Break" by Didier's Sound Spectrum.

Great for DNB and this'd wo...

Why your mix isn't hitting (punching) reason 9/9 (+ extra mentions)

It took me a while to learn this one, because there was a period (ca. 2000-2010) when I was almost exclusively working with hardware samplers that weren’t that precise in terms of seeing the sample start point. So I was often layering d...

Reason 8/9 why your mix isn't as powerful as it could

Topic #1 I nag to clients about, hands down. Poor mono.

Hell, even a lot of great producers don't check their mono, and then it's my job nag about it. I know, I know, I've been complaining about this a lot, but even some of the songs I get f...

Reason why your mix ain't phat 7/9

A lot of people do this one, especially some house producers.

Learn to hear when it's too much...in some chunky, organic styles this isn't really needed. Nothing like hearing some jungle for example where transients are way overcooked :-/ 2024-08-23 08:38:37 +0000 UTC View Post

Reference mixing/mastering! Why your mix lacks power reason 6/9

Some of the somewhat most challenging premasters or initial mixes I always get from producers that are not doing any referencing. I still find it really important.

How do you know how your song does against other similar songs if you never t...

Paint by numbers much? Why your mix lacks power reason 5/9.

Some people are lazy (I'm lazy too, with some things, like cooking).

They'd like to paint (mix) by numbers and adjust their mixer levels for elements based on what someone is telling them. This may not work out.

Here's my best explanat...

Why your mix lacks power: reason 4/9

Analyzing DAW projects every now and then (instead of just hearing a .wav file), I'd say this can be fairly common especially with less experienced producers. Less is often more.

Reason 5 (next episode, soon) will address a topic that I'm as...

Why your mix lacks power: reason 3/9

Mix nugget 3/9 here!
Should be obvious, but hearing a lot of music out there today (also hearing some of the premasters and stems I get), this one is not obvious.
So trying to raise some awareness around this one.
Instead of slapping a to...

Why your mix lacks power: reason 2/9

Reason 2/9 why your mix is lacking power! You probably don't have to do this one.

Why your mix lacks power: video 1/9

In August, I'm dropping 9 video tips/thoughts on why some mixes lack power. All this I deal with daily in my audio work. Here's video 1/9. I may do even more, as the list got pretty long, but tried to keep it easy to digest.

(at least) 9 vid...

Plugin giveaway: Pultec EQ Collection

I already this one as UAD Native and their Spark version, and I happened to see I have a license for this on my Loopcloud account. I'm not 100% sure how long it'll stay – I remember seeing the offer say Aug 4 is the last day for the offer they t...

Amigo Sampler + Breakbeat Of The Month #5 [video + sample download]

I recently got the dope Amigo Sampler, and got a song going with it. Wanted to give you a little look into how the Amigo Sampler works...it sounds dope!

The break I happened to use was very fitting for a new Breakbeat Of The Month episode.<...

Breakbeat Of The Month #4…explosive beats! [video + sample + project download]

I'm getting busy with an explosive one! "Soul Drums" by Bernard Purdie.
Man, Purdie is tight and funky, and he got soooo many more breaks, I prob gotta cover some more in a later BBOTM episode.

This one has not been used that&nbs...

If you want to get LOUD! (Subfocus etc) [Mix/master/production video]

I recently posted an IG clip about the loudest stem master I've done for a client this year. It raised many comments and I got many DMs from some of you asking m...

Get that gain staging right!

I've been getting Qs about gain staging again, so let's have a refresher to keep our dynamics decent. After all, gain staging in a modern DAW is fairly simple and there's only a few rules to follow.
Old video (good lord I've lost weight since ...

Questions & Answers Part 1

You asked, and I’ll answer. I recently asked you to ask me questions and I’d do a video reply.

Part 1 is now on Youtube (see timecodes at the end of description there).

I got waaaaay more questions I can handle in one sitting, but ...

Ask me anything!

Phew, just kicked off a 2-week vacation (time off of my main grind, i.e., mixing and mastering music).

I thought, maybe a "ask me anything" type of thing could work: you could send some questions (add them to this post) and I'd do a ...