June 2025 - Leads Breakdown

For this production bundle's tutorial video I look over Stay Hungry, a track that featured on my EP 'Turn The Tape' which dropped on Flexout Audio in 2024.

More specifically I'll be walking you through the bass design and how I created the main mid range sound, arranged and processed it to fit with the rest of the vibe of the track.

I get a lot of tracks for feedback where the mids are really static and don't feel like they're part of the track, so I put a dry demo track together to demonstrate how I would approach bringing the track to life. 

This goes a step further looking at some of the atmospherics, vocal sample and fxs as well.

Inside this production bundle, I have put together a long sound design session. I didn't have any focus or direction for this but ended up creating loads of really cool atmospherics that can be bounced down into a sample pack.

I jump into these sessions whenever I have writers block, lacking creativity or just want to sit and have fun making noises for a while. These sessions can really help take the pressures away from writing and also top up my own sound bank for use in a future project.

Inside the production pack, I show you how to make stabs inside of Serum. This technique can be evolved and taken so far and its a really versatile way to add rhythm to your track.

I create 2 unique sounds and demonstrate how to edit and control the tone giving you the best starting point to reverse engineer and tweak into your own sound. 

Inside this production bundle there are loads of drum beats stripped down, mid bass sounds and everything weird and wonderful in between. This is also the first month of dedicated Serum 2 presets, expect even more power from such an insane synth.

The tutorial this month is a drum track breakdown of my latest release 'Ruff Stuff'. I guide you through the samples chosen, processing, arrangement and some really useful tips and tricks along the way. Sit back and enjoy the hour long session.

I complete the third instalment of my Ruff Stuff track breakdowns. Over the last couple of months we’ve looked over the drums, then the leads and fxs, and now its time to showcase how i created the bassline and mid bass sounds for the track.

I talk about sub movement, harmonics, mid bass arrangement, recording and processing sounds and much more. Sit back and enjoy this tutorial

Join me for a 2 hour writing session where I take a simple idea into a fleshed out groove. You'll get to see how i created the intro, worked out a mid bass progression as well as resampling, groove and arrangement techniques

The focus of this bundles tutorial was to not only engage with my members but also to challenge myself. I asked the Discord community to send me sounds they love in some of their favourite tracks to see if I can recreate them.

This is not supposed to be a tutorial about how to sound like your favourite artists but the process along the way, and for me to show you new ways of thinking about synthesis and sound design.

Taken from my debut EP on Halogenix's Gemini Gemini imprint, I look back over A Lot To Give and show you the inner workings of this track.

I will go over sampling techniques, how to make them more your own as well as drum processing and sub bass production.

For this tutorial I will be guiding you through a mixdown of a new dubstep track I have coming out early 2026.

In just under 2 hours, I show you my final mixdown checklist and work through it in real time to create a more polished and club ready track.

For this bundle, I take a look back over 'Break' with Hugh Hardie taken from my 'Lotus' EP. I wanted to focus specifically on how we started this project and it began with a sound design session.

You will get to hear all of the raw sounds as i explain how we created them, then I move onto implementation and how we constructed the initial loop and main theme of the track. There are loads of tips and tricks in this one especially with audio processing.

For this month's tutorial I walk you through a simple pad layering technique to create rich and full music beds with interesting movement and dynamics using just one sample.

I use this technique a lot when building intro's and is a great way of adding complexity to an otherwise basic sound

Starting off the tutorials with a no talking video where I showcase a 'day in the life' style sound design session making all sorts of random samples to use in later projects.

For the second tutorial, as requested by so many of you, focusses on how to progress out of a loop. I talk about my theories and approaches when it comes to tension, fills, progression and energy as well as mid bass resampling and utilising the sound pallet already inside the project.

For the first tutorial I take you through a mixdown session for a new track focussing on drum tone, mid levels, sub control and anything else i find along the way.

The second tutorial is a sound design session where i just let the vibe take me. I look at pads, piano processing and serum bass design

This month i dive back into drums showing you how i put samples together, layering, rhythm, groove, buss processing and boosting the overall weight and level. 

After that I go through your sample submissions and play around resampling and having a bit of fun making new sounds and variations showing loads of little ways to get more out of your sounds and to maybe think about more creative approaches that you haven't seen before.

Included in this months bundles, I return to the rest of the samples sent in for resample submissions to mangle, rearrange, process and create a bunch of new sounds.

For the second tutorial, I go over some top tips when working with mid bass. This includes, layering, arrangement, EQing and sidechaining to help get the cleanest, most exciting sound.

Kicking this bundles tutorials off exploring experimental sound design where I transform a single percussion hit into a ethereal soundscape pad opening up so much inspiration. 

The second is about enhancing mid bass, this one was specifically designed at how to go further out of the soft synth box and bringing sounds to life but can easily be adapted to be used on samples, drum, leads etc...

Starting things off looking at turn arounds, I show a few examples inside real projects talking about sample selection, sound design sessions, tension, push pull, pauses and using whats already in your track.

In the second tutorial I go about making complex and evolving ethereal pads using a single note recording. This same technique can be applied with all sorts of musical elements and can be taken way beyond what I show in this session.

First off  for this bundles tutorials, I walk you through my track Paprika Dust for a full track breakdown of how I put the track together.

Secondly, I wanted to go deeper into the world of detuning, phasing and modulation talking some techy stuff and some fun demonstrations

First off  for this bundles tutorials, I walk you through my track Paprika Dust for a full track breakdown of how I put the track together.

Secondly, I wanted to go deeper into the world of detuning, phasing and modulation talking some techy stuff and some fun demonstrations

First off  for this bundles tutorials, I walk you through my track Paprika Dust for a full track breakdown of how I put the track together.

Secondly, I wanted to go deeper into the world of detuning, phasing and modulation talking some techy stuff and some fun demonstrations

First off  for this bundles tutorials, I walk you through my track Paprika Dust for a full track breakdown of how I put the track together.

Secondly, I wanted to go deeper into the world of detuning, phasing and modulation talking some techy stuff and some fun demonstrations

First off  for this bundles tutorials, I walk you through my track Paprika Dust for a full track breakdown of how I put the track together.

Secondly, I wanted to go deeper into the world of detuning, phasing and modulation talking some techy stuff and some fun demonstrations

First off  for this bundles tutorials, I walk you through my track Paprika Dust for a full track breakdown of how I put the track together.

Secondly, I wanted to go deeper into the world of detuning, phasing and modulation talking some techy stuff and some fun demonstrations