Fanu/FatGyver

Compressing your drums - that's what I get asked about a few times a month. I want to you understand and also hear the difference between VCA and FET type drum bus compression. Both are useful, but sound slightly different. A drumloop makes for a great example here. Sometimes when you look for a tra

I was stem mastering this UK indie type song, and the drums track was something that I thought needed a whole lot of tightening. "What you do have in your drum bus?" is something I'm often asked. Now this video is one good answer, and in case you've missed it, I have another earlier post, "Best plug

D&B breakbeat re-creation time! I've been obsessing over this old J Majik tune on Metalheadz again because it's one sick tune in many ways and pretty much embodies so well what D&B is to me. I've always liked its intro beat which truly is like nothing else. The drumloop is clearly Soul Pride by Jame

Let's get our hands dirty making funky hip hop beats with Addictive Drums 2. I heard it got an update, so I just had to take a look how sweet it looks and get busy creating some funky drums! Join me on this quick sesh to make some beats from scratch! There are also two other Addictive Drums sessions

These three little tips should allow you to have your beats sound a little more dynamic and human! 0:45 Not everything has to be full blast 2:52 Not everything has to be on the grid 4:39 Not everything has to be super bright all the time (I’d guess most producers don’t use the filter technique prese

This one's been a looooong time coming! Addictive Drums 2 is among the best tools these days to play and create realistic-sounding drums, use different kits etc. In this video, I'm showing you how it works, and I make a jungle beat from scratch, tweaking the sounds close to my liking, going thru mos

Recently, a DNB producer asked me how could come up with some random happy accidents in his drum patterns. Well, I always program my own quite meticulously, as you have seen. I happened to think of this old Photek method, and wanted to suggest this to him. He was delighted and said it feels perfect

Yoooo! I hope everybody's been mega productive! This period of the year is really good for me in terms of working on bass music and darker vibes and all that – while summer is nicer for hip hop (if you don't know, check out my hip hop stuff as FatGyver on Bandcamp or Spotify). Finished two DNB tunes

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 sa

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 Redu

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,

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

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

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, wha

I sample things all the damn time. There's no end to it. I hear something great – I will sample it. I also go to record stores and buy a bit of this and that. Sometimes I buy records quite blindly just to support a record store, but in hopes of finding something useful. I just bought a 1 EUR bargain

So let's get this breakbeat thing rolling! Got lots of requests for that. https://www.dropbox.com/s/hrefo8z49ypnq3b/dirgepatreon.mp4?dl=0 (NO sharing the link! But feel free to tell your friends about my Patreon) I took a break I've been working recently and I'm going thru that. Covering some of the

Audio enginerding stuff here! Seems the Loud Split plugin of Bitwig's new Spectral pack is pretty nice for controlling the amount of noise in a signal. Making drums less noisy here, and also going super noisy! It's interesting, as good denoising isn't always a walk in the park, but this new type of

I really want to let you know about this new DrumGAN feature of Steinberg Backbone. It can create new drumsounds for you from scratch OR emulate a drumsound you drop in. I've stayed away from synthesized drumsounds most of the time, as they just don't fit my style (they rarely sound organic enough),

I recently did a nice session with a patron using a drumloop he gave me, which is the original drumloop that was used in the classic Alien Girl tune by Ed Rush, Optical and Fierce. So here's me having a go with it, layering things a bit and doing some analog-modeled processing to glue the drums toge

SP-12 drums plus instrument for Ableton, Bitwig, and Renoise/Redux. Slamming you with SP-12 drums sampled from my SP-12 AND instruments for Ableton Live 10 & 11, Bitwig Studio, and Redux/Renoise. If you've been hanging around on my Patreon long enough, you'll remember that I originally did a rack fo

Download the break here. It's my birthday today and I thought I'd give something back to the community, people that support me and so on. I'm taking the whole week off to work on some music, and one of the things I'm doing is work on a remix that uses the classic Think break by Lyn Collins. I haven'

Came up with a thought today: why not let my patrons know about some hot breaks to sample – I'm always trying to promote a healthy breaks culture where producers'd use breaks not heard a lot before. So here's 10 dope ones off the top of my head. Some of these links take you to the digital release, b

Alright my dear Patrons! "Truth And Lies" D&B EP is out, and I’m giving you its stems. All stems are full-length – just a direct bounce out of the songs. No master limiting, so they're not mega loud, but all dynamics is there. Feel free to have fun with tons of samples, breaks, bass…do your best, or

A quick tip how to add lo-fi texture to your drums! I was trying to find the quickest way to get this worn-out vinyl highs sound, and I think I've found it! Bitwig: Make your drums sound like old worn-out vinyl! (YouTube)

Alright fam! The new EP on Slug Wife is out. To put it very briefly: I'm letting my patrons DOWNLOAD the stems of the songs. (to honor the fact that it's not self-released, I'm not giving out the songs via Patreon, while I do that for all songs I actually release myself thru my own channels) They're

It was probably some 10-15 years ago that a friend told me that you could download good-quality cymbal samples from the website of Zildjian. I've used them every now and then. You can't download them anymore, but you can of course record the audio previews. E.g., to browse some ride sounds, click Pr

In the series of me slamming you with song stems, here we go with stems for a jungle tune called Crusty-Ass DS165 (peep the link to hear the song). It was a one-off Bandcamp single release. Done with an Akai s3200XL sampler, run hot into a Soundcraft desk, the sound I was going for is very Droppin'

Yo friends! I have a new remix out on a new label called Make Or Break. It's tracks 3 and 4 on this EP. The label owns the song, so I won't share that, but let me share the drums from my remixes. Basically track 3 is the main one, and track 4 is an alternative version where the intro is slower. Once

Yo, happy Valentine's and stuff! Without any further ado and foreplay (lol), let's get down to business 😏 Here's downloads for ya'll: 1) Drums of the new FatGyver album that came out Feb 12 – download here (24-bit wav) 2) mp3s of the album – download (while the drums will stay up, I can't guarantee

Let's take a look at Ableton Live 11's take lanes feature! Ableton Live 11 take lanes: basics and doing custom breakbeats (YouTube)

Doing a testdrive with Backbone, a plugin that resynthesizes your drumsounds, splits them into two parts, and lets you tweak them under the hood. Can be used in a way that makes sense and enhances yourdrumsounds, but it also lends itself well for creative options. Improving drumsounds with Steinberg

Time to get busy with making broken beats! What does it mean that beats are “broken"? How to make DNB / jungle? Let me show and explain. I’m using Addictive Drums 2. I’ll also do a Part 2 later, getting deeper with processing. Will also put out some breaks as audio thru Patreon later. Making broken

Here's a quick public demo video of the SP-12 Drum Rack for Ableton Live 10. It's available for paying members. To get it, access the post that was done before this one and you'll find a download link there. If you want to just "buy" this and not become a member: You can do it by subscribing to any