BEAT MAGAZINE #192

Beat 01/22: TOTAL DRUMS – This is how strong beats succeed

Drums are the foundation of almost every production, regardless of language, music style, or trends. But how do you create a drum sound that is as fat as possible and what do you have to consider when recording acoustic drums? How do you balance the mix and how do you achieve a particularly fat drum sound?

And which sound generators and effects turn out to be an insider tip for beat production? We provide the answers to these and many other questions about drums on the following pages.

Free with Beat 01/22: Analog Techno Drums – Fat beats for Electro & more

Whether it’s Electro, Techno, Acid, or Minimal, every genre of club music thrives on powerful and crisp drums. This month’s software highlight, Analog Techno Drums comes with 1,056 drum sounds and matching synths.

The perfect complement is the two MPC expansions, Melodic Horizon and Sound Mob for AKAI’s MPC hardware and the free software MPC Beats. These offer multi-faceted melodic sounds for R&B, Hip Hop, and more. Get inspired!

For Zampler & Akai MPCs: 109 brutal basses and leads for D&B, Future Bass & EDM

Whether it’s House, Future Bass, EDM, or Drum & Bass, the low end has to be powerful and defined or the whole track won’t pop! BVRST soundbank it stands to reason we would provide you with a concentrated load of bass.

These are no bread-and-butter sounds that you already have in your collection, but 70 powerful and contemporary, punchy low-end sounds plus 39 hybrids that can be used as leads as well as basses. Also perfect for Bigroom House and Trance!