Deep house music production tips (part 1)

Do you want to make the right sense and atmosphere for your next deep house truck? In this article I will show you how to look at all the different components and make them sound like they need to be.

This style drum pattern will not generally leave the standard 4/4 pattern, but it will be a track with a very unnatural feeling just by leaving it quantized and straight. To solve this, you need to create some swings. This can be done by adding a simple 16th note quantization from the sequencer. If you manually add a little swing by negating the quantity on the pattern, you will get a more natural feeling. Do this easily by holding the first snare a little before or after the beat before the beat, leaving the second beat intact, or leaving the first snare intact and turning the second snare slightly can do. Please try this a bit to get your feelings. As tracks evolve, it may be necessary to readjust.

If possible, try using a MIDI keyboard to record riffs, baselines, and progress. Again this will give the truck a more natural feel. Feeling the rhythm of your fingers during play is a great way to add life and timing with added possibilities to missed by adding a life to the track and programming with the mouse. By recording several takes in this way, there will be slight variations in order to make the track interesting. Of course, you will want to go to the editor later and close that. You can quantify your performance but turn it off as soon as you finish doing it once, move some notes manually to come before and after the beat, everything is "tight" In order to produce natural sounds.

A particularly common sound in deep house music is electric piano. There are several plug-ins that can emulate this, such as Native Instrument B4, but DAW should have a good example in the preset library. Another option is to search for free items on the Internet. There are many very good examples that you can download for free.

Next, you will want to handle the sound. It is necessary to set the LFO rate to about 1.5 Hz and use the auto filter and not confuse the setting a little or add reverb, but confuse the setting to sit in the mix.

When creating your code, consider using 7th, 9th, 9th, 11th, and 13th instead of the standard triad. Do not be afraid to layer your sound and give a little texture and body. If you can use the stereo imaging plug-in to widen the width of the electric piano while keeping the other patches in the center, it helps to increase the size of the production.

In Part 2 I will explain some further production techniques when creating tracks.