Hot Tip for Making Progressive/Electro House

DJ Story — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:20:19 +0000

One of the secrets of progressive house is to use a sidechain compressor. What you do is put it on a dirty bass track or whatever else you want to create a ducking effect whenever the kick drum hits. Basically, the way this is done is to put a copy of your kick drum on a separate track, and then you run that as the signal into the sidechain compressor. Whatever track the sidechain compression is on will start pumping with the beat. You hear this kind of sound a lot in progressive house tracks. I personally love the effect, and use it a lot. The reason I like it so much is because of the fact that if you put it on a phat bassline, it will duck whenever the kick drum hits, which let’s more low end bass from the kick come through.

Here is a video tutorial I made showing exactly how to use a sidechain compressor to create progressive/electro house in Ableton Live:

DJ Story Had Loads of Fun @ Rainbow Park

DJ Story — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:40:00 +0000

Hi Everyone,

I had a great time on Saturday DJing in the park for you all. I got to play for at least 2 hours. DJ Plush got there and thought that I was doing so great he wanted me to keep going another hour. That was nice of him! I played almost every track I had prepared the week before in my DJ set. It was mostly Progressive/Electro House, and a taste of some Deep Tribal Trance. Then, right at the end of my set I played a new drum n bass track I stayed up until 3am making the night before. At that point Plush and I did a bit of back and forth tag team before he went into his DJ set. Loads of fun!

Aloha, Story
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Hot Tip for Making Progressive/Electro House

DJ Story Had Loads of Fun @ Rainbow Park