Modern Beat Productions is now taking new mastering projects ranging from small to large, with duplication services covering small-run demos to large-scale, retail-ready orders.

"Up until now, mastering services were reserved for Modern Beat Digital Recording artists," said president, David Edward, "however, we have increased our productivity and streamlined our workflow to allow new clients. These clients can range from aspiring artists and touring musicians, to professional producers and post-production facilities."

7 Tips for Creating Big Drums in Your Mix
by David Edward Jensen for Prime Loops
   
Ever wonder how to get those tight, slammin' drum tracks that you hear in dance music? There are many methods to achieve these sounds, but here are a few techniques, ranging from beginning to more advanced to help you get the biggest boom for your drum tracks.

Tune Your Drums - When working with sampled drums, drum machines, or drum machine emulators, make sure to tune your kick to the fundamental frequency of the song. This will allow the kick to sit in a comfortable space that is pleasing to the ear. Also, for most dance music you would want to use more than one kick. I usually use a series of 3 kicks together in the following manner:

1. Sub-bass kick - you can create this with a virtual drum machine such as D-16's Drumazon, where you can emulate the classic sound of a 909, a preset in a soft synth like Rob Papen's Predator, or of course, if you have an analog synth or drum machine you can get your sub sounds from there. Use caution when adjusting the ASDR settings for the sub bass because it can become fatiguing if there's to much sustain on the kick, as it can also be difficult to tame in your mix - A little goes a long way in this frequency spectrum. This usually lies in the 30Hz to 70Hz range.

Available only at Beatport! Modern Beat Digital - 2 Years: Compiled and Unmixed. Featuring the best from Modern Beat Digital from the past year and more!

Artists include Adam Downie, Biotones, Mad Funker, Ekkobot, the Floormagnets, Josh Wetherington, Wellpunisher, Progressive Tomorrow, Hankesz, Strim, Maximo  Menges, Hunter Slay, the Modern Beat Orchestra, Fabio Florido, and SoulVec.. so much talent, it's a can't miss!

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Modern Beat News Podcast - Episode 004 - Special Edition feat. Amos Gaynes from Moog Music
Make sure to subscribe to our podcast to catch the latest edition of Modern Beat News! We get to spend some time in the Moog Music factory, along with some time interviewing developer and engineer Amos Gaynes. Check out what they've got going on at Moog music, and how they're still making some of be best true analog gear out there! Perfect for electronic music!

Some of the features include the Little Phatty II, the Midi MuRF, and the Taurus, music samples, commentary from Amos, and much more, on this edition of Modern Beat News!

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As many of you may know, Moogfest came to Asheville this year, and it was a huge success! We were able to help out with the Bob Moog Foundation at the Moogaplex. While I was there, it was nice to see some interesting panels including sound sculpting with Richard Devine and a very interesting history of the mini-keyboard, covering most of our favorite synths over the years. Thank you to all the sponsors and those that contributed to the Moog Foundation!

From MODERN BEAT DIGITAL's Website:

We at Modern Beat Digital would like to thank everyone for their support over the past two years. We've experienced just about anything you can think of over this time, and remain nothing but excited, focused and optimistic about our future. We are determined to continue growing and reaching out to new artists, while maintaining our high standards of quality and dedication, allowing us to release the best in progressive house and electronic dance music.

A special thanks to our family, fans, artists, remixers, collaborators, distributors, retailers, those featured on our podcast, and all the DJ's playing our music! None of this would be possible all of you! Also, thank you to the operations team of Modern Beat Digital, without us sharing a collective vision and ideal, we may have fallen when we only stumbled. We look forward to many years to come, with many new features, artists, performances, projects and more!

Yours in music,

David Edward Jensen - President
Modern Beat Digital Records (ASCAP)