Professional Documents
Culture Documents
CR2 RECORDS
Cr2 Records are a world-renowned dance music
record label based in London, established in
2004 by Mark Brown (MYNC). Many of dance
music's biggest names have featured on Cr2
including artists such as Hardwell, Nicky Romero,
David Guetta, Avicii, Eric Prydz, Chuckie, Fedde
Le Grand, Steve Angello, Nic Fanciulli, Thomas
Gold, Deadmau5, Carl Cox, John Dahlback and
many more!
Connect...
www.cr2records.com/sample-tools
www.soundcloud.com/cr2records
www.youtube.com/sampletoolsbycr2
www.twitter.com/sampletoolscr2
For prod tips, freebies, comps & news
www.facebook.com/sampletoolscr2
NEW!! Mastering & Feedback Service
www.cr2records.com/store/studio
Submit your demo to Cr2 Records
demos@cr2records.com
Manley Variable MU
TR 808
TR 909
TR 707
Software
Reaktor
Absynth
Alpha
Minimoog
TAL VU
VIDEO TUTORIALS
Our commitment to helping develop you as a
producer means that bundled with each pack will
be a collection of FREE Prod-Cast video tutorials
explaining the techniques behind many of these
expertly crafted sounds plus a tutorial from
psychology of music production guru Mike
Monday, helping you to achieve the most from
your production sessions.
You can find out more here:
www.mikemonday.com
ILLUSION OF SPEED
A great technique to pick your rhythm section up
is to give the illusion of the song having been
sped up. Actually speeding a tune up isnt always
a great move and can put you in some DJs bad
books, but by making slight timing adjustments
you can get the same energy. Take your original
drum loops and move the snares 7ms earlier. This
change doesnt impact a DJ trying to mix, but it
will definitely be felt on the dancefloor. You can
also do this with off beat hi hats to make the
effect more noticeable. Dont do it with
everything though or the effect disappears.
DELAY RHYTHMS
Utilise the power of delay create some interesting
rhythms. By using Logics tape delay you can
create ghost notes to take a 1/8th note hi hat
pattern up to a 16th note pattern. Set the
feedback to around 25% and the timing to a
semiquaver. You can make the notes sit back in
the mix by dropping the high frequencies out of
the delayed signal, or push them out front by
removing just some lows and increasing the wet/
dry mix of the delay. Try also moving the groove
slider to add some shuffle. With long feedback
settings and slight movements to the groove you
will get some interesting flourishes for the end of
phrases.
TAPE SATURATION
Some distortion can add extra harmonics and can
really help sounds jump out of the mix. We
added some saturation across the percussive
elements of some drum loops to tie their sound
Mark Brown
Director | Cr2 Records/Sample Tools by Cr2