Beat 239 December 2025 PDF

PDF | 11 November 2025 | 81.6 MB

(English and German Edition)

Hi Hats are Your Tracks‘ Most Important Element – Find Out Why The perfect drums and hi-hats for your next beats, songs, and productions! Our masterclass shows you how to choose the right hi-hat sound or design your own, utilize the full stereo width, and shape your own signature groove with micro-rhythmic finesse. With the correct use of compression, transients, and EQs, create crackling drum textures, punchy snares, and rolling fills – based on synthesizers, grooveboxes, and even field recordings. In the bonus chapter, you‘ll also learn everything about miking, recording, and mixing acoustic drums. And watch out: As a Beat reader, you‘ll receive over 200 MIDI clips with ready-made beats and hi-hat patterns for free! Plus, a market overview of the best tools for mixing and recording drums and hi-hats. Beat Magazine couldn‘t fit more content!

Beat Magazine 226 2024

PDF | 16 October 2024 | ENGLiSH:59.87 MB | GERMAN:23.45 MB

42 EFFECT PEDALS discoverd – New sounds for guitars, synths & vocals

Effect pedals are only for guitars! No, because they also work for drums and synths. So it‘s time for a market overview with must-haves, affordable all-rounders, the coolest tube distortion pedals for drum machines, endless reverbs for your synths and of course secret budget tips. We also provide promising effect chains, test the latest pedals and provide instructions for building your own pedal boards. Discover with us the huge potential of experimenting with effect pedals and get back to tweaking the sound with a pedal instead of using a mouse and trackpad!

BEAT Magazine 222 July 2024

English | 12 July 2024 | 16.71MB

PLUGIN SECRETS – 56 Tricks you don’t know yet!

Some things are just not up for debate, plug-ins are a cool thing! But do you really know every trick? Can you quickly create the ideal sounds for your track? Are you taking advantage of VST3 and CLAP? Are the vocals prominently mixed and the bass perfectly placed thanks to the Pultec trick? Our extensive special not only provides you with indispensable sound design tips, but also shows you how to build chart sounds for current genres such as K-Pop, House and Bass Music. And (shhh!) you‘ll also benefit from exclusive advice from experts like Hainbach, Venus Theory and Bad Snacks!

English Spinet II MULTiFORMAT

TEAM MAGNETRiXX | 13 March 2013 | 1.79 GB

English Spinet library, featuring 8 different samples per note (4 releases per note) of an exquisite rare Spinet recorded using only the highest-grade channel strip to ensure superlative quality. There is barely another instrument to combine both zeitgeist and timelessness in the way a spinet does. Despite being around for centuries already, its sound is still relevant in many musical territories, while still being inextricably connected to the musical works of its time. The English Spinet II library features an instrument built by Benjamin Slade in London around 1705. Slade is a manufacturer synonymous with the history of the spinet, known for their unrivalled quality which produced spinets offering a sweet-sounding, majestic and brilliant tone.

English Warrior WAV

FANTASTiC | 12 December 2022 | 143 MB

Enlist a medieval solider to your ranks in your next audio production with AAA Game Character English Warrior, a clean collection of English accented and styled voice-over sound files styled for fantasy games, MMORPG games, and movie trailers! This voice-over sound library features a male protagonist ready for battle and game ready. AAA Game Character English Warrior voiceover sound library provides you with more than 330+ immersive, game-ready voiceover sound files, vocalizations, battle cries, custom dialogue lines, and everything needed to create compelling cinematic scenes and outstanding gameplay audio experiences. The English Warrior’s voice texture is dry, crispy, clean and rich with texture. He is perfect for a hero, foot solider, townspeople, NPC, or alliance character in your next game. His voice is ready to go out of the box but is clean enough for further processing. Adding reverb and pitch shifting down/deeper will get you to new depths and dimensions with this excellent library of voices & vocalizations.

Beat English 195 April 2022

English | 100 pages | True PDF | 55.7MB

Beat 04/22: Perfect Acoustics – This makes your mixes sound better! The bass is boomy, the treble is sibilant, mixing is tedious, and in general, tracks just don‘t sound as fat as they should. Such problems are almost always due to poor acoustics. But no matter if you‘re a bedroomproducer or a pro, we‘ll show you how to train your ears to detect problem sources, how to perfect your studio on a small budget and clear up all the half-truths about acoustics.

BEAT Magazine 194 March 2022

PDF | 03 Feb 2022 | English: 44.7MB | German: 89.4MB

Beat 03/22: SYNTH TRICKS – Create your perfect sound

Whether hardware or plug-in: synthesizers are a cool thing! But do you really know every trick? Are all sound generators properly integrated into the setup, is the workflow optimized, and is everything ready to go when your creativity kicks in? Our comprehensive feature shows you not only indispensable sound design tricks, but also how you can get chart-ready sounds out of your synths and get new synths at a very low price!