Top 10 Sound Design Ideas®

FANTASTiC | 15 February 2026 | 191 MB

Sound design is often the difference between tracks that feel flat and tracks that feel alive. In Top 10 Sound Design Ideas, Larry Holcombe presents a focused video course packed with practical, production-ready techniques you can apply immediately to inject movement, depth, and personality into your sounds. The course walks through ten creative approaches that go beyond presets and basic processing. You’ll explore ways to introduce motion using pitch modulation and free-running LFOs, add organic character with foley layers, and build impact through parallel processing, resampling, and intentional layering. Larry also demonstrates how subtle spatial tools like early reflections can create width without sacrificing clarity, and how mid-focused saturation and compression can strengthen the core of your mix.

Hats Shakers & Top Loops

Team MAGNETRiXX | 06 March 2014 | 415 MB

All recorded through some of the finest analogue outboard and presented in various tonal variations this Components pack gives you the edge when it comes to getting the top end just right. When making these hats and the loops we used a mix of techniques. Some loop we recorded direct from the legendary TR-909, some we created using old samplers but all of them are swinging and grooving with a life and musicality which will bring your beat alive be it House music, Disco, EDM, Hip hop or something else. Each section also comes with a full complement of sampler programs making it easy to import these into your sampler whatever your using be it Ableton, Kontakt, Reason, Battery or another.

Top 10 Mix Tips!

HiDERA | 16 March 2025 | 420 MB

Ready to improve your mixes but aren’t sure where to start? Start here! This mixing tips video course teaches you 10 indispensable mixing tips that will help transform your mixes in no time at all. Mixing wizard Larry Holcombe breaks down topics like mix organization, sidechain circuitry, low-end control, using a reference track, and more in an easy-to-follow manner with plenty of demonstrative examples. You’ll begin to see notable improvements in your very next mix! These mixing videos are designed for intermediate-level mix engineers looking to improve their mixes. Larry begins by focusing on mix organization, consolidation of parts, and gain staging, ensuring that you’re starting off on the right foot. Then he explains how to group the tracks into busses and add metering to properly visualize frequency and loudness. You’ll also learn how to use internal sidechain EQ to make sure your compressor isn’t getting gummed up by responding to unwanted sounds. Next, Larry focuses on the low end, demonstrating how to obtain a thicker bottom by taming a bass resonance and adding a general low-end boost.

Top 10 Reverb Tips

FANTASTiC | 29 December 2025 | 259 MB

This video course from production expert Larry Holcombe gives you a focused yet creative deep dive into one of mixing’s most essential tools. Whether you’re producing electronic music, pop, rock, hip-hop, or cinematic tracks, you’ll learn how to use reverb not just as an effect, but as a deliberate mixing choice that shapes space, depth, movement, and emotion. By the time you’re through with the course, you’ll have a new set of expressive sound-shaping tools that you can begin to implement on your very next production. These videos are designed for producers looking to improve their results when using reverb on many types of sources. Throughout the course, you’ll learn how to prepare your mix so reverb sits clearly and musically, starting with carving out frequency room and understanding how arrangement impacts space. Larry then takes you through choosing the right type of reverb for each source — plates, rooms, halls, and more — explaining how each contributes differently to tone, clarity, and mood.

Top Dance Music Production Mistakes

HiDERA | 20 June 2025 | 342 MB

Join dance music guru Larry Holcombe for a can’t-miss video course on common mistakes in dance music production. If you’re struggling with your dance tracks, it’s a good chance one or more of these topics is the culprit. You’ll discover all kinds of pitfalls to avoid when it comes to arrangement, sound selection, effects, sample pitch, rhythmic feel, and much more. By the end of this dance music production course, you’ll be ready to implement all of these ideas right away, and your tracks will begin to improve immediately. These music production videos are designed for those that have a basic understanding of their DAW and would like to improve the quality of their songs and beats. Larry welcomes you to and begins the course with a discussion about sound selection, explaining how high-quality samples really do make a big difference and providing examples of both weak and strong sounds so you’ll know how to spot problems. Then it’s on to mix composition, and you’ll hear how filling up a song with too many elements can make things sound muddy.

Curso Intensivo de Reverbs y Delays

P2P | 24 September 2025 | 5.63 GB

Si eres Productor Musical quizás te gustaría saber….

¿Por qué tus mezclas no tienen la profundidad de las grandes producciones? ¿Por qué al usar reverbs y delays tu música suena a “maqueta” mientras que las canciones nº1 suenan «increíblemente perfectas»? – Querido Maniático del Mastering, Esta es una breve carta para productores musicales y artistas que desean aprender por fin, un método completo y replicable para producir reverbs y delays de forma rápida, sencilla y profesional en cualquier estilo musical. Verás… Si tus reverbs y delays hacen que tu música suene mal (como una “maqueta”), probablemente te pase como a la mayoría de productores y que el problema NO esté en los plugins que usas, sino en cómo los usas y en la falta de un método correcto para producir reverbs y delays. Quizás has probado una reverb tras otra (ahora una hall, luego una room, más tarde una plate…) pero tu música sigue sonando mal, sigue sonando a “maqueta”. Y es que hacer que la profundidad de tu música suene bien es bastante difícil si no tienes un método bien definido y, más aún, si pruebas reverbs y delays sin un sentido lógico.

Top 10 Mastering Tips

HiDERA | 06 April 2025 | 226 MB

Are you somewhat new to mastering and ready to take it to the next level? In this mastering video course, veteran Groove3 instructor Larry Holcombe will show you 10 must-know tips and ideas for transforming your masters quickly. Not only will you learn crucial concepts like creating a solid low end and suppressing resonances, but you’ll also get several workflow tips that will start to save you time and get results right away! By the end of the course, you’ll be able to implement all these concepts in your very next production. These videos are designed for those looking to improve the sound and efficiency of their masters. To begin the course, Larry shows how you can use Saturn 2 for focused, dynamic saturation in the mastering chain, resulting in more punch and a richer tonality. Then you’ll see how aiming for the same master levels each time can save you time when setting up a new session.