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Guide3 November 2025

Serum Synth: A Beginner's Guide to Sound Design

Serum is the industry-standard wavetable synth in EDM. This beginner's guide covers wavetables, filters, and modulation so you can design your own sounds.

#Serum synth#Serum tutorial
Guide29 October 2025

How to Beatmatch by Ear: A Foundational DJ Skill

Beatmatching by ear is the DJ skill that predates the sync button. Learn how to match tempo and phase manually, avoid common mistakes, and why it still matters.

#beatmatching by ear#how to beatmatch
Guide25 October 2025

CDJ vs Controller: Which Should You Learn On?

CDJ or DJ controller for your first setup? A working DJ breaks down cost, skills, club-readiness and the real transition path so you invest wisely.

#CDJ vs controller#DJ gear
Guide20 October 2025

How to Prepare a USB for CDJs: A DJ's Practical Guide

Preparing a USB properly is where a CDJ set is won. Learn how pro DJs format, analyse, cue, organise, and export a club-ready drive.

#prepare USB for CDJs#rekordbox
Guide15 October 2025

DJ Transition Techniques: How to Mix Tracks Like a Pro

Master DJ transitions with a working DJ's guide to blends, cuts, EQ bassline swaps, effects and phrasing so your mixes flow and your sets never dip.

#DJ transitions#mixing techniques
Industry10 October 2025

Sync Licensing: How Artists Earn From Film, TV & Ads

A working guide to sync licensing: how music gets placed in film, TV, games and ads, what supervisors actually want, and how the money really flows.

#sync licensing#music licensing
Releases5 October 2025

OMG by Maxim Schunk: The Spinnin Records Breakthrough

How OMG, Maxim Schunk's collaboration with Lunax on Spinnin Records, works as a track and what a release on EDM's biggest label really signals.

#OMG Maxim Schunk#Spinnin Records
Industry30 September 2025

How to Build an Email List as a Musician (2026 Guide)

An email list is the one audience you truly own. Learn why musicians need one and how to build, grow, and use it to sell out shows and releases.

#email list for musicians#music marketing
Industry25 September 2025

Selling Merch as a Musician: The Complete Guide

A working DJ's guide to selling merch as a musician: what to make, how to price it, when to drop it, and how to turn fans into a walking brand.

#selling merch#music merchandise
Scene21 September 2025

Berlin Techno Scene: Inside the World's Techno Capital

How Berlin became the world's techno capital: the history, clubs, culture and unwritten door codes that define electronic music's spiritual home.

#Berlin techno#techno scene