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TECH HOUSE SESSIONS VOL.1
Inspired by the likes of Bontan, CamelPhat, Sidney
Charles, Hot Since 82 and many many more…
Sample Tools by Cr2 are extremely proud to
present to you our latest production toolkit - Tech
House Sessions Vol.1!
THS Vol.1 contains a over 500MB of essential
underground content ranging from groovy bass
loops and powerful one shots, fat drum loops and
one shots, killer wavy FX, uplifting synth loops and
hits, twisted pounding presets not to even mention
our trademark songstarter construction kits and
Prod-Cast video tutorials!
We are Sample Tools by Cr2 and this is Tech House
Sessions Vol.1!!
SAMPLE TOOLS BY CR2
A subsidiary of world-renowned dance music
record label Cr2 Records, Sample Tools by Cr2
provides electronic music producers and DJs
cutting edge tools, tuition and sounds from across
the dance music spectrum.
Introducing our new membership project -
“Platinum Producer Membership”.
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This pack is an essential tool for any underground

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dance music producer and if you’re looking to get
your tunes played by the biggest DJ’s around the
globe this summer, then this is the ultimate
resource for you.
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Finally after we have provided you with the tools to
make killer tracks we introduce ways to focus on Cr2 Records Opportunities...
your mindset and mental approach to the creative
process with our video with music production
productivity guru Mike Monday (every music
producers best friend). If you want to quadruple
your studio output watch this video NOW.
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INCLUDED IN THE PACK VIDEO TUTORIALS
Our commitment to helping develop you as a
‣ Total File Size: 674MB producer means that bundled with each pack will
be a collection of FREE Prod-Cast video tutorials
‣ Total Audio Files: 477 explaining the techniques behind many of these
‣ Total MIDI Files: 67 expertly crafted sounds.

‣ 20 x Bass Hits We have also teamed up with music production

‣ 20 x Bass Loops guru Mike Monday to offer you a tutorial to help
‣ 25 x Claps you to achieve the most from your production
‣ 25 x Kicks (Key Labeled) sessions.
‣ 25 x Percs
‣ 25 x Snares Finally we provide you with the ultimate video for
‣ 25 x Hats pitching your music to labels and industry
‣ 20 x Drum Loops (100 with Stem Variants) professionals from the Music Marketing Academy’s
‣ 20 x Synth Loops Budi Voogt. 
‣ 20 x Synth Hits
‣ 20 x Presets (Sylenth) www.mikemonday.com
‣ 20 x FX www.budivoogt.com
‣ 40 x MIDI
‣ 6 x Songstarters (152 Audio + 27 MIDI Files)
‣ 3 x Prod-Cast Video Tutorials
‣ 1 x Productivity video with Mike Monday 
‣ 1 x Production Booklet 
‣ 1 x Marketing video with Budi Voogt
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SWINGING DRUM GROOVES
A lot of Tech House tracks are mostly orientated
around the ‘groove’ of the drums and the bass line.
It’s not always the easiest task to get a drum loops
that has a nice swing to it, especially if you are just
programming MIDI. With things like the snare fills
and shuffle(y) hat swings, try and play them in with
your MIDI keyboard. Load up a sampler, drag some
cool sounding one-shots in (there are loads in this
pack), and just keep trying to play it in naturally. If
your timing isn't great at first - don’t worry! It can
take producers 30 minutes to program the
swinging hats and snare in. The same applies for
chord stabs!
SUBBY BOOMING BASS
A lot of bass lines in Tech House are very subby.
They rarely have lots of frequencies in the higher
part of the spectrum which means there’s only one
area that you need to focus on when applying EQ
and that’s roughly between 40Hz - 200/400Hz.
Because the bass is only taking up this area, you
need to make sure it’s punching through and not
clashing with other low freq elements such as your
kick drum. If you apply a small boost on your kick
around 70Hz. Make sure you apply a small cut at
70Hz on your bass. Careful EQ’ing and a little bit of
side chain compression will allow your Kick and
Bass to work nicely together.
LAYERING CHORDS
Chord stabs are really common in Tech House.
We’ve included 20 amazing ones in this pack.
However to create super unique sounding chord
stabs, it’s all about layering. Try it out with the
synth hits we’ve included in the pack. Find two you
like, layer them together and add some parallel
compression to glue them together. Then apply
some EQ to make sure the frequencies aren't
clashing. You should now have a completely new
sounding chord stab that sounds thick and full!
FREEZING HOT RISERS
In Ableton there is a ‘freeze’ button on the default
reverb plugin. If you apply the reverb to a sound
and turn the dry/wet up to 100% and then turn on
the freeze button, you’ll get a sustained sound
which doesn't stop until you turn off the freeze
button. Try and use this on a sound from your track.
Export the freeze tail and then use this as a rising
synth in your track. If you apply some EQ and a
pitch bend so the synth is rising then you’ll create a
super unique sound that nobody else has. This
sustained sound can also add some weight to your
tracks if you leave it playing the background
throughout your track.
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DRUM GROUP PROCESSING EQ and compression. Be sure to add distortion
Tech House is all about the drums and the bass and subtly, you don't want to hear it actually distorting
the ‘vibe’ of the track. There tends to be a lot less the sounds, you just want it to add weight. This is
melodic content in these tracks. This means that it’s why it’s essential practice to listen to this in the
crucial to get the drums right. Instead of applying context of your track. Don’t solo the individual
single reverb plugins separately on your kick tracks!!
channel, snare channel etc.. make sure you route
them all to a bus instead - this will allow your drums
to sound like they’re all in the same room and keep
them sounding tight. Play around with different
reverbs and see what works best. On your bus
channel, it’s also good to cut out the low end up to
around 100Hz just to ensure there is no low
frequency content ruining your mix. Apply some
gentle parallel compression to your drum group to
add some weight to your drums. A common
mistake when doing this parallel compression is
people have the attack too quick. Be sure to turn
the attack up so that your kick and clap transients
push through the mix!

CREATIVE DISTORTION
Distortion is essential to any good mix. Don’t think
that distortion is just something you use on electric
guitars to give off the Slash guitar sound from Guns
and Roses. Creative distortion can add life to your
mix. I like to use the Overdrive plugin in Logic Pro
X. When I apply this to my clap samples or my
leads, it adds weight that I cannot obtain from just