Production
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Jon's personal production template

See inside Jon's production template: five delay sends, five reverbs with his exact decay and pre delay values, and his master chain with the Oxford Inflator at 15 percent.

17 min · SoundToys EchoBoy, Valhalla Room and VintageVerb

How to find sounds that elevate your production

Search Splice by the key of your track to find ear candy in under a minute, then place it so the arrangement stays interesting.

12 min · Splice, Splice Bridge plugin, Logic Pro

Kick drums: selection, layering and shaping

Layer the low end of a reference kick under the top end of your own sample at a 360Hz split, then bounce the layers into a custom kick.

12 min · Logic EQ, Kontakt, FabFilter Pro-Q 3

Drum processing

How Jon processed the drums on Your Love, his Leftwing : Kody release: the kick, the hats, the claps and the drum bus treatment.

Your LoveLeftwing : Kody · Repopulate Stars Summer Jams

Lofi drum processing

Build a lo-fi drum sound inspired by Solid Grooves releases by driving saturation hard and dialling it back with the mix knob, on the kick and again on the bus.

17 min · Leftwing : Kody "Homework" (Dedmouse), Solid Grooves, PAWSA

Kick and bass relationship

Get the kick and bass sitting together using transient design, EQ, saturation, compression and proper referencing.

16 min · Waves RBass, VPS Multiband Sidechainer, Kickstart, LFO Tool

Rolling basslines

Split the rolling bass into two layers, the main patch high passed at 80Hz plus a dedicated sub, giving you separate control over the sub and upper bass.

16 min · Camelphat, Gorgon City, Eli Brown

Off beat bass

Build the offbeat organ bass with the Korg M1 organ, a Moog saw underneath, and a third organ with its mid signal stripped out for width.

15 min · Hannah Laing, Jazzy, Korg M1 organ bass, Vengeance Avenger

Layering bass, Sensation on Realm Records

Split one bass into sub, mid and top layers the way Jon did on Sensation, his Leftwing : Kody release on Realm Records. See his Serum sub settings, then EQ, widening, saturation and distortion so it holds up on big systems, small speakers and headphones.

SensationLeftwing : Kody · 2022

Chords and melodics

Build five note chord progressions in Scaler without piano skills, then pull the bass, pads and melodics from the same MIDI.

18 min · Scaler (Plugin Boutique), Nathan Nicholson, MIDI capture

How to process pianos, Armada Subjekt

Layer the Korg M1 with two live pianos, then saturate and EQ in alternating passes for the in your face piano house sound Jon released on Armada Subjekt.

15 min · Armada Subjekt "Bring The Heat", Toolroom, Korg M1 (Piano Mix 2)

Bring The HeatLeftwing : Kody, Hayley May · 5 May 2023

Vocal processing, bring out your vocals

Drop the formant on a sampled vocal with Little AlterBoy, then stack hard panned formant layers plus an octave up and down for thickness.

14 min · SoundToys Little AlterBoy, SoundToys EchoBoy, UAD Lexicon plate, Splice

Arrangement, turn loops into full tracks

Watch Jon drag a reference track into the project, map its sections, and turn a loop into a full arrangement.

21 min · Ableton, Logic, 909 snare builds, reverse crashes

Breakdowns that create show-stopping moments

Build and remove tension at the same time: delays on a loop texture, reverb on the vocal, drum bus filtered down underneath.

16 min · EchoBoy, Valhalla reverb, 909 snare builds with quantise automation

High versus low energy breakdowns

Build a high energy breakdown first, then strip elements back to get a low energy one. Jon's own working order, with the filter and atmosphere moves.

15 min · Solid Grooves, Baby Audio Transit, Valhalla, Splice, Comeback Kid

Transitions and moments

Stack five transition moves at once: high passed kick, a fill, a crash, a vocal tail through a telephone delay, and a piano stab as the exit point.

21 min · FabFilter Pro-Q telephone preset, Splice fills

How to build tension without FX

Jon's approach to building tension through arrangement and energy management rather than reaching for effects.

Gorgon City

Build the Gorgon City garage sound, from the JK Reese bass under FM top layers to the trance gate that makes the vocal iconic.

12 min · Gorgon City "5AM At Bagley's", Realm Records, Serum (JK Reese preset)

Cloonee

Build a Cloonee style tech house groove on sound selection alone, with one noise layer, a short sub kick and partial sidechain.

Cloonee, RC-20 Retro Color (vinyl noise setting), 909

Hugel

Recreate the Hugel Afro house sound across twenty three drum channels, layering shakers loose and unquantised and searching every loop in key.

20 min · Hugel "I Adore You", Audio Thing Type B, Seventh Heaven (Bricasti)

D.O.D

The production choices behind the D.O.D sound, rebuilt from scratch.

Fallon

Where the character in Fallon's bass actually comes from: portamento between three notes, a spread second oscillator and a shortened top loop.

12 min · Fallon "Diet Coke", Loopcloud, UAD/Oxford Envolution transient shaper

Joey Negro

Make eight VST layers sound like one live orchestra, using staccato and legato strings, brass and piano in paired octaves.

20 min · Joey Negro / Dave Lee "Make A Move", Nexus 4 (Kamiwaza artist series)

CID

Six channels, huge drop. Drive claps and hats hard with saturation, then shorten them with a transient designer and clip the bus.

13 min · CID, Decapitator (Punish mode), Oxford Envolution transient designer

Julian Fijma

Tame the M1 organ with saturation above the first harmonic and tight top and bottom cuts, plus the SSL G Bus settings that glue the drums.

20 min · Julian Fijma "Get Stupid", Korg M1 (M1 House Split)

John Summit

Split a rolling bass into a wide mid layer and a sub layer cut at 80Hz, then build the big emotive chords from the bass notes up.

19 min · John Summit "Shiver", Serum, Nexus Jupiter brass

Chris Lake

Get the Toxic drop from ten channels: a tuned snare stack with transient design, plus multiband sidechained bass at 900Hz.

17 min · Chris Lake "Toxic", Loopcloud, FabFilter Pro-R (dubstep snare room)

Mau P

Build the acid 303 bassline in note mode with slide notes, then tame the 250Hz to 1kHz band so it stops swallowing the mix.

18 min · AudioRealism Bass Line (303), Serum, SPL Transient Designer

Prospa

Recreate the Prospa sound from This Rhythm with disco drum loops, a Moog saw with envelope on cutoff, and a Rhodes triad moving only the top note.

13 min · Prospa "This Rhythm", XLN Addictive Keys, UAD Pure Plate, Lexicon 480L

Dumitrescu, Sitting In The Sun

Rebuild it with seven drum channels, white noise hats drawn in by hand, and one Ozone chain on the bass.

12 min · Dumitrescu "Sitting In The Sun", Derrick Carter sample, UAD Pure Plate

Hot Since 82, Konxious, More Love

A full breakdown of Jon's collaboration with Hot Since 82, nearly eighty channels, showing how the drums, bass and builds were actually assembled.

21 min · Hot Since 82, Konxious, "More Love", Neutron, Valhalla Room, Diva

More LoveHot Since 82, KONXIOUS · 5 December 2025

Fast Love, Hot Since 82, Konxious

How Jon mixed Fast Love from over a hundred stems, splitting bass into sub, mid and top and building the stereo field around a centred kick.

19 min · Hot Since 82 and Konxious "Fast Love" (Beatport), iZotope Neutron

Fast LoveHot Since 82, KONXIOUS · 5 December 2025