FISHER is one of the big heavyweights in the house music scene with no real sign of stopping.
Starting out with his major hit 'Losing it', and releasing new ones along the way such as 'It's a Killa', there's no sign of stopping.
It's the blend of punchy bass and percussion as well as the playful, filthy, and catchy vibes that makes FISHER's music rock parties around the world.
And if you're able to capture that FISHER sound, you're guaranteed to pop off.
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They contain all the necessary FISHER tech house kicks, drums, percussion, synths, and presets to give you that killer tech house sound that'll turn the club up!
To capture the FISHER sound, the drums and bass need to be tight.
Your ability to balance these two elements and then combine them with a catchy top synth will be everything.
The free sample packs mentioned above will give you some help with this.
For extra help and a bonus-free MIDI + sample pack, check out this video below.
It's a good tutorial that can help give you some inspiration by using the samples above:
The free stuff is great to start out with.
But there are some really killer FISHER sample packs that are a must.
There are some paid sample packs that big artists like Chris Lake and FISHER use, and these are worth investing in if you want to sound like them.
There's this killer Reddit thread where people look to see what sample packs Chris Lake uses.
Below I've put together a list of both the packs Chris Lake and FISHER use for their tracks and some other paid FISHER sample packs that can level up your productions.
It's only worth spending the money for these sample packs if you're very adamant about capturing their exact sound - but you can get quite close with free samples.
| Sample Pack | Price |
| Drum Tools 02 (Used by Chris Lake) | £49.95 |
| Synth Drums (Used by Chris Lake) | £50 |
| FISHER - Stop it (Abelton Remake + Samples) |
£50 |
| Legions Tech House Sample Pack | €19 |
| FSHR - Tech House by Cr2 |
$20.00 Monthly |
| Spinnin Sounds Tech House | $20.00 Monthly |
| Sample Pack | Price |
| GLITCH'D OUT | $17 |
| Matroda | $17 |
Chris Lake himself did a video breakdown of how he produced his music back in 2017.
Admittedly, it's been quite a bit since the video has been up but there are definitely some gold nuggets in here that can help you obtain his unique sound:
Having the samples and sounds is one thing, but in order to properly sound like FISHER there are some things you need to nail.
Mastering the tech house sound is hard - but with some key takeaways from Chris Lake's and other producers' live streams, you can begin your journey to becoming the next tech-house star.
A lot of producers actually do music production live streams. You can see all of them on this YouTube channel - it's definitely worth following.
FISHER follows some core principles for that signature sound. Like every producer, he uses the same DAWs, the same plugins, synths, and other programs as most producers.
There's no such thing as a secret plugin. Every producer masters the 10,000-hour rule.
They put in 10,000 hours at music production, so they end up mastering it.
On average, you need to put in 10,000 hours to be an absolute expert in any given field, according to Malcolm Gladwell. Music production is no different.
You can see, even big superstar DJ David Guetta is on Abelton and uses Serum:
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John Summit is a tech house producer who is fast-catching up to FISHER.
At the time of writing this, Summit's 'La Danza' is outselling FISHERS' 'It's a Killa' on Beatport.
So there are definitely some things we can take away from John Summit if we want to become better music producers.
And with the magic of the internet, we can actually see what these top producers know about production!
Someone on Reddit asked John Summit how he gets his productions to sound so professional - and actually got a reply from:
There are some key takeaways on how John Summit makes his bass and drums punch through in the mix to stand out:
For bass, he uses Fabfilter Saturn for saturation.
He has some preliminary audio levels he sticks to for certain elements:
John Summit's practices to set audio levels, (applies to tech houses generally):
He uses Nicky Romero's good ol' Kickstart plugin for sidechaining - staple across the industry
He uses Decapitator's drum fattener settings.
Make sure that your percussion has some stereo width and pan elements so they can be heard and cut through the mix.
A GREAT tip he mentions that you can also notice in any FISHER track is to not cut out all the lows of your percussion. That's how the top producers just seem to have such thick, wide, and punchy percussion.
The biggest value of this article is probably the Reddit threads - John Summit is still very active on Reddit, doing AMA's and helping other producers out with questions - and there are other producers on Reddit as well you can ask questions to any time.
Check out this ask-me-anything thread of his.
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