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Phono Preamp Lofi Sampling: Which Cheap Box Actually Colors Your Vinyl Right? Ok, so — you’ve got a turntable, a crate of dusty records, and a very strong opinion about jazz breaks. But the moment you patch that signal into your audio interface or your SP-404 SX sampling workflow, something feels off. Too clean, or… Read More »Phono Preamp Lofi Sampling: ART vs Behringer vs Rega

Loopcloud 8 Is Out, And There Are a Few Things Worth Knowing If You Make Lofi Ok, so I came across Loopcloud while searching for similar tools, because I got tired of Splice. I felt like everybody was using the same Splice sounds, and I thought, I have to try something else. Luckily I found… Read More »Loopcloud 8: Inspire, Listen and Free Plugins for Lofi Producers

An honest El Capistan V2 review from a bedroom lofi studio: settings that work on guitar, the pedal as a post-FX on loops, and three real criticisms.

How to Sample Anime Music Legally for Lofi — Without Getting Taken Down Ok, so — you found the perfect 8-bar piano phrase in a Yoko Kanno soundtrack, chopped it up beautifully in Logic Pro, layered some dusty boom bap drums underneath, and it sounds incredible. Then you upload it and — boom — Content… Read More »How to Sample Anime Music Legally for Lofi — Full Guide

An honest DT 770 PRO X review from a bedroom lofi studio: depth, detail, an A/B test that changed how I pick EQ presets, and three real criticisms.

10 Lofi Hip Hop Chord Voicings That Sound Like They’re From a Different Era Ok, so — you know that feeling when you hear a lofi beat and the chords just hit you somewhere weird, like you’ve heard that sound before but you can’t quite place it? That’s not an accident. That’s a specific voicing… Read More »Lofi Hip Hop Chord Voicings: 10 That Hit Different