While a drummer has to buy real drums and cymbals to build their kit, the dance producer's kit is almost always virtual - even though it follows the same paradigm of a genuine kit.

The modern drum kit has been recognizably standardized for the best part of a century: bass drum, snare, one or more...

EQs are fairly intuitive to operate. We have all used them before; they are found, in simple form, in the tone controls of home stereo systems. The EQs that you use in mixing are not radically conceptually different from those tone controls: you have a frequency band, and you have a gain amount....