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Bedroom Producers Blog celebrates 15th Anniversary with a Design Overhaul

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BPB 15th Anniversary

Dear BPB readers, I’m excited to announce that Bedroom Producers Blog has finally received its long-awaited facelift.

I’ve been working on the new design behind the scenes for quite some time. The main goal was to make the website cleaner, easier to read, and faster, all while preserving the aspects of the old design that you loved and avoiding any drastic changes that might confuse regular readers.

While I’m thrilled with the new design, your opinion is what matters most. Please read the details below and share your feedback in the comments section.

Here’s what you can expect from the updated BPB:

  • Better reading experience (larger fonts, cleaner look)
  • Faster performance (quicker page load times, faster search)
  • Improved organization (easier navigation to different sections via the menu)
  • New mobile layout (better readability on your phone)
  • Dark mode (optional dark background to reduce eye strain during those long BPB reading sessions)

Please take a moment to explore the new website and leave a comment if you particularly like or dislike any new features.

Celebrating 15 Years of BPB

This update also marks a significant milestone. I launched BPB 15 years ago, in August 2009, so it’s fitting to start the next 15-year journey with a fresh new look.

Thank you all for reading Bedroom Producers Blog and being such an integral part of what began as my hobby 15 years ago. BPB is now one of the leading websites for music producers, and that’s largely thanks to you, our readers.

What’s Coming Next?

One word—community!

Now that the new design is live, I’m shifting focus to the next big update.

Over the years, many of you have requested an improved comments section. Well, that’s exactly what’s coming next!

The new comments section is almost ready—I’m currently testing it to iron out the last few bugs before releasing it on BPB.

Once it’s live, you’ll be able to create a user account, edit your comments, vote for your favorite comments, and communicate more easily with other BPB readers.

We’ll also introduce a dedicated section for reader interaction, where you’ll be able to share tips, ideas, and more.

The new comments section (and other community features) will be live by the end of September 2024.

Until then, please check out the new look and share your thoughts in the comments below.

Tomislav is a music producer and sound designer from Belgrade, Serbia. He is also the founder and editor-in-chief at Bedroom Producers Blog.

109 Comments

  1. Michael in South Korea

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    Well done Tomislav!! Love the new look of the site 😊
    I’m a big fan of all you do here, especially the free stuff you make us all aware of 😁
    Looking forward to the new looks coming in the revised and new sections.
    Keep up your great work!! We love you here in South Korea 🇰🇷🕺

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  2. Drew Lake

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    Wow! I love it! Easy to navigate, pleasant and easy to read also easy on the eye. I also look forward to the community features in the future.

    Nice one Tomislav!

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  8. Tom

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    Welcome enhancements!

    Bug report : On mobile, when you click on a link to another article, it will be displayed as white theme, even if dark theme is on, untill a uder interaction is made.

    A good way to increase page speed a’d readability is to reduce the number of third party ads and trackers. 👀

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    • Tomislav Zlatic

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      Hi Tom, thank you so much for reporting that! Should be fixed now.

      As for Ads, it’s literally how we survive so it’s necessary for the website to keep functioning. Apart from that, we only use Google Analytics.

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  10. Teka

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    The new design is nice and clear. If I had to make a different suggestion, I would like to see the news with their pictures after clicking on the “more news” section. When only the text is visible in this section, it becomes difficult to understand the content of the news.

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  12. bigMike

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    Not to be that guy, and thankfully this was already addressed. But the only thing i never liked/the only thing i hoped would change, was the layout of the “news archives” page.
    From the main page one can see the last articles with the respective image, but when clicking on “more news” and ending on the page: https://bedroomproducersblog.com/category/news/ one only sees a wall of text. IMO making it impossible to navigate older posts, effectively making the posts that are no longer on the main page dead.
    Please please please just add the post images to the archives as well, to make browsing through them a lot easier.
    As a bonus, the archive could also show the amount of comments per post.
    Other than that, i like the new aesthetic.

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    • Tomislav Zlatic

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      You (and others) asked, we listened! The news archive now shows the featured image and comments. Thank you for your feedback! :)

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  17. Wytze

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    I love the new “news” layout as someone who only checks this site weekly for updates (otherwise I’d be forever distracted and never make anything lol).

    So much better than the text list from before, big thanks!

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  18. TORLEY

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    Tomislav, congrats on the big 1-5 and here’s to another 15 years! One suggestion is that the light-gray-on-medium-gray can be a bit hard to read, so increasing the contrast might help some visually-impaired visitors. It also feels like there’s a lot of vertical space between the comments (like between the name/date and the first line of the comment), which could be tightened up for readability.

    But overall I like the new layout, thanks for continuing to bring community together with all these audio goodies! 🙌🔈

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    • Tomislav Zlatic

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      Thanks, Torley! All suggestions are welcome. I set the background to light gray on purpose to reduce the eyestrain. There’s also a Dark Mode (you can access it in the upper-right corner) which is far more constrast-y. However, I’ll definitely consider setting the default to white instead of light grey. Thanks again for your support, it means a lot!

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    • Tomislav Zlatic

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      It went through! :D

      Jokes aside, there was a brief period yesterday when the comments weren’t working due to server issues. It’s all fixed now, and the comments should be working better than ever.

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  21. Origin Makers

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    The level of consistency in efforts u’ve done over the years in the blog is quite astounding. You’ve been a blessing for all the bedroom producers out there. The new design looks great in mobile devices. Keep up Tomi. 👍🏾

    Love from India.

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  22. PureFire

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    Congratulations on 15 years T, BPB & team, to another 15 years 🙏

    Love the new design, looks even better than before, more helpful and easier to read

    I guess we now need cookies enabled to leave a comment here, thats no big deal

    Thanks for everything over the years, much love and appreciation 😊💛

    Also, Purafied – Liquid Death Snare is free again, not sure how long for

    purafied.com/products/liquid-death-snare

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    • Tomislav Zlatic

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      Hey PureFire, I’m glad to hear that you like it, too! I really wanted to make it a smooth transition for regular BPB readers. Thank you!

      I think the LDS has been free for some time now, but I’ll double-check the facts. Thanks for the tip!

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      • PureFire

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        Your welcome, thanks T

        I already have LDS, (im sure these initials could stand for something else 🤪)

        I seen LDS here on BPB a few years ago, many thanks 🙏😊💛

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  23. alex

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    Looks great, works great! Jeez, it’s been 15 years. Congrats and thx once again BPB. Well, what else to say? I’ve been following BPB since day one. So, let’s see what happens in the next 15 years.

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    • Tomislav Zlatic

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      Hey Alex, thank you so much! Yeah, it’s been 15 years since I started this. I began as a student, using it as a way to procrastinate from studying (for better or for worse), and it has evolved into what it is now. I appreciate your contributions in the comments a lot – THANK YOU for being a part of BPB!

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  25. mrg

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    Little 15 / you help us forget / the world outside / you’re not part of it yet / and if you could drive / you could drive us away / to a happier place / to a happier day / that exists in your mind / and in your smile / we could escape there / just for a while / Little 15.

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      • mrg

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        Had some help from a little-known band called Depeche Mode, you should check ’em out guys, I’m sure they’ll be big someday.
        Just thought it was fitting, somehow.

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    • Tomislav Zlatic

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      Thanks, and I’m glad to hear that Dark Mode is useful. I miss the old one, too, but I hope the transition isn’t too drastic because it really needed a facelift (primarily because of some technical issues that started lurking under the hood of the old site).

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  28. Darryl Lim

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    FINALLY, been waiting FOREVER for this!! Awesome work Tomislav! And I’m also suuuuper looking forward to the communication-overhaul next month!! :D

    Using Firefox 129.0.1, my “1st impressions” constructive feedback:
    1. Don’t mind unintrusive ADS (you guys deserve everything you earn), but there this annoyingly large pop-up BANNER ad at the bottom of almost every page. This should be fine on portrait screens (phones & tablets), but on desktop landscape-widescreens like mine, it basically blocks a huge chunk of vertical real-estate, makes it so that only a tiny bit of text may be read before having to scroll down again. Would appreciate if there is an option to make these as “vertical banners” on landscape widescreens, where there is plenty of unused space along the sides.

    2. I might be the minority-opinion on this, but would appreciate an option for some form of “compact list view” of the News Archive (a middle-ground between the old https://bedroomproducersblog.com/category/news/ & this new one). If not possible, then perhaps a separate link-option that displays the news archive more similar to the old way? Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE this new big & visual design for browsing of the LATEST news. But, for example, if i’m attempting to browse through BPB’s MASSIVE backlog of news listings, hunting for something specific (news that i might have missed, or a plugin-entry somewhere i forgot the name/details of & thus can’t type into the search function), there’ll be TONS of inconvenient scrolling & scrolling & then clicking that suuuper tiny next-page number & then scrolling & scrolling again. While in the old News Archive, i could at least get a “birds eye view” of the entire back-catalogue of articles, conveniently separated by release month, & could also quickly narrow-down to particular key-words using my browser’s page-search.

    3. Already mentioned in a previous comment: Less “dead-space” around comments. Making everything a little more compact (but still comfortably readable) allows more stuff to be read at 1 glance, & minimizes having to keep scrolling down & down & down all the time. If it wasn’t clear already from my prior paragraphs, constant-scrolling is annoying & tiring for me, & perhaps to some other mouse-wheel users as well. Sometimes it’s nice to just sit-back & relax while reading through a web-page, without having to keep working the mouse non-stop.

    4. Love the new emphasis on giant thumbnails & page-images introducing the plugins or news. However, as i’m sure y’all are aware of, many of your prior plugin screenshots & whatnot are of lower resolution, & many of them are crops that “chop off” various corners of the plugin UI’s. It’s probably not worth the effort to attempt to re-upload older header images/thumbnails, but at least from now on, a bit more effort needs to go into the prepping of the new ones, i’m guessing, haha. :P

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    • Tomislav Zlatic

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      Hey Darryl, thank you! And thanks for the suggestions! :)

      1) Yeah, we need the ads to survive (literally) and I don’t think other forms of maintining the site would work here. After all, BPB is free for all, and the ads help keep it that way. The landscape ad at the bottom is a necessary part of the ad setup. If an opporunity arises to change it in the future, I’ll do it for sure, but for now it needs to be there,

      2) I preferred the old text-only news archive, but many readers asked for a different look (with thumbnails) so I implemented that instead. Still, I agree that a “birds eye view” version would be beneficial, so I’m thinking about adding that as a link on the News page, similarly to what you suggested. I’ll do a bit of experimentation and implement it if it works. Thanks for the tip!

      3) The comments section will be completely overhauled in the next update (by the end of September). It will look differently (hopefully better), too! I’m just testing the last few technical aspects before launching it on BPB.

      4) Yeah, the old ones are lower-res. We’ll try to make the new ones look great and update the old ones on the most popular articles.

      Thanks again, Darryl! :)

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      • Darryl Lim

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        Greatly appreciate the feedback-acknowledgement! Can’t wait for the coming months! :)

        Regarding No. #1 = I often see this type of bottom-banner-ad on other sites, so i’m sure it is some kinda “universal standard” thing. However, on many of these sites, there are at least icons to hide it back down after the initial pop-up, or to “X” it away but with an initial few-second countdown before the “X” becomes clickable (a potential compromise between showing the ad, but still allowing for more comfortable reading-area). Some sites also auto-hide these banners while you are scrolling (top banners temporarily “fold up” when scrolling upwards, & vice-versa for bottom banners when scrolling downwards). Could some of these type of implementations be potentially explored? (Will still love & support you guys regardless. :))

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    • mrg

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      2. I totally agree, a compact text-only Recent News is the only thing I regret from the old design. A picture might be worth a thousand words, but for a quick search it adds nothing but clutter.

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  31. Robin

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    Hi Tomislav. Congratulations on teaching 15! Dark mode for the website is highly appreciated. Thanks for all of the work you, and others, have done with BPB over the years. Such a helpful, useful website – not to mention countless freebies I’d have missed without it – thank you.

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  32. The Sound Of Lex

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    Hi Tomislav! You have done a wonderful job with the new look of the page. I just want to request for mobile format the “Back to top” button after the Comments section, I think is very useful for mobile readers. Wish you all the best and thank you for your hard work.

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    • Tomislav Zlatic

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      I think it will be a way to show appreciation for helpful comments, such as when someone posts a new free plugin or something similar. However, if it doesn’t work, the feature will be removed.

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  36. Bernard Clarke

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    Excellent work Tomislav – I read these pages religiously anyway; I am always fascinated as to how you round up so much material and I even consider buying a decent Windows setup (I’m a Mac user). But anyway the new design makes it even easier to keep abreast of things.
    Onwards and upwards!
    Bernard Clarke

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    • Tomislav Zlatic

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      Hi Bernard, that’s great to hear. Windows has historically had more options, but the Mac plugin market is rapidly catching up these days. Thank you for the kind words about the new design!

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  37. Sando

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    Nazdar, Komshu ! Keep on for many years to come ! Your site was and still is my main inspirational source for the last 13 years ! Great job of a Great man ! Thank You !

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    • Tomislav Zlatic

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      Hey Chris, noted. I like that feature but if I get more complaints from the readers, I’ll definitely change it. Thanks for your feedback!

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  46. Wing Yee

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    Happy 15th anniversary! Love the new site, very easy to navigate, appreciate your hard work making life easier for music producers from around the globe. Thanks!

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  48. Atme

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    Hi Tomislav,
    happy 15th birthday! I really prefer the old news archive because it contained all the news posts of a month in one list. It is more practical if You are searching for old and older news. Now You have to click way too many times to, for example, search for news of previous months and years. I, and surely others, would not want to click tens or hundreds of times to read news posts from a few years or months ago. Could You please, pretty please somehow bring back the old news archive or somehow make it possible to switch to the old news archive which displays all the news posts of a given month and year in a list. That would be infinitely appreciated, because I, and surely other people, very often search for old/older news from many months/years ago. Please consider this, I think it is more practical when searching for old(er) news from many months/years ago. Thank You very much. Stay safe and healthy. :)
    All the best,
    Atme

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  53. MoonDuck

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    Hey Tomislav and Crew: Congrats on your 15th and on the look of the new site.
    Keep up the good work!

    One very minor request though: Would it be feasible to make the newsletter so that it’s possible to click the pictures to immediately jump to the respective article/review? I feel such a feature would provide an easier means to quickly view the according post instead of having to click on the “View Post” selector.

    Just a thought…

    Best wishes for (at least) the next 15!

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  54. Rob

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    The new design looks fine to me.
    I wish you a happy 15th anniversary.
    Thanks for the comprehensive and helpful service you provide.
    Since discovering BPB, it has become indispensible to me.

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