After Hours Tech House Sample Pack: Modern Dance Floor Sounds for 2024

After Hours is a tech house and indie dance sample pack built around the grooved, driven sound that has taken over dance floors and dominated sets at venues like Space Miami and Ushuaia Ibiza. This video walkthrough covers all the content inside the pack - project files, Serum 2 presets, bass loops, drum sounds, vocal hooks, and transitions - giving you a complete picture of what is included before you buy.

What Is the After Hours Sample Pack?

After Hours is a tech house and indie dance sample pack designed around the contemporary dance floor sound - tight punchy drums, offbeat baselines, and a BPM that runs slightly faster than classic old-school tech house. The sound draws on the energy of artists like Max Styler, Jenness, Chris Lake, and Old Mob, blended with the deeper driven textures of artists like Adam Ten and Mitagami. The pack follows the direction of leading labels in the current scene including Blackbook Records, Experts Only, and Macabby House. Inside the pack you will find 100 Serum 2 presets, a full sample pack, four project files for Logic, FL Studio, and Ableton, and a dedicated folder of vocal hooks and vocal shots. It is built to give you everything you need to produce competitive, modern-sounding tech house from a single download.

What Project Files Are Included?

After Hours includes four full project files - one for FL Studio, one for Ableton, and two for Logic. Each project file is a complete, mixed, and arranged track built with the sounds and presets from the pack. These are not template sketches - they are finished productions that demonstrate exactly how the samples and presets work together in a real track. Having four different projects means you can open the DAW you use daily and immediately see the workflow in your own environment. You can also use them as starting points, swapping out elements, studying the arrangement structure, or simply learning from how the mixing decisions were made. All three formats represent the modern tech house and indie dance sound that the pack is built around.

How to Use the Serum 2 Bass Presets

The pack includes 100 Serum 2 presets, and the bass category is particularly deep. Key bass presets include:

• Bass Ace - a clean, fat saw bass that functions as one of the core elements of the genre
• Bass Beyond - a punchy deep bassline processed with distortion and compression for a crunchy, modern feel
• Bass Bomba - a bit-crushed low funky bass with a gritty character
• Bass Filty - a 303-inspired bass, a legendary sound that still appears frequently in modern tech house
• Bass Fault - a fat analog-sounding step bass inspired by Adam Ten's style
• Bass Forward - a reese bass with a perfect fifth interval
• Bass Slap - a fat bass guitar sample
• Bass Prey - a deep square bass with added distortion for grit and harmonics
• Bass Titanium - a sustained step sound

Every preset comes with macros so you can adjust the filter decay, add more acid character, or change the tone to fit your track. Serum 2's new wavetables and oscillator layering options allowed for more creative bass design than in previous packs.

How to Use the Lead, Pluck, and Synth Presets

Beyond the bass sounds, the pack covers the full range of melodic elements used in modern tech house:

• Lead Arcade - a retro-sounding top lead that works well as a high-frequency melody
• Lead Explosion - a modulated sound with metallic effects
• Lead Game - an FM lead with a digital character
• Lead Generation - a fat saw lead designed for layering on top of bass notes to fill the upper frequency range
• Lead Surround - an aggressive top lead for high-energy drops
• Pluck Attack, Bit Crushed Pluck, Pluck Simulation (a hypnotic sine-based top pluck), and Pluck Trill (a robotic FM pluck based on saw wave oscillators)
• Step sounds including Alive (a powerful step) and a wet square step for drop fills
• Synths including Synd (a perfect fifth synth), Synth Legacy (for melodic drops), and Syn Matrix (a unique octave-jumping synth)

What Drum and Percussion Content Is in the Pack?

The sample pack covers a wide range of drum content designed specifically for tech house and indie dance production:

• Bass loops - all with accompanying MIDI files for study or reuse
• Sampled bass shots from a Juno synthesizer and a Moog - fat and analog-sounding
• Conga loops, acoustic hat loops, standard hat loops, and percussion loops
• Snare loops with pre-shifting and reverb automation already applied
• Texture loops for background atmosphere and complete top loops for instant inspiration
• One-shot drums including claps, hats, kicks, open hats, organic percussion, metallic percussion, snares, and toms
• Long fills and short fills, natural street ambience, downlifters, white noise bass impacts, tonal risers, and uplifters

Toms are highlighted as a vital element of this genre and receive dedicated coverage in the pack.

What Vocal Content Is Included?

After Hours includes three categories of vocal content. Spoken word and rap-style vocals are included alongside hook shouts and vocal chops. Vocal shots are shorter filler phrases designed to be placed throughout a track to add energy and human texture. Vocal chops are ambient, background-style loops. Example phrases in the pack include "bring it back," "I got that funky feeling," "roll it," "take flight," and "stack dreams." These are performance-ready vocals formatted for direct use in productions, with enough variety to work across different moods and energy levels within the tech house genre.

After Hours is available now at theproducerschool.com. Head to the link in the description for a full breakdown of the pack contents, additional preset previews, and purchasing information. If you have questions about the pack, drop a comment on the YouTube video or send a message via Instagram DM.

Tutorial by Niek, co-founder of The Producer School. For more production tutorials, subscribe to The Producer School on YouTube (280K+ subscribers).