These sound design videos are so interesting for a beginner like me! It’s incredible how those basic shapes can be altered to have such variation in character 👌. Hopefully these tips will come in handy when I try to recreate some of the sounds from The Blessed Madonna - Happier (feat. Clementine Douglas); the wobbly riser in that song is so good! 😎
One of my favourite tracks / remixes too. The swirly sound really is a mind bender, i love it! I also wondered how Jr did it. The fact you managed to deconstruct it is very impressive. It shows an immense level of skill and trained ear to do this. Keep up the great work. \o/
Great content and just love the channel. Far and away favourite in the genre. But ... and there is always a but ... unlike other YT channels where you just consume and mind numbing just watch. I have now learnt that after one of these drop ... I need to wait until I can carve out at least few hours - watching is the easy bit - It's the firing up of the DAW and diving into that rabbit hole that sucks up the time. I am now 48 hours in and counting after the other awesome 'No 1 scientific reason you can't finnish tracks'. Sort of ironic that it was about actually finnishing tracks ... which then lead me to pull apart a few of my faves. Anyway, loving the inspiration that you give. It's all creativity.
I am so happy I found your channel! It is a hidden gem among all the music channel noise. Big thanks to you! Bought you tea couple of weeks ago. You mentioned you usually have a separate sub-bass for control and processing. Is the amount of ducking or compression between the kick and the bass a ‘use your ears situation’ or are there best practices or reference levels on the ducking/compression amount?
If you're going for 'commercial loudness' then the sub vs kick relationship is key to that. Depends on the genre / groove but Typically you want as much reduction as possible. In the bass video i showed using a volume envelope plugin, which completely muted the sub in parts.
@@BthelickSir B. I have a request for a future livestream if I may! The second song of KiNK moscow boiler room set has some really cool synth chords with a simple progression in it that seem to be modulated to give it a more colour and movement. I would like to be able to create this sound. It sounds sooo good to me! If you'd do another livestream, do you think you could recreate this for me?
just found your channel, great stuff. Not sure why it took so long I thought I had reached the end of TH-cam long ago. I like your succinct teaching style thx for sharing your knowledge!
This was great - feel like I'm learning as always with these videos - it's the details that matter. It'd be awseome if yo could make a track in the style of Maya Jane Coles, I've heard a few people try, but nobody really nails it. 👍
Which era? I'll be honest I loved "What they say", it's still a bop but I went to see her live expecting some deep groove and she went really hard! I haven't kept up with any recent stuff since
Yea, I liked her older stuff too, 'Parallel Worlds', 'City Lights', or more experimental stuff like 'No Stick'. Her remix of Karin Park's 'Hurricane' has a very nice bass, or Wax Wings ft. Nimmo 'Reclaim'. Or even her Nocturnal Sunshine work such as 'Take Me There' or 'Can't Hide the Way I Feel'. Even her drums sound great...lol.
@@KevinArdala01 I couldn’t agree more. A Maya tutorial would be awesome! All the tracks you have listed are great songs. If we’re going down the Nocturnal Sunshine route then Foundation is another good one and the Maya Jane Cole’s remix of Kwabs Pray For Love is also a good example of her work! Great suggestion!!
@Charlie-Sheen yea, I agree, they're both great tracks! There's so much to choose from. Even the way she programs and processes her drums is interesting... She's a quality artist!
Could take a while. Distortion is the most transformative effect, it's extremely hard to reverse engineer, and hear what the original sound was before it was transformed. I'm not joking when I say you could probably get close to that sound with a single sine wave and the right distortion!. As a guitar player I can testify! Raw electric guitars have very dull, dynamic and almost sine wave output until you put them through and amp. Back then it was probably trash distortion by izotope or guitar pedals. It sounds like fuzz distortion. It's just a question a trying lots, or drawing shapes into a good wave shaper, until you find the same flavor. Having said all that, I think it's a Reece style bass on the record under that distortion as I can hear detune, and i can hear resonant filter sweeps making the distortion 'bark' occasionally.
TH-cam is missing good tutorials on using different time signatures for different elements of your track. Like a 4/4 backbone but a 3/16th /bassline. Most youtube producers stay within the 4/4 box. And occasionally use polymeters on their hihats
Yes well in terms of dancing to music it's extremely dependent on the type of audience (and drug use) for that to work. Over done videos of polymeter. I covered in my last finish the loop video too. th-cam.com/video/oZmSOfOQEfg/w-d-xo.htmlsi=vUo_oxg4nZbpQ1m1 And in fact I released that track as "polymetric"
Man, I never knew this legatotrick working this way. I always have drawn the curve on an external effect. This will safe so much time! Thank you! By the way, is it possible to gate your voice by ableton? I often hear some weird (very suttle) echos in the videos. Nevertheless I appreciate this high end content and your recreation skills that makes this channel top 3 at TH-cam for me! ❤
I've got about 20 processors on my voice trying to gate noise but some always gets through. I try to catch it in the video edit but time is always short sorry.
Can u do a video on the BBE 7days pluck, can’t make 1 I’m happy with. I’m using gadget so if u have anything Korg (M1-wavestation- poly6-monopoly-ms20 ect)can u try do a section on that too after you make it on vital. ( got it too lol) just mostly use my iPad. Prefer the gadgets more than menu diving in Ableton.
The arp or the lead? I won't use gadget I make a point to use something everyone has access to. But also I don't really respect the difference between a saw wave on a korg, moog, serum or any synth as the principles are all the same in regards to sound design, so anything I do you will be able to follow on most synths.
I’m not sure if you’ve talked about it before, but can you make a video or a short even about ear fatigue. I feel like when working on a track for over an hour or 2 i get way to accustomed to that sound, and my initial idea gets lost while i add in sounds or rhythms that don’t fit.
Yes I talk about this in my 3 simple steps video. th-cam.com/video/JdVP6RlTlnw/w-d-xo.htmlsi=DSy2R8QG0a9rixnl Also something I haven't yet talked about but believe is important; If you have the luxury to treat your room properly, it becomes easier to judge speaker choice. Specifically because you can hear more without clutter, you stop falling for those over hyped top end type monitors that people confuse with "detailed" (looking at you genelec & Mackie). I can work on my Adams for 12 hours no problem, I swear by those ribbon tweeters. Also I work at a pretty low level. I've wore ear protection since my teens (even to loud pubs haha) so my ears are certainly more sensitive than most, but a well-treated room still means you can hear a lot more at lower levels. And whilst helping your hearing regards fatigue it helps your ear health long term too. Also working at lower levels has the benefit of making you mix in a way that forces you to make it sound exciting without it having to be cranked.
@@Bthelick thanks boss, you accidentally linked the wrong video lol but i found the right one u were talking ab. Super helpful video, def gonna use more reference tracks and refresh my ears more frequently. best tutorials out there!
Surge XT? Yeah it looks fine. I like the fact that it's open source. I didn't see anything it did that wasn't already covered in vital though, and in many cases worse, or certainly worse workflow and visual clarity.
If I remember rightly the filter routing was more flexible in surge (vitals biggest limitation) but in terms of day-to-day sound creation I don't have any issues so I don't look for solutions if that makes sense. A synth has to really be doing something very different (from subtractive, wavetable etc) to get my attention these days. Like Synplant.
Lad I mean you explained it very nicely, but,..the routings ..you didn´t show how to do that I am sorry, but...could you do that.....very quickly...sorry for bothering you
The routings of the lead synth envelopes? I did show everything, envelope 2 going to oscillator volume and filter, Lfo going to filter, and the 2 randoms going to filter and resonance. You can download the patch if you want a closer look , it's right there in the description
Oh sorry you asked "how" . You mean you don't know how to use vital is that what you're asking? How to send envelope to filter etc? Just drag the thing you want over to the other thing haha.
Yeah it's a weird one. Sounds like ring modulation or FM from a sub oscillator, but I can't identity the waveform being modulated. If I can't get it by tomorrow I'll try in another video or on the live streams at the end of the month 👊
Update on my comment about the Djrum - untitled9 chirds, i have come close to what i want now i was neglecting the power of attack (i would've just replied to my comment but i cannot find it)
@@Bthelick it did not, the original comment was asking if you could go over how the sound design on the initial chords from djrum - untitled 9 worked. I was especially looking for how the LFO automation worked. Thank you for the reply!
This is one of favourite tracks of all time, can't believe it made it on one of my favourite channels 😃
Another great video mate, you’re doing God’s work for us as per usual ❤️
You are THE GOAT OF MUSIC PRODUCTION TUTORIALS
Excellent recreation. Nothing is outside your skillset😅 Rodriguez uses a lot of analog hardware. He's amazing live if you ever get the chance.
Ah good to know sounds interesting thanks 👊
Master level achieved 🙏🏻
That was amazing sir. The sine wave bit crushed part made me go “no way he made that.” But alas, you ARE THAT good. Thank you!
Mate, you (again) unlocked another level for me, heartfelt thanks!
Those sound like cat's meowing and I absolutely love it!!
These sound design videos are so interesting for a beginner like me! It’s incredible how those basic shapes can be altered to have such variation in character 👌.
Hopefully these tips will come in handy when I try to recreate some of the sounds from The Blessed Madonna - Happier (feat. Clementine Douglas); the wobbly riser in that song is so good! 😎
You’re one of my favorite music production channels and now you’re covering one of my favorite songs?! Lucky me!
Step one, LIKE the Video, Step two, DROP a comment, Step three, WATCH the video. Love the content sir
Plus tip: buy three coffees 🎉
Next week repeat steps .
Done!
Is the name a reference to the game?
You are my favorite music production guide I share your videos with my friend. You both play the same games which is pretty funny.
Quality 👌👌👌👌
Splendid breakdown. Thank you for all the links in the description, especially the ear training and presets!
Soooooo good man. The quality is out of this world, love these videos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I loveeee this song. Thank you
One of my favourite tracks / remixes too. The swirly sound really is a mind bender, i love it! I also wondered how Jr did it. The fact you managed to deconstruct it is very impressive. It shows an immense level of skill and trained ear to do this. Keep up the great work. \o/
Great content and just love the channel. Far and away favourite in the genre. But ... and there is always a but ... unlike other YT channels where you just consume and mind numbing just watch. I have now learnt that after one of these drop ... I need to wait until I can carve out at least few hours - watching is the easy bit - It's the firing up of the DAW and diving into that rabbit hole that sucks up the time. I am now 48 hours in and counting after the other awesome 'No 1 scientific reason you can't finnish tracks'. Sort of ironic that it was about actually finnishing tracks ... which then lead me to pull apart a few of my faves. Anyway, loving the inspiration that you give. It's all creativity.
One of my favorite tracks of all time :)
This upload was well worth the wait. Love to both families, this one and your own ❤
yeah boss, nice session, thanks B
Have been using Vital for a few years and didn't know about that legato trick... Thanks!
Watching your workflow for the montage was great
I am so happy I found your channel! It is a hidden gem among all the music channel noise. Big thanks to you! Bought you tea couple of weeks ago.
You mentioned you usually have a separate sub-bass for control and processing. Is the amount of ducking or compression between the kick and the bass a ‘use your ears situation’ or are there best practices or reference levels on the ducking/compression amount?
If you're going for 'commercial loudness' then the sub vs kick relationship is key to that. Depends on the genre / groove but Typically you want as much reduction as possible. In the bass video i showed using a volume envelope plugin, which completely muted the sub in parts.
@@BthelickSir B. I have a request for a future livestream if I may! The second song of KiNK moscow boiler room set has some really cool synth chords with a simple progression in it that seem to be modulated to give it a more colour and movement. I would like to be able to create this sound. It sounds sooo good to me!
If you'd do another livestream, do you think you could recreate this for me?
th-cam.com/video/osS2zsW8mLk/w-d-xo.html around the 7 minute mark with a drop and explosion of energy at around 9 minutes.
just found your channel, great stuff. Not sure why it took so long I thought I had reached the end of TH-cam long ago. I like your succinct teaching style thx for sharing your knowledge!
This was great - feel like I'm learning as always with these videos - it's the details that matter. It'd be awseome if yo could make a track in the style of Maya Jane Coles, I've heard a few people try, but nobody really nails it. 👍
Which era?
I'll be honest I loved "What they say", it's still a bop but I went to see her live expecting some deep groove and she went really hard! I haven't kept up with any recent stuff since
Yea, I liked her older stuff too, 'Parallel Worlds', 'City Lights', or more experimental stuff like 'No Stick'. Her remix of Karin Park's 'Hurricane' has a very nice bass, or Wax Wings ft. Nimmo 'Reclaim'. Or even her Nocturnal Sunshine work such as 'Take Me There' or 'Can't Hide the Way I Feel'. Even her drums sound great...lol.
@@KevinArdala01 I couldn’t agree more. A Maya tutorial would be awesome! All the tracks you have listed are great songs. If we’re going down the Nocturnal Sunshine route then Foundation is another good one and the Maya Jane Cole’s remix of Kwabs Pray For Love is also a good example of her work! Great suggestion!!
@Charlie-Sheen yea, I agree, they're both great tracks! There's so much to choose from. Even the way she programs and processes her drums is interesting... She's a quality artist!
@@KevinArdala01 MJC is one of the best electronic music artists in the last decade. Her production style is next level!
Great stuff btw, working out the notes would have been a nightmare for this! The squelch on the filter is lovely
You are the GOAT. Any chance you could do a tutorial for the final, heavily distorted drop in Aphex Twin - Windowlicker?
Could take a while. Distortion is the most transformative effect, it's extremely hard to reverse engineer, and hear what the original sound was before it was transformed. I'm not joking when I say you could probably get close to that sound with a single sine wave and the right distortion!. As a guitar player I can testify! Raw electric guitars have very dull, dynamic and almost sine wave output until you put them through and amp.
Back then it was probably trash distortion by izotope or guitar pedals. It sounds like fuzz distortion. It's just a question a trying lots, or drawing shapes into a good wave shaper, until you find the same flavor.
Having said all that, I think it's a Reece style bass on the record under that distortion as I can hear detune, and i can hear resonant filter sweeps making the distortion 'bark' occasionally.
@@Bthelick Appreciate the detailed reply. Keep up the good work!
TH-cam is missing good tutorials on using different time signatures for different elements of your track. Like a 4/4 backbone but a 3/16th /bassline. Most youtube producers stay within the 4/4 box. And occasionally use polymeters on their hihats
Yes well in terms of dancing to music it's extremely dependent on the type of audience (and drug use) for that to work.
Over done videos of polymeter. I covered in my last finish the loop video too.
th-cam.com/video/oZmSOfOQEfg/w-d-xo.htmlsi=vUo_oxg4nZbpQ1m1
And in fact I released that track as "polymetric"
Very impressive, thank you 👍
Man, I never knew this legatotrick working this way. I always have drawn the curve on an external effect. This will safe so much time! Thank you! By the way, is it possible to gate your voice by ableton? I often hear some weird (very suttle) echos in the videos. Nevertheless I appreciate this high end content and your recreation skills that makes this channel top 3 at TH-cam for me! ❤
I've got about 20 processors on my voice trying to gate noise but some always gets through. I try to catch it in the video edit but time is always short sorry.
It's not that urgent. I just wanted to let you know in case you didn't noticed. Keep going: every video is a pleasure to watch 👌
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Great content as always
Another blinder!!! Thanks for these vids!!!
yeah baby!
great vid again!
Hi mate, thanks for this! Could you do a video on the lead Fred Again uses on "Kammy" I find it really difficult get near, thanks
Great video as always! Could you please break down "Take Control" by Blinkie? Would be interesting to watch
Top video as always
Using legato on filter envelope, I have never thought of that
Thanks enjoyed that
Love this lead sound. It’s funny, but the same technique is required for making the “Do the Bartman” bassline. :P
Can u do a video on the BBE 7days pluck, can’t make 1 I’m happy with. I’m using gadget so if u have anything Korg (M1-wavestation- poly6-monopoly-ms20 ect)can u try do a section on that too after you make it on vital. ( got it too lol) just mostly use my iPad. Prefer the gadgets more than menu diving in Ableton.
The arp or the lead?
I won't use gadget I make a point to use something everyone has access to.
But also I don't really respect the difference between a saw wave on a korg, moog, serum or any synth as the principles are all the same in regards to sound design, so anything I do you will be able to follow on most synths.
Another good one!!
How do I make the lead sound from 7 days & one week. I’ve got quite close but I’m stumped. Ps I’m using Korg gadget
I’m not sure if you’ve talked about it before, but can you make a video or a short even about ear fatigue. I feel like when working on a track for over an hour or 2 i get way to accustomed to that sound, and my initial idea gets lost while i add in sounds or rhythms that don’t fit.
Yes I talk about this in my 3 simple steps video.
th-cam.com/video/JdVP6RlTlnw/w-d-xo.htmlsi=DSy2R8QG0a9rixnl
Also something I haven't yet talked about but believe is important;
If you have the luxury to treat your room properly, it becomes easier to judge speaker choice. Specifically because you can hear more without clutter, you stop falling for those over hyped top end type monitors that people confuse with "detailed" (looking at you genelec & Mackie).
I can work on my Adams for 12 hours no problem, I swear by those ribbon tweeters.
Also I work at a pretty low level. I've wore ear protection since my teens (even to loud pubs haha) so my ears are certainly more sensitive than most, but a well-treated room still means you can hear a lot more at lower levels.
And whilst helping your hearing regards fatigue it helps your ear health long term too. Also working at lower levels has the benefit of making you mix in a way that forces you to make it sound exciting without it having to be cranked.
@@Bthelick thanks boss, you accidentally linked the wrong video lol but i found the right one u were talking ab. Super helpful video, def gonna use more reference tracks and refresh my ears more frequently. best tutorials out there!
I'd love to see a video about the Surge synthesizer (free). 😃
Surge XT? Yeah it looks fine. I like the fact that it's open source.
I didn't see anything it did that wasn't already covered in vital though, and in many cases worse, or certainly worse workflow and visual clarity.
@@Bthelick Stopping to think about it, it actually makes sense.
If I remember rightly the filter routing was more flexible in surge (vitals biggest limitation) but in terms of day-to-day sound creation I don't have any issues so I don't look for solutions if that makes sense.
A synth has to really be doing something very different (from subtractive, wavetable etc) to get my attention these days. Like Synplant.
fckme. damn. dude. i know legato synth effect now. God bless Bthelick ;)
17:20 check Jacob Collier choir plugin 🎉
Speaking of good plugs check arturia's Jupiter 8
Yeah I tried it. It needed to be a more solo voice / small to match the ref.
Lad I mean you explained it very nicely, but,..the routings ..you didn´t show how to do that
I am sorry, but...could you do that.....very quickly...sorry for bothering you
The routings of the lead synth envelopes?
I did show everything, envelope 2 going to oscillator volume and filter,
Lfo going to filter, and the 2 randoms going to filter and resonance.
You can download the patch if you want a closer look , it's right there in the description
Oh sorry you asked "how" . You mean you don't know how to use vital is that what you're asking? How to send envelope to filter etc? Just drag the thing you want over to the other thing haha.
@@Bthelick Exactly...i tried, but, I am a little bit thick
uhmm...doesn´t matter,....whatever...
thank you anyway for responding
☺😌😌
please recreate on the ground of james hypeeee😢
hes doing a james hype video next week
@@NatrollJM nice, but that song it’s the song i knowww
Yeah it's a weird one.
Sounds like ring modulation or FM from a sub oscillator, but I can't identity the waveform being modulated.
If I can't get it by tomorrow I'll try in another video or on the live streams at the end of the month 👊
Update on my comment about the Djrum - untitled9 chirds, i have come close to what i want now i was neglecting the power of attack (i would've just replied to my comment but i cannot find it)
Sorry I don't recall the message. Did it have a link? Because yt might have removed it.
@@Bthelick it did not, the original comment was asking if you could go over how the sound design on the initial chords from djrum - untitled 9 worked. I was especially looking for how the LFO automation worked. Thank you for the reply!
lot of sounds in remix are coming from moog sub37 ☺️
Ah good to know thanks
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@@DrWhoFan_JYes, it's the best free content for music production
@@DrWhoFan_J yes, it's the best free content for music production
@@ATLAS_NORTH_WEST_SV very true.
i just meant the lead
thank you, you are really a pro👍
If you can make bicep style :)
Anything in particular you're struggling with? They have quite a range.
I covered Glue in my stutter house videos