When a German starts talking sound tech in an accent that breathes obessive expertise with hints of musical genius I immidietely subscribe even without knowing who what where or when. All I know is that this dude knows all of the things that I don't and I must learn this secret German wisdom for the English war effort - we need to find out thier secrets before it's too late.
This is the most musical use of synths in a tutorial that I've ever heard. I feel that us people in the Synthstatue can often be caught up in the features and capabilities of synths rather than the actual musical application of them.
the thing about thinking about what the process went to make the sound like, so it was preamp to mixer to tape to vinyl to sampler is actually so incredibly genius and gets me really inspired and im going to start doing that to everything and see what happens
Just wanted to say this was an incredibly well thought out, written, edited, and performed lesson on synthesis and sound design, let alone analog warmth. Really appreciate the level of detail and joy being expressed through the demonstrations. These are really foundational concepts that tend to be thrown around in vague ways elsewhere, and you managed to explain them with such an unassuming simplicity that felt welcoming and non-challenging. Thank you Felix (and anyone else who may have worked on this)! Some moments actually had me laughing out loud in awe at how dramatic the evolution of sound was with these specific movements.
love how passionate, sophisticated and thoughtful you are about everything you do concerning your sound- and music related approaches! great video, thanks
another tip: use key velocity to modulate things like attack time, LFO rate so that each note you play gets a little different. If your keyboard skills aren't so hot, you can record the MIDI at 2/3 tempo or whatever (and optionally quantize at ~half strength).
man that beautiful tape hiss at 6:43 made my anxiety be like "ok we can give this dude a break for a sec, he's vibing to the nostalgia of childhood" ok tho this tutorial is actually epic I am realizing
Excellent, Felix! I have been using such techniques on synths but I feel you have nailed the presentation of a complex topic.And Thank you for the tape tricks! This with tne tape deck i had never thought of. BEAUTIFUL PATCHING as well btw
We had to write a whole essay on this for my diploma in Music Technology. I'm only a couple minutes in, and I hope to be able to point out old technologies like tape bouncing, room ambiance in vinyl one take recordings, the introduction of multitracking, tonal frequencies, underlying harmonic notes, types of reverbs delays and filters, and different sampling techniques. I love digging deep into old and new techniques, it's really interesting to me.
Love your videos! This is so good for people that think vintage sound is all magical and unexplainable. It is all quantifiable and reproducible with all sorts of gear.
REEL tape has a way of making records feel just a bit more comfortable to listen to. You want to listen just a bit more as opposed to without it. Of course that changes depending on the style of tape, age, the machine...
Only just come across the channel, so much knowledge and detail. Really helpful and inspiring. Thanks for taking the time to put these videos together.
This fostex x-18 is easy to convert to lo-fi ambient loop machine. Just unsolder 1 or 2 resistors, this allows to increase tape speed range as well as pitch. It can easily go half speed or even lower
@Thomann / Felix : What are your 2 cents on a guitar pedal like the Electro Harmonix Analogizer (in combination with a digital synth for example)? Quite sad that a year ago I gave away a tape recorder from the 60s or so (probably not sophisticated HiFi / studio gear) when I was not yet into resampling or so. That thing would have been capable to produce quite a substantial analog / lofi sound :D Have to say though that the results from VSTs are also quite impressive already. Also I'm quite excited about the section on how to recreate that stuff on modern synths... Owning the MicroFreak, I guess you could patch quite a lot to introduce a certain amount of randomness with help of the random LFO, or as suggested in a diffent comment, key velocity as a modulation source. I wonder whether it might be a resonable solution to record chords / progressions as multiple mono voices, so that each voice could get some random detune etc. separately, instead of modulating the whole stem. Wow, all this definitely opens up some room for experimentation, fine tuning etc.
Yeah this is also what I realised myself. I don't really need to pay ridiculous prices for a cassette portastudio. I can just use my Digitakt and a handheld cassette recorder for that kind of hardware workflow, but just in a significantly better and more flexible way imo. Just got a hifi cassette recorder as well that I yet have to try out. I'm using type 1 cassettes with the hanheld to add to the vibe, and then type 2 for the hifi to use for whole mixes :)
If you are interested in my production style you basically just gotta keep watching my videos on this channel. I try not to make a secret out of any of my techniques. If you are interested in the techniques used to create the tracks in this video I recommend watching the following two of my videos: "Eastcoast vs. Westcoast Synthesis" "6 Tips for your Elektron Gear" Best, Felix
This is exceptional work. There was a book I read with like content that reshaped my worldview. "A Life Unplugged: Reclaiming Reality in a Digital Age" by Theodore Blaze
Glad you enjoyed the video and the music. The tracks are all unreleased tracks of mine / collaborations of Leon Raum and me. They will the see the light of day eventually. If you don't wanna miss them keep an eye on my IG @felix_fleer Best, Felix
Man this video was great, thanks for linking me over here :) One question, if running audio through a tape recorder for the saturation effect, do you need 1 cassette per recording? Meaning if i wanted to run 10 stems, i'd need 10 cassettes?
¿La música está en la dìmensión de las ideas o en los cables? Hay que estar advertidos de esta ambigüedad para poder refleccionar. Sino resultaría que sólo podrían hacer mùsica los grandes consumidores de objetos.
Hey Bro !! Nice video, good quality ;) Can you tell me where I can find any guide about Percussion Recording/Processing like from your clip or near "Weval" style ? Really hope your respond and I waiting for another interesting vintage video. Take care
Good catch, didn't think about that. Just goes to show how many tiny alterations there are at play whenever something is converted to an analog technology.
VERY informative, excellent. So did you upload to ableton after going to cassette tape or record onto tape after producing in ableton? why did you need the cassette step other than for some compression and saturation. With a good ear I could detect the sublties in the final sonic piece in the vid. Be well, be REAL..
Great vid Felix, thank you. I have a question about using tape - how do you sync up the cassette / reel to reel speed to the DAW clock so the resulting audio doesnt float out of time? So that it is possible to chop and play with the taped audio in a daw without having to use flextime thank you!
Also mit dem Fostex Recorder konnte man bei den Vergleichen deutlich unterscheiden und ich glaube, das bekommt man so schnell nicht mit der DAW hin. Bei den Reel to Reel Beispielen jedoch, konnte ich kaum Unterschiede hören und ich denke, das ist mit der DAW sogar besser hinzubekommen. Du meintest ja, dass der Reel to Reel eine bessere Quali. hat. Der Vostex Sound hat mich richtig überzeugt, klingt aufeinmal richtig schön dreckig und warm - nice.
Der Unterschied mit zwischen DAW & Reel To Reel ist auf jeden Fall viel subtilerer als zwischen DAW & Kassette. Für Lofi Effekte oder das Processing von einzelnen Sounds kann der Fostex die bessere Wahl sein. Wenn ich jetzt aber eine komplette fertige Produktion zusammen gluen möchte und dabei ein bisschen Bandsättigung und Kompression brauche ohne dabei die "High-Fidelity" zu verlieren, dann ist der Reel to Reel Recorder die bessere Wahl. Wenn man den noch härter übersteuert, dann bekommt man damit natürlich auch schöne auffällige Distortion hin. Gruß, Felix
@@ThomannSynthesizers ja, Reel to Reel ist subtiler als der Flux, schon klar. Aber dennoch hat mich der Klang auf den ganzen Track nicht überzeugt, also nicht so, dass hier sich eine Investition lohnt. Beim Flux dann schon viel eher für einzelne Sounds oder Drums. Denke da würde sich sowas wie ein Heat schon eher lohnen, glaube hier die Saturation Einstellung soll eine Tapemaschine emulieren. Oder einen*eine Mastermensch finden mit einer Studer, glaube dieser Klang ist kaum möglich mit der DAW hinzubekommen. Aber das ist ja rein subjektiv beurteilt. ich denke halt, wenn ich mehrmals hinhören muss, um überhaupt einen Unterschied zu hören, dann lohnt sich das für mich nicht, wenn das dann auch locker in der DAW machbar ist. So sehe ich das auch bei analogen Gear.
Excellent video. One question regarding the 3-head tape recorder, would you recommend connecting the i/o directly into your audio interface, or would it still work via the Mackie desk's tape in/out connections? (DAW i/o also connected to the desk to record back into software)
Try both. I would keep the mackoe out of the chain. It all comes down to personal taste. Some things will sound better with the mackie, other stuff won't
When a German starts talking sound tech in an accent that breathes obessive expertise with hints of musical genius I immidietely subscribe even without knowing who what where or when. All I know is that this dude knows all of the things that I don't and I must learn this secret German wisdom for the English war effort - we need to find out thier secrets before it's too late.
This is the most musical use of synths in a tutorial that I've ever heard. I feel that us people in the Synthstatue can often be caught up in the features and capabilities of synths rather than the actual musical application of them.
Change “Can often” to like 99% of the time lol
the thing about thinking about what the process went to make the sound like, so it was preamp to mixer to tape to vinyl to sampler is actually so incredibly genius and gets me really inspired and im going to start doing that to everything and see what happens
❤️
Just wanted to say this was an incredibly well thought out, written, edited, and performed lesson on synthesis and sound design, let alone analog warmth. Really appreciate the level of detail and joy being expressed through the demonstrations. These are really foundational concepts that tend to be thrown around in vague ways elsewhere, and you managed to explain them with such an unassuming simplicity that felt welcoming and non-challenging. Thank you Felix (and anyone else who may have worked on this)! Some moments actually had me laughing out loud in awe at how dramatic the evolution of sound was with these specific movements.
This is one of the best sound design videos I've seen, excellent job
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it
love how passionate, sophisticated and thoughtful you are about everything you do concerning your sound- and music related approaches! great video, thanks
Thanks, means a lot to hear that! I can be a bit obsessive about these things, so it's great to see it being appreciated
@@ThomannSynthesizers Hi Felix! You got any music out somewhere? I would love to hear more from you
Ich finde es jetzt schon ein SUPER thema!
another tip: use key velocity to modulate things like attack time, LFO rate so that each note you play gets a little different. If your keyboard skills aren't so hot, you can record the MIDI at 2/3 tempo or whatever (and optionally quantize at ~half strength).
Great idea. Perfect addition to the tips in the video! ❤️
I sometimes randomize. It helps too.
man that beautiful tape hiss at 6:43 made my anxiety be like "ok we can give this dude a break for a sec, he's vibing to the nostalgia of childhood"
ok tho this tutorial is actually epic I am realizing
Beautiful peace at the end.
This is unbelievably well done, thank you Felix you have inspired the s**t out of me!
I feel like I just levelled up after watching this video. So inspiring. Many thanks!
Noice 👌
This was an absolute masterclass well done
Very nice! I see you Flat Eric ✌
Excellent, Felix! I have been using such techniques on synths but I feel you have nailed the presentation of a complex topic.And Thank you for the tape tricks! This with tne tape deck i had never thought of. BEAUTIFUL PATCHING as well btw
Whow. Vielen lieben Dank für diese umfassende Zusammenstellung mit "Was Wo Wieviel Warum". Sehr sehr hilfreich! :)
The best VT on production techniques I have seen. Well done Felix and Thomann.
Man, you’re a phenomenal teacher!!! Thanks so much for this superbly detailed video!!!!!!!
We had to write a whole essay on this for my diploma in Music Technology. I'm only a couple minutes in, and I hope to be able to point out old technologies like tape bouncing, room ambiance in vinyl one take recordings, the introduction of multitracking, tonal frequencies, underlying harmonic notes, types of reverbs delays and filters, and different sampling techniques. I love digging deep into old and new techniques, it's really interesting to me.
Great presentation. Thank you Felix and Thomann!
Leon is a badass drummer apparently
Thomann, ihr seid spitze!! Riesen Respekt. Freue mich schon einiges davon umzusetzen!
Felix I love how you say 'polysünt'
This is an awesome educational tool. Thank you!
Really good work so much to try out here.. I'll be rewatching this for a while..
Great, glad you enjoyed it
Loved the E7 whistle at 1:40 😉 I should sample that
I only noticed the video was an hour long after I watched it, time well spent
I just jumped through the parts of the video but will watch it completely later. I can already see that this is high quality content! Well done!
Love your videos! This is so good for people that think vintage sound is all magical and unexplainable. It is all quantifiable and reproducible with all sorts of gear.
This was a joy to watch!
That's great to hear. There more coming, so keep an eye on the channel
Wonderful video! These are some of the best online honestly
Fantastic video. Thank you for reminding me to use my tape deck and other old gear again!
REEL tape has a way of making records feel just a bit more comfortable to listen to. You want to listen just a bit more as opposed to without it. Of course that changes depending on the style of tape, age, the machine...
Finally someone who works fast and fine
Love how they even made the video feel analog, by using grain and warm grading in post production.
this was super useful! you collected so much information spread across 100s of TH-cam videos into one digestible mini masterclass! THANK YOU!
Another splendid tutorial once again! Thank you very much!
Excellent video! This is the type of stuff I'm obsessed with and have never seen such a comprehensive video!
Fantastic tutorial!
great video, would love to see one on how how you approach analog warmth/saturation on separate synths to blend together in a mix
Great video, very useful, especially the gate seq in the rev2!
Congrats and thanks for take time to explain.
"You know when tape gets warm? When you set it on fire." ~ an engineer I worked with.
Very simple cool and forgotten principles! Well done!!
The music in this video is great
This guy is my new hero 🔝🎚💖
This video is criminally underwatched considering some of the music production content released on this hellscape of a website. Thank you so much!
Doesn't get more wowwer.. Thank you for the inspiring video!!
Only just come across the channel, so much knowledge and detail. Really helpful and inspiring. Thanks for taking the time to put these videos together.
This fostex x-18 is easy to convert to lo-fi ambient loop machine. Just unsolder 1 or 2 resistors, this allows to increase tape speed range as well as pitch. It can easily go half speed or even lower
Wonderful video, Felix! Thank you!! 😎👌🏼
oh my, rarely do I encounter such top tier content, thanks for this!!!
Best Video! Thanks Friends!!!
That was a very nice video and explanation/examples of different tools and techniques. Thanks!
love those gestures...
This is a cool vid. Full of useful info.
Thanks for this!!
What a fantastic video .. you really explain everything brilliantly
What a fantastic video, thank you so much for this. Loving all the videos with Felix so far!
Wow! Subscribed, well explained and your depth of understanding and willingness to share and explain is so refreshing
Super insightful video, thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Great video thanks
Good video. I know most of the techniques but I love hearing about the analog gospel
Thank you!
@Thomann / Felix : What are your 2 cents on a guitar pedal like the Electro Harmonix Analogizer (in combination with a digital synth for example)?
Quite sad that a year ago I gave away a tape recorder from the 60s or so (probably not sophisticated HiFi / studio gear) when I was not yet into resampling or so. That thing would have been capable to produce quite a substantial analog / lofi sound :D Have to say though that the results from VSTs are also quite impressive already.
Also I'm quite excited about the section on how to recreate that stuff on modern synths... Owning the MicroFreak, I guess you could patch quite a lot to introduce a certain amount of randomness with help of the random LFO, or as suggested in a diffent comment, key velocity as a modulation source.
I wonder whether it might be a resonable solution to record chords / progressions as multiple mono voices, so that each voice could get some random detune etc. separately, instead of modulating the whole stem. Wow, all this definitely opens up some room for experimentation, fine tuning etc.
great tips, this video is packed with inspiration in terms of sound design and approach!!
Yeah this is also what I realised myself. I don't really need to pay ridiculous prices for a cassette portastudio. I can just use my Digitakt and a handheld cassette recorder for that kind of hardware workflow, but just in a significantly better and more flexible way imo.
Just got a hifi cassette recorder as well that I yet have to try out.
I'm using type 1 cassettes with the hanheld to add to the vibe, and then type 2 for the hifi to use for whole mixes :)
Very informative, thanks. And very cool stand for headphones!
Nice stuff Felix, excellent demonstration.
Thanks a lot
Great video, informative, clear , I do appreciate it, thanks
Thanks for automatically raising the prices of tape machines because of this video.. Now all the kids want this shit too.
Analog rules ❤️✨🚀
Some great tricks in there! Nice job!
Wow! Cool! I mean warm! :D Lush sounds!
THANK YOU SIR, CLASSY AND GRACIOUS
I really enjoy the background music pls make your experience about this music production style pls
If you are interested in my production style you basically just gotta keep watching my videos on this channel. I try not to make a secret out of any of my techniques.
If you are interested in the techniques used to create the tracks in this video I recommend watching the following two of my videos:
"Eastcoast vs. Westcoast Synthesis"
"6 Tips for your Elektron Gear"
Best, Felix
Extremely helpful!
This is exceptional work. There was a book I read with like content that reshaped my worldview. "A Life Unplugged: Reclaiming Reality in a Digital Age" by Theodore Blaze
Another great tutorial!
Well done, please do more and also share the IDM music that was played inbetween
Glad you enjoyed the video and the music. The tracks are all unreleased tracks of mine / collaborations of Leon Raum and me. They will the see the light of day eventually. If you don't wanna miss them keep an eye on my IG @felix_fleer
Best, Felix
amazing video!
thanks
Man this video was great, thanks for linking me over here :)
One question, if running audio through a tape recorder for the saturation effect, do you need 1 cassette per recording? Meaning if i wanted to run 10 stems, i'd need 10 cassettes?
Fantastic thank you!
Bravo!!
Awesome 👍
¿La música está en la dìmensión de las ideas o en los cables? Hay que estar advertidos de esta ambigüedad para poder refleccionar. Sino resultaría que sólo podrían hacer mùsica los grandes consumidores de objetos.
Awesome vid...
this is the first time ive ever heard cassette tapes with no hiss im amazed
What if you record on a cassette deck EQ then remove the noise with RX?
Hey Bro !! Nice video, good quality ;) Can you tell me where I can find any guide about Percussion Recording/Processing like from your clip or near "Weval" style ? Really hope your respond and I waiting for another interesting vintage video. Take care
einfach klasse 😘 danke 😎🤘😎🤘😎🤘
Records also mean there's a minimal distortion through the RIAA equalization, which adds some rumble to the sound, depending on player quality.
Good catch, didn't think about that. Just goes to show how many tiny alterations there are at play whenever something is converted to an analog technology.
VERY informative, excellent. So did you upload to ableton after going to cassette tape or
record onto tape after producing in ableton? why did you need the cassette step other
than for some compression and saturation. With a good ear I could detect the sublties
in the final sonic piece in the vid. Be well, be REAL..
Homie loves to smack that space bar
Just thinking about what the patch at 29:00 would sound on the cassette tape pitched down 🔥
Great vid Felix, thank you. I have a question about using tape - how do you sync up the cassette / reel to reel speed to the DAW clock so the resulting audio doesnt float out of time? So that it is possible to chop and play with the taped audio in a daw without having to use flextime
thank you!
Do all the chopping first then run it though tape at the end?
Well the Vostex 4 track recorder is for sure not 20 bucks on ebay, like mentioned around 16:07 here :)
Can we have a link to the presenter’s music? I need to taste the result 🙂
Also mit dem Fostex Recorder konnte man bei den Vergleichen deutlich unterscheiden und ich glaube, das bekommt man so schnell nicht mit der DAW hin. Bei den Reel to Reel Beispielen jedoch, konnte ich kaum Unterschiede hören und ich denke, das ist mit der DAW sogar besser hinzubekommen. Du meintest ja, dass der Reel to Reel eine bessere Quali. hat. Der Vostex Sound hat mich richtig überzeugt, klingt aufeinmal richtig schön dreckig und warm - nice.
Der Unterschied mit zwischen DAW & Reel To Reel ist auf jeden Fall viel subtilerer als zwischen DAW & Kassette. Für Lofi Effekte oder das Processing von einzelnen Sounds kann der Fostex die bessere Wahl sein. Wenn ich jetzt aber eine komplette fertige Produktion zusammen gluen möchte und dabei ein bisschen Bandsättigung und Kompression brauche ohne dabei die "High-Fidelity" zu verlieren, dann ist der Reel to Reel Recorder die bessere Wahl. Wenn man den noch härter übersteuert, dann bekommt man damit natürlich auch schöne auffällige Distortion hin.
Gruß, Felix
@@ThomannSynthesizers ja, Reel to Reel ist subtiler als der Flux, schon klar. Aber dennoch hat mich der Klang auf den ganzen Track nicht überzeugt, also nicht so, dass hier sich eine Investition lohnt. Beim Flux dann schon viel eher für einzelne Sounds oder Drums. Denke da würde sich sowas wie ein Heat schon eher lohnen, glaube hier die Saturation Einstellung soll eine Tapemaschine emulieren. Oder einen*eine Mastermensch finden mit einer Studer, glaube dieser Klang ist kaum möglich mit der DAW hinzubekommen. Aber das ist ja rein subjektiv beurteilt. ich denke halt, wenn ich mehrmals hinhören muss, um überhaupt einen Unterschied zu hören, dann lohnt sich das für mich nicht, wenn das dann auch locker in der DAW machbar ist. So sehe ich das auch bei analogen Gear.
Does anyone know how to stack the audio clip settings vertically like @ 12:50?
Excellent video. One question regarding the 3-head tape recorder, would you recommend connecting the i/o directly into your audio interface, or would it still work via the Mackie desk's tape in/out connections? (DAW i/o also connected to the desk to record back into software)
Try both. I would keep the mackoe out of the chain. It all comes down to personal taste. Some things will sound better with the mackie, other stuff won't