PROCESSING LAYERED BREAKS
https://www.patreon.com/posts/77897678
Chopping Science vol. 2 drops in Feb, but for now, I wanted to share a few techniques in layering drumbreaks. Continue reading Layering Breaks
Chopping Science [VIDEO]
The most requested thing from me, by far, has been relating to chopping drums and making breakbeats.And that’s what I will present to you, in the form of Chopping Science video series.
I’ll show you how I chop my drums, what I look for in a break, what device I like to use, and I’ll create a breakbeat loop in the end.
The techniques I use are universal and not DAW-specific.
“Should I limit my master?”
“Would there be any benefit to temporarily putting a limiter on the master in order to highlight any issues in the mix (I mean would it highlight anything too loud in the mix or annoying frequencies)?”
This is a good question, and I’m happy to answer this. Even if you’re not that interested in mastering, this can be useful, because it can kind of give you some feedback on your mix.
My detailed answer and thoughts on the matter can be found here on Patreon.
Techstep DNB beats with Alien Girl drums [video]
I recently did a nice session with a patron using a drumloop he gave me, which is the original drumloop that was used in the classic Alien Girl tune by Ed Rush, Optical and Fierce.
So here‘s me having a go with it, layering things a bit and doing some analog-modeled processing to glue the drums together more and add some energy and dirt to the sound.
Let’s get that low-level signal up for added body and full tone.
25 minutes of drumbreak nerdery, here you go!
Create a healthy Reese bass with Serum (fix the Reese bass / two-oscillator sub bass drift problem)
It’s easy and fun to create two-oscillator basses such as Reese basses with Serum, as they sound lively due to the movement caused by two detuned oscillators.
However, this often causes a problem with sub bass, which will also drift in and out, which we don’t want: we want a solid sub bass level.
This video shows you how it’s easy to fix this with Serum.
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Sound design tip: oldskool jungle style timestretch!
Sunday sound design class is in session:
oldskool jungle type timestretch.
First method is very interesting and more Bitwig-specific and makes use of Bitwig Operator parameters, but the second one is more applicable to most samplers.