Often when watching tutorials or song breakdowns I am suprised how easy a cool pattern/loop/song is created and how specific effects create a unique sound. Most of the time however Im getting lost or overdo things when producing myself. To be minimalistic is quite hard for me
Yan I fucking love you so much!!!!!!!!!! You were one of my favourite producers before you started doing tutorials but now mister you are definitely number one
Your generosity is absolutely unparalleled; do you have a Patreon I could pledge to? I feel terrible taking all of these tricks, and not giving anything back.
Everyone’s talking about how useful this is for their production and I am sitting here celebrating the fact that I finally understand what “Dub techno” means
Thats why I say you don’t need expensive gear to make nice warm sounding textures. Amp, Pedal and Saturator get the job done. I still buy hardware tho, because it’s fun.
This is superb sound design! Wondering why you usually turn off the options on stock Ableton Reverb (early reflections, chorus, etc.)? Is that just a preference or do you think they do something weird and unnecessary ?
@@YanCook I was just saying that when you add Reverb to a track as an insert, you almost always switch off most of the extra features in the plugin like Early Reflections, Chorus, post-EQ etc. Does it make sense?
With the parameters you speak about, they are best heard by pulling the reverb fully wet. Increasing the reverb decay and then focusing in on on reverb tail while the track loops. Dial in those setting to taste. Then scale back the reverb decay time and dry/wet value to your desired amounts. These subtle variations help create your personal finger print. They can often be drowned out by the rest of the signal chain. However, they might then be brought up again with the bus compression or mastering chain. Another use for them is to use the same reverb settings on a couple different sources, but then slightly alter just those parameters you've asked about. This can present a little bit more of a natural space. As if the instruments are in the same room/space but in different positions within it. I do agree with Yan though. Something about Abletons reverb tends to get kind lost or very blurred in the mix compared to other tools and their new reverb solves that. That being said, I'd like to get back into abletons stock reverb and figure out how to exploit it. I think we are coming up on the phase of it being "classic".
Great video, so helpful! I have a question, I notice in a lot of your patterns you use the same or similar FX chain with minor tweaks (Amp into delay into EQ into phaser into flanger with similarish settings). Is this just to make it easier for us noobs following your videos or do you find using similar techniques helps make your sounds and tracks sound more consistent with each other?
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Ok... this video was extremely usefull and pleasant to watch... but why is it named 5 patterns, why in intro showed 5 patterns, but there are acually 3 patterns? And most surprisingly, why noone commented aboout it yet? :D
If you use analogue just use band pass filter instead of lowpass + eq. If you can't afford phaser and compressor, modulated filter + delay and maybe some reverb is also ok. Much more enjoyable than clicking on software switches with a mouse also.
It's really bizarre, sometimes i follow the exact instructions, redo everything twice, and it comes out sounding totally different. Pattern 3 for example, after all the effects are done on the Operator mine is much more sub and attack heavy, far less mids come through. Tried playing with a bunch of settings but no idea what's doing it.
So, basically you are a new producer that is so proud for learning basic things that you post them in hopes that people will think that you actually have talent.
