Looping is just a delay (echo) with 100% feedback. We studied delay loops in the early 70s, using two reel to reel tape recorders like Delia Derbishire's experiments. Brian Eno made it popular collaborating with Robert Fripp and called it "Frippertronics."
It's even more fun when you put different effects inside of the feedback loop. My channel isn't actively making new content anymore but I did make a tutorial on how to do that.
This guy. Shares next level technical insights and patches to immediately put them to use. Makes better looking videos than most courseware I've paid for. And has a totally Audible or ASMR ready voice. Hey Spotify where's his $100 million contract? :D Excellent stuff once again Tom :)
Totally agree! And finally a tutorial where the volume difference between the music and the voice is just nice, compared to unbearable and unacceptable in other tutorials. Nice man!
I ACTUALLY LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!! I've been making shitty beats for a couple of months now and not sure where tf to look for super accessible tutorials. You've gotten me excited about producing again, an absolute legend!
You somehow manage to combine the best tips, in the clearest manner, with the highest production quality and perfect pace. You're setting the bar way high, Tom 👏👏
2:25 You can create an effect rack to get around the problem with phasing problems: The effect rack should have 3 chains: Left - one Utility set to left channel mode Right - one Utility set on Stereo with the phase of right channel switched + Delay on 100% wet Dry - empty This is the same technique iZotope uses on Mode 1 in their Ozone Imager plugin
Thank you so much. I switched from Reaper to Ableton recently and the number two thing I missed was Reapers Pitch shifter plugin. I am definitely going to be using the grain delay as a pitch shifter.
Your content is some of the best ! Ive been using HAAS effect for ages and didnt know lol i figured myself at some point, checked my phase correlation and thought was a good idea.
This wisdom is unbelievable. Even for a beginner like me, this just makes sense. Now I know what those complex sound are made of. Thank you for this and all the stuff you teach man.
Wow! So great so good,right to the point,but adding the necessary technical stuff and warnings for the inexperienced ones.You are such a good and generous teacher. Blessings.
You are a godsend. Thank you so very much for all these amazing creative ways to use stock plugins. It just goes to show that you don't need to buy every plugin out there to achieve cool or creative results. I wish I had your type of content long ago before I sank tons of money into third party stuff. Thank you thank you thank you
Hey this was a great video! That piano loop gave me some inspiration as well as you playing around with the vocals at the end. Quick, concise, and super informative. I'll be checking out more of your videos for sure!
Hey! RU-vid tip: If you add a 00:00 timestamp as your first timestamp in your description, RU-vid will add them on the player timeline (it's a fairly new feature called Chapters).
Yeah, I noticed, thanks 😊 I published this video before the Chapters thing was announced, so I just need to find the time to go back and add it to all my videos!
Mono checking can be done on the master effect chain, specifically after all processing. mapping to a hotkey like ] or [ makes it easier to check your mix/design choices for mono compatibility while minimizing the intrusion of adding a utility to every instance. Conversely, adding a dim hotkey (-9 or -12dB) to your master channel helps to break the vibe and check if your mix is good at lower levels (wouldn't suggest during production because, you could kill the vibe).
These videos are awesome, and this one is the best one yet. Props for all the free tips and tricks. Although, I'm gonna have to upgrade my Ableton now. My wallet hates you.
Thanks a lot for this in depth tutorial! So I was wondering, are there many people that simply ditch the process of trying to conform to mono? There's just something I instinctively dislike about having to compromise between two quite different sound outputs. I think someone told me almost all big music venues are in mono though... This sounds like such a pain in the ass! Sometimes you simply do not want to settle, am i right? You just want to find the perfect sound, and if it happens to be in stereo so be it, guess your music is just for stereo. Or am I missing something?
There's really no hard and fast rule here and you can never consider all scenarios. Back in the 60s/70s they used to mix a lot with hard panning where, say, the whole drum kit would be hard panned to one side. Quite often I might be listening to music with one earbud in and suddenly I lose half the song 🙃 which is funny, but when they were mixing those songs they weren't mixing for people listening on earbuds because those didn't exist! So at the end of the day, do what you like and just know that at some point someone's going to have a weird experience listening to your track. That said, there are ways to add stereo width to your track that don't cause phase issues and generally result in a better mix anyway, so I'd almost always go for those options before doing weird things with phase to try and create fake stereo width.
