It’s 6am and the house is quiet. I started watching this video until my coffee was ready. I stuck my phone in my pocket to get my coffee not realizing the video was still playing. Walking around my house I had this creepy feeling. Your music was the soundtrack to my unusually quiet house. Well done!
Thanks so much! I've been thinking about putting together some tutorial type stuff for a while now. I will! In general, I just use lots of different plugins in a row, and each knob of the MIDI controller is linked to the wet/dry blend of each plugin. So you can take any noise (even just crackling like I did here), run it through a bunch of processing, and come out with some very strange sounds!
this is the best time ever for music. so many options and possibilities whether trained or untrained. there are no excuses any more not to create or have bad taste!
Thank you very much! For me it’s more about variety and experimentation than any one plugin. So first check out all stock distortion/saturation plugins in your DAW. Then play with combinations: stack two distortions, run reverb into distortion, or distortion into a ring mod into convolution into another distortion. I love convolution reverb for weird textures. Then do that but also add an LFO on a few parameters and suddenly the whole mess is constantly mutating and warping. A nice free distortion is Unplugred’s Prisma. Kind of a random one too but I love and constantly use Audiority’s Harmonic Maximizer (not free but cheap), a multi band saturation, which helps sculpt sounds. I also love their Boss HM-2 plugin, also cheap, for disgusting distortion. I hope this helps!
Definitely, this guy talks about getting a mixer and a load of pedals, tbh he's nailing it with that midi device and plug-ins. I only use a load of pedals because I'm an analogue dinosaur who melts down when faced with a drop-down menu and a grown-up DAW. I only use Audacity to edut sounds to put on tape loops. I struggle to get the wide pallet of sounds he's getting, and I'm using two pedal boards into all 12 channels on a mixer. Plus I need a sack barrow to move the gear for gigs, unless I can get a motor to the venue.
@@stuartchapman5171 Funny you say so, because I'm actually working on integrating more pedals into my setup. But keeping the plugin component. If you want to get into plugins, I'd recommend starting with Reaper and just experimenting with stock plugins. Running your pedals into a DAW with just EQ, reverb, distortion, delay, tremolo, ring mod, avocado mangler (all stock plugins), you can get some crazy sounds
@@stuartchapman5171I am using reaper, yes. The Akai works fine with it for mapping knobs/faders. There are supposedly ways to get the buttons to light up appropriately with Reaper but I haven’t managed to get it work
I'm just on RU-vid for now--thanks for watching! If you were looking for weird noise/ambient stuff like this, which streaming service would you use, out of curiosity?
Ha. That’s quite accurate for me. I was only into writing and recording metal for years before realizing making noise/ambient had a much better fun to effort ratio
Online pedal building supply company called LoveMySwitches. These knobs fit ok but not perfectly-you need to use a little screwdriver to tighten the grub screw, but sometimes they still get loose and pop off. I wish there were a better fitting option but this is the best I’ve found so far
Thank you very much! That's the Akai MIDImix (though I had to swap out the knobs--the stock ones are way too short and hard to grip). Amazing, amazing tool for noise/ambient!
That's right! All you need would be some kind of noise making device (cheap piezo pickups or mic or whatever), a way to get the sound into your computer (look for used audio interfaces), a laptop, and then you can get the free trial of Reaper, which includes tons of free native audio plugins (including various distortions, reverb, delay, pitch, ring mod, tremolo, along with a bunch of other random stuff). The black mixer I have is just a MIDI device--each knob is mapped onto the wet/dry blend of different audio plugins running in Reaper. You don't even need the mixer--you could do that all with just the laptop, it will just be a bit slower. Enjoy!
