How to Produce a Massive Vocal Wall of Sound | Devin Townsend 

Well he’s got it now on Empath!

he doesnt need it

Please Devin, let me join your space choir.

there would be 3 parts.... im good.

Give this man a bells

If you're looking for more, I'd recommend checking out his session with Toontrack, where he basically creates and produces the song "Stars" in a 2 hour livestream :)

Me too watching artists mix their stuff...is so needed...I'd watch ten hours..while playing guitar of course....

Possibly - but he explains it clearly enough to get the idea of what he's doing. It's just one audio sample copied and mixed with the original audio sample but on a short delay, or a future copy, spliced with the same audio sample on fade-in, fade-out effects and mono vs. stereo mix-and-match. The technique itself is actually very simple, but it is time consuming and the final product is a complex, multi-layered piece of music. The "money-money-money-money-money" echo also requires proper timing - too short or too long both kill what you're going for. Have to get it right in that sweet spot. I was doing something similiar to this back in high school when I was using Audacity and tried to create a spliced together version of all the different bands that had made a cover for "Enjoy The Silence" but it was obviously more simplistic and with nowhere near the same level of time dedication to it as I suspect Devin does.

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Not gonna work bro

@@SteveStockmalMusic "Don't be afraid to use presets" - Kane Churko (In This Moment, Papa Roach, Five Finger Death Punch, etc) \m/

Also, experiment with extremes. If you have a guitar/bass pedal, see what the knobs do at min/max, halfway, etc. That way you get an idea of the characteristics.

Exactly couldn't have said it better

Lmao. I've never agreed with anything so much as this. 😅

thanks

"Devoted enough" You say that like it isn't fun as fuck layering those things.

yes thats the fact

@@thygod Its work Ill tell ya, shit isnt easy

Makes me want to try harder in my productions!... That's both a good and a bad thing...

And he's released multiple albums in the same year many times. God damned incredible

Craaaaaazy good

Funny you say that cause his mixes aren't particularly genius. I for one love his talent but find his songs technically pretty mediocre - bland and unfocused, too much space and air. Never liked that in a mix and I don't know who would.

@@michaelandreyev5029 You should probably listen to Alien or Deconstruction

No proper artist is. Limitations breed creativity.

@MorbidManMusic then he'd just use hardware.

@@Patrick-857 yup. I own a few decent mid size tube amps, a couple good mics, and the waves CLA bundle. 90% of everything I do gets pushed through a CLA-2A

I think he's my spirit animal.

@@FellishBeast You witch

Diego Oliveira was great

@@rlbradish was? He's still alive! Am I right?

I just went back to a 1996 album of his. City. Sculpted my youth!

@@sharpen-up gonna check it for sure Bro

@@rlbradish he's still good now, what're you talking about?

lmfao

im glad i wasnt the only one who thought that

thanks for making this clear. I couldn't quite understand the benefits of the sub-mixes, but now it's obvious.

Yeah, except for.. well.. anything to do with safety, say like a construction site, lol! :)

LMAO!!! Facts

Jajajaja, a huevo!

Absolutely not for me 🤔

Blue Collar Studio You won’t be disappointed! He’s a master!! Enjoy your ride!

Did you ever become a fan?

Check out his singing on Vais sex and religion album

Headbanger's Kitchen your recipes are great, nice to see you’re a devin fan too

Same here

@MorbidManMusic The walls of sound,.. 4 homogeneous vocals with different panning & reverb settings,.. I can't say that is normal,.. I usually do 2. & that wasn't the lead vox

So basically, verb the hell outta hella delayed vocals. In that order. Brilliant.

@@monkeyrobotsinc.9875 Works amazingly well on instruments, too. With the same method you can get an awesome lead tone for big epic notes

There's a time and a place for throwing Smarties at the wall.

"Fieldy tone clinic: how to make your bass sound like Tic-Tacs tossed down a stairwell."

🤣

I cry

Sex and religion

MY FINGERS ARE NUMB!!

I was wondering if anybody would catch that reference. Two so far - I'm glad that there are others "out there"!

Fan-freeekin-tastic tour! saw it, front and center, heard it the rest of my life so far. still lovin it!

it's still a great album.

@THE ACOUSTIC CAGE As soon as i posted comment i pictured him holding a plug and saying "WTF" but in Austrian...

He would've made some fire beats

probably IDM

Honestly, very little. When it comes to good orchestration, you're already doing things like eq, delay, compression, reverb, automation etc. The only difference is these aren't plugins, rather they're specific instructions to the player on how to achieve the final sound. Mozart didn't need EQ, because he knew how to blend instruments and control the sound. If he wanted a part to be fuller or doubled, he wouldn't use delay, he'd just get another player to play in unison, or the same part in canon (to play the same thing against itself, whilst offset). If he wanted to hide the attack transients of a note, he'd write swells. You don't need to add reverb since you'll be playing in a large hall to begin with. You don't need to double track parts since if you're Mozart you have 100 piece orchestras at your disposal. You don't need automation since the score tells the player what to play and how, they do it all live. Even more advanced production techniques such as sidechain compression are possible with a live orchestra, as demonstrated by David Bruce.

he would've certainly made *_RIDDIM DUBSTEP_*

🤣 I knew I couldn't be the only one who appreciated that one

@@honeypotusername 🤟😁