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How to use SYNTH NOISE to make music more exciting 

Distort the Preamp
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This is my story of how I discovered the power of pure noise, how to design and use synth noise to inject excitement into my music productions, and even how I use synth noise to add experimental energy. I create a special synth noise patch on my Behringer Neutron that imitates the sound of a crowd cheering with different levels of excitement and show you how to tune it in and play it on a keyboard. Then I use that patch in a synthpop track I programme my dawless setup on my Squarp Pyramid under time pressure and do the whole thing in less than 20 minutes. Then I do two live performances, one of which is a solo where I play the noise like an instrument using one of my Drawmer DS201 noise gates.
00:00 Intro
MY NOISE STORY
00:01 Seeing The Smiths Live in 1985
02:13 The Beatles did it in 1967
03:03 What this video is about
03:26 My 'power of pure noise' story
04:24 A tip from Rush (Spirit of Radio, Distant Early Warning)
06:02 Ian Stanley (Tears for Fears)
SYNTH PATCH
08:39 Neutron 'crowd noise' patch
12:19 Patch sheet
DAWLESS PROGRAMMING
12:34 Timer starts
12:57 Cinematic 'doom' hit
13:14 Disco hi-hats
13:40 Moog bass
14:06 Setting up the trigger key for the gates
14:39 Bass pad
16:36 Kick
16:57 Snare
17:30 Snare fill
18:34 More cowbell
19:17 Clap
20:03 FM bass
21:10 303
23:33 Assembling the sequences
26:39 Lead
27:25 Setting up a second gate trigger key
29:47 Adding noise for excitement and energy
DAWLESS PERFORMANCES
32:34 'Theme for Bob Ross' - with live gated noise
34:35 Noise solo with live gates
AFTERWORD
37:17 Original vinyl copy of Sergeant Pepper's in mono!
Many thanks to Crisis for letting me film. www.crisis.org.uk

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@Rattus9000
@Rattus9000 Месяц назад
This channel is gonna blow up. Keep it up mate, quality content as usual.
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
Thank you so much! I’m a bit tired today after it took me a long time to get the ‘noise’ video right, but then I’m on to the next one. Can’t tell you how much I appreciate your comment :)
@N8oRMusic
@N8oRMusic Месяц назад
It's essentially like a rock drummer going hard on cymbals on chorus sections. Adds that chaos and excitement. Also playing open hi hats to add excitement to say, the B section of a verse or pre-chorus.
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
I think that's a legit idea -- in many ways noise is the new cymbals! Especially in EDM and dance where noise is essentially used as a direct substitute for cymbals and metal (as well as risers, fallers, etc). Really appreciate you watching and commenting :)
@clown134
@clown134 Месяц назад
i make noise unintentionally while trying to make music, so i think thats why i was recommended this video. great video
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
Hahaha! Thanks!
@Sharkpuss
@Sharkpuss Месяц назад
Three AM Eternal! Big crowd noise in the chorus there and veeeery exciting!
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
Exactly! I loved the way that record was labelled ‘Live at the SSL’ 😂
@philippebackprotips
@philippebackprotips 13 дней назад
Many thanks for giving us the keys to the castle of those mysteries. Love it. Working them out on my MPC.
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp 13 дней назад
Oh amazing!!!
@veganstevenmusic
@veganstevenmusic Месяц назад
dam man, you did it again, another banger of a video lad, love from ireland
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
That’s really kind. I so appreciate you watching. Probably sounds like a fake boilerplate reply (because I’m saying it a lot) but it’s all true. I started on 19 March and my goal was 1,000 subscribers within a year. We’re about nine weeks in…
@MarteenMayjer
@MarteenMayjer Месяц назад
Wow, instant sub after that intro ❤️ Will be referencing this video as the most effective way to make an intro for a RU-vid video.
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
I think that’s basically the highest praise you could have given. Thank you so much. I really, really appreciate you watching, and enjoying the content, and taking the time to post a comment :)
@MarteenMayjer
@MarteenMayjer Месяц назад
@@DistortThePreamp tbh I hadn't even watched the rest of the vid when I typed that. Just wow, so much good info and ways of thinking about writing. Immediately opened my DAW to try some of the techniques you mentioned. Thanks for making this :)
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
Oh fantastic! Comments like yours make it all worthwhile :)
@cwxdaf152
@cwxdaf152 Месяц назад
Great story telling, and a bit of a banger in the creation bit.
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
Thanks! That’s so kind! Really appreciate you watching and commenting :)
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
I’ve just remembered what the track was - it was an abandoned version of a fantastic track called ‘He Left Me For Cocaine’. It’s a *total* banger! Should be released later this year but no date yet.
@HarryElwell123
@HarryElwell123 18 дней назад
I watched one of your videos for the first time last night, I've since binged all of them and subscribed. You are brilliant. These videos are as entertaining as they are educational. Can't wait to see what else you have coming!
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp 16 дней назад
Thank you so much Harry! Hopefully another one will be coming in a few days :)
@mathumphreys
@mathumphreys Месяц назад
Just found your channel via the Drawmer video and this is another good video. You are definitely the king of gate - subscribed!
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
What a fantastically nice thing to say! Funny story - this video didn’t originally feature the Drawmer, but it was routed in because of a session I was doing and the gated noise just sounded too fantastic to leave out 😂 I promise more videos soon. And one of these days it might even NOT feature the Drawmer…
@pawnotdaw4559
@pawnotdaw4559 Месяц назад
Ah Brixton Academy must be one of my favourite places to see bands and raves. Those Megadog raves were trully legendary.
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
It’s absolutely my favourite venue! I’ve seen so many bands there. Maybe the most meh were Echo & The Bunnymen which was my first gig - I think they were having an off night. Curve were incredible… The Orb… so many…
@pawnotdaw4559
@pawnotdaw4559 Месяц назад
@@DistortThePreamp indeed. I love the sloped floor. Saw The Orb 97 there also.
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
Probably the same gig. Yes, the sloped floor is fantastic!
@longshotkdb
@longshotkdb 2 дня назад
Pink! Pink noise, everywhere! lol It was always ontologically obvious to me that pink is the most abundant noise. So happy when the James Webb telescope confirmed. lol The universe is indeed, mostly pink! ∆ sounding awesome 👍
@gobblegobble831
@gobblegobble831 Месяц назад
Loved your gated pads vid and this one is great too
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
Thank you so much!
@consequenciasinimaginaveis6901
@consequenciasinimaginaveis6901 Месяц назад
Man, this chanel f amazing! I'm mesmerized by the programming part!
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
Oh that’s really fantastic to hear! There will be a lot more of that coming, and I might even do some livestreams where I do programming against the clock! Really appreciate you watching, and the comment :)
@komorebi-design
@komorebi-design Месяц назад
Fantastic video a real treat to watch you work!
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
That's very kind! I've been wondering if the programming speedruns are too boring for people, so it's really fantastic to hear you say this! I'm thinking of doing some livestreams (which would be available afterwards) where I spin a 'wheel of destiny' that picks a BPM for me and then I have to create synthpop on the fly, complete with intro, verse, chorus, other sections etc. The only reason to do it live would be so people know I'm not cheating. I hope you don't mind me asking, but what do you think? Could that be interesting?
@scottshouse2423
@scottshouse2423 17 дней назад
Absolutely loving your videos, and I’m glad to someone else using a Pyramid, I love mine.
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp 17 дней назад
Oh fantastic! I love mine too! The *only* thing I wish it did is assign a track to multiple midi outs. Unless there’s a way I don’t know, whenever I’m playing two instruments at the same time I have to rig the midi which is a little annoying. But the Pyramid is *fantastic*!
@scottshouse2423
@scottshouse2423 17 дней назад
@@DistortThePreamp You can assign a track to multiple midi outs, when you select you midi channel, keep scrolling past the USB channels and then it allows you select a channel for A & B midi out, keep scrolling and you get the A & USB, keep scrolling, well you get the idea. Not sure if this is specific to your firmware, I'm running 4.02.
@nathanweinstein2766
@nathanweinstein2766 12 дней назад
High quality content. Bravo
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp 12 дней назад
Thanks Nathan! Really appreciate you watching and the comment :)
@stufacat
@stufacat Месяц назад
Great video, keep them coming!
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
Thank you! Comments like this mean a lot. I’m taking a day off then working on another one. I might do something special when I hit a thousand subs like a livestream where I build synthpop from scratch under time pressure. Sound good?
@janmuenther
@janmuenther 22 дня назад
Absolutely love your mic decorations haha
@morph-the-cat
@morph-the-cat Месяц назад
Another great video by an intriguing fella
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
Such a great comment! Thanks for watching :)
@davidaltemir1564
@davidaltemir1564 8 дней назад
Just discovered this channeled. Subbed! Thank you!!!
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp 8 дней назад
Amazing! Thank you!
@videosvideos6243
@videosvideos6243 24 дня назад
This sounds good 👌
@brianmichaelfuller
@brianmichaelfuller Месяц назад
Great stuff!!
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
Thanks Brian! Appreciate you watching and commenting!
@pamdemonia
@pamdemonia Месяц назад
This is absolute 🔥! Your videos have inspired me to get back to making annoying noises with my computer after I'd stopped for a bit. Also, March 19 is my birthday too! So I guess I share something with this channel! Jealous of you seeing the Smiths. Must've been amazing.
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
Oh that’s fantastic! The Smiths were very good indeed on that occasion which was the Meat is Murder tour. I saw them again touring The Queen is Dead and, despite the legend that they were at the height of their powers, they weren’t nearly as good. Of course now we know that they were a band falling apart…
@kevinaaronson
@kevinaaronson Месяц назад
Wow great video. I think this is why I like the strega by make noise so much. The delay circuit is so noisy it creates waves of white noise that sound great and are entirely playable with modulation. It is down right gorgeous.
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
So pleased you like the video! I’ve never had my hands on a Strega but it looks totally awesome, and a friend of mine has got some Make Noise modules. All extremely fantastic. Really appreciate you watching and commenting :)
@DirtyWindshieldSeries
@DirtyWindshieldSeries 8 дней назад
GUP was such a Fantastic Album! Moving Pictures, Signals. GUP and Moving Windows saw the Integration and Progression of All that Awesome Synth Hardware! Rush did it right! This was a Great Vid with reference to sampling regular everyday noises and turn them into music!
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp 8 дней назад
Thank you! I didn’t think there would be many Rush fans on this channel but it’s all really awesome!
@patkelly8309
@patkelly8309 Месяц назад
According to the subtitles the Ian Stanley Exciter advice was your " Urea Moment!" LOL. Sorry man, great video. Every technique you've suggested so far I've found really useful and inspirational. Thanks!!
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
ONG that’s sooo funny! I’ve really got to get around to doing proper captions and uploading them. So far as I believe, this means that people searching for ‘urea moments’ will find my rather obscure video about synth noise 😂 Really appreciate your watching, and the awesome comment.
@morph-the-cat
@morph-the-cat Месяц назад
We all have urea moments now and then
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
😂
@johnqpublic4662
@johnqpublic4662 19 дней назад
Amazing video! This my favorite music channel.
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp 16 дней назад
I am honestly completely humbled by this comment. It’s a lot to live up to. When you eventually change your mind don’t let me know - I want to live in this bubble…
@johnqpublic4662
@johnqpublic4662 16 дней назад
@@DistortThePreamp lol
@johnqpublic4662
@johnqpublic4662 16 дней назад
@@DistortThePreamp Well, friend, IMHO all it takes is a sincere desire to “talk shop” so people can understand what you’re doing and why you’re doing it. I don’t much see that from other content creators.
@mylivetubetv
@mylivetubetv 21 день назад
Seems like we are of the same ilk!!!! I enjoy ALL of your content!!!!
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp 21 день назад
Well that's very good news!
@garrystubbs4891
@garrystubbs4891 17 дней назад
You really are an inspiration. I can actually envisage a use for this technique for lifting sections in prog rock tracks where ride cymbal usage is less prevalent. Thinking on, artists such as Van Der Graaf Generator and Hawkwind used a lot of filtered noise in their music way back in the early 70’s, so there is form there. Many thanks, and that’s a subscribe from me !
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp 17 дней назад
Both of those are great examples. I don’t listen to Hawkwind so much these days (probably the original pioneers of Space Rock!) but I actually still occasionally listen to VDG Gen.
@mightyjb5261
@mightyjb5261 14 дней назад
'You See The Trouble With Me' by 'Black Legend' uses this philosophy to the max!
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp 14 дней назад
Exactly. Makes it so exciting!
@els1f
@els1f 25 дней назад
Giant arena EDM synths always have that big white noise added specifically for that excitement and it's amazing how well it works. I remember figuring that out and suddenly hearing in EVERYTHING lol😋
@JudgeFredd
@JudgeFredd 24 дня назад
Great memories
@legacygone
@legacygone 23 дня назад
my man can tell a story!
@DetroitMicroSound
@DetroitMicroSound Месяц назад
Has a bit of a Thrill Kill Kult vibe, even. 👍..also, get yourself a Roland AIRA S-1. It's AWESOME at white, and pink noise effects. Really, it's all-around amazing! 😉
@christdolphin69
@christdolphin69 Месяц назад
The s-1 is surprisingly excellent sounding and more versatile than you’d think
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
That’s an awesome reference. Yes, I agree about the S-1. Good, compact, sounds fantastic! One can never have too many noise sources in one’s life. I’m also probably going to get the Behringer Edge at some point which will release one of my other synths from ‘noise percussion’ duties…
@DetroitMicroSound
@DetroitMicroSound Месяц назад
@@DistortThePreamp 👍👍
@hurricane6014
@hurricane6014 25 дней назад
Gotta love that Lately Bass … and … Everything else.
@EUZRMUSIC
@EUZRMUSIC Месяц назад
You are one cool dude!
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
That is a very kind comment! :)
@gijsbouman5193
@gijsbouman5193 Месяц назад
Wow, gonna try this on my Behringer blue marvin 2600, sequenced by tne Korg SQ 64.😊
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
That’s a great sequencer and an AWESOME synth. Probably my favourite mono. :)
@oupahens9219
@oupahens9219 Месяц назад
That's what cymbals are for. Especially in jazz.
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
Yes. And I especially agree with ‘Especially in jazz’. A friend of mine who’s a jazz drummer has a really interesting ‘dark ride’ cymbal. It’s very heavy and doesn’t have a bell and when he plays it he sort of builds up a bed of noise. And of course this adds excitement! Really appreciate you watching, and the comment :)
@philharland
@philharland Месяц назад
1. There are no mistakes only happy accidents. 2. There’s nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend 3. You can do anything you want to do!
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
Well this is all true. All of it. Especially the bit about the tree. :)
@Feldspar__
@Feldspar__ Месяц назад
Fun to watch you make this in real time with your stream of thoughts as you go. Are you making the cinematic doom hit with the R-8?
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
Yes, well spotted! I think it’s a sound called Doom Tom or maybe Doom T1 and I detuned it. Thanks for watching, and for the comment!
@vidjenko8349
@vidjenko8349 Месяц назад
Oh you mean white noise. There's some really cool examples of synths that are specialised for noise music. The Ekdahl Polygamist is super unique but is as rare as hen's teeth. That thing can make some crazy cool evolving noise. Of course it can also be used for regular music and it's great at bass.
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
I’ve just had to look that up! It looks mental! Thanks for watching, and for the comment :)
@dashobradors
@dashobradors Месяц назад
I'm glad I found your channel. It will become one of my favorites for sure!!! I have some questions: you said filter below 85Hz and above 255Hz, right? Because I'm trying, and I can't the same result, but instead 255Hz around 2500Hz I can get closer to your result. What filter slope you are thinking of, a 12db/octave? Thankyou! Loved the video and your 80s bass one too!
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp 29 дней назад
That’s an interesting question. Yes, I would work on about 85Hz to 255Hz for the fundamental of the human voice, although the intelligible range is often more like 1-2kHz. In fact, just to digress, the old Bell system telephones used a brick wall filter below 400Hz and above 4kHz (which is a very simple way to get an authentic telephone sound, especially if you add a bit of distortion). To answer your question, assuming you’re using plugins in the box I would first make sure to use filters rather than just EQ because you’ll need the resonance. Ableton’s filter would be fine. I’m terms of third party plugins, FabFilter’s Volcano plugin is excellent (though probably overkill for this). The thing is - and this is a confession - because I did it all in hardware I didn’t actually check the frequencies on a scope. Although I’d be surprised if I was wrong (though it’s not impossible). I would start with a slope of 18dB/octave. It’s also possible that in my demo the resonance adds distortion which adds harmonics. Huh - now I’m going to have to check it 😂😂😂 Bottom line of course is that you do this by ear without looking at the screen and once you’ve got it sounding right, then those are your settings. I did find that, as I said in the video, you have to fiddle a bit to get it to sound like a crowd. Too low or too high sounds unrealistic - there’s a very small frequency range that needs to be tuned in. Thank you sooo much for watching and I’m so pleased that you’re trying to replicate the effect. I never know if people are actually doing this, or just have the videos on in the background. Thank you. :)
@dashobradors
@dashobradors 24 дня назад
@@DistortThePreamp thank you for such a response! I was just merely asking because using said frequencies didn't give me a similar result I heard in your track, but I'm always using my ears for this purpose, and the important part is the concept behind this technique. Thanks for the telephone extra tip! I was doing it always with trial and error but I will try with the Bell telephone system 😜 I use filters normally for sweeping movements (big fan of filters) and will try with different slope filter (used a Moog one). And finally yes, I try techniques I find on youtube (I learn a lot from this) and that's how I found your channel, the algorithm was like "Dash you will enjoy learning from this guy" and was right! Keep up with the good work! Love from Barcelona❤️
@ComsiCaterpillar
@ComsiCaterpillar Месяц назад
I do love NOISE, I love NOISE on my modular and I even love the NOISE tracks from my Gameboy using LSDJ and Nanoloop Mono. Noise is key to making Modular Drum Patches. Noise and Sine are underrated ... saw waves I almost never use except for modulation
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
I love noise so much too. I totally agree about sines. They’re incredible as a low end layer, and lovely for leads. I especially like them when they’re not digitally tuned and so are slightly out. Do you have a pure sine generator? I make mine by making my filters self-oscillate and then calibrating them (roughly) with key tracking. A couple of my synths are supposed to generate sines but they’re actually much more triangular - you can hear the harmonics.
@ComsiCaterpillar
@ComsiCaterpillar Месяц назад
@@DistortThePreamp I mostly like sine to agument the ultra low end of other patches. I have one pure sine module the 2HP Sine, sometimes I just feedback a filter for a giant sine wave. Now that you mention it though, giant triangles seem to do the job as good or better, the Triangle wave on the Pro One sounds like a mountain, I love making kicks with it.
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
💯
@DuncanThompson-du4zz
@DuncanThompson-du4zz Месяц назад
EXCELLENT. THANK YOU. INSTANTLY SUBSCRIBED!
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
That’s so amazing! Really appreciate you watching and commenting!
@GarethThomasTunes
@GarethThomasTunes Месяц назад
Loving this channel, the thoroughness, the enthusiasm and the sounds! Just wondered why you’re not sequencing in the Arturia Keystep? I bought a Keystep recently for sequencing - but found it responded better to programming - rather than performing into it. While live recording it misses some notes. Have you found that?
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
That’s exactly right. The Keystep can only really do a maximum of 64 notes per pattern and all of those have to be on a grid. For example, if you’ve got the grid set to 16th notes then you can’t capture any 32nd notes in it. It can also only address 4 channels. With my setup, and please don’t think this is a flex, I’ve got a dozen synths many of which are using multiple channels. So out of my Pyramid I’m running *three* midi circuits (two din, one USB) to control the whole system. That’s what I need when I’m doing writing and producing. The Pyramid is pretty powerful - virtually unlimited notes at a high resolution. I used to use the Keystep Pro for sequencing but, regrettably, it wasn’t powerful enough. The reason I haven’t got rid of it is (a) it fits in my very small space, (b) I really like the keybed, and (c) I occasionally use it in split keyboard mode. TBH although I’m a fan of Arturia and have one of their synths (and have owned a couple of their drum machines), the KeyStep Pro is not really functional enough as a song programming tool. You can just about programme repeating sequences into it, but you can’t use it as the beating heart of a programming setup where you’re producing fully fledged records. Does that make sense? Please don’t think I’m down on the KSP - I’m not, but it’s not a very powerful sequencer :(
@GarethThomasTunes
@GarethThomasTunes Месяц назад
@@DistortThePreamp hey thanks for that - the Pyramid sounds great. There is a lot I love about the Keystep too, even the fact that it is limited. It’s just that it doesn’t respond well to performance recording. Sometimes it completely misses notes that are played within 16ths and 32nds - a resolution it should handle! Though maybe if it’s a tad off the grid it just opts to not recognise the notes. Might have to chat with Arturia helpline. I particularly enjoyed your live ‘lately bass’ vid as I’m a left hand synth bass player - gonna start gating pads now too !
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
That’s so awesome! And you’re right about the KSP - always push your gear to the limit, and try to avoid buying things you don’t need ;)
@Whitelight77
@Whitelight77 Месяц назад
That is a very astute observation about the grunge element to their music , not something I had previously considered, I just had them as a band combining synths and guitars.. But the final track on the album a song named Sence is an even heavier version of grunge meets acid type synths 👍
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
Hang on, I’ve only just realised that Dave Formula was in this band… is that right? You must know this but just in case you don’t Formula was in Magazine, Visage, and basically can do no wrong. I’m amazed that I didn’t click this before! Regardless, it really was a difficult time with a lot of bands feeling pulled between what they wanted to do artistically and what they felt that should do commercially, and with a lot of attempts to cross genres. I’ll give the whole album a listen…
@Whitelight77
@Whitelight77 Месяц назад
@@DistortThePreamp Not quite Dave was supposed to work with the band but i am pretty sure it fell through. The main person at the record company supporting the band left i think ithey were with EMI then everything started to fall apart. I have read and listened to Dave on podcasts that is how i know it did not work out unfortunately
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
@@Whitelight77 This makes sense because if Formula had worked with the band they would almost certainly have a Wikipedia page.
@Whitelight77
@Whitelight77 Месяц назад
@@DistortThePreamp The album is quite different to that single in my opinion, the other single from that album is Soap Opera, which is also a blend of synths, bass synths, guitars and real drums, i know it took the band quite some time to find a drummer they could work with . Las Vegas Leg is an interesting track great bass and drums
@electroinblack6852
@electroinblack6852 Месяц назад
Reamp through a guitar amp in a room not in the box & multitrack synth & guitar played live & use a lot of noisy old analog guitar pedals. Things sound exiting when they are imperfect. I call it the perfection of imperfection.
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
Couldn’t agree more. There is a hilarious amount of noise in my system and it’s fine. I have a neurosis for distortion in the box. I know it’s supposed to be fine but I just don’t think it sounds right. It might be down to the fact that plugins don’t have physical knobs, but my guitar amps sound fantastic and I literally stick them through old fashioned analog Palmer load boxes and speaker sims from the 80s and they sound amazing! I even put vocalists through them, snares, pads, etc. Super quick and delivers the sound instantly.
@electroinblack6852
@electroinblack6852 Месяц назад
@@DistortThePreamp It's interesting that some very popular Berlin Style Techno producers are now using old rack processors and noisy analog pedals to get the 'post Punk Sound'. They use this in conjunction with modular/semi modular. And some of that old rack kit is a bargain . I have a quadraverb plus (slowdive/Verve/Autechre) and it was £60 quid!
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
The qudraverb is amazing. Very noisy but who cares. Guitar pedals are funny too - if you think Behringer makes cheap synths you should check out their guitar pedals. They all sound great but they would not stand up to being stamped on. BUT synth players and producers don’t care about that! The best bargain IMO is the Behringer Ultra Vibrato which is a clone of the Boss VB-2. The Boss costs about £350 second hand. The Behringer costs about £20. It’s the same circuit. I have three because I’m so paranoid they’ll break and people will stop selling them.
@giantsparkplug3462
@giantsparkplug3462 Месяц назад
Maybe you could add an inset in the upper left of the Pyramid screen when you do these Programming Speedruns.
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
That’s an excellent idea and something I’m working on. I have had a slight production problem in that (sorry to bore you with the details) I’ve only been recording in 1080p on the overhead and need to record in 4k but have been having a focus issue. However I think I might have solved it. I’ve been doing tests of exactly this and the inset makes a huge difference!
@veganstevenmusic
@veganstevenmusic Месяц назад
the bob ross pic hehehe
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
All for you 🤣
@veganstevenmusic
@veganstevenmusic Месяц назад
@@DistortThePreamp :)
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
Currently figuring out my next ‘star’…
@veganstevenmusic
@veganstevenmusic Месяц назад
@@DistortThePreamp ill stay tuned to find out :}
@irradix213
@irradix213 Месяц назад
I'm always trying to slip some shaped static in, cheers mate
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
This is the way.
@KurtLorenz
@KurtLorenz Месяц назад
❤❤❤
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
🙏🙏🙏
@mufakkas9731
@mufakkas9731 9 дней назад
dude, fantastic sties, fun to hear about Tears for Fears.
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp 9 дней назад
Thank you so much! There’s more on the way…
@emnigmamachine
@emnigmamachine Месяц назад
Art angels by grimes has some sick crowd noise that’s sidechained to the kick
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
That’s a really great sound too! Very good reference…
@steviebarr7353
@steviebarr7353 Месяц назад
The Beatles used white noise on I Want You (She's So Heavy)
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
OMG you’re absolutely right! I completely forgot about that. It’s one of my top ten Beatles tracks too! I wonder what they used for the white noise? I’ll have to look it up in Geoff Emerick’s book…
@jedgould5531
@jedgould5531 Месяц назад
Yeah, yeah, and they needed a synth to do it. Paul Beaver made the trip to England to deliver a Model 35 to George. And the most they got out of it was Heavy and Sun King lead lines. Waste of money.
@TheBiggerburger
@TheBiggerburger 4 дня назад
Speed the whole thing up to 130bpm and you yave every Motiv8 remix, ever
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp 3 дня назад
Hahaha! Such an awesome comment!
@AlainLeonalienrasta
@AlainLeonalienrasta 19 дней назад
Intro to Moving in Stereo by The Cars music.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-y5oPZFDci80.html&si=a5nuSk3uyFOanf61
@Whitelight77
@Whitelight77 Месяц назад
If you get time have a listen to the synths on this record, I contacted the Producer to find out what synths they used on the song , they used Pro Tools was the reply. Band name Inaura , song title Coma Aroma ( Radio Edit )
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
Lol. That’s incredibly unhelpful. I’m listening now and the gates would almost certainly have been done with a Drawmer DS201 because of the date. The beating sound you can hear at the beginning sounds to me like analog distortion through some kind of drive circuit. It could have been a distortion pedal, or a guitar amp, probably not just a mic preamp. The trick is to get it just at the point of breakup so that, with the gain set correctly, the wobble of the synth keeps clipping the signal. I reckon that if you can get the effects right almost any synth will work. The sound underneath sounds like an organ made with sine or triangle waves maybe..? But the key to the opening sound is drive, I think. I’ll listen properly and get back to you…
@Whitelight77
@Whitelight77 Месяц назад
@@DistortThePreamp The acid type sound I can almost get that on my Access Virus Redback. Thanks for listening 👍
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
Hey - I’ve listened to this carefully. It’s quite an interesting production. 1996 was quite a confused time for music because you had the opposite aesthetics of grunge and electronic that people were trying to reconcile. So for example on this track you’ve got deliberately distorted vocals which is a grunge trick, what sounds like real drums (certainly the hats) even if they were fixed and looped, a real bass, and lots of guitars, but then you’ve also got gated pads, a sequenced bass, filtered samples and loops, and so on. Because of the year I would imagine that it was all hardware synths and outboard gear rather than soft synths. But they could have used something really generic like a Korg M1 and then added pedals or outboard fx, gating etc. The synth bass on Oakenfold’s Perfecto mix probably isn’t a 303 although I could easily get exactly that sound on my 303 which as well as doing acid also does very well at fast 16s that sit in the mix rather than dominating. I could 100% replicate this track very closely including the guitars and vocal production techniques, although I would probably be using different gear. But I’d be running most of the tracks through an amp! Could you give me a time reference to the ‘acid bit’ you referred to?
@Whitelight77
@Whitelight77 Месяц назад
Wow, you really have been giving the track a good listen . The acid part synth you can hear best on the verse of the Radio Edit single mix . I have a Dr Groove Dr 202 drum machine, which has a very similar bass synth sound to the Oakenfold version
@Whitelight77
@Whitelight77 Месяц назад
The band are from the outskirts of London. I contacted the guitarist he is happy with his new career but was disillusioned with the music industry which is a shame .
@mrJimCharles
@mrJimCharles Месяц назад
I think the best "noise adder" synthesist I can think of is Thomas Dolby, I'm always knocked out by what it adds to the track and think how the hell did he think to do that sound there???
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp 29 дней назад
He’s utterly amazing. It’s also incredible how many tracks he’s played on as a session player. Such a good player…
@羽衣甘藍奧頓
@羽衣甘藍奧頓 Месяц назад
👍👍👍
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
🙏 Appreciate it!
@blockeighteen1059
@blockeighteen1059 Месяц назад
The amazing Bob Ross. A total icon.
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
Hahaha. That came out of a comment about the previous video (about gating) where somebody said that my style reminded them of Bob Ross 😂
@Whitelight77
@Whitelight77 Месяц назад
Could you get to the bassline to Relax by FG2H using that gate effect ?
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
Actually that’s something different. I know *exactly* how that was done :) Would you be interested in a video? I would probably combine it with how to make the beat :)
@Whitelight77
@Whitelight77 Месяц назад
I am interested in all the pop music from early to mid 1980s. I did hear not sure if it is correct , the comment was " the only good thing the Fairlight synth ever did was the bass line to Relax ".
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
Haha, that's really not true ;-) The main thing the Fairlight was used for with Relax was the sequencing - - it had something called Page R which was kind of like the first DAW. You could sequence MIDI but also samples so you could actually compile an entire record on it and, for the first time ever, decide to switch the chorus music with the verse etc. Relax was, so far as I'm aware, the first hit done in this way and therefore the first 'digital number one'. Also the master take was played live by the production team which included Steve Lipson on guitar, Andy Richards on keys, etc which is kind of amazing. In terms of the bass line, I don't want to give the game away but there are two bass sounds one of which is an FM synth stock patch and the other of which is a sample of an acoustic instrument with some fairly savage EQ. There was no side-chaining so the pumping effect is got by... well that would spoil it 😂 Sound interesting?
@tomtebby7408
@tomtebby7408 13 дней назад
Sounds very interesting
@Whitelight77
@Whitelight77 Месяц назад
Just had a listen to Inaura - Las Vegas Leg, the singer is doing his best David Sylvian / Japan impression.
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
That’s so awesome. And an impression of Sylvian is an impression of someone doing an impression of Bowie. Which is in turn an impression of someone doing an impression of someone doing an impression of Anthony Newley. Music is very meta!
@Whitelight77
@Whitelight77 Месяц назад
@@DistortThePreamp Probably all down to that South East twang ?
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
You might enjoy this ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NrtXFTw2ico.htmlsi=yfFR2IfniBDVUzMm
@Whitelight77
@Whitelight77 Месяц назад
@@DistortThePreamp I have a listen , cheers
@Whitelight77
@Whitelight77 Месяц назад
@@DistortThePreamp I liked the Lou Reed version best you can hear singers that have been influenced by those singers. I was seeing images of Pete Murphy - Bauhaus
@TheGazzadj
@TheGazzadj 13 дней назад
I wasn't there, but I wonder if the gig started with The Queen Is Dead???
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp 13 дней назад
That gig didn’t, but the next one I went to did ;) The gig I went started with ‘William it was Really Nothing’. It was the ‘Meat is Murder’ tour and they were in incredible form. Contrary to what has since been reported, I think they were much better in that tour than the next. For ‘The Queen Is Dead’ tour they looked tired, and a bit miserable. Craig Gannon was in the band, and it later turned out that Andy had a heroin problem and Johnny was drunk. That second gig felt very anti-climactic. As a result I stupidly didn’t bother going to see them again a couple of months later which would have turned out to be their last gig. But having said that, their last gig would have been even worse, and I really would have preferred to see them tour the first album.
@TheBiggerburger
@TheBiggerburger 4 дня назад
Big drum, Crowd noise. This is in danger of sounding like Steve Wrights old opener!
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp 3 дня назад
Hahahaha! Maybe I was channelling my inner Steve Wright… 😂😂😂
@Whitelight77
@Whitelight77 Месяц назад
When that single Coma Aroma came out it was at the same time as the Spice Girls , I thought Inaura would be massive but sadly it was the Spice Girls that broke through
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
This is the way. There was a considerable amount of machinery behind Spice Girls and, I’m not knocking them at all, but in those days it was extremely challenging for less supported bands to break through. Spice Girls were also targeting a considerably younger demographic - one with theoretically zero money, but actually quite a lot of money because their parents paid. I’ve been in rooms where this was discussed 😂
@Merluso0822
@Merluso0822 Месяц назад
From the all people that walked behind him, just 10% looks like actual english people 😂😂
@iantanner7579
@iantanner7579 Месяц назад
It's a little dated now, but to hear some gratuitous use of distorted noise, screams, etc, being processed by noise gates, check out, - Strap Down Part 3 - by Meat Beat Manifesto god bless
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
Fantastic reference. I’ve got an MBM 12” in storage though I actually can’t remember which one. I used to listen to Fad Gadget, Cabaret Voltaire, Einstürzende Neubauten etc as a kid which until you mentioned MBM I’d forgotten about! Probably where I was channeling the noise solo from. I’m now taking a trip down memory lane into late 80s experimental industrial noise synth pop. Really appreciate your watching, and the comment, and the MBM reminder!
@mathiasgrun630
@mathiasgrun630 Месяц назад
Best example would be every Track of "Scooter".
@Whitelight77
@Whitelight77 Месяц назад
It really is a great sounding bass line but then again the bass line on Two Tribes is really good but not as electronic sounding. I did hear an interview with Trevor Horn about some of the production and cost of making Relax. Those musicians you mentioned turn up on plenty of bands from the 80s a lot of bands using the same session musicians - Wham, ABC, Go West, Fuzzbox, Annie Dudley also plays on some of the tracks by those bands
@Whitelight77
@Whitelight77 Месяц назад
Another great song to dissect would be Dead Or Alives - You Spin Me Round Like A Record, when that came out it was obviously different from the music around at that time , musically advanced technology
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
Anne Dudley was part of Trevor’s team - she was a classical strings person really - and she worked on Lexicon of Love and is credited as a co-writer on 4ever 2gether (from memory), although the ABC drummer did it all himself (and is now a session player). The session musicians were often attached to the producer, especially in Trevor’s case who used to prefer to use the same people again and again because they were known quantities. You might enjoy his autobiography ‘Adventure in Modern Recording’. Two Tribes is actually pretty different sounding to Relax. Frankie’s bass player *actually wrote that* and I think played it (though he did not play on Relax). The best Frankie bassline IMO is Welcome to the Pleasure Dome. Again, that was genuinely written by Mark O’Toole (the bass player). I was at Sarm West a few years ago (they were selling gear, I wasn’t producing or tracking) and it felt pretty weird to be standing in the room where all the Frankie and ABC stuff was recorded.
@Whitelight77
@Whitelight77 Месяц назад
@DistortThePreamp Fantastic experience to be in that studio 👍 . It is a shame Welcome To The Pleasure Dome did not make No1 as I think it is my favourite from the first album. I see Anne is now the conductor for the ABC tour or was it a one off strings only concert ? I will get the TH autobiography this winter , thanks
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
That’s my view too, though it’s really much too long for a single and the 7” edit was a bit of a cut-n-weld job. Such an amazing baseline though.
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
Oh I think ‘ You Spin Me Round’ was mixed by Phil Harding (now Dr. Phil Harding) though the Wikipedia entry doesn’t say. I used to have a bootleg of a Smiths gig where Pete Burns came on for the final encore which was ‘Barbarism Begins at Home’ (so it must have been the ‘85 Meat is Murder tour) and duetted with Morrissey.
@DuncanThompson-du4zz
@DuncanThompson-du4zz Месяц назад
JOHN FOXX -- UNDERPASS
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
I’m a huge John Foxx fan, _Obviously_!
@argumentchannel
@argumentchannel Месяц назад
I was supposed to sound engineer them with Martin Hannett producing but the money men said, they would have to change there singer first. true @0:25. I was the same, a electronic musician who by luck listened to Rush ,spirit of the radio. When back to Manchester to watch them do there 30th tour. best gig i have ever been to.@4:40. Here at the beginning make good use of noise but with the rez up high so half noise and half filter oscillating ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-i7YUrRhrg14.html
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
The Smiths? That’s hilarious. I’m not sure Hannett would have been so good for them - he had such a ‘sound’. I think John Porter did a very good job of understanding them and translating that to a record. Much better than, for example, Troy Tate whose demos really miss the mark IMO.
@cicada8790
@cicada8790 Месяц назад
Wish by Nine Inch Nails is a great example this
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
Love it! Trent is a genius. Really appreciate you watching, and the comment :)
@cicada8790
@cicada8790 Месяц назад
@@DistortThePreampreally well put together video by the way!
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
Thank you! That's a very kind thing to say!
@maxwarfield6699
@maxwarfield6699 22 дня назад
I don’t get it.
@guyrichardson6556
@guyrichardson6556 Месяц назад
You should have listened to Abbey Road instead of Sgt Pepper!
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
Because of the white noise used on ‘She’s So Heavy’? Yes, this is true!
@davidmarshall5665
@davidmarshall5665 25 дней назад
WTF is a Wok Wecord🤷🏼‍♂️
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp 25 дней назад
😂😂😂😂😂 It’s music for a wowdy wabble of webbles!
@jedgould5531
@jedgould5531 Месяц назад
Your first problem is you’re being an engineer not a musician. Yes, crowd noise deserves a piece. SPEAK UP. But thanks for reminding me I’m supposed to be having fun and exploring, not digging in to YT.. 10:11 Oh no. You’re using the Dr. Who Filter. [They don’t work over here. The Johnny Marr filters almost work like the Thom Yorke Filters without gating]. 15:25 How do ya play incorrectly when you’re making up a chord progression? Dare me to make you a no-music beat for your edification, AND a chord sequence for this. 19:31 Worried about a clap instead of your next chord. Wish I could jam with you. Forget quantizing, you’re fine with clocks. 21:57 Forget the glistener. This is a jam. But maybe we’ll do the complimenting for you. Oh, wow, use a Yes or Skynnard album for crowd noise. In the 70s, bands were shameless about mixing in crowd noise. Explore with your colors of noise (they’re on the net: brown, blue, red, green, etc. noise) There’s no reward in manufacturing noise. No, your problem is the noise itself. It takes up tons of room in the mix. 32:15, Yes, you said that before, a noise solo, but how will you restrain it? 33:25 Comb filter? High pass filter if you don’t have it. Main problem is noise has unlimited bandwidth. I like your gating, you’re on to something. But I’ll bet you £5K the whole noise thing has been done; if not in Japan, then in London. But NOT as rhythmically! I can help with rhythms. I actually program them in my sleep. Lush, Shmush. I’m 70 and I was playing, interviewing that band when you were thinking about f**king your babysitter. You know, the only thing standing between you and the Trevor Horn Beyond is time. How bad do you want it? jedthefish@mac.com Put TIME CLOCK in the subject line if you’re serious. I will get your email if you tell assistant Rebeca I’ll for sure want to see it! ; ) Look me up. Jed The Fish, KROQ Los Angeles, fired in 2012 after music sucked. Serious, stop jacking off and decide what success actually is in 2024.
@spellerlittlewing
@spellerlittlewing Месяц назад
Cool mid way video but way too much talking get to the point
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
😂
@pavlekocbek
@pavlekocbek Месяц назад
Nice, a clear demonstration, sir, this is, of the uttermost important thing in playing/recording a piece of cool music is a human touch. The grove, right there in that pocket, yeah.. Also a fine demonstration, sir, of what's the first thing in writing anything cool, story or music, to go out there, discover things, goof about. lDo all the lolly joygaging, get some tiny amount of experience, like, just a bit of it. Later when you'll be in the usual daily hallucinations, fabricating delusions, falling into deep meditations while you shower, rest, lounge about, remember the things that touched you, or at least find one thing, if that true gold within you is not shining through yet. The thing that's been glittering back there in the mystical labyrinths of childhood memory coral caves, where everything is green and I'm an aquamarine by now (if not all the time). So, now go, and find that dream lost that you thought you'll never be able to have again. And at last, sire, if I may say, a superbe demonstration of the use of gates, volume knobs, filters and mute mutton as a really important and a serious instrument, no less. I wonder how one would notate all that sheet music. Hmmm. I think I'll go myself, now, and write me a song entitled Mute Mutton
@DistortThePreamp
@DistortThePreamp Месяц назад
Thank you so much!
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