I do t produce anymore but when I did this reminded me of one simple fact. He really made and gave the best lesson to follow here.... Keep it fast and keep it simple and build around an idea. Before I knew hardly anything about producing I made great beats and tunes. Learnt a shit ton with a million plug ins and then the music making stopped and it became some impossible science.
Same... i got stuck somewhere and got burned out, i was trying to get my tracks sound like cinaplex movie theatre, downloaded 500 plugins etc... Thanks for posting, i just realized this.
this is a long shot but do you happen to have Vengeance Essential Clubsounds Vol 3? i opened up an old project file and im missing VEC3 Special Sounds 95 Root G 128 BPM and it was crucial for the song. lemme know! thank you!
@@SolStateMusic I think the way I see it is personifying - not necessarily using senses. Giving each part a personification, acting as if it’s a human, and leading it through a story or it’s own life.
What I love the most about this is that there’s no top secret producer tricks to a lot of his stuff. He just has a really good ear and insane ability to lay down ideas quickly.
yeah, he makes many sounds with operator, which is an insane synth. you can make any sound with it. The intro sound of scary monsters and nice sprites is most likely made with operator, you can make it in seconds.
@YoStefan commercially skrillex is the best example. He made dubstep more successful and he started the shit with diplo and justin bieber which is really original as skrillex-y sound and not generic house shit.
skrillex's such a cool guy. He gives free producing lesson, sometimes shows his abletunes projects. I dont know any other musician of his level who has ever done something like it.
Coolest dude. Postponed a concert in my country. Year and a half later comes and makes 2 hour set. And Im in Bulgaria. We thought its not lucrative enough for him to ever come, and it wasnt. There were only 3-4k people on that 2 hour beast party and tickets were 35$. Despite that Sonny had a blast with us, lit a cigarette, and in the end he sang a song to us which almost made me cry.
deadmau5 has some amazing production streams which i highly recommend checking out. theyre a bit better than skrillex's because he actually shares his whole screen, whereas skrillex is using just his phone to show the screen. but im sure if skrillex does more of these he'll improve how he shares the views of his DAW. it's still pretty awesome to hear his thoughts on production and see his workflow
Encouraging to see that you don't need 4k of UAD plugins to sound good. Just the right attitude and a willingness to learn the basics of sound design and mixing. (From someone who bought 4k of UAD plugins and hardware and now can't sell them coz everyone is broke, fffffffs!)
Totally. One huge thing I noticed making the video is Skrillex really enjoys the process and has fun. Have fun for long enough and you'll be great, plugins or not.
QUICK RECAP 1) sing the melody - 0:01 2) counter melodies can make the song come alive - 1:11 3) quantize just the right amount - 2:03 4) identify the main song idea, work on that - 3:21 5) sketch ideas fast, finish the best - 4:25 6) automate, automate, automate - 6:05
Also, around 5:20 he says his synths/sounds often start off super simple/basic, but then he bounces them to audio and starts to make them sound crazy/complex.
I love this guy so much. Zero ego, completely in touch with the rest of the world's sensibilities, wise as heyell, super positive all the time somehow, and a fkn genius of a producer/musician. I'm so happy it's Skrilly Season right now, and I hope his two albums have a combined 59 songs when it's all out.
hey can i just appreciate that the video just starts and gets to the content we're all here for. no repeating the video title, or unrelated footage of skrillex doing live shows. straight. to. the. point. Thank you
I love how he can closely duplicate and make most of the sounds he’s talking about with his voice. Makes sense with his past projects and level of musicality with his computer.
I’ve been waiting for a video like this since I first heard him. No one else comes close to the number of great ideas he has in a song. Just the sheer volume of great sounds, in the right places. How does he not let the tech get in the way? When I try this I end up layering EQ to a snare for 4 hours. How does he always manage to select the right sound for the song, and get it to be perfectly in the groove. He’s unmatched.
If you want to set the mood, I think the screensavers he is using are here - bzamayo.com/watch-all-the-apple-tv-aerial-video-screensavers#9c6b969b62012359e5a4ead2ba3889e8
Tips from the video: 1 sing the melody 2 counter melodies are cool 3 Quantize,but dont over do it. 4 Identify the main song idea and build around it. 5 sketch ideas first and then build the track on them. 6 Automate whenever possible. His favourite vst : Basically he loves all the ableton vst. Thank you. Hope this eases your effort.
This was amaziiiing I thought it would be as those cold yt tutorials But Skrillex is so viby and chill in his creative process. He is saying "hey you, don[t be shy. Take that sound, that idea, make it big"
I used to talk so much shit about him back in the Skrillex vs Zomboy days. I felt so ashamed when he released his Mumbai Power project screengrab as a music video for EVERYONE. shit was crazy. It blew my mind how simple but effective his creative process is
1:24 I really wish he would release this already. I don't even care if he does anything else with it. Just that loop is something I could listen on repeat.
Edi Stefi Virtual Riot is the majority of producers favorite skilled producer but he got inspired from Skrillex and so did many other producers so Skrillex started a revolution for many EDM producers.
Watching Skrillex produce is cool but the difference between you, if you are a producer, and him is this : he is doing it! He just opens his DAW and produces. For hours. Running ideas. Also he is not trying to sound like somebody else. It's cool to watch videos to learn how to make this or this effect. But I'm really laughing at videos such as "how to Flume"..."produce like Skrillex"...you won't. Because they are unique. Because you don't know what their next move will be. While you try to be them, they are 10 steps ahead already. And let's say you produce something that sounds like them, people will say : wow it sounds like Flume, Skrillex or any of those artists. Not only you will hardly get close because there are 99% chances that they wouldn't produce that track just like you did...but also, you sound like any of them and then what? You sound like somebody else, congratulations ! The inspiration people should get from these videos is : open your DAW, produce, progress, be yourself...let your creativity speak for itself. Once you are done watching this : go produce, my friends! We want and can't wait to hear you and what you have to bring to this world for us 🙃
I forgot how much I love to hear him sing! His voice is naturally angelic. I know it sounds silly, but I tear up just from listening to him sing the most random stuff.
A great mix means a great master. Mr Bill is pretty good at this stuff, check him out. Here's his master chain - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TRjwm5kazXU.html
This is AWESOME! I got this video at just the right time for it to have a huge impact in my production. Thank you so much for sharing these clips! I love getting insight into Sonny's process!
For composing, this is perfect, but for producing records, it's going to sound very computerized and not like an actual piece of music. This is why I don't like to make music like this
He doesn't even realize he's getting his ideas from another planet. I know, because I'm one of the aliens sending them to him. Here's how we do it: we randomize all of the collectible data on the sun, run it through the data from Jupiter's atmosphere, then add a bit of quantum mechanics and string theory as a joke, and those are the brain waves he experiences every day.
