Why your BREAKS sound like SH*T... 😬 and how to FIX it.

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0:00 Intro
0:35 The Samples
3:38 Chopping up the Breaks
9:05 Compressing to make drums more sharp
11:16 Filling the Gaps
15:45 Chop as MIDI
19:48 Drum Group Processing
25:09 Full Track
27:09 Final Thoughts

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29 июн 2024

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@worksofein6449 Год назад

Both versions sounds great, but I think I prefer the cluttered version of the break best. My adhd brain likes getting lost in the details.

@ASH-ou4cg Год назад

😉

@worksofein6449 Год назад

@positivet7491 I can see how that would be a problem.

@PauLtus_B Год назад

Fellow ADHD brain here: Create loads of layers. Then start cutting bits (or fade in and out) away at the points where they don't add anymore. By starting and stopping these bits you will have a lot of variety which in some way sounds more busy but still keeps the mix cleaner.

@worksofein6449 Год назад

@PauLtus_B hello! Thanks, I'll give that a go!

@SjarMenace Год назад

I always asked myself if adhd people like drumandbass i met alot of adhders who love dnb including me

@E-1K Год назад

The "bad" example at 0:05 is actually some hotness. Sounds like a big hippie festival drum circle. 😂

@nickvledder Год назад

I love your videos! And, you are absolutely right, these lessons are valuable for every genre. Big thanks!

@joshbarnes293 Год назад

Wow the transformation you can hear by 15:40 is so so good! Great work, thank you so much for all of the knowledge you put out there. Your tutorials have been a great help -- when I've wanted to learn the fundamentals of a genre I find you've already got a tutorial for it that clears up the mystery. Your instruction clues me into new workflows and techniques to make my production better and better -- really, thank you!

@noahwig500 Год назад

Gotta love the sound of that break. It's crisp and snappy af!

@MikeSekt Год назад

Thanks Stranjah! Definitely the best dnb production content on RU-vid! 👏

@Bazzookie Год назад

Personally I like to layer breaks, chop it all up so the kicks and snares are all matched up, and then throw my own deep kick and snare sounds to add some punch, finally EQing everything to grab specific elements of each break so they all meld together into one punchy drum beat. If you just throw some breaks overtop of each other it'll just sound like noise, and if you chop them up so they all match the same rhythm it'll sound better but things will still be overlapping and competing making it sound muddy, but if you methodically chop things and eq them properly you can layer drums up so that they can all add to each other and create super energetic breaks.

@christienscott1171 Год назад

Pitch is also very important and very over looked. If everything should work but certain hits just feel off, try pitching before immediately eqing.

@Hollandvancewright Год назад

Nothing wrong with your approach, but here’s a couple tips: 1. Watch out for your phase alignment, if you have two sounds moving opposite each other they will cancel each other out. You’ll either lose volume, clarity and frequencies, or you’ll get nasty comb filtering. 2. Less is more when layering drums. With kicks, I like to find a tight thud and layer it with itself pitched up 2-4 octaves to keep it in key and phase. Snares you can go wild adding flams, claps, foley and resampled reverb. I layer different rhythms of hi hats together, but I mix them in their own space so it’s obvious there’s different lines going. Take it with a grain of salt though, I haven’t finished a song for like 5+ years (lots of projects but work, wife, keeping my shitty car alive, etc.)

@sramirez1906 Год назад

Dope content and tune as always! I appreciate the glue-compressor-as-clipper tip. I'm using that on my next project.

@GeneralSigh Год назад

I’m learning so much from you at the minute, can’t say thank you enough. I’m looking forward to getting the og sample pack

@lockwood6793 Год назад

Great vid bro once again keep up the good work

@viktorf3911 Год назад

On point! thanks for the video!

@YOBAMUSTDIE Год назад

I actually liked cluttered "wrong" version more , and it sounds old school like its 1992, I honestly don't think its wrong. What you suggested sounds way too new school and oversimplified.

@ilikechineseteaespeciallyj7262 Год назад

ngl first on is very Jungle, and second is very liquid.

@nycyabber7103 Год назад

The first one sounded cool, but technically, it's def super muddy. It could be cleaned up to sound very similar, but much cleaner and open.

@falk3nn Год назад

I couldn't agree more. 1st one has that old school vibe. 1992-1994. love it. don't care if its technically more cluttered, when jungle got clean it got a bit sterile too, imo.

@NihongoWakannai 7 месяцев назад

@@nycyabber7103 yeah, the first one is still not amazing, but the "fix" is a completely different genre. It's like showing a trance song and being like "this is wrong" then showing a house song and saying "this is right"

@smokedoggbaby953 6 месяцев назад

@@falk3nn🎉 some people just know

@missinforecordsltd Год назад

stranjah, don’t know if you already got a video on this but i’m wondering how to make some solid breaks out of strictly one shots… thanks!

@benmochrie7832 Год назад

Also, good to see Crystl and yourself using each others packs! 👊

@DJFateDNB Год назад

finish the track! wtf, was vibing, getting lost in it! good stuff as usual stranjah! big ups

@aaronbazil Год назад

Btw, dude, thank you so much for this tutorial as well as others! Gonna need to tighten up my sound a bit.

@dogboyauckland Год назад

Nice one bro, really useful tips as always

@SkynnyAnimation Год назад

the cool thing about clipping your breaks is you also get additional headroom, if you noticed the peaks on the waveform were reeally high until he clipped them, but after he clipped it the amplitudes were smaller but the volume is perceived the same, actually it sounded louder after he clipped them but they will have been peaking at a lower dB. dope vid as always!

@Strafuzz Год назад

A lot of people sleep on clippers

@STRANJAH Год назад

It’s a great point. One of the benefits of clipping.

@Strafuzz Год назад

@@STRANJAH There's a dude called Baphometrix or something. He did a 90 minute tutorial on clippers! I like the fact you can put them before a compressor/limiter, so they don't have to work so hard.

@KH_1 Год назад

Because lots of people read articles on internet said you can only use clipper and limiter in the last step when mastering, but use it to just trim the very high volume spike is ok, it doesn't distort the sound, lots of people just want to follow the rule without understand how things work.

@KelmoMusic Год назад

Sounding good dude, havent messed with custom breaks in a while, feeling inspired to give it a crack again :)

@STRANJAH Год назад

Nice my man!

@amado7760 Год назад

Really nice Stranjah !

@Rawwb Год назад

shits crazy dope at the end

@TonyOldskool Год назад

Another amazing tutorial, thanks you

@peterrlee Год назад

Your videos are awesome! Thanks :)

@ConeMedaillon34 Год назад

Awesome content man for real, so many useful insights

@portemanteau3802 Год назад

geogebra c'est toi?

@ConeMedaillon34 Год назад

@@portemanteau3802 c'est bien moi

@quincy3d69 Год назад

i tryed to proof a point about old school beats and neuro stomp shit ! you just proved my point !!!! may the force be with you

@ASH-ou4cg Год назад

Another beneficial looking video! 🤘

@STRANJAH Год назад

Thank you!

@apoplexiamusic Год назад

Awesome break and incredibly insightful technical rundown as usual!!!! Thank you for sharing actually good production knowledge with your in the ocean of questionable tutorials that RU-vid can be! And happy holidays!

@STRANJAH Год назад

Much love I'm happy you found this one helpful!

@tomashcroft7024 Год назад

Great video! Thank you.

@iheartdnb Год назад

Excellent tutorial by the way

@blkrbbt Год назад

I love the picture in picture format! Happy holidays, Stranjah! Love you!

@STRANJAH Год назад

Bigup and wishing you well!

@blkrbbt Год назад

Such a vibe! And there is some great knowledge in here. Big ups my man.

@ashleighfournier-kelleher9536 Год назад

Amazing thank you!

@paulwalsh6734 3 месяца назад

Drum production is awesome. Only listening on phone. Will deffo come back to this

@neurokinetik Год назад

My current WIP definitely sounds like the "before" clip, lol.

@renegadehz9346 Год назад

Awesome video, I've learned so much from this vid and the 140bpm Jungle Break Choppage video - That video is the fundamentals right there, a MUST watch, just those little bits that I'm doing wrong or not doing at all(!!!) that make such a big, BIG difference. The tune in the vid sounds lush as well mate, wicked! Thanks for sharing the knowledge man. 🙏

@shitmandood Год назад

Funny you mentioned that because I went and re-watched the Choppage video after this one.

@renegadehz9346 Год назад

@@shitmandood I re-watched it before this one hahaha!!! 👍

@STRANJAH Год назад

Much love, I'm happy those videos have stuck!

@renegadehz9346 Год назад

@@STRANJAH 👊

@lucanjones5351 Год назад

Tight 👏🏼 cheers

@stevewoywitka3258 Год назад

great post ✌

@Skimbosam Год назад

Incredible video

@ebliss4231 Год назад

Both are great. The first one have a more old school feeling the second don't have. But the second sound cleaner. The thing is to use the right one at the best moment. I guess

@jesseheifetz7657 Год назад

some great tips bud.

@cclark8088 Год назад

another great video!

@STRANJAH Год назад

Thanks again!

@cclark8088 Год назад

@@STRANJAH yw

@1disturbedjunglist Год назад

Zoned out to the full track part. Lush.

@STRANJAH Год назад

Thanks my man

@iheartdnb Год назад

Holy shit the tune is fire bro damn!!!!

@andrewedwards6515 Год назад

so aggressive on that intro, but fair enough, you got me and my shitty breaks :(

@vvilhelm8608 Год назад

Great video, love the ideas on keeping break chops natural with the hi-hat variations. Idk if you've tried changing the "Preserve" options in the beats mode of ableton's audio warping? Try changing the two arrows to the arrow and the line symbol (looks sth like |

@STRANJAH Год назад

Interesting. I have played with those but have not got the results I wanted. However I will check it again upon your advice!

@jbmaf4378 Год назад

I’ve been trying to understand how to arrange breaks and all this time didn’t know people were pitching them up. 😭 I wish I knew this in 2006 when I was producing a lot and trying to get music out. I cut some dubplates and played them out but now I’m ready to go back in!

@STRANJAH Год назад

Sick!!! Glad to hear that!

@Shpat100 Год назад

Yeeaaah!!! Delicious!

@Banksyyt Год назад

Great video, thanks! Where do you get your breaks? Cheers!

@projectz975 Год назад

i had never considered just layering a bunch of breaks on top of each other without chopping them at all, until this guy told me it was wrong... Also LMFAO nice tracklib ad, love it when youtubers try to slip ads into the content without any separation

@2NDBEATS Год назад

why are u looking in my soul rbo

@hotstapler3129 Год назад

❤❤❤ big Iove Stranjah

@STRANJAH Год назад

Love going back to you!

@PapyPetitPois Год назад

When da breaks are doodoo fard

@SoulTrainProductions Год назад

Well, Paradox (which is master of sampling breaks imo) said to not quantize xd

@Si-Re444 11 месяцев назад

Just like that!😎

@JIDEHHIGHELEMENTS Год назад

Title is Savage 😂😂😭😭 !

@kmotion1 Год назад

Really informative video Stranjah as usual! Any change u have a version of your sliver that can be used in ableton live 9?

@STRANJAH Год назад

Hey I don't have Live 9 but will see if there's a way

@kmotion1 Год назад

@@STRANJAH thank u mate

@DarthDerpOfficial Год назад

i think both work. the first could use some cleanup but is still really good sounding, but the second is a totally different style, so i don't think they're all that comparable

@aykanakdag945 7 месяцев назад

21:10 you can use max for live volume compensator for glue compressor instead of trying to match the makeup db with utility

@joshdaigle616 Год назад

wish I had learned on ableton now 🤦‍♂finding it hard to transfer this to other daws that dont have the ableton stock plugins, a video with 3rd party plugins would be cool, id rather pay abit of cash to get the vst and results without trying to learn a new daw

@metronoid967 Год назад

I guess I'm not the only one that actually liked both the "wrong" and "correct" versions

@hplusmusic4653 Год назад

Big up 👊

@spankrocketgaming294 Год назад

Ohh. I wish I knew of track lib. Well now I know 😁

@RTH1122 10 месяцев назад

Control/Shift/R 👍

@IQM24 Год назад

I learned this style of chopping with Reason 4.

@djledmandossantosleandro5381 Год назад

Tuneeeeee

@TheGamingGoatChannel Год назад

Sweet

@Tsavness Год назад

Hey Stranjah, great tutorial! Are there any videos showing your racks like the one you use in this one? If not, do you think of making a video tutorial about these?

@STRANJAH Год назад

Can look into it. Thx!

@Code4_DnB Год назад

14:37 sounds link the intro to Jonny L - sea red here. ❤

@retromograph3893 Год назад

Nice video effect at 25:09 !!

@TheVisitor3 Год назад

Dude you're a cyborg. How do you get all this knowledge in your head?

@benmartens2885 Год назад

crazy that in like 6-12 months there will be an AI that does all of the compression, fading, volume shaping, and so much more for you...

@STRANJAH Год назад

Interesting to see where music and creation are going with these tools

@benmartens2885 Год назад

@@STRANJAH Yea! Such a great video tho, and also it's like you're doing so much of this on autopilot after decades of training your ear etc, very odd to me that algorithms will be probably doing it for a lot of people. like "clean up these breaks and send them to MIDI, give me like 4 different mixes"... also I need that drum rack preset thing or i just need to save my own presets

@sadface Год назад

The comments are why I don’t worry about the fine details of my production techniques that much. Everyone saying the cluttered version is better 😂

@sunpak4898 Год назад

breakcore!!!

@mach489i Год назад

I prefer the cluttered version over the sanitised over produced wet fart 'better' version

@esahm373 Год назад

Do you do HipHop Breaks too? Like 90s Boom Bap?

@totopolo2379 Год назад

ok but can you go past boring amen and sampling rehashing and create your own breaks and syncopations like Austrian Camo and Krooked???

@STRANJAH Год назад

I guess you have seen my other modern break videos 😏

@CRUASSANFAN Год назад

not enough lows, needs a bit of reverb, too much mids, not loud enough. 6/10

@sheeepman Год назад

wow, great tune though!

@pepsipimpin6010 Год назад

I think you're mistaking "cluttered" for "full". The second mix just sounded glassy and anemic.

@Uluqiorra321 Год назад

Love it, these drums really got this Drumemachine’s newest songs vibe

@RTH1122 10 месяцев назад

Control E 👍

@xgmode Год назад

Psyscope pro is my goto scope these days.

@__Nicholas__ Год назад

HAHAH the first example sounded better

@atomaalatonal Год назад

the problem with these layered drums is always out of phase instruments like stumbling bassdrums or snares, massive dynamics probs when switching on and off, two different insturments layered on top of each ohter sounding odd - not always bad though ^^- too much mud etc etc. i admit i often use that layering method to sketch out fast the ideas. afterwards im too effin lazy to finish it or sober it up properly to my mopre minimal sort of thinking :D.

@DCSwallow 6 месяцев назад

😍🎶🔊

@portemanteau3802 Год назад

do you sometimes layer the kick with a more "modern" kick sample to add extra low end and keep the other kick sample as a texture or is it all sampled breaks loops and hits?

@STRANJAH Год назад

I do, depends on the genre and feel I want.. but this kick was suffice for the vibe I wanted

@portemanteau3802 Год назад

@@STRANJAH makes sense, and when you do, do you try to match the envelopes?

@davidowen449 Год назад

hey bro what you used for those motion video clips

@benmochrie7832 Год назад

Good stuff. But sometimes this level of editing detracts from the “soul” of the breaks? Kinda turning a live drum track into a drum machine pattern.

@STRANJAH Год назад

For sure. Just depends on the direction you want!

@alexmack416 Год назад

you gotta finish and release this one man

@willdahbe Год назад

you're fuckin dope!

@STRANJAH Год назад

Much love!

@iheartdnb Год назад

How can we get a copy of that tune?

@gomesdiogo Год назад

did you released this track?

@__BlacklotuS__ 10 месяцев назад

yeah too many layers is a something habit i need to stop

@bigupz6818 Год назад

Beneficial video here.

@endosick3998 Год назад

type in the mierder loud ?¿

@maximilienpilloux1533 Год назад

Hey Stranjah thanks for the video, really nice tutorial ! I have a hs (and a noob I guess...) question there, but why do you say that the song is in F sharp minor while the vocals and the keys are Bm ? Thanks for the answer

@djmage7991 Год назад

yes I am also wondering this too.

@STRANJAH Год назад

I think they mislabelled the vocal from my understanding

@STRANJAH Год назад

think they mislabelled it, cuz f# minor made more sense

@ASH-ou4cg Год назад

24:09 Robert Miles - Children

@STRANJAH Год назад

Wow, good ear!

@lockwood6793 Год назад

Bro I can find the compression cheatsheet in the links below?

@STRANJAH Год назад

Ooop... Amen Compression Cheatsheet → bit.ly/3BYnf6y STRANJAH Slicing Preset → bit.ly/3doS6ji

@lockwood6793 Год назад

@@STRANJAH legend bro

@starkRECORDINGS Год назад

👍👍👍

@Atomicitalia Год назад

probably just get your breaks replace at the autoshop innit

@Surgeeon Год назад

Could you tell me how they got the sound on the break in this track 👉🏻 guau - acid bits ? I know it’s the think break but no matter what I do it never sounds the same. Any help from anyone would be great tbh because it’s doing my head in trying to replicate this

@dj_adam_g_uk Год назад

Its not the think break, its funky drummer...

@STRANJAH Год назад

Adam is correct, funky drummer at 130-140 bpm

@dj_adam_g_uk Год назад

@@STRANJAH the snares and shuffles are very similar though, and was drummed by the same guy if I remember correctly

@Surgeeon Год назад

The funky drummer is definitely the loop but I’ve tried for a whole day to get it sounding the same , if you A/B the 2 loops it’s as if it’s played at a higher pitch but if I pitch up the funky drummer it sounds like crap . I ended up finding a clean sample off the same record label which worked out better just doing that but how do they get that jungle feel at a lower tempo ?