just spent an hour trying to figure out why it wasn't working... I've a older Ableton ...problem solved.. but I'm gonna try make my own version of ur racks. reverb first.. any tips would be appreciated. thanks for all the content.
i need everyone to understand this: no email collection, no follow me here and there, no nothing! this man just gives, he has a heart of gold. and i know how many "producers" ask a lot more for a lot less
+1 to this with the added bonus his stuff sounds good and you could imagine it getting a release, unlike some of the crap that comes out of the "finished result" section of wayyyyyyy too many popular channels.
literally S-tier channel for me - thanks so much for the racks and tips. Love the depth of explanation with a bit of history, all while keeping it easy enough to understand for a noob like myself.
Came here after you pointed me this is how you do reverb and delay. This is now my staple. I also did the Audio Rack and having a Dry/Wet chain inside the rack (saw KSHMR mix his vocals like that) but your racks make it so much easier. Thank you boss!
hi Bthelick, you are a fantastic dude! This is a little bit off topic BUT: Can you do in your how to series a video on US Classic House? Par example: Praxis feat. Kathy Brown 'Turn me Out' (Garage Extended Mix) on Cutting records. Further, i would appreciate to see some US Style Soulhouse productions (nervous records, kerry chandler and so on!) many thanks! I try it again and again, but don't come up this level! Your content is very important for beginners, but also long time producers have to learn so much from you! many regards from switzerland
Sir, you are the gift that keeps on giving. Thank you so much for sharing your effect racks! I am subscribed to many good music instruction channels, but your expertise is another level - keep up the great work. And congrats to almost 20k now!
Many thanks for the explanation, it really solves a problem working this way. It has been quite easy to create some versions of my own ideas. Again, many thanks ❤
Felt comfortable enough to release my first tech house with 90s diva chords clip almost entirely thanks to finding your channel a week ago. Nothing but heavy bass music and some metal mastering for 8 years before that lol can’t thank you enough for giving the ability to make music with intent in another genre I love
Thank you so much for the racks. You've gained another 7K subs in the space of 3 weeks since making this video, wow! I really appreciate your videos and have learned loads from them
Quality content deserves the subs! As a long time Live user i use the "lazy" method on delays as inserts: When need to have long tail or something, i duplicate the track and have the snippet play trough different fx parameters. Maybe it's 'cos that is how it had to be done in Logic that didn't have racks. I do use racks a lot, but mostly for the macro knobs. It's nice to be able to change multiple parameters with just one knob.
Makes me wish I had Ableton.....but unfortunately I'm an FL user.....but I have heard there is a one knob does all preset you can multiple plugins to........so I'll look into that. Your channel really is taking off in a big way, I think that is down to the fact how you explain with depth, but with an ease of understanding and a totally down to earth approach.....long may you continue and the channel keep growing...👍👍
Ahh sorry, I do try to keep it daw agnostic usually but I was ill and my usual video fell through so this was a quick thing I could do in the meantime. I'll have to check out FL options soon I'm sure it's possible in there too
They are literally just a volume control into the 100% wet effect, in parallel to a dry channel. The macros are mapped to the main parameters of the effect, like reverb time to time , reverb pre delay to delay etc. There's nothing too complicated. The only non native parameters are on the reverb quality which controls quality, room size, diffusion amount, high freq absorption, early reflection, and a wet dry mix of a sample crusher. All the tone controls are just eq or filters either before or after the effect (which ever sounds better) If you want the fake stereo, I explain how voxengo's effect works in the bass processing video. Smudger is just a high pass filter into a reverb that gets wetter.
Would you still use a return for something common, say a static room reverb on your percussion. Modified your delay rack to wrap the echo plugin and it’s already proved a useful pattern 🙌
That's the idea, just swap in any plugin you want! If I worked like other people I would use common sends like room reverbs, but I don't haha. I need the ability to pull sounds in from other sessions so it's just a habit at this point. I've not used sends in a session for many years. Last time I mixed a rock project I used them though because the room they recorded in was terrible so I had to make a new virtual one to pull the 'picture' together. But that's not something I usually feel the need to do in electronic music.
I spy the 'polymetric melodic techno' tool tribute - is that the track you used in the finish track in 30 minutes video? PS huge Tool fan. I have also wanted to experiment with some Meshuggah-style ideas for melodic techno so that's an interesting one!
Haha good spot! I've always loved tool. That's a separate track using the same idea. I was trying a baseline similar to the grudge, with a melodic techno topline similar to vicarious. 👊
what version of ableton live are the racks for? mine is the 11 suite and it doesn't open :(, congratulations for the great content big fan from Brazil!
Thank you so much for the racks. Gratz with 17k! Great track in the video. I wish you make a video about how to make a track like this from start to finish.
It is still not practical to insert reverb on every channel. Many of the most beautiful reverbs out there eat up CPU like a fat lady Italian ice cream.
Your talking to a guy who used to run 3 UAD cards, 2 powercore cards and a liquid mix with as many cores that were possible.THAT is when CPUs couldn't cope. Now I have a tiny amd mini pc that I take round to studios and that's all. I don't run into problems. It helps that I barely have to mix anything as I have the rest training to get the sounds right on selection, and using RME gear helps a lil too their drivers are tremendously efficient.
Hi. I'm a relatively new subscriber and I was going through your videos as I don't want to miss any jewels of knowledge you've been dropping. You have one of the best channels on UA-cam but I found this video very disappointing. The reason being not everyone can afford to upgrade to a new piece of software every time a new version comes out. This video seemed quite lazily done. "I can't be bothered with showing you how I built these so here, use what I'm using and crack on." People trying to up their production game don't need more brick walls. This video throws a big one up as Ableton 11 is very far from cheap. Kinda sad.
Sorry if it came across that way. Trust me I was as frustrated as you to find out that was the case! I actually didn't find out the racks weren't backwards compatible until I gave them away for the first time. (In fact the pinned comment is me warning everyone that this is the case) be mad at Ableton not me!! I didn't make these to sell! I'm just trying to help people out. This isn't some 'get on my level' flex lol. It's just what I use day to day. The scope of the video wasn't to show how I built them, just why I do what I do. That's what the viewers were asking for. Was I short on time? Maybe, can't remember. I'm not a video maker, I'm a musician and the videos on average currently take me over 10 times longer to make than a track typically does. believe it or not UA-cam doesn't earn me money, my income comes from music, so of course I have to prioritize that. In fact that's the point of the channel, I'm a professional musician showing how I make a living. Just trying to pay it forward showing what I know. I don't expect anyone to be on the same software as me, it's my living. In fact every other video of mine promotes freeware and universal music theory principles that are applicable in any software. This video was heavily requested so I obliged that's all. If you want to build your own 'virtual send' it's actually very easy, just put a utility plug-in first in the chain and map that to your 'send ' control (warning utility's max volume is +35db so make sure to remap the value so at max it doesn't send to much, I like to set the max to +6) Then follow that with your effect and make sure it's set to 100% wet with no dry signal. Then inside the rack where the effect chain is, right click in the blank space and select "create chain" this will make a new path for your dry signal to path though, you can leave this path alone. Anything else is up to you. What ever parameters you want to map to the other macros. For example if a reverb doesn't have any EQ inside the plugin I may put an EQ in myself and map a few bands to macros along with the usual length parameters etc. That's literally it. If you have any other questions just ask 👊
awesome idea!! thanks for the inspiration.. unfortunately in my ableton i can not insert them...its telling me the fx are may corrupt... any ideas why this awful message appears?? i work with live 11.012...update: stereo faker is the only one working
Very fascinating way to handle send effects with the unique tools ableton offers. It won’t change my workflow much as I dump my raw sounds to pro tools. Nevertheless, the ability to create a sound similar to sends and print directly without printing a send track is awesome.
This is really awesome, thank you for sharing these!! Since we are taking about workflow what are your thought on having a default template, can you share your insight?
I don't have one personally. I just drag in parts from other songs as needed. But I do lots of new music every week and the sound signature of my music is not important to my brand. So my methods won't apply to most. Use whatever makes starting and finishing a track the easiest for you.
@@Bthelick I still have to find.a good way to use it, I have made several, but I always run into the same problem I make it to complicated, and if I make it less complicated I have to setup a few thing every time, I give a try to using racks instead of returns , and I also should reuse more of the previous sounds, and thank you for taking time from your day to replay, much appreciated,.
I had no idea John Henshaw was into EDM 😜. Great tutorials. I wish there were resources like this when I was starting out. Even though I've been doing it for decades, I still enjoy watching someone elses workflow. Music is spot on too. 👍
They are swing amounts, essential! I don't use different ones for different parts though, that would be a mess! Have a look at my drum tutorial , it's either to match all my parts to the swing of an audio loop I'm working with, or to swing all of my parts when I'm making my own drums. Unless you're making hard techno you'll find most dance groove is not squarely on the grid, either in subtle amounts, or obvious (check out an old video I did on "if Detroit had no swing)
One of your bass videos is the primary reason I was able to make a track that finally sounded good in the club this weekend! Would love to have you review/roast it! It’s a remix of dancing in the moonlight by king harvest!
There's already so much on UA-cam, if I did that my channel wouldn't be unique in any way. The thing is, it's also the thing that matters the least believe it or not. and it just comes with time anyway. The answer is the same to most problems: reference more! Also, none of my tracks are mastered, they just go out as is, and I barely mix because I have the ear training to get the sound selection right in the first place, so without you having my ears my advice is pretty moot anyway as you can't hear what I hear! Just reference more! The why is always more important than the what, I find most people asking mix questions get fixated on arbitrary numbers like DBs, hzs and lufs and none of it matters. Music is emotional and your biggest problem is going to be understanding groove etc, which memorising numbers can't solve. Just reference more! Check out my first live stream you can see my process from start to finish. I recommend channels ; Dan Worall and House of Kush. They give the best mixing advice I've heard. Also don't forget, reference more!
Love the videos. Would love some tips and tricks on how to make a crap splice vocal work in a track. I spend hours trying to get something and it’s always naff. It seems the pros can get something simple and hook a whole track.
It's probably because we already have the ear training and experience to know what will work at the selection stage, and know what we need beforehand. So there's much much less guesswork and subsequent 'forcing' of something to work. Regarding 'quality', a vocal that sounds 'crap' to you will have some other quality that makes it useful in some context. For example, you might mean 'crap' in terms of sound quality, but a bad recording could turn out to be a signature sound when a good producer recognises a trend of every other track in their genre sounding too clean . Or they might just have been listening to the rhythm or lyrics instead! It's actually very hard to make a useful video on this for several reasons. In theory I could scroll through a bunch of samples and voice my thoughts on what is good / bad about each one, but I can't scroll through exposed splice samples on video, it's against their tos (because it just exposes their samples for people to rip) so can't do that. Even if I could it still doesn't teach much, because beyond that is more often the case of knowing what you need BEFORE you start browsing, like rhythms that will match your bass, energy levels, voice types, key words etc etc etc. So judging samples in a vacuum is not the best education I could give.
Have you heard or this tool you can install that makes a zoom bubble on what your cursor Is pointing at.. i have seen it in other vidéos... Helps a lot in overview scènes , especially for those like me who watch you on their phones.
I think I already have it. The problem was it didn't let me customise the short cut key, and it clashes with one of ableton's (I think it was the same as toggle full screen). I'll have a look for others thanks for letting me know 👊❤️
@@Bthelick No worries. As you may have noticed. I'm Always upfront and i really wish your success. ✌️ Also it would help me haha, on a serious note.. i just believe that newcomers to ableton need that focus to read and see exactly what you point at .. to bé able to follow with compréhension.. AT least that's my pov. ✌️
Congrats on the 15k subs. Thank you for the 15k Racks. Thank you for your generosity. I am learning a lot and a few of the things I have been doing now have a name. Can you make a video about all the steps an independent needs to take from production to release? I understand if not. Anyway keep up the great videos, you are my goto channel, I hope to be able to buy you a cup of tea. Peace!!
Hi All, I've downloded Vital but can't seem to access any presets/waveforms on the free version?? It says it should come with them but I can't locate them. I'm on Mac btw
Congrats on the subs, fully deserved!! That smooth feature on the reverb will come very handy! I've never tried downsampling my reverbs before so I'll definitely give this a go!
@@Bthelick they both are like brothers to me, the older one i adopted since version one almost 20 years ago, one year later ableton came but couldnt convince me to keep an eye on him. so now im with reason 12 but it was cool seeing them both grow up. about the audio tracks: i never needed that, since rewire came i could easylie sync reason to cubase plus also being able to use VSTs in cubase... i basically had everything long before ableton became interesting to me. different ways lead to rome, they say... once again this channel is one of the best i found the last week. i also recommend @danworrall thats my kind of entertainment... keep em coming!
Important:
These racks were made with version 11.1 so you will need this version or later for them to load.
just spent an hour trying to figure out why it wasn't working... I've a older Ableton ...problem solved.. but I'm gonna try make my own version of ur racks. reverb first.. any tips would be appreciated. thanks for all the content.
These racks are pirate free 🏴☠️
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i need everyone to understand this: no email collection, no follow me here and there, no nothing! this man just gives, he has a heart of gold. and i know how many "producers" ask a lot more for a lot less
👊❤️
+1 to this with the added bonus his stuff sounds good and you could imagine it getting a release, unlike some of the crap that comes out of the "finished result" section of wayyyyyyy too many popular channels.
Spot on! These are the best videos around at the moment!
Really need more of this in the music scene, doing real work!!
This channel is growing like crazy and it's well deserved... love all the content you put out!
Easily becoming my fav channel
Congratulations on the subscribers! I have a feeling your going to get a lot more in the future. Thanks for the racks!
Top notch channel sir. Keep it coming 😎
Those racks are gems.. Especially the smooth on the reverb.. Finally someone that understand the struggle!
literally S-tier channel for me - thanks so much for the racks and tips. Love the depth of explanation with a bit of history, all while keeping it easy enough to understand for a noob like myself.
parallel processing is brilliant, thanks for the racks!
Best production tutorial guy ever. Your a genius. I've been a hobbiest for 14 years and I learn something every video
Came here after you pointed me this is how you do reverb and delay. This is now my staple. I also did the Audio Rack and having a Dry/Wet chain inside the rack (saw KSHMR mix his vocals like that) but your racks make it so much easier. Thank you boss!
Thanks..... very much appreciated.... ;)
Great overview & fantastic channel, thanks - pleased I've just found it :)
Awesome stuff. I’ll be taking these of your hands. No need for thanking me.
My pleasure!😂
It’s funny that you were at 15k 2 months ago now you are at 26k. Solid information, I’m sure you know this but, thank you.
hi Bthelick, you are a fantastic dude! This is a little bit off topic BUT: Can you do in your how to series a video on US Classic House? Par example: Praxis feat. Kathy Brown 'Turn me Out' (Garage Extended Mix) on Cutting records. Further, i would appreciate to see some US Style Soulhouse productions (nervous records, kerry chandler and so on!) many thanks! I try it again and again, but don't come up this level! Your content is very important for beginners, but also long time producers have to learn so much from you! many regards from switzerland
Sir, you are the gift that keeps on giving. Thank you so much for sharing your effect racks! I am subscribed to many good music instruction channels, but your expertise is another level - keep up the great work. And congrats to almost 20k now!
much appreciated! still by far the best production videos on the platform
THANK YOU FOR THE RACKS!!!! they sound damn good
Many thanks for the explanation, it really solves a problem working this way. It has been quite easy to create some versions of my own ideas. Again, many thanks ❤
♥☺♪
Best music production coach on UA-cam hands down!
Felt comfortable enough to release my first tech house with 90s diva chords clip almost entirely thanks to finding your channel a week ago. Nothing but heavy bass music and some metal mastering for 8 years before that lol can’t thank you enough for giving the ability to make music with intent in another genre I love
OMG that's great to hear, congratulations on the release! You've got further than most already. Keep it up! 👊❤️
annoying you cant import return tracks. the ability to bring in other tracks is great but they seem to have missed a trick.
Thank you so much for the racks. You've gained another 7K subs in the space of 3 weeks since making this video, wow! I really appreciate your videos and have learned loads from them
You're such a legend, I can't wait for you to reach 100k subscribers because you deserve it already!
Thank you for so much great information and the racks! Congrats on 15k subs but you deserve way more! You can prepare your 50k racks already 🔥
Thank you for the great advice and for the racks. Much appreciated. 😃
top notch channel btw... this is golden! a joy to listen watch and learn! thanks for sharing
my gawd the amount of tedious work this knocks off is crazy
Interesting info, but I'm not on that level yet to use it effectively
You are the best man in the world
I’m a noob but I love your videos - thank you so much bro!!!!
I tip my hat at you sir. Great content thank you so kindly
Quality content deserves the subs! As a long time Live user i use the "lazy" method on delays as inserts: When need to have long tail or something, i duplicate the track and have the snippet play trough different fx parameters. Maybe it's 'cos that is how it had to be done in Logic that didn't have racks. I do use racks a lot, but mostly for the macro knobs. It's nice to be able to change multiple parameters with just one knob.
Amazing, thank you so much !! 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you very much for these racks
You are a King! Thank-you!
Well explained, nice tools, you're awesome! Keep it up!
I'm so glad I've found you, been using sends for long time, this is game changing.
Terrific. Thank you!
Thanks for the blessings
BUY THIS GUY SOME COOOFFEEE!!!
Makes me wish I had Ableton.....but unfortunately I'm an FL user.....but I have heard there is a one knob does all preset you can multiple plugins to........so I'll look into that.
Your channel really is taking off in a big way, I think that is down to the fact how you explain with depth, but with an ease of understanding and a totally down to earth approach.....long may you continue and the channel keep growing...👍👍
Ahh sorry, I do try to keep it daw agnostic usually but I was ill and my usual video fell through so this was a quick thing I could do in the meantime.
I'll have to check out FL options soon I'm sure it's possible in there too
Fifteen thousand and 1. 🎉
Thanks, I'm trying to recreate in Bitwig, would you be able to update this and show what the Macro/Controls were affecting in the devices?
They are literally just a volume control into the 100% wet effect, in parallel to a dry channel. The macros are mapped to the main parameters of the effect, like reverb time to time , reverb pre delay to delay etc. There's nothing too complicated.
The only non native parameters are on the reverb quality which controls quality, room size, diffusion amount, high freq absorption, early reflection, and a wet dry mix of a sample crusher.
All the tone controls are just eq or filters either before or after the effect (which ever sounds better)
If you want the fake stereo, I explain how voxengo's effect works in the bass processing video.
Smudger is just a high pass filter into a reverb that gets wetter.
Lady, hear me tonight
'Cause my feeling is just so right
As we dance by the moonlight
Can't you see you're my delight?
😀😀😀
Tune, although probably only because they sampled my favourite bass player!
Amazing!! Thank you 😮
Would you still use a return for something common, say a static room reverb on your percussion.
Modified your delay rack to wrap the echo plugin and it’s already proved a useful pattern 🙌
That's the idea, just swap in any plugin you want!
If I worked like other people I would use common sends like room reverbs, but I don't haha.
I need the ability to pull sounds in from other sessions so it's just a habit at this point. I've not used sends in a session for many years.
Last time I mixed a rock project I used them though because the room they recorded in was terrible so I had to make a new virtual one to pull the 'picture' together.
But that's not something I usually feel the need to do in electronic music.
I spy the 'polymetric melodic techno' tool tribute - is that the track you used in the finish track in 30 minutes video?
PS huge Tool fan. I have also wanted to experiment with some Meshuggah-style ideas for melodic techno so that's an interesting one!
Haha good spot! I've always loved tool. That's a separate track using the same idea. I was trying a baseline similar to the grudge, with a melodic techno topline similar to vicarious. 👊
thnks so much sir
what version of ableton live are the racks for? mine is the 11 suite and it doesn't open :(, congratulations for the great content big fan from Brazil!
11.1
real life goat
what a legend you are
Thank you so much for the racks. Gratz with 17k! Great track in the video. I wish you make a video about how to make a track like this from start to finish.
I did, see the first live stream 👊❤️
It is still not practical to insert reverb on every channel.
Many of the most beautiful reverbs out there eat up CPU like a fat lady Italian ice cream.
Your talking to a guy who used to run 3 UAD cards, 2 powercore cards and a liquid mix with as many cores that were possible.THAT is when CPUs couldn't cope.
Now I have a tiny amd mini pc that I take round to studios and that's all. I don't run into problems. It helps that I barely have to mix anything as I have the rest training to get the sounds right on selection, and using RME gear helps a lil too their drivers are tremendously efficient.
Clever methodology
Your knowledge and technically ability are something to behold.
What a Chad! Thanks mang
you deserve 1M!
another nugget from the GOLDMINE thank you for your knowledge
What are your opinions on Logic Pro X? Pros and Cons?
Daw doesn't matter is my opinion! Whatever inspires you and looks like it makes most sense to you from tutorials.
Hi. I'm a relatively new subscriber and I was going through your videos as I don't want to miss any jewels of knowledge you've been dropping. You have one of the best channels on UA-cam but I found this video very disappointing. The reason being not everyone can afford to upgrade to a new piece of software every time a new version comes out. This video seemed quite lazily done. "I can't be bothered with showing you how I built these so here, use what I'm using and crack on." People trying to up their production game don't need more brick walls. This video throws a big one up as Ableton 11 is very far from cheap. Kinda sad.
Sorry if it came across that way. Trust me I was as frustrated as you to find out that was the case! I actually didn't find out the racks weren't backwards compatible until I gave them away for the first time.
(In fact the pinned comment is me warning everyone that this is the case)
be mad at Ableton not me!!
I didn't make these to sell! I'm just trying to help people out. This isn't some 'get on my level' flex lol. It's just what I use day to day. The scope of the video wasn't to show how I built them, just why I do what I do. That's what the viewers were asking for.
Was I short on time? Maybe, can't remember. I'm not a video maker, I'm a musician and the videos on average currently take me over 10 times longer to make than a track typically does. believe it or not UA-cam doesn't earn me money, my income comes from music, so of course I have to prioritize that.
In fact that's the point of the channel, I'm a professional musician showing how I make a living. Just trying to pay it forward showing what I know.
I don't expect anyone to be on the same software as me, it's my living. In fact every other video of mine promotes freeware and universal music theory principles that are applicable in any software.
This video was heavily requested so I obliged that's all.
If you want to build your own 'virtual send' it's actually very easy, just put a utility plug-in first in the chain and map that to your 'send ' control (warning utility's max volume is +35db so make sure to remap the value so at max it doesn't send to much, I like to set the max to +6)
Then follow that with your effect and make sure it's set to 100% wet with no dry signal.
Then inside the rack where the effect chain is, right click in the blank space and select "create chain" this will make a new path for your dry signal to path though, you can leave this path alone.
Anything else is up to you. What ever parameters you want to map to the other macros. For example if a reverb doesn't have any EQ inside the plugin I may put an EQ in myself and map a few bands to macros along with the usual length parameters etc.
That's literally it.
If you have any other questions just ask 👊
@@Bthelick I am very far from mad with you sir, I do appreciate your reply, and I apologize if my comment came off as 'angry'.
Treasure!
Amazing, thank you so much for sharing with us all these tips, I’ve learned tons with you !!!
THE GOAT
Thanks
Legend
Great stuff, I'm grabbing these just to break them down to learn new things. And a coffee is on its way to you. ☕👊🏼
Thanks for sharing.
Truly the channel that NEVER stops giving!
a true G
awesome idea!! thanks for the inspiration.. unfortunately in my ableton i can not insert them...its telling me the fx are may corrupt... any ideas why this awful message appears?? i work with live 11.012...update: stereo faker is the only one working
Unfortunately it looks like pre 11.1 isn't working.
@@Bthelick thanks mate, appreciate your answer!!
Incredible my guy! Thank you for sharing!
Very fascinating way to handle send effects with the unique tools ableton offers. It won’t change my workflow much as I dump my raw sounds to pro tools. Nevertheless, the ability to create a sound similar to sends and print directly without printing a send track is awesome.
Thank you so much for providing the racks and the best tutorials ever!
This is really awesome, thank you for sharing these!!
Since we are taking about workflow what are your thought on having a default template, can you share your insight?
I don't have one personally. I just drag in parts from other songs as needed. But I do lots of new music every week and the sound signature of my music is not important to my brand. So my methods won't apply to most.
Use whatever makes starting and finishing a track the easiest for you.
@@Bthelick I still have to find.a good way to use it, I have made several, but I always run into the same problem I make it to complicated, and if I make it less complicated I have to setup a few thing every time, I give a try to using racks instead of returns , and I also should reuse more of the previous sounds, and thank you for taking time from your day to replay, much appreciated,.
I had no idea John Henshaw was into EDM 😜. Great tutorials. I wish there were resources like this when I was starting out.
Even though I've been doing it for decades, I still enjoy watching someone elses workflow. Music is spot on too. 👍
One question tho, why do you have all these groove templates open?
Different grooves/shuffles for different parts?
I barely use one on all my tracks.
They are swing amounts, essential! I don't use different ones for different parts though, that would be a mess! Have a look at my drum tutorial , it's either to match all my parts to the swing of an audio loop I'm working with, or to swing all of my parts when I'm making my own drums.
Unless you're making hard techno you'll find most dance groove is not squarely on the grid, either in subtle amounts, or obvious (check out an old video I did on "if Detroit had no swing)
@@Bthelick That makes sense, ty
Once again, great vid. 🎉 Being without a computer right now and unable to produce.. my motivation Is stunned. But you are bringing it back
One of your bass videos is the primary reason I was able to make a track that finally sounded good in the club this weekend! Would love to have you review/roast it! It’s a remix of dancing in the moonlight by king harvest!
Loving the videos 👍 just wondering if you are able to share any of your knowledge on mixing/mastering please 🙏
There's already so much on UA-cam, if I did that my channel wouldn't be unique in any way.
The thing is, it's also the thing that matters the least believe it or not.
and it just comes with time anyway.
The answer is the same to most problems: reference more!
Also, none of my tracks are mastered, they just go out as is, and I barely mix because I have the ear training to get the sound selection right in the first place, so without you having my ears my advice is pretty moot anyway as you can't hear what I hear!
Just reference more!
The why is always more important than the what, I find most people asking mix questions get fixated on arbitrary numbers like DBs, hzs and lufs and none of it matters.
Music is emotional and your biggest problem is going to be understanding groove etc, which memorising numbers can't solve.
Just reference more!
Check out my first live stream you can see my process from start to finish.
I recommend channels ; Dan Worall and House of Kush. They give the best mixing advice I've heard.
Also don't forget, reference more!
@@Bthelick thanks so much, appreciate that!
Wow this is awesome and really nice of you! 🎉 thank you!!!
Love the videos. Would love some tips and tricks on how to make a crap splice vocal work in a track. I spend hours trying to get something and it’s always naff. It seems the pros can get something simple and hook a whole track.
It's probably because we already have the ear training and experience to know what will work at the selection stage, and know what we need beforehand. So there's much much less guesswork and subsequent 'forcing' of something to work.
Regarding 'quality', a vocal that sounds 'crap' to you will have some other quality that makes it useful in some context. For example, you might mean 'crap' in terms of sound quality, but a bad recording could turn out to be a signature sound when a good producer recognises a trend of every other track in their genre sounding too clean . Or they might just have been listening to the rhythm or lyrics instead!
It's actually very hard to make a useful video on this for several reasons. In theory I could scroll through a bunch of samples and voice my thoughts on what is good / bad about each one, but I can't scroll through exposed splice samples on video, it's against their tos (because it just exposes their samples for people to rip) so can't do that.
Even if I could it still doesn't teach much, because beyond that is more often the case of knowing what you need BEFORE you start browsing, like rhythms that will match your bass, energy levels, voice types, key words etc etc etc. So judging samples in a vacuum is not the best education I could give.
Greetings!
This is why I subscribed to your channel...Ear training and knowing what sounds you need beforehand..
So thanks in advance💡🎥🎬🎤
Have you heard or this tool you can install that makes a zoom bubble on what your cursor Is pointing at.. i have seen it in other vidéos... Helps a lot in overview scènes , especially for those like me who watch you on their phones.
I think I already have it.
The problem was it didn't let me customise the short cut key, and it clashes with one of ableton's (I think it was the same as toggle full screen). I'll have a look for others thanks for letting me know 👊❤️
@@Bthelick No worries. As you may have noticed. I'm Always upfront and i really wish your success. ✌️ Also it would help me haha, on a serious note.. i just believe that newcomers to ableton need that focus to read and see exactly what you point at .. to bé able to follow with compréhension.. AT least that's my pov. ✌️
Probably the best music production channel there is.
BEEN WAITING THIS RACK SO LONG HAHAA, THANK U SO MUCH FOR SO MUCH EFFORT!
Super video and thanks for the racks! The track being played did you do a breakdown of this? Thanks again so much for your work and sharings x
Thanks. No break down yet, I'll try soon.
@@Bthelick great stuff. Dropped you a fee coffees for all the great work you've done 🙏🏻
Absolute King for this thank you! Keep up the good work :)
Cheers on your new subscriber milestone! Thank you kindly for all of your hard work and for sharing these racks; you are a gem, good sir 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you!
Finally the racks. B you're the hero that we don't deserve but need 👊
Congrats on the 15k subs. Thank you for the 15k Racks. Thank you for your generosity. I am learning a lot and a few of the things I have been doing now have a name. Can you make a video about all the steps an independent needs to take from production to release? I understand if not. Anyway keep up the great videos, you are my goto channel, I hope to be able to buy you a cup of tea. Peace!!
Thank you very much sir. Great stuff. Love your videos. They are the best out there
Hi All, I've downloded Vital but can't seem to access any presets/waveforms on the free version?? It says it should come with them but I can't locate them. I'm on Mac btw
Make sure you install the stand alone not just the plugin I think that might be it
@@Bthelickit just came in one install package file though. Odd. I’ll have a gander on the forum. I can just use operator though tbf
@@Bthelick amazing content btw loving it
You are a great teacher and a super cool person, thank you very much!
Congrats on the subs, fully deserved!! That smooth feature on the reverb will come very handy! I've never tried downsampling my reverbs before so I'll definitely give this a go!
the rack is fantastic
Thank you 🙏
cool stuf 💚
honeslty very awesome to see you growing so fast!
what reason does with its combinators since almost 15 years finally arrives in abelton ;)
Haha yeah. Well tbf this has been in Live for a long time.
Probably before Reason could do audio tracks that took a while didn't it haha
@@Bthelick they both are like brothers to me, the older one i adopted since version one almost 20 years ago, one year later ableton came but couldnt convince me to keep an eye on him. so now im with reason 12 but it was cool seeing them both grow up. about the audio tracks: i never needed that, since rewire came i could easylie sync reason to cubase plus also being able to use VSTs in cubase... i basically had everything long before ableton became interesting to me. different ways lead to rome, they say... once again this channel is one of the best i found the last week. i also recommend @danworrall thats my kind of entertainment... keep em coming!
over 20yrs ago... damm im old now... early 2000s the good ol times... *sigh