Recreating 1980s music - My VST Instruments
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- Опубліковано 30 жов 2022
- In this video I describe the VST Instruments I use for creating covers of popular 1980's music.
Cover tracks referenced in this video:
- Danger Zone - Kenny Loggins - • Danger Zone - Kenny Lo...
- Take On Me - A-Ha - • A-Ha - Take On Me. Ins...
- Thriller - Michael Jackson - • Thriller - Michael Jac...
- Hearts On Fire - John Cafferty - • Hearts On Fire + Up Th...
- Last Christmas - Wham! - • Last Christmas - Wham!...
- Together In Electric Dreams - Philip Oakey - • Together in Electric D...
- Ivory Tower - Giorgio Morder - • The NeverEnding Story ...
- Nothings Gonna Stop Us Now - Starship - • Nothing's Gonna Stop U...
- Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jnr - • Ghostbusters synth cover
- War - Vince DiCola - • Vince Dicola's WAR (fr...
You can check out another video where I describe how I break down tracks by ear, here: • How to recreate music ...
Yes! These kind of videos are SO insightful and helpful and I very much appreciate you make and share them. Thanks!😊
And I very much appreciate you saying so. Thank you 🙏.
Your channel is underrated. I love the content love from Italy
Thanks for your kind words, it's a real motivation to hear that. 👍
Hi Julian, just came across your channel as I'm slowly starting to build my own studio. I was very interested in your choice of VST's and I really look forward to more videos about the mixing side, as you mention. Love your 80's recreations. You are super talented. Thank you
Thank you 👍. Yes I hear you, more 'behind the scenes' type videos coming soon.
Nice video! …..and Cat 😄
thanks a lot, i´m new on the synth world and mixing.
Welcome!
Very interesting video. Thank you for sharing. How would your appraoch change for live playing. I use Cantabile 4 abd vsts
I'd not use a computer for live. I'd take my Roland digital piano (which does quite a lot on its own), some pre-recorded backing tracks, and a couple of musician friends (for drums and guitar)... all fed into a mixer with built in effects.
Honestly though, while I've produced for other people, the only live performance I've given was back when I was a teenager.
@@juliancroot Gotcha. I like to sound as close as possible to the recording. I was wondering about plugins to add live to make it sound better with bass guitar, drums, guitars. I know that playing live with VSTs will scare the hell out of most poeple. :)
Ooh, is that Howard Jones a hint of a song to come? 🙂
I'm looking forward to learning about mixing with EQ, etc. As it's something I'm not very good at. I just throw knobs all over the place.
Throwing knobs all over the place can be a legitimate strategy as long as your ears are engaged... In fact it's probably the best way to learn. 👍
I like the cat video bomb lol
PLEASE MAKE A VIDEO MAKING AN 80s SONG SHOWING HOW TO MAKE THE SNARE AND THOSE KEYS IN 3:20 PLEEEEEEEEEEASE
Acabei de me inscrever e já deixei o like 🇧🇷
Thank you.
how do i replicate the strings used in 80s songs like rock with you by michael jackson
Not tried that yet, but out of curiosity I just had a quick listen, and it sounds like it could be real violins played marcato style. But its probably more than that. If I was to do it now, I'd start with an orchestral sample library with a good marcato violins patch and work up from there.
How do I blend sounds together for example pads or brass because I aim for those fat, warm 80s sounds
Probably something I'll do a video on at some point.
It really depends what role each part is playing... And I think it's easy to over complicate it.
EQ, compression and reverb should be all you really need... Just try to get your levels to an appropriate point first.
@@juliancroot thanks. I was looking at layering chords . What did you mean by levels by the way
@@ATGamer-zv5sg just don't leave a compressor to do all the work. Set the volume of the parts you want to blend so it's giving you the sound you are aiming for.
The compressor should just be the icing on the cake.
Also if one of the parts has way more bass than the other, then you'll have trouble blending the two nicely unless you EQ some of the bass out first.
That said, the right approach v for your goal might be completely opposite to what I've just said.
I do think good mixing decisions come down to experience... Which basically means you have to make some terrible mixes before you make good ones.
I made a video a while back describing my musical journey, and sharing some of my early mixes... Which were really bad.
But I've learned from my mistakes.....I think 😆.
@@juliancroot thanks so much I’ll take those facts into consideration, I saw that video on the musical journey too. I think your an incredibly talented musician👏🏾👏🏾.Your video you made years ago called making an 80s synth wave track in 1 hour I was left stunned👏🏾
Cat VST 🤔😉🤣🤣