There is something about your videos that are waaaaaaaaay more informative than many synth/electronic music UA-cam videos out there. You really drill down to the essence of what it takes to make a good dance music track. Super informative!!!!!! You cut to the chase. Nice job!
I learnt more with your videos than others youtube channels. Simple, short, clear, didactic, with concrete examples. Thank you for the time you spent to make those tutorials !
Man I am so glad I bumped into your channel. I just started to use my old equipment for doing some home produced songs, getting into modular and stuff. I find your videos both inspiring and educating. Again, as with so many times in the past I found mixing and completing a project, fully produced to an acceptable product for a listener, being much more challenging than actually coming up with musically interesting compositional ideas. Which I think is very contradicting and strange considering that I am not a trained musician. Thankfully today there is YT and web in general. People like you makes it easier for us to learn. So thanks!
My pleasure. And I know this very well. It took me 20 years to get to a point where I usually can finish any track to an acceptable standard in a consistent and speedy fashion. Lets say I had to make loads and loads of mistakes first and even had to unlearn some things to get there. Musical ideas are things that are born out of inspiration, finished mixes are born out of transpiration :D
I was asking myself that if this Estuera is ''The Estuera as in Tales from the south???''.....Turns out you re Jonas Steur aka Estuera..👍👌💯🙌🙌 Clumsy me.., İt never occured to me googling Jonas Steur after blasting his melodies through the car stereo...😃😁
thanks on reminding me - how to use sidechaining. i always forget about it. (btw i love "Falling into Pieces") Reversing reminds me on Wonderfooled by SHATO back into 2013, its amazing simple trick. thanks for these ;) inspires me.
Haha Classic Reverse Reverb :)... often called Poltergeist Effect. This time i've learned nothing but to bring those simple techniques back to mind is a good thing.
@@Estuera One thing i never get dust on is parallel Compression. A cool trick is to feed more than one and decide later in witch part of the song to use it. So you only have to automate the volume fader. On Vocals really nice to bring a little more "oommpf" on a C Part or last Chorus
NIce video, the vocal/delay ducking is useful, forgotten about it to be honest. Any chance you could make the acapella for "Falling into Pieces" available?
Hah lol, sorry I though you made a typo. (There's a CS1x in the background of this video so I assumed you we're talking about that) Yeah well, the cs-01 certainly is interesting as well. I'm mostly lusting after the CS50, it seems to be the last more or less "affordable" of the big CS monsters (The CS60 is getting very, very expensive and not even talking about the CS80)
I followed your clip and wonder what it means the function "bouncing" that reverse track. Is this cubase slang ? and do you know what the name of the effect is here on the drums or bass or booth ? - a kind of pumping ... see here: ua-cam.com/video/B9KqM9dG6LU/v-deo.html
Bouncing means: rendering it to a new audio file. And what you can hear in that track is a clear example of sidechaining/ducking other elements of the track with the kick. Very typical dance music technique
By using the hardware equivalent of these tricks😉 You can do all of this witg a rather simple mixer, compressor and sampler. The 'trance gate' effect can be achieved by automating a hardware synths volume control by midi or sidechaining an actual hardware gate.
1) top producers now use Trackspacer as dynamic multi band eq, it's much better than compressor 2) for side chain it is better to use thing like LFO tool or CableGuys ShaperBox - they are more versatile and easy to control tools than a compressor
And what do you think those plugins do ? ;) They're simply the exact same techniques in a convenient package. Off course it's ok to use these but imo its always worth it to know the actual technical details behind these tools.
solid tips, thank you, I think you're the right person to ask about a sound from this Dr.Alban song : ua-cam.com/video/YRqBcDwG8vs/v-deo.html, at 0:24 mark what is this "running organ" patch ?? thanks
Ah 'Sing Hallelujah', talking about 90's nostalgia ;) These kind of organs can be made on many synths so its hard to pin down. I did some research though and it _might_ possibly be a Casio CZ. Another source is mention the Roland U-220. It could still be something else. Can't be sure.
@@Estuera thank you for your reply, let me put it another way - what would YOU use to create such a sound ? would M1 Organ+Gate help creating this pattern ? the exact same sound was 2 years earlier on this '91 Black Box song : ua-cam.com/video/18N2k1TBBRE/v-deo.html, 1:06 mark - same Dr.Alban sound again, so it must be a preset of some kind, no ?
What I would do is take a organ preset (or create one) and use an lfo to modulate the filter cutoff. Increase the resonance so it sounds a bit more like a 'wah' effect. Than you can either play fast chord notes (this will only work if the lfo does not retrigger on note on) or you can indeed gate the signal. Just typing this out without trying it first so it might not get you to exact same result. But its what I would try initially.
@@Estuera thank you, I will try this today for sure, I have this "LFOTool" thingy, hardly ever use it, but for this it might work, as you can draw the lines there and randomize the results, which is exactly what we need for this "running organ", and as DJ Bobby Light just said - You're killing it man !!! finally someone that knows what he's talking about WITH live examples, I'm already a subscriber fyi :)
There is something about your videos that are waaaaaaaaay more informative than many synth/electronic music UA-cam videos out there. You really drill down to the essence of what it takes to make a good dance music track. Super informative!!!!!! You cut to the chase. Nice job!
Instablaster
I liked how the Kerbal on your t-shirt tried to shout into the mic for the entire video :D
Finally someone who's been able to explain Side-Chaining properly! Thank you so much!
side-chain compression helps greatly even in subtle moments. Clears up a mix greatly.
I learnt more with your videos than others youtube channels. Simple, short, clear, didactic, with concrete examples. Thank you for the time you spent to make those tutorials !
thank you, I knew them all, but good to see them used in slightly different ways
Very enjoyable and informative. Thanks
Excellent producer who know's how it's done, u are a master with all the equipment and handle the software like a beast !!
This was very nice you should make more of these. Even if the classic gate effect is so '90s the way you put it reminded me those nice mid '00s :)
Very good demonstration. That's the first time I have seen gating presented with a drum pattern that made sense.
Great video, I heard those effects in tracks but didn't know how to recreate them. I love Your channel and I'm waiting for more production tips :D
Thanks. And there's a lot more to come !
Great example of reverse effect can be found in tack Dark Monks-Insane at 1:17 with piano.
These are great tips and, in general, I love your presenting style. Thanks for sharing these videos
My pleasure :)
Now this was again extremely informative and helpful.
Thanks a lot for showing us these little tricks! 🙏
Love your channel man, just the way you describe and film things makes it really pleasant to watch
Thanks 😊
Great video. Thanks!
wow, nice yamaha cs1x you have in the background.
Check out some of the other videos on the channel. The cs1x is featured in some.
Thank You ... very useful.
Great stuff! And great that you are back Jonas! Thanks!
Man I am so glad I bumped into your channel. I just started to use my old equipment for doing some home produced songs, getting into modular and stuff. I find your videos both inspiring and educating.
Again, as with so many times in the past I found mixing and completing a project, fully produced to an acceptable product for a listener, being much more challenging than actually coming up with musically interesting compositional ideas. Which I think is very contradicting and strange considering that I am not a trained musician. Thankfully today there is YT and web in general. People like you makes it easier for us to learn.
So thanks!
My pleasure.
And I know this very well. It took me 20 years to get to a point where I usually can finish any track to an acceptable standard in a consistent and speedy fashion. Lets say I had to make loads and loads of mistakes first and even had to unlearn some things to get there.
Musical ideas are things that are born out of inspiration, finished mixes are born out of transpiration :D
Awesome job and great tips! I love your presentation style and it is so nice to see a fellow Cubase user. I can follow along perfectly.
My pleasure :)
And cubase ftw !
OMG! I searched a lot for a tutorial about reverse delaying ... this is so usefull, thanks mate!
Useful! Thanx. And... that reverb is massive!!!
You're killing it man - solid video as always
Thanks :) Always tricky to find a good balance and not not make these videos too boring.
For parallel compression technique another step is to do crazy things with panning and filters on the result.
Very helpfull , why it needs so many time to discover your Chanel? I make trancemusik for my self for years ago but never sounds good. Now I know why.
Welcome to the channel!
my favorite channel at the moment. Thank you for the great contents ! :)
My pleasure :)
Muy buen video!! Gracias!!
Nice channel! You get right to the techniques and explain them well.
Thanks !
Great thanks!!!
My pleasure :)
Easy explanation. Thank you teacher! 😁👍🏽
My pleasure :)
I was asking myself that if this Estuera is ''The Estuera as in Tales from the south???''.....Turns out you re Jonas Steur aka Estuera..👍👌💯🙌🙌 Clumsy me.., İt never occured to me googling Jonas Steur after blasting his melodies through the car stereo...😃😁
That's me indeed 😉
Thank YOU!!!!Very helpful!!!
thanks on reminding me - how to use sidechaining. i always forget about it. (btw i love "Falling into Pieces")
Reversing reminds me on Wonderfooled by SHATO back into 2013, its amazing simple trick.
thanks for these ;) inspires me.
My pleasure :)
Haha Classic Reverse Reverb :)... often called Poltergeist Effect.
This time i've learned nothing but to bring those simple techniques back to mind is a good thing.
Yes if you have been in the game for a while all of these tricks should already be in your book. (maybe its a dusty book though 😁)
@@Estuera One thing i never get dust on is parallel Compression.
A cool trick is to feed more than one and decide later in witch part of the song to use it.
So you only have to automate the volume fader.
On Vocals really nice to bring a little more "oommpf" on a C Part or last Chorus
Super helpful, thanks a lot!
This was very informative, thanks!
Congratzz for 2k subs man😎🙌 100k on the way💪
Thanks :) Its really taking off now :D
great content, keep the tutorials coming :D
This is a very clear and well explained, I think I may use this for reference for a while, maybe you should look into teaching music production
Well I kind of already do that in the channel 😉
@@Estuera haha, I meant like sonic academy or something
...so much good information, thx,,, greets bm😃
Thank you. Very useful video. Also the first song is captivating, is it something you can link to?
The first song I use is this one: open.spotify.com/track/2A4krn27X5nwYJ4khnUuBD?si=zThrBUtUQ_C11yd1GlFiHw&dl_branch=1
@@Estuera thank you
Nice video, I would really like to know how was electronic music tracked / recorded / arranged before the days of DAWs.
Hardware sequencers and/or playing live and multi tracking on tape mostly.
Awesome video! Where do you get your vocal stems from?
They are from my own productions actually.
@@Estuera cool thanks for the reply
NIce video, the vocal/delay ducking is useful, forgotten about it to be honest.
Any chance you could make the acapella for "Falling into Pieces" available?
Thanks :)
And sorry, that a cappella isn't something I can share.
Great techniques. Incidently, what is the widescreen curved LCD monitor are you using?
Thanks :)
The monitor is an Asus ROG PG348Q
Is that a CS1x or Cs2x in the background?? Lighting is throwing me off , I have the 2x and still love it!!
cs1x
You look like The Hives vocalist
Do I ? :D Maybe its the lockdown hairstyle ?
If you got cs01 plz make some content about that little ‘huge” synth..you know what i mean😊
Yeah the CS1x needs some love
@@Estuera I mean Yamaha cs - 01, mini analog mono synth aka answer for Roland sh-101. 😊
Hah lol, sorry I though you made a typo. (There's a CS1x in the background of this video so I assumed you we're talking about that)
Yeah well, the cs-01 certainly is interesting as well. I'm mostly lusting after the CS50, it seems to be the last more or less "affordable" of the big CS monsters (The CS60 is getting very, very expensive and not even talking about the CS80)
I googles docking. I'm not dissapointed.
“Mozart used this one”
I followed your clip and wonder what it means the function "bouncing" that reverse track. Is this cubase slang ?
and do you know what the name of the effect is here on the drums or bass or booth ? - a kind of pumping ... see here: ua-cam.com/video/B9KqM9dG6LU/v-deo.html
Bouncing means: rendering it to a new audio file.
And what you can hear in that track is a clear example of sidechaining/ducking other elements of the track with the kick. Very typical dance music technique
It's cool but how the hell all the trance producers were able to make this on the 90's software 0_0
By using the hardware equivalent of these tricks😉
You can do all of this witg a rather simple mixer, compressor and sampler.
The 'trance gate' effect can be achieved by automating a hardware synths volume control by midi or sidechaining an actual hardware gate.
Hey, a Cubase tutorial! =) What a rarity 😅
1) top producers now use Trackspacer as dynamic multi band eq, it's much better than compressor
2) for side chain it is better to use thing like LFO tool or CableGuys ShaperBox - they are more versatile and easy to control tools than a compressor
And what do you think those plugins do ? ;)
They're simply the exact same techniques in a convenient package. Off course it's ok to use these but imo its always worth it to know the actual technical details behind these tools.
you're pretty.
solid tips, thank you, I think you're the right person to ask about a sound from this Dr.Alban song : ua-cam.com/video/YRqBcDwG8vs/v-deo.html, at 0:24 mark what is this "running organ" patch ?? thanks
Ah 'Sing Hallelujah', talking about 90's nostalgia ;)
These kind of organs can be made on many synths so its hard to pin down.
I did some research though and it _might_ possibly be a Casio CZ. Another source is mention the Roland U-220. It could still be something else. Can't be sure.
@@Estuera thank you for your reply, let me put it another way - what would YOU use to create such a sound ? would M1 Organ+Gate help creating this pattern ? the exact same sound was 2 years earlier on this '91 Black Box song : ua-cam.com/video/18N2k1TBBRE/v-deo.html, 1:06 mark - same Dr.Alban sound again, so it must be a preset of some kind, no ?
What I would do is take a organ preset (or create one) and use an lfo to modulate the filter cutoff. Increase the resonance so it sounds a bit more like a 'wah' effect. Than you can either play fast chord notes (this will only work if the lfo does not retrigger on note on) or you can indeed gate the signal.
Just typing this out without trying it first so it might not get you to exact same result. But its what I would try initially.
@@Estuera thank you, I will try this today for sure, I have this "LFOTool" thingy, hardly ever use it, but for this it might work, as you can draw the lines there and randomize the results, which is exactly what we need for this "running organ", and as DJ Bobby Light just said - You're killing it man !!! finally someone that knows what he's talking about WITH live examples, I'm already a subscriber fyi :)
@@AdLed that LFO tool might do the trick indeed :)
And thanks for subscribing !
That reversed vocal sounds like shes speaking german haha
Being a German native speaker, to me it sounds like some scandinavian language xD