Between PML, LPHNT, 12tone, and this, we all have no excuse to not get where we wanna go. For me it’s disciplining the time, choosing this as value over other crap. If you’re in your 20s, remember 37 comes fast and you’ll only get busier. ❤
You are the man! I've been binge watching your videos lately and I can't get enough. You're always so concise and efficient in your workflow but make it very easy to follow at the same time. Thank you!!
Happy to see this, I'm old school myself and the quality and amount of free stuff out there is staggering....something we grew up dreaming of having access to.
Learning new things every video i watch - even from the little unspoken ways you're using Ableton. Would've loved to see this go through to arrangement from the session view too!
This genre doesn't do much for me, but every minute of this video was educational. I would love to see similar "ingredient" videos for many different genres. I would love to see your perspective on all these nuances. Its obvious how well studied you are on the details. So valuable. Thank you for sharing!
as someone who loves all forms of house, even organic, I second this. This was by far one of the most helpful videos for me in terms of increasing my knowledge as a producer 🙏
@@Bthelick omg I just saw this! If you’d be up for it I’d love if you could go over something more progressive in the realms of anjunadeep (Marsh, Simon Doty, My Friend, Yotto etc) Cheers for the response, even if I’m a bit late haha 🍻
Please, don't get me wrong but, after around 35 years since I had the first experience listening a house track, I never thought I would see as many different names as we can see here... Lamen house, organic house, deep house, shalow house, exotic house, acid and basic house, house of cards, pig one, pig two, and not lazy pig houses, 'wear house', classic house, ... For me there are only those we used to see (listen) from Chicago Traxx, Hotmix5, DJ International, than FFRR, BigBeat, etc... ...but I really enjoyed this track...
🤣🤣🤣 tell me about it. I keep getting peeps asking me to do an Afro house tutorial and I'm like "what's the difference?" I'm supposed to be some kind of expert apparently 🤦♂️
By far the best of these videos that I have come across - no beating around the bush and straight to the point. You summarised in 47 mins what other YTers would take 3+ hours to do
Man, this is - again - another fantastic video and beats most other channels by a long way. Simply because you take us further instead of "avoiding mistakes or knowing things better" And last but not least in a super syphatic way. Appreciation and thx! Rock on, wishing you millions of subscribers ...
This video is amazing. You have a way of explaining things so simply!!!! And you speak with authaurity, you know what you are talking about. Much appricated, I'm an offical follower!
Thank you! Apart from the pratical stuff that you definitely help with a lot, I personally feel motivated and inspired after watching your videos. Keep it up man
FIRST OF ALL ---- THANK YOU --- FOR SHARING AND KEEPING THE TRUE SPIRIT OF MUSIC CULTURE ALIVE! Just found you here a few weeks ago. Big Love from Berlin to YOU! I am 49 and teaching myself in MUSIC AND ABLETON everyday 3 years now so I can change my life and one day live my dreams. IS it too much to ask you about the gain staging and loudness of all tracks in a song? I see you peeking all over the place and so far I WAS told to have all balance around -6 peak level. I am confused about these kind of things in production still. BLESS YOU MAN. INTO HOUSE SINCE 1996 - HOUSE IS A FEELING - DO IT - LEARN TO LOVE YOURSELF ;-P 🙃💞
That advice -6 /-10 (pick any number) is typical for traditional engineering advice. Especially if you intend to send your tracks to a dedicated mastering engineer. I have my own methods and reasons gathered through lots of experience and knowledge of digital audio behaviour. I will be doing a video on it soon. But for now please use your ears and work to a reference (see my 3 simple steps video) , numbers on meters do not represent sound as we hear it so only use those to help narrow down problems you are struggling to hear 👊
@@Bthelick thank you man I hope you didn’t find my question rude I’m just not understanding any of that yet I guess. Feeling like a baby. but thanks to you I will improve more! Let me know if you hit Berlin any time
No not rude at all, I get the question often recently as my methods are counter to traditional convention. That's why I have decided to make a video. Sorry if "I have my reasons" sounded like a non-answer is just a very technical explanation that doesn't work in text so well. Keep an eye out for the video. I have a friend in Berlin who I have failed to visit I must get over there sometime. Everyone must experience the berghain once right?!
@@Bthelick oh yes, you absolutely have to experience BERGHAIN, especially on new years it is spectacular. I live only seven minutes walking distance from THE club
Nooooo be careful. It's actually very bad for mixing as without referencing often your ears will adjust to your track and it's mistakes. I just use it here for education. See my video on the 3 Rs you'll see why I warn about this. ua-cam.com/video/JdVP6RlTlnw/v-deo.htmlsi=A4anTmvCllWX1AvU
@@Bthelick Very good point - it's easy to fall into the trap of not referencing as you say in the video (I have watched it 4 times - at least). Thanks B!
Love that Jaguar preset... In my opinion more an afro feel than organic but i love to see your videos as i'm learning so much with your knowledge... I wish you live near me :D
@@Bthelick they are very conected indeed... in my opinion you got all the right instruments specialy on the drums... you missed the oriental melodies and some drums pitched down :) the clave pace is to much but funny by the end all sound so cool... maybe using the clave like a clap, beating on the 2 and 4, and other drums accentuating the other parts of your original clave rythm... but nice track in the end. I think for learning purposes your chanel is amazing. All the best.
i'm also old school like enoc, one of the first video for me that is perfect, soundwise... We all know that all your videos are insanely outstanding!!!😀 Please can you do more vids in this genre? Also more the us style soulful stuff like nervous rec., kaoz 6:23, or similar in european like local talk (art of tones, detroit swindle...) it would be so great!!!! nice stuff dude!
Hey man, I can't even begin to thank you for your videos, they are beyond helpful-- and have really helped steer me in the direction I want to be moving in. As a side note: Mall Grab is absolutely KILLING it right now, and he seems to be using a formula very similar to the one you teach. Is there any chance you could do a video on "Love Reigns" and "Everything" ?
Maybe I shouldn't have added flanged, because afaik it's in the sample already indeed(That's it's flanged, what makes up that distinguished sound). Anyway ban flanging indeed unless it's baked in already, wouldn't you agree?🤣 Can you make a video about your ghostproducing, fulltime, contracts(Standard template one, or entertaining lawyer specifically written). Do you send snippets of the song you produced(For example only the drop), and only send out the full track once you are paid?
Those are good questions. There are certainly a lot of misconceptions around ghost producing. The 'ghost' part is simply taking more currency in return for lack of credit. in regards to the creation process , the DJs take on a full production roll and are involved from start to finish. The producer instigates the track brings the idea and guides the session towards their vision, my job is simply to translate what they ask into sound, I do very little production in the role ol mostly just music and engineering.
Organic house is using real percussion instruments? And real instrument less big synth sounds? All these house sub categories lol that instrument it is called -Sheker ray-. Gonna just this style out might fit me better. Your always fun to tune into and easy to learn from cause yeah u really do this for a living. Must guys are infotainment as I call it. U give real world information and examples appreciate what u do very inspiring.✌🏿👍🏿👍🏿👌🏿
I would love to see you do a video on uplifting trance. I'm thinking the likes of John O'Callaghan, Aly & Fila, Giuseppe Ottaviani, Bryan Kearney. You get my drift 😅 Or the classic trance sound from the 90's.
WOW! I've been missing to see you getting to this level again (my subjective "tower" point of view)... :-))) These pianos/pads got a direction at some point close to the final minutes kind of Jammers, Change, or something like that - and we can even fly to the MSOP era a bit... I would never say you would take this road... ...not according to that "cuban" style 808 rimshots you called "claves"... :-))) Really, really cool!!!! Well, you have at least 5 more views counting on me... ...that's for sure, if The Creator allows me, of course... Thank you very much!!!
Has anyone run into the issue where running multiple instances of STFU seems to clog up they're DAW, causing visual lag and laggy control? Any tips appreciated ❤ Top content as always Mr Lick 👏
I've not come across that problem yet personally 🤔 Do you mean the whole system slows down or do you mean you have higher input latency? Edit: I did briefly try ableton 11.3 and it felt very unresponsive in general so I moved back to 11.1 maybe those two don't get on?
@Bthelick Thank you for the response sir! It's not causing any high usage or audio lag of any type. As soon as I load up the second instance on another track, everything becomes unresponsive, the playlist plays slowly, meters are behind and laggy, the mouse is irritatingly behind everything I want to do etc etc. And then, as soon as I remove the second instance, all is good in the world again. 😅 I should have specified, I am in FL studio, and did also so an update recently 🤔. Thanks again for the content you're creating, unrivalled.👌
Hey Lamby I forgot to mention you can always use Mtremolo from the Melda bundle for the same function. The custom shape mode in that does the same job and I used it for years before stfu. it's slower to edit the curves but you can save preset shapes inside the plug on the right.
I don't, They stay in the folder they came in. But that's partly because I have the experience to know when I'll use a library and will delete them after auditioning so I don't hoard stuff I don't need. Also ableton's browser makes it fairly simple to find things It's not free but the plugin XO by XLN is by far the best way to organize your one shot samples imo. Worth every penny.
Ah sorry it's the way I work. The red line is not necessarily a bad thing when you get to know the science underneath. You shouldn't be able to hear it , can you hear any distortion?
@@Bthelick To be fair, no, I couldn't hear any distortion, but then my ears are old and have spent too many years trying to compete with the guitarist in a metal band!
Haha no worries, I did that for a bit but luckily I got an early scare and wore ear plugs starting pretty early. Anyways yeah, the science behind the red light is a bit long to go into, but put it this way, I could make the red light go away yet have more distortion! Digital peak meters don't reflect anything to do with how we hear, and they can report peaks we can't even hear. I do it this way because it's far more transparent than limiting. 👊
It must just be my crappy old tablet going via a crappy old TV and my crappy old ears, but it sounded like digital clipping when the piano played 5 notes at once at around 29:40. That issue was solved shortly afterwards by doing "naturalistic" offsets that stopped all the transients hitting at once. :)
@stekra135 put them in a folder of your choosing, Ableton has small load and save icons in the top left of the plugin box in the device view. ( not the plugin graphic interface but the plugin in the lower device view window)
@@Bthelick Okay. Was searching for that. But...as I am mainly using VST3, there are no such symbols in the top left. Only when using VST2. That was my problem ;-) Now it works!
Ooooh I didn't realize that, thanks for letting me know. I still prefer vst2 over 3 where possible despite the disadvantage purely because it lets me control where they are installed and how they are displayed!
Hmmmm , could be an interesting concept for a video trying to identify the common traits of a label's artists. Although It would have to feature a big rant about how that's not how to get signed to a label, just in case viewers get the wrong idea. If it looks musically valuable I'll give it a go 👊
@@Bthelick 100%! The style seems simple, but I find that there’s so many small nuances and technicalities in these labels that are really difficult to pick out for some of us that don’t have the professional ears and sound selection like yourself. Thank you for the reply.
You're so good, your knowledge is amazing, can you maybe go over the chord progressions in more detail for instance the rising, drifter, falling progression is there more you can delve into?
Yes I can. In this video I am kind of assuming viewers may have seen some of my other chord videos at some point so I do gloss over some things. Have you seen my video on chord numbers, or piano house common tones?
@@Bthelick I do no theory and know my chords but your knowledge is better and the way you explain things is easy to understand that's why I asked. so I understand the whole 1465 it's more on the progressions you know your progressions really well. I will watch the house common tones though as I don't think I've seen that one.
Would absolutely love to see you build up a Dub Techno track, I love dub techno but find it extremely difficult to get the chord stab delay correct in vital.
Don't use vitals delay. Simple digital delays can't feed back on themselves which is a key to that sound. Use a tape modeled delay set to dotted 8ths (see my delay video if that makes no sense). There's a pretty good tape delay built into ableton or an excellent free one by variety of sound called Nasty DLA. 👊
Thanks again for another very useful video. I have an idea for a topic if you ever find yourself scratching around for an idea. I think I’m progressing well but I struggle to make my synth automations sound exciting (like filter and resonance), so I end up with a similar sounding pad or melody for the whole track or mapped in automations that sound a bit random. Im sure the answer is playing the automations in live but I’d like to see what a pro does!
Lots of reasons, I match the reference at zero and make the track all the way through like that, anything that causes distortion I take care of immediately, this way I prevent the problems that those who mix at lower levels find when they try to master it later because they left headroom that wasn't available at 'master level'. Then by the time I'm done arranging and producing I don't need to do any mixing or mastering. the track goes out as is, exactly as you're hearing it here, typically all in the same session.
This was a total breakthrough for me! I've been trying to make this style of music for a long time but it's very difficult when you can't really define the components. Once again, you've solved it! Does anyone know the official name for the "pace synth"? besides "saw tooth pluck?" Thanks!
As an amateur sound designer i'm just trying to drum up more examples of this kind of sound because it's so common in Afro/ organic house. I want to find more patches to reverse engineer so I can make similar sounds in the future! For example, knowing that the subby growly sustained bass I was hearing was called a 'Reese" made it possible for me to find more versions to learn more about how the sausage is made! helped me learn how to use unison and voices and filters to create more or less "Grit" etc. Thanks for getting back to me!!!@@Bthelick
@@samcowan1894 ah yes good point, in terms of research I see why you need that. It's tough with these many terms of art being so fluid. I genuinely don't know what anyone else calls that sound! anyway the presets are in the desc for you to disect.
When you applied Stereo Touch, you said something interesting, describing it as the best "AND SAFEST WAY" to turn mono into stereo... Can you expand on that? (sorry if you've covered this somewhere else, please point me with a link if thats easier)
I definitely talk about it more in my bass processing video. I'll try to explain but It might need a video. The basic idea is; the problem with many stereo 'enhancers' is they either just turn up the side channel (the s channel is the difference between the left and right) which will make it wider but by not helping the mono at all it will be a much worse balance/mix in mono, or they add signal which makes the mono signal worse (usually as a result of phase cancellation) by in some way 'folding' into the mono signal. The voxengo one is safe because it adds a delay to one side and cancels it out (in mono) on the other side with the same delay but reversed in polarity. The whole underlying reason btw is Mono compatibility is essential for dance music as many clubs still playback in mono and most playback devices aside from headphones proper spaced speakers are mono or near-mono.
great tutorial as always! Would you be able to explain more about what (if anything) you did with the kick, or just the general philosophy? It appears it's peaking at -0.8. Is that where the sample peaked straight from the pack or is there something going on in the master as well? Also, do you always have your kick essentially clipping to zero and not gain stage it?
I did nothing! I chose the sound and that's it. Everything got balanced around its as simple as that. The philosophy is "pick a good sound and leave it alone!" I already selected it compared to a reference before hand is the most important part. There is nothing on the master other than meters. " Gain staging" is the consideration of levels between processes, I can't gain stage a kick that is not processed in any way. Please stop looking at digital peak meter numbers, they mean very little in terms of real sound, just use your ears, They are the most sophisticated tools we have!
When I'm more organized in the future we can do that sure. I can't re distribute samples obviously but can hand it over blank. Right now I need to release any music I show on video first before I give any midis etc for legal reasons but we'll get there in time. Thanks for your patience 🙏
@@Bthelick but to be honest I more interested in Jaded “Mirror”. I try to recreate their mid bass, but i don’t like results that I have. Also interesting how they write Saxophone part
Hi man, this was really fun to watch, I am instantly subscribing! I wanted to try. your Theme/Template but my Ableton (11 still) will not open it. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed. I works in live 8 onwards. You can't open it as a normal file, It works by dropping the file into your themes folder , which is inside the resources folder located in the live folder wherever you installed the program.
More control in A1, it's not just overall width, it's width and position, and it has mid side compensation too. Also I wanted to keep it daw independent where possible
No sorry, I had already set up slick on everything (so those not using Ableton could follow) then when it came to the kick I forgot the free version didn't have a low pass, so I grabbed Nova. Any high pass / low pass will be fine
Best music production UA-camr out there
Preach it 🎉
So true, this fella is quickly becoming a legend
Hell yeag
The best! 🔥🔥🔥
He is amazing really
Between PML, LPHNT, 12tone, and this, we all have no excuse to not get where we wanna go. For me it’s disciplining the time, choosing this as value over other crap. If you’re in your 20s, remember 37 comes fast and you’ll only get busier. ❤
"Close enough for jazz". Lol, lol, lol. Your videos are always filled with these gems. Thank you for putting so much fun into the learning.
You are the man! I've been binge watching your videos lately and I can't get enough. You're always so concise and efficient in your workflow but make it very easy to follow at the same time. Thank you!!
Happy to see this, I'm old school myself and the quality and amount of free stuff out there is staggering....something we grew up dreaming of having access to.
Bro. I can guarantee you. This here would be a smash hit in south Africa
You're giving away everyone's secrets and it's glorious, thank you for all the great tutorials
Learning new things every video i watch - even from the little unspoken ways you're using Ableton. Would've loved to see this go through to arrangement from the session view too!
That was the plan originally, but I looked at the clock 🤣
Maybe in a follow up 👊
@@Bthelick please do an arrangement video for this song please. I'm using Studio One and your videos are levelling me up. Thanks again
@@Bthelickalso agree with an arrangement video! Love your vids as well, learnt so much in a short space of time from your channel, thank you
This genre doesn't do much for me, but every minute of this video was educational. I would love to see similar "ingredient" videos for many different genres. I would love to see your perspective on all these nuances. Its obvious how well studied you are on the details. So valuable. Thank you for sharing!
as someone who loves all forms of house, even organic, I second this. This was by far one of the most helpful videos for me in terms of increasing my knowledge as a producer 🙏
@@highlec @yoryoryoryor hit me with some genres then 👊👊
@@Bthelick omg I just saw this! If you’d be up for it I’d love if you could go over something more progressive in the realms of anjunadeep (Marsh, Simon Doty, My Friend, Yotto etc)
Cheers for the response, even if I’m a bit late haha 🍻
I am even later but would some more melodic techno like Colyn, Hollt, Artbat or Innellea
Please, don't get me wrong but, after around 35 years since I had the first experience listening a house track, I never thought I would see as many different names as we can see here...
Lamen house, organic house, deep house, shalow house, exotic house, acid and basic house, house of cards, pig one, pig two, and not lazy pig houses, 'wear house', classic house, ...
For me there are only those we used to see (listen) from Chicago Traxx, Hotmix5, DJ International, than FFRR, BigBeat, etc...
...but I really enjoyed this track...
🤣🤣🤣 tell me about it. I keep getting peeps asking me to do an Afro house tutorial and I'm like "what's the difference?" I'm supposed to be some kind of expert apparently 🤦♂️
By far the best of these videos that I have come across - no beating around the bush and straight to the point.
You summarised in 47 mins what other YTers would take 3+ hours to do
Been loving your channel lately, wasn’t even at my computer at home to follow along, and still ended up watching the whole thing
This was so helpful please do more of this type of video for different genres of house! (melodic and deep tech are my requests)
Man, this is - again - another fantastic video and beats most other channels by a long way. Simply because you take us further instead of "avoiding mistakes or knowing things better" And last but not least in a super syphatic way. Appreciation and thx! Rock on, wishing you millions of subscribers ...
the best tutorial so far(all your videos are great!) ! thanks! please make tutorial of arrangement track, and must have plugins.
Thank you! You've been reading my mail. This video brings one step closer to being able to produce music like my favourite producer does.
Very impressive and seemingly effortless. So many helpful tips from an obvious pro. Keep it up buddy!
so much knowledge on here, just what I needed to help me with my track. Thank you!!!
and what a nice groove... 🥰 I did dance to it 😅
great to hear I got you dancing, that's the important bit!
This video is amazing. You have a way of explaining things so simply!!!! And you speak with authaurity, you know what you are talking about. Much appricated, I'm an offical follower!
Incredible; seeing as I can imagine myself listening to this at a beach bar its a prime tutorial on how to make good music! Never stop this channel :)
Thank you! Apart from the pratical stuff that you definitely help with a lot, I personally feel motivated and inspired after watching your videos.
Keep it up man
Outstanding use of free sounds! Great progress and build and full of energy.
Another great vid, loving this session and would also enjoy seeing you arrange this idea out as its sounding great together.... Your the man!!!
Recently got the feedback that drum variance was something I need to improve. This beginning part is amazing. Thank you
Feedback from your audience?
Or peers?
@@Bthelick I suppose they would qualify as a peer. It was another producer
South Africa is watching ♥️♥️
Wow!! Beautiful!! Precisely what I was looking for! And, as always, a TERRIFIC job. Thank You!!
You’re an amazing teacher my friend. I would love to buy you coffee in person, if you’re in Los Angeles 🙏 thanks for sharing the wisdom
I don’t often make house, but really like your videos
FIRST OF ALL ---- THANK YOU --- FOR SHARING AND KEEPING THE TRUE SPIRIT OF MUSIC CULTURE ALIVE! Just found you here a few weeks ago. Big Love from Berlin to YOU! I am 49 and teaching myself in MUSIC AND ABLETON everyday 3 years now so I can change my life and one day live my dreams. IS it too much to ask you about the gain staging and loudness of all tracks in a song? I see you peeking all over the place and so far I WAS told to have all balance around -6 peak level. I am confused about these kind of things in production still. BLESS YOU MAN. INTO HOUSE SINCE 1996 - HOUSE IS A FEELING - DO IT - LEARN TO LOVE YOURSELF ;-P 🙃💞
That advice -6 /-10 (pick any number) is typical for traditional engineering advice.
Especially if you intend to send your tracks to a dedicated mastering engineer.
I have my own methods and reasons gathered through lots of experience and knowledge of digital audio behaviour. I will be doing a video on it soon. But for now please use your ears and work to a reference (see my 3 simple steps video) , numbers on meters do not represent sound as we hear it so only use those to help narrow down problems you are struggling to hear 👊
@@Bthelick thank you man I hope you didn’t find my question rude I’m just not understanding any of that yet I guess. Feeling like a baby. but thanks to you I will improve more! Let me know if you hit Berlin any time
No not rude at all, I get the question often recently as my methods are counter to traditional convention.
That's why I have decided to make a video.
Sorry if "I have my reasons" sounded like a non-answer is just a very technical explanation that doesn't work in text so well.
Keep an eye out for the video. I have a friend in Berlin who I have failed to visit I must get over there sometime. Everyone must experience the berghain once right?!
@@Bthelick oh yes, you absolutely have to experience BERGHAIN, especially on new years it is spectacular. I live only seven minutes walking distance from THE club
I really love this kind of looped continuous workflow. Will definitely try making tracks this way. Thanks again for a tremendously helpful video B
Nooooo be careful. It's actually very bad for mixing as without referencing often your ears will adjust to your track and it's mistakes. I just use it here for education. See my video on the 3 Rs you'll see why I warn about this.
ua-cam.com/video/JdVP6RlTlnw/v-deo.htmlsi=A4anTmvCllWX1AvU
@@Bthelick Very good point - it's easy to fall into the trap of not referencing as you say in the video (I have watched it 4 times - at least). Thanks B!
so grateful for you and your expertise and generosity. thank you!
You deserve way more subs and likes - you are like a grandmaster of electronic music ❤🔥❤❤🔥
pure class the best tutorials on the net by far well done sir
thank you very much, very good explained!
Loving all your vids - just found your channel. Pure gold. Thanks for sharing with the community. I'm going to tell all my friends :).
I appreciate your channel and am grateful for the valuable insights you provide. Thank you and salute to you 🐐🙏🙌
Yoo btheLick you're the man thank you dude!
Love that Jaguar preset... In my opinion more an afro feel than organic but i love to see your videos as i'm learning so much with your knowledge...
I wish you live near me :D
Probably, I don't really separate the two tbh.
What differentiates them in your opinion?
@@Bthelick they are very conected indeed... in my opinion you got all the right instruments specialy on the drums... you missed the oriental melodies and some drums pitched down :) the clave pace is to much but funny by the end all sound so cool... maybe using the clave like a clap, beating on the 2 and 4, and other drums accentuating the other parts of your original clave rythm... but nice track in the end. I think for learning purposes your chanel is amazing. All the best.
@@carloseduardomarquescasale9693 Ace, I understand 👊thanks for the feedback 🙏
Another awesome vid!
i'm also old school like enoc, one of the first video for me that is perfect, soundwise... We all know that all your videos are insanely outstanding!!!😀 Please can you do more vids in this genre? Also more the us style soulful stuff like nervous rec., kaoz 6:23, or similar in european like local talk (art of tones, detroit swindle...) it would be so great!!!! nice stuff dude!
Loved watching the master at work, such a great video ...
Just commenting to keep that algo. Great vids as usual ❤
Instant gratification baby 🙌 let’s go 😎🖤🍭
Thanks a lot for the content. Your simplicity and expertise motivates me. Gratitude...
Awesome! Looking forward to getting all these free samples / plugins tomorrow.
Hey man, I can't even begin to thank you for your videos, they are beyond helpful-- and have really helped steer me in the direction I want to be moving in. As a side note: Mall Grab is absolutely KILLING it right now, and he seems to be using a formula very similar to the one you teach. Is there any chance you could do a video on "Love Reigns" and "Everything" ?
I really love open flanged dirty hihats(TR 909). Great channel and tutorials!
Flanging on hi hats should be banned! 🤣
Maybe I shouldn't have added flanged, because afaik it's in the sample already indeed(That's it's flanged, what makes up that distinguished sound).
Anyway ban flanging indeed unless it's baked in already, wouldn't you agree?🤣
Can you make a video about your ghostproducing, fulltime, contracts(Standard template one, or entertaining lawyer specifically written). Do you send snippets of the song you produced(For example only the drop), and only send out the full track once you are paid?
Those are good questions. There are certainly a lot of misconceptions around ghost producing.
The 'ghost' part is simply taking more currency in return for lack of credit.
in regards to the creation process , the DJs take on a full production roll and are involved from start to finish.
The producer instigates the track brings the idea and guides the session towards their vision, my job is simply to translate what they ask into sound, I do very little production in the role ol mostly just music and engineering.
Thanks for all the answers!
Organic house is using real percussion instruments? And real instrument less big synth sounds? All these house sub categories lol that instrument it is called -Sheker ray-. Gonna just this style out might fit me better. Your always fun to tune into and easy to learn from cause yeah u really do this for a living. Must guys are infotainment as I call it. U give real world information and examples appreciate what u do very inspiring.✌🏿👍🏿👍🏿👌🏿
Legend
Brilliant as always. What a channel. Thank you!
Magic video. Especially love the chord theory. thanks heaps
I would love to see you do a video on uplifting trance. I'm thinking the likes of John O'Callaghan, Aly & Fila, Giuseppe Ottaviani, Bryan Kearney. You get my drift 😅 Or the classic trance sound from the 90's.
Subbed, nothing else I can say teacher!
Thanks for the support 🙏👊
This is pure gold man, thanks for sharing :)
What an absolute choooon thanks for the vid unreal production advice as always 🏆
WOW!
I've been missing to see you getting to this level again (my subjective "tower" point of view)... :-)))
These pianos/pads got a direction at some point close to the final minutes kind of Jammers, Change, or something like that - and we can even fly to the MSOP era a bit...
I would never say you would take this road...
...not according to that "cuban" style 808 rimshots you called "claves"... :-)))
Really, really cool!!!!
Well, you have at least 5 more views counting on me...
...that's for sure, if The Creator allows me, of course...
Thank you very much!!!
11:20 the accent on the arp is killer
This video is full of treasures! You often mention iconic house artists, do you have a list for aspiring house producers to listen to?
this is awesome, can you make another one about soulful house? like the ones by louie vega maybe?
Thanks for this video, very informative!
Has anyone run into the issue where running multiple instances of STFU seems to clog up they're DAW, causing visual lag and laggy control? Any tips appreciated ❤
Top content as always Mr Lick 👏
I've not come across that problem yet personally 🤔
Do you mean the whole system slows down or do you mean you have higher input latency?
Edit: I did briefly try ableton 11.3 and it felt very unresponsive in general so I moved back to 11.1 maybe those two don't get on?
@Bthelick Thank you for the response sir!
It's not causing any high usage or audio lag of any type. As soon as I load up the second instance on another track, everything becomes unresponsive, the playlist plays slowly, meters are behind and laggy, the mouse is irritatingly behind everything I want to do etc etc. And then, as soon as I remove the second instance, all is good in the world again. 😅
I should have specified, I am in FL studio, and did also so an update recently 🤔.
Thanks again for the content you're creating, unrivalled.👌
Hey Lamby I forgot to mention you can always use Mtremolo from the Melda bundle for the same function. The custom shape mode in that does the same job and I used it for years before stfu. it's slower to edit the curves but you can save preset shapes inside the plug on the right.
@Bthelick Hi mate, thanks for that and for taking the time. I will certainly check that out! Much appreciated!
God tier stuff mate 🙏 I’d love it if you could do a video on organising sounds and samples, Keep up the good work though.
I don't, They stay in the folder they came in.
But that's partly because I have the experience to know when I'll use a library and will delete them after auditioning so I don't hoard stuff I don't need.
Also ableton's browser makes it fairly simple to find things
It's not free but the plugin XO by XLN is by far the best way to organize your one shot samples imo. Worth every penny.
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this is so useful!! please try to do more for other genres
Wonderful, thanks for sharing! ✌🏻😃
Would love to see you break down some of cloonee’s recent tracks like badman sound or fine night
This is really good and helpfull, thank you !
Great tips!! Thanks!!
Very interesting and helpful video!
Absolutely loved this video! I must say though, I did find the “red lining” master a touch off putting 😂
Ah sorry it's the way I work. The red line is not necessarily a bad thing when you get to know the science underneath. You shouldn't be able to hear it , can you hear any distortion?
@@Bthelick To be fair, no, I couldn't hear any distortion, but then my ears are old and have spent too many years trying to compete with the guitarist in a metal band!
Haha no worries, I did that for a bit but luckily I got an early scare and wore ear plugs starting pretty early.
Anyways yeah, the science behind the red light is a bit long to go into, but put it this way, I could make the red light go away yet have more distortion! Digital peak meters don't reflect anything to do with how we hear, and they can report peaks we can't even hear. I do it this way because it's far more transparent than limiting. 👊
It must just be my crappy old tablet going via a crappy old TV and my crappy old ears, but it sounded like digital clipping when the piano played 5 notes at once at around 29:40. That issue was solved shortly afterwards by doing "naturalistic" offsets that stopped all the transients hitting at once. :)
Pianos and vocals are certainly much more easily distorted to our ears in general.
Awesome video ❤
You added some .fxb Files as Magic Dice Presets. Don't know how to use them in Ableton live as presets für Magic Dice. Need some guidance...
@stekra135 put them in a folder of your choosing, Ableton has small load and save icons in the top left of the plugin box in the device view. ( not the plugin graphic interface but the plugin in the lower device view window)
@@Bthelick Okay. Was searching for that. But...as I am mainly using VST3, there are no such symbols in the top left. Only when using VST2. That was my problem ;-) Now it works!
Ooooh I didn't realize that, thanks for letting me know.
I still prefer vst2 over 3 where possible despite the disadvantage purely because it lets me control where they are installed and how they are displayed!
You rock!
Love you
Next level! Thank you for this. Do you think you could do something similar with the labels like hot creations, hottrax, cuttin headz.
Hmmmm , could be an interesting concept for a video trying to identify the common traits of a label's artists.
Although It would have to feature a big rant about how that's not how to get signed to a label, just in case viewers get the wrong idea.
If it looks musically valuable I'll give it a go 👊
@@Bthelick 100%! The style seems simple, but I find that there’s so many small nuances and technicalities in these labels that are really difficult to pick out for some of us that don’t have the professional ears and sound selection like yourself. Thank you for the reply.
You're so good, your knowledge is amazing, can you maybe go over the chord progressions in more detail for instance the rising, drifter, falling progression is there more you can delve into?
Yes I can. In this video I am kind of assuming viewers may have seen some of my other chord videos at some point so I do gloss over some things.
Have you seen my video on chord numbers, or piano house common tones?
@@Bthelick I do no theory and know my chords but your knowledge is better and the way you explain things is easy to understand that's why I asked.
so I understand the whole 1465 it's more on the progressions you know your progressions really well.
I will watch the house common tones though as I don't think I've seen that one.
Would absolutely love to see you build up a Dub Techno track, I love dub techno but find it extremely difficult to get the chord stab delay correct in vital.
Don't use vitals delay. Simple digital delays can't feed back on themselves which is a key to that sound.
Use a tape modeled delay set to dotted 8ths (see my delay video if that makes no sense).
There's a pretty good tape delay built into ableton or an excellent free one by variety of sound called Nasty DLA. 👊
Thanks again for another very useful video. I have an idea for a topic if you ever find yourself scratching around for an idea. I think I’m progressing well but I struggle to make my synth automations sound exciting (like filter and resonance), so I end up with a similar sounding pad or melody for the whole track or mapped in automations that sound a bit random. Im sure the answer is playing the automations in live but I’d like to see what a pro does!
What would the video title be for that? Haha
@@Bthelicksomething like ‘zoom in idiot’ as that’s how I managed to solve my issue!😂
Lovely!
Great video again, thanks! I still wonder why you don't leave any headroom in your mixes?
Lots of reasons, I match the reference at zero and make the track all the way through like that, anything that causes distortion I take care of immediately, this way I prevent the problems that those who mix at lower levels find when they try to master it later because they left headroom that wasn't available at 'master level'. Then by the time I'm done arranging and producing I don't need to do any mixing or mastering. the track goes out as is, exactly as you're hearing it here, typically all in the same session.
just made a video on this (called how to not master your music) 👊
love it
thank you so much! :)
00:19 ghost producer! You arent just a ghost 😂
Awesome 😎
This was a total breakthrough for me! I've been trying to make this style of music for a long time but it's very difficult when you can't really define the components. Once again, you've solved it! Does anyone know the official name for the "pace synth"? besides "saw tooth pluck?" Thanks!
Does it matter? I think you can use any percussive lead sound for the role
As an amateur sound designer i'm just trying to drum up more examples of this kind of sound because it's so common in Afro/ organic house. I want to find more patches to reverse engineer so I can make similar sounds in the future! For example, knowing that the subby growly sustained bass I was hearing was called a 'Reese" made it possible for me to find more versions to learn more about how the sausage is made! helped me learn how to use unison and voices and filters to create more or less "Grit" etc. Thanks for getting back to me!!!@@Bthelick
@@samcowan1894 ah yes good point, in terms of research I see why you need that.
It's tough with these many terms of art being so fluid. I genuinely don't know what anyone else calls that sound!
anyway the presets are in the desc for you to disect.
23:22 Jaguar Organ patch
When you applied Stereo Touch, you said something interesting, describing it as the best "AND SAFEST WAY" to turn mono into stereo... Can you expand on that? (sorry if you've covered this somewhere else, please point me with a link if thats easier)
I definitely talk about it more in my bass processing video.
I'll try to explain but It might need a video. The basic idea is; the problem with many stereo 'enhancers' is they either just turn up the side channel (the s channel is the difference between the left and right) which will make it wider but by not helping the mono at all it will be a much worse balance/mix in mono, or they add signal which makes the mono signal worse (usually as a result of phase cancellation) by in some way 'folding' into the mono signal.
The voxengo one is safe because it adds a delay to one side and cancels it out (in mono) on the other side with the same delay but reversed in polarity.
The whole underlying reason btw is Mono compatibility is essential for dance music as many clubs still playback in mono and most playback devices aside from headphones proper spaced speakers are mono or near-mono.
amazing
great tutorial as always! Would you be able to explain more about what (if anything) you did with the kick, or just the general philosophy? It appears it's peaking at -0.8. Is that where the sample peaked straight from the pack or is there something going on in the master as well? Also, do you always have your kick essentially clipping to zero and not gain stage it?
I did nothing! I chose the sound and that's it. Everything got balanced around its as simple as that. The philosophy is "pick a good sound and leave it alone!"
I already selected it compared to a reference before hand is the most important part.
There is nothing on the master other than meters.
" Gain staging" is the consideration of levels between processes, I can't gain stage a kick that is not processed in any way.
Please stop looking at digital peak meter numbers, they mean very little in terms of real sound, just use your ears, They are the most sophisticated tools we have!
Good stuff! Just wondering why you use Slick Eq instead of the stock Abletone eqs?
its simply for those following that don't use live
Could you possibly make a deconstruction Bonobo's "Fold"?
Please
Especially steeldrum part...Please
very nice 👍👍👍
Can you do a Todd Edwards sample style video please?
Modern Todd or Old Skool Todd?
Old skool Todd please,, the way he sampled always blew my mind
I thought this was a new home construction video when i read the thumbnail.... made entirely of material samples like those swatches you get of tile.
Id love to have that Ableton template
When I'm more organized in the future we can do that sure. I can't re distribute samples obviously but can hand it over blank.
Right now I need to release any music I show on video first before I give any midis etc for legal reasons but we'll get there in time. Thanks for your patience 🙏
Great video. Thank you a lot. Can you do similar video but in Salvatore Ganacci track style, or something like Jaded Mirror or welcome to the people?
Does his music work without the video or stage show?
@@Bthelick yeah, I really like track “Take me to America”
@@Bthelick but to be honest I more interested in Jaded “Mirror”. I try to recreate their mid bass, but i don’t like results that I have. Also interesting how they write Saxophone part
Hi man, this was really fun to watch, I am instantly subscribing!
I wanted to try. your Theme/Template but my Ableton (11 still) will not open it. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed.
I works in live 8 onwards.
You can't open it as a normal file, It works by dropping the file into your themes folder , which is inside the resources folder located in the live folder wherever you installed the program.
@@Bthelick Yeah, that worked. Thanks for the fast reply mate, have a great evening!
great video again! @19:19 any reason why you don't use abletons utility to narrow and pan the sound? just better visual with A1stereocontrol?
More control in A1, it's not just overall width, it's width and position, and it has mid side compensation too.
Also I wanted to keep it daw independent where possible
@@Bthelick ah i get you, thanks for getting back!
Thsi is great
why different eqs just for a lpf or hpf? is there a difference?
No sorry, I had already set up slick on everything (so those not using Ableton could follow) then when it came to the kick I forgot the free version didn't have a low pass, so I grabbed Nova. Any high pass / low pass will be fine
@@Bthelick ah thanks for responding!! ur videos are super helpful and motivate me