Good Sunday everyone! Just a quick link of my new YouTube video up here :)
I've gone for max production value in this one with all the edits/animations & sfx. I'm really trying to challenge myself to take the theme and storytelling as far as I possibly can with the vids. I hope you enjoy the trip up to space. 🚀
There will definitly be a part two to this series i'm working on next week. I've also had quite a few people ask for a 'behind the scenes' video where I show my proc...
2024-10-06 08:40:11 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone! Let's dive into the week with some more production tips. This time going over some of my favourite panning tricks.
Panning on FX - Here anything goes like random panning, side to side panning, all kinds of panning movement can work great on FX.
Panning on Drums - Certain elements like breaks often want to be stable and fairly down the middle even though this isn't a hard and fast rule. Generally elements with ...
2024-09-24 16:35:44 +0000 UTC
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Got my head down this week & managed to get this one finished before the weekend. Time to enjoy the last of the summer sun tomorrow before the long winter hits! ☀️
If anyone has any questions about the techniques in this video please fire away in the comments.
Also, if anyone is intrested in playing this I managed to get it running on a M1 mac with relative ease following this guide - 2024-09-20 18:00:27 +0000 UTC
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Sorry for being a bit slow this month getting the video's out. 🙏
Last monday just as I was about to start my week, I had a bit of a nightmare and poured boiling hot water directly on my hand! 🤕
It was certainly one of the more stupid things i've done in life & I can't really give you a good explanation why. I was honestly simply attempting to pour water down the sink and my hand got stuck in the way. 😂
It set me back a little bit last week but were now back up ...
2024-09-16 17:01:39 +0000 UTC
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Today I'm diving back into the deep pit that is my Apple Notes library! 📝
I started note taking about 8 years ago as a way to try and make sense of the unbelieveable amount of information there is to learn in music production. 🪐
I'm sure you've all felt the mental strain of jumping from sound designing in a project one minute, to diving down a YouTube rabbit hole of mixing and mastering guides and then onto some random music theory and jazz composition video. 1 hour later yo...
2024-09-06 10:19:53 +0000 UTC
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In case anyone missed it, here is a little refresher on the basics of break chopping. There are actually loads of different ways you can prepare and slice your breaks before you even get into the programming or processing.
I've covered a lot of these techniques in various video's but it's nice to have them all in one place for everyone to see. ✌️
Individual Slice Techniques
(1) Equal Slices
Yo, I’m back with some more production tips! This time we’re diving into crash cymbals and a few other transitional elements. It may seem like such a simple topic but there are a few tricks I use all the time I thought were worth sharing.
Processing - Reverb, Delay, RX950, High Pass Filter
RX950 - Pull down the bandwidth or filter to roll of the high frequencies till the crash fits with your drums & breaks.
ADSR -...
2024-08-28 16:11:16 +0000 UTC
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I thought it would be a fun & useful idea to start a production techniques series here on Patreon. 🥷
It’s often hard to implement tips & tricks you learn in a video when there’s too much information being thrown at you. I hope this will be a good way to breakdown a lot of my content into more digestible chucks!
This one is about Loop FX:
I actually had other intentions for my YouTube video this week but got so stuck down this rabbit hole I had to make a video for anyone experiencing the same problems! 🤯
I've got a Patreon exclusive video lined up for next week as well as two videos for the main channel on shortcuts & workflow. One in Logic X and the other in Renoise.
Beyond that the next big project is going to be something with Playstation Jungle in mind. I love having a theme I can run with and have reall...
2024-08-11 10:35:57 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone! Just a quick one from me today to start off another month. 📆
Even though I've spent much of my time over the last few years teaching others & making YouTube videos, I still have this unquenchable thirst to know everything I can about music production.
I think we've all been caught in the trap of watching too much content and not making enough music. To counter against this bottomless pitfall into self loathing & doubt, these days I try my best to test ou...
2024-08-01 10:29:10 +0000 UTC
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I'm sure some of you are like me & find these more experimental techniques absolutely fascinating. 🧬👨🔬
The core of all this is essentially smashing the inputs into various bits of equipment from mixing desks to samplers to guitar pedals and resampling the results. You can also repeat processes like the Aural Exciter or Gain Functions in the EMU to mangle them even more.
What you often get is extremely distorted sounds that can then be layered with the original sour...
2024-07-29 11:11:36 +0000 UTC
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Part 1 Drums & Breaks - https://youtu.be/S0Azt2MCI3I
The first two parts of this series are now up on YouTube. This is really a fleshing out of all the ideas I started in the Patreon video I uploaded here a week or so ago.
I've also actually just had a moment of inspiration for adding another part to this series. 💡
The title is going to be something like 'Lemon D & Dillinja Part 3 - Abus...
2024-07-19 12:54:35 +0000 UTC
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This is now open to all tiers as I feel it falls under project related samples :)
I've been (not so) quietly working away at a Lemon D/ Dillinja Style project for my next YouTube vid!
I'm trying to get it as polished as possible before doing the tutorial as I think its important to get this one right. I'm close with a lot of the sound design on the bass & drums so with a few more elements this tune will really start to come together over the next few days.
I've been doin...
2024-07-08 11:52:34 +0000 UTC
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Yo hope everyone is pumped for the weekend! I've got some heavy handed drums & breaks processing for you in this one. 🥷
Dillinja and Lemon D are two legends of the DnB & Jungle scene and have some absolute slammers between them which still tear up raves today. This legendary duo have remained largely untouched on the internet with barely a single remarke or recreation attempted.
This is partly due to a lot of the mysticism surrounding their techniques. Apart from word o...
2024-07-05 17:34:05 +0000 UTC
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I thought I would link this here just in case anyone has any questions they woud like to ask on the video :)
Jungle & electronic producers in general often push against music theory as something that isn't necessary to make great music in this genre. Whilst this is absolutly true, I do think the essentials I go through in this video can really help you even if you still prefer to use your ears more than tools like mixed in key.
These concepts of course all apply to Hip-Hop, UK...
2024-07-02 11:58:55 +0000 UTC
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Most of you can probably tell by now that I'm big into the workflow & research side of making music!
Notes are a huge part of this for me and are something I've kept up pretty consistently over the years, trying to learn every last bit of information I can about dnb & jungle production. 📝
There are some great threads on DOA with the Paradox one being a strong favourite. It helped me enormously for my YouTube video series deciphering his somewhat cryptic production sty...
2024-06-16 11:22:32 +0000 UTC
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Here is fun vid of me making a track using the most recent sample pack for the higher tiers. 💎
I love starting with samples as the basis from a project and then using little synth motifs to bring everything together.
This track is about 80% finished by the end of the video, I'm going to work on it this weekend for that last 20% and hopefully get it on Arcologies next jungle mixtape 🚀
Have a great weekend all! ✌️
2024-06-14 12:22:33 +0000 UTC
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Thanks to Daniel C and Kris for suggesting this one. 😊
Right from the start of my musical journey i've been obsessed with collecting samples of all kinds, from psychedelic folk music to ambient library music. Organising all of this in a sample manager can seem like a daunting task at first and is something I know a lot of people put off or don't view as entirely necessary.
I come from the other side of the fence, where I can clearly see how much my work in Audio Finder has h...
2024-06-10 15:10:15 +0000 UTC
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Good afternoon all! I hope everyone is excited to reach the weekend :)
I've finally taken the plunge and signed up to a Vimeo subscription. This means we can now all enjoy embeded 4k, chaptered videos here on Patreon. 🥳
This is a video I've wanted to do for a while going over the two main break chopping techniques. I've done some blog posts on this in the past and touched on it in various YouTube videos, but feel this is the most concise and clear I've been yet.
Both the...
2024-05-31 12:52:26 +0000 UTC
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This is my second video on the Digitakt 2 which goes over a few cool techniques with fx & pads as well as my breaks workflow.
Here is part 1: My Review - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fsffWRR0BI
I made quite a tasty Amen for this project which had the full treatment from turntable speed up into Akai pitch back down resampling to eq & compression etc.
I think this is how I will prep...
2024-05-21 14:57:33 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone!
They're coming thick and fast from me at the moment. 🏃♂️💨
I spend yesteday evening whipping all my notes from the most recent project into a well organised PDF for everyone. I've done this in the same style as the one in my Photek Pack I released a while back which seemed quite popular. 🥷
This essentially provides an easy access cheat sheet for everyone trying to enhace their synths and samples in a project. 📝
Please let me know if t...
2024-05-19 09:53:13 +0000 UTC
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I hope everyone has a relaxing sunday planned somewhere out in the sun! (This side of the world anyways) 😎
This was a really fun one to make & I enjoyed pushing the theme and design as much as possible. I love trying to come up with intresting ways to combine different assets & animations on top of these landscapes and backgrounds. I see the channel moving more and more in this direction of being both visually satisying & a great source of info & entertainment.
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2024-05-12 09:51:24 +0000 UTC
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I have always wondered how Photek had made those delicious snare rolls in his tracks like 'The Rain' https://youtu.be/KzJOCPXqlvw?t=138
I knew it wasn't as simple as velocity rolls and probably had something to do with looping in his EMU e4. The solution I've found involves looping part of the snare hit and controlling it's decay with an envelope. This can be used to fine tune the roll.
You can also s...
2024-05-01 17:00:14 +0000 UTC
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Wow so we're nearly there now with about 150 more to go! I firstly wanted to say a massive thank you to everyone who's joined me on this journey so far & continues to supports me here. ❤️
This all started in lockdown 3 1/2 years ago, when I forced myself onto YouTube with the original intention just to make a few of Audio Finder videos to help people out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PfCrLzjbeo
2024-04-25 19:00:15 +0000 UTC
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I've started to really love creating tracks & projects around these themes like Dune 2. From the pixel art Amigo vids to the aquatic themed Jungle one, I think it definitly helps to set my videos apart from the thousands of other music production videos on YouTube.
I'm trying my best to stay ahead of the game with all this ai stuff like Midjourney & also put a lot of extra time into improving my animations/art/design. All this will hopefully give me lots of tools to make cooler...
2024-04-24 13:49:29 +0000 UTC
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Going head 2 head with Alex for some old school Octamed Style Jungle action! Tune in Tomorrow (Saturday) at 3pm (GMT +1) ✌️🥷
2024-04-19 18:44:43 +0000 UTC
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This one initially started out as a Patreon Exclusive video but I've opend it up to YouTube as I thought people would be intrested in seeing my process here.
I love that everyone gets to vote on the direction of the channel each month so I'm just trying to find the right balance. My main YouTube video's often take 100 hours or more from start to finish so it's hard to give that same level of detail with the editing & animations etc. 🤓
What's also exciting is i'm steadily co...
2024-04-16 17:47:42 +0000 UTC
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Good day everyone. 😊
I thought I would jump in here and do a little post to help you through the mid week grind!
Firstly, I want to say how much I've been loving Amigo. There is a lot of hype around this plugin at the moment which is great to see. I've been using it for about a week or so non-stop.
Whilst it's not doing anything truely gamechanging in terms of sample rate/bit-depth/pitch interpolation. It does sound very clean against similar plugins like decimort. Most o...
2024-03-27 13:20:53 +0000 UTC
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Hello eveyone :) As requested here is the Hip-Hop track in Renoise. Was pretty happy with the breaks in this and definitly managed to get quite a raw old school sound.
Also went through some cool techniques for getting 16 levels inside of Renoise as well as a dope tape warbling trick! 🪄 12:45, 16:15.
I also think its much better to have these videos in 4k with chapters, I will eventually go for the vimeo susbscription option but the embedded YouTube vids are perfect for now. <...
2024-03-22 16:17:33 +0000 UTC
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It's time to vote once again! 🗳
I'm pretty rammed with work this month but I will do my best to get this video out before the end of March.
I'm also still trying to figure out a way to get 4k resolution + chapters integrated into Patreon as I know it makes a massive difference.
I'm more than happy for suggestions so feel free to leave any in the comments. 😊
2024-03-17 12:27:48 +0000 UTC
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