What's up! warm welcome to all of you, this is MOGI
Some of you guys asked me to do a walkthrought of a project
I'll show you how I work, what effects are on my mixer channels
I hope that it will help you with your productions and I'll get it as good as I can
Let's get started!
Let's start from the beggining
These are the chords
And... Simple sub, the simplest as it can be - from Serum
Adding to this part Kuba's (Jake Lead's real name)
Kuba is using this lead in his productions
This are the things which keep track interesting so it's good to mess around with it
But not for too long because u can loose your mind with this thing so you know
So from the beggining
There is a steam from Avanger, you can wonder why steam not a thing from piano roll
uhmm..
Because I decided to buy and collect all plugins (to make sure my FL is healthy)
For this time I don't have enough money to get all plugins I want but I'm on the way!
so..
There is a moment I messed around with some small effects
Which are..
I'm not sure u can hear that..
It's worth to mess around with some automations which are not "basic" (I meant some pannings or reverb out)
It keeps track really interesting and not boring.
There is a panning which is really inquiring
Panning its a thing which is making sound from one speaker to second (for people which are begginers :])
So let's continue
This is the moment where all of enjoy starts because..
All the samples from here..
Are steams u can wonder that it's from internet but it's not it because :
I like to work with two project's, I always start with a "dirty" project which is complitly mess, I don't know what is where (on dirty project)
And then I carry this dirty project to a new one which I call "clean" one
I had lot of fun with this moment, you can reconize that
Really lot of reverses
Without it it sounds like this..
It's not bad but with it it's keeping track more good and it add's more vibe to it
I love to mess around with effects which are slowing down the athmosphere
This is break sub (Talking to myself - I'm not normal :<)
Oh this is just a reverse
And there is..
It's not from this (Again not normal).. Oh there it is!
This is just a pitch for this steam
I'm making music for 4 years now and this is the thing which I discovered lately :
If you are surprised when u gaining pitch and the sample is getting shorter and shorter
So all u need to do is click mode and 'STRETCH'
Going further
There is a bass.. I don't know what is the thing it's making it different than this in the drop, I think it's just a MIDI
Yea, it's just a midi
It has over it... Oh I will just show you it in the drop
There are small elements which are doing good job
It's from Serum too
It has over it OTT which is doing nothing (I just messed around with this plugin and at least I leave it)
And filter which is used.. (looking for the automation)
This project has couple of automations so I'm not sure where is what
These elements are doing great job too, when you are messing around with pitch, I named it Scream Low and this is Scream Higher which is..
U know I just cloned it (to make sure you can do some other things to a different steams) and its doing well job
I messed around with this effect too, I switched it to a stretch mode and do a pitch with it as you can hear
Here u can hear and see panning for those steams
I had lot of fun with this pitch too (to make sure it sounds good - it's very important)
And there is a reverb which in the beggining is really small and it's getting bigger at the last steam part to get that small athmosphere over it
So let's see what we have in a drop
There are steams which are from Avanger I think (Can't remember) [It was from KSHMR pack]
This is it.... <thinking>
The bassdrum is one of the most basic one's
It just has over it OTT which is just gained (volume) and I add depth
If someone doesn't know what is 'DEPTH' - it add's fat over thing that has OTT on this thing's channel and I think this is a great option to get something cool
All the percussion elements are sounding like this :
Hmm.. <thinking> there is no thing left to switch on
There is a layer :
It's nothing special, I just added a little reverb over this snare and I cut all of the lows on the reverb
Lot of people are thinking about why reverb is playing with a low frequencies and this is this knob is a sollution which cut's all of low's on the reverb :
It cut's all of useless frequencies (One of problems with getting clean mix is this thing)
Don't use this knob always - if something sounds good you don't need to do this
So we have a percussion elements
Let me switch on those clips too
MHMMM..
There are lot of reverb automations on the leads and other stuff but I will show it later
So we have all percussions, bass which is from.. Serum, 3/4 parts was made with Serum
And bass has over it..
I don't know why I put some higher frequencies over it but maybe it is changing something
I boosted a little bit more of SUB
<Talking to myself> No OTT doing nothing..
And there is a sidechain which is added on this mixer channel, this channel is really usefull (Unpin the channel u want from master and pin it to this one to work)
U can ask me is there any difference, I think yes because it saves you lot of CPU (One Kickstart for lot of channels > 30 kickstarts for 30 channels)
So yea.. Oh and this is one more thing
For a long time I listened to this track and thought about what should I do with a mono or stereo on that bass
I reconized that bass is playing better with a mono to get the space for other elements like kick, lead and that kind of things
when I put it on stereo is messed so much with other things.
So we have this
Let me show you the leads
It's from Serum (Call me SerumMan)
It has over it lot of effect's
It has reverb on it which is connected with peak controler
At least one of the interesting things <let me switch all effects off>
One of the interesting things when you connect reverb to pick controler, when lead plays reverb is active and it cuts useless reverb when the leads are not playing
And it's your decision what do you want from it - big reverb, small reverb - everything.
U see how it works?
Like I said, its your decision what do you want from it and how you want it to sound
It's not a theory, I am repeating now but I always repeat it : Music has no theory, it depense from you what do you want to get from sounds
And most important is that thing that you are enjoying making music and I think this is the way to succes :')
It has OTT
Just a little gain on volume
Little bit of distort
And the EQ is doing THE THING..
Some people would kill me to do this thing.. That boost of high - but it sounds good so why not.
Uhm.. This reverb (on lead) is added to different part of the track
Next EQ.. Cut off some part of the MID's
And reverb which is added to next part too
Let's contiunue
So if we have..
Adding Kuba's lead
Next.. There are small things as you can see
And at this moment we had this full drop
There is a panning so let me show you this thing
Uhm.. Downfilter uhm.. <wtf> No its not from this
This is it, the track is called snare but I just put automation on it because I dont wanted to make project bigger
There it is on a lead, small panning, just for 10% perfectly on both of sides (sides - monitors)
This is really interesting and it gives you that spacious and stereo effect so..
One of the most needed effects on the drops (In my oppinion of course) are the crowds
I'm not sure you can hear it but..
It has little boost of higher frequencies
Why the crowds are needed on the drops?
Because it fills whole space, without it, and without good mix on it whole drops have not got that power and fill
But there is also a replacement for crowds - white noise (I'm using both btw to get good sounding)
And now, we got full drop
I felt it missing something it was missing a lot that fill of the drop and things which will make this drop feels good so I messed a lot with a sampling
And now.. These things are with white noise and white noise is.. <thinking>
This is it, you can create it with 3xOSC and this is how you can do this :
It has a little boost of high's because white noise is always playing with high frequencies *for people who dont know*
Not sure you can hear it on your audio but sometimes those little things are doing amazing job and its really good to work with it
Next thing we have there..
These are all these little sampling things
And this have panning on it too
Important thing on it is bleeding mode which is doing slide from sample to sample more soft, and without any clicks - gentle transition
So we have full drop with added samples which is sounding like this :
I added those samples too, I called it 'Breath' and its more activeted here :
Or not <I'll show you how it sounds alone>
And here is the 3rd part of the drop but before I'll show you it - I added more chants to it :
It's worth to work with pitches, don't worry to change the pitch if something is not in key of the whole track
If I would not change the pitch it sounds like this :
You know sometimes its good to get good pitch over some things, I cut some high's on that chant, gave less dry and just a little sidechain
Next part
I'll switch off these things... Or not, it's okey!
We thought a lot with Kuba what should we do now (after 2 parts of drop), leave it and create the break or create something more to this but..
I messed around with lot of really complicated things, layers and stuff and I had lot of ideas but at least I chose one of the easiest idea because sometimes its the best
So this is it :
And this are the things from 3rd part of the drop with a bass :
I called this bass 'BASS CURBI' because its really sounds like him
On the drop there is just this first note on C4, because with second note C#4 it has too much mess going on, and it wasn't clear so I deleted it
Next thing is lead which is sounding like this :
It's from, oh not from Serum - unbelievable! It's from Synthmaster - Amazing plugin for cool unique sounds, its super good!
It has on it..Sidechain, distortion which is making things more agressive (but dont put too much distortion over things), EQ : like this and OTT with some Depth
Which is making like I said earlier - more fat, I remember I listened to a lot of stereo and mono with it but at the end I didn't change the position of it
And I think.. Thats it for whole drop
And there is the break coming..
I'm not sure again that u can hear it but there is 'TV SOUND'
Which was made on Tyrell N6 VST
But its cool, let me just copy the value to save my point of volume
This are the effect that really worth to find it, keeping track unique and athmosphere, I added to it full mono to get it clear and not mess with other things
This thing made lot of problems to me, it was hard to get this really clear as you can see with the EQ's, but I never give up so I tried and tried :)
There is a reverb with smaller dry to get this think more like soft and not fighting with other things and keep it wet
OTT is from this automation, because when I mixed it on a mixer and I want to create volume automation I just add it from OTT just to not have a problem
Some people will kill me for that because maybe I shouldn't do it but it works for me so why not?
Next things..
Small impact, and here it comes the plucks again
This is the thing with reverb that I said to you
This lead is doing with different reverb <let me find this>
There is too, let me show you
This one later.. <talking to myself>
I will show you how it works
So.. This thing was not there
I didn't know how to fill the empty space in this moment, I tried with some difficult things but I really liked this lead with BIG reverb on it.
It just smear it, song for me must has history in it so I did it because its hm.. secret thing kind of sound, as a whole track
Let's continue
I added a piano here
Which is..
True Pianos
And it has over it EQ like this, some Depth added and smaller dry to get piano.. less dry :) - it's really important!
Uhm.. Vocalizer which is..
Which is made on Kontakt, this VST is Vocalise 2 Gravity Pack 04 - This plugin is amazing for all of styles
it sounds super cool and I will never regret I bought it
It has reverb over it, long decay, lot of reverb and cut low freq like I said earlier
Just a little stereo on it to add that deep feeling
And this is the thing people said I downloaded it from internet, but it's not, I made it on NOVO - AMAZING ORCHESTRAL VST
It costs lot of money but this is awesome, and I will not regret this one never - U must to invest to yourself and your passion
Boosted high's, less of dry, its not mono, not stereo, its sounds cool in my opinion and thats it
And this build up is different than first one because of this plucks which are getting faster :
And its different because of this pitches, on first one its going down (on that slow down perc effect) and on second one - UP
Its good to look at those effects, pitched down or up, those things making songs higher levels, some producers are saying That people will not listen their songs to this moment but if it's true just don't care - do it if you want!
For example in my "Give Me A Sign" I made in predrop this trick, before first drop - panning from left to right and second drop from right to left
I think that will be it..
Oh I will show you how this large master automation in the top of the project because lot of people are asking for it
This automation is adding lot of power to a drop, it is a volume down before a drop and at drop is backing at 100% level - giving you that power effect
I think this is the end of this project.. <thinking>
Oh wait, I will show you how 'Dirty' and 'Clean' projects are working
There is just a mess on Dirty project, you starting at the same level (80%) on mixer channel which is wrong in my opinion
And then I'm starting to transfer project from Dirty to clean
So I'm looking at the dirty project, and doing the same things with clean, people always saying to me that I'm psycho but I'm getting cleaner mix with this operation
And I prefere to do this because my project is so clean and I can focus on some stereo stuff and other things
And when I'm on clean project I always starting with switch EVERY mixer channel to 50% volume to get a headroom - This is my method don't hate me :>
So this little trick from me, Hopefully I inspirated you to make something or just cleaned up some things
So I hope u guys like it and thank u so much! ;) BYE!!
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