Producer Tier: Tutorial (June)

i second this motion

Gleb Zverev

Can you give some examples of those heavyweight snare tunes from 2008?

Matys

I think I may be able to shed some light on that! I was obsessing over sidechaining the last few months and noticed in a few other tutorials they've released they tend to use Fabfilter ProC2 on a sidechain group/bus/aux. The settings differ from track to track, but the concept seems to stay the same throughout. With the attack set very quickly (between fastest possible and 2ms) the sidechain dip happens immediately. The release is then set to anywhere between 10ms and 200ms to time the pumping effect to the rhythm of the song. Lastly, and in my opinion the most important part, the lookahead is turned on and set to somewhere between 1ms and 3ms to perform what I've heard coined as "pre active sidechaining". It essentially offsets the sidechain dip a few ms ahead of time to counteract the attack time technically causing the dip to happen a few ms late. I could be wrong and I would love to be corrected if I am. This is just what I've learned watching these tutorials and running countless exported tests of my own to see exactly what's happening under the hood. Hope this helps! My sidechain has never sounded better.

Trentcast

Nice! Really enjoyed this. I just started collecting a library of noise and static. Interesting thought on noise and stereo placement.

Mike Miller (Penurious)

Thanks! N

VISION

Hey Nick, thank you for that awesome tutorial! I especially liked the part, when you talked about sidechaining the main bass just a little to the kick. That made me wondering if you could talk more about sidechaining maybe in the next tutorial :) Would be awesome to see you working with compressors or tools like Shaperbox or LFO tool.

Ole Sturm

and big DOOFy snares

Santino

Thanks again for this insightful tutorial! Also liked this approach of breaking down a track rather then just have a playthrough (which is also very interesting).

Jahfed Wismans

I miss the rawness from those days, maybe it was just less side chaining lol love seeing the elements of this track!

My thoughts about Phase Plant: his noise oscillators has kinda pre-generated noise when restart (retriger) mode is turned on. Like just a same sample. But you can't move the start position like you can do it in samplers. Then i don't believe that phase plant has his own plugin delay compensation system for internal inserts. That's why you hear phase cancellation for two different and separate processed noise oscillators. Hope you are understand my english :) Thanks for tutorial and bitwig is the right choice!

thanks for this Nik. I really enjoyed watching you "wrestle" with these snare sounds! I think the most valuable part of all your tutorials isn't the stuff you show on screen but when you talk about your thoughts behind sound design etc. thanks again

cb1

Nice! cool insights, i always really liked the layered 200 hz pitch falling bass. :P

Rainier Albertsz