Good music production tutorials

This section doesn’t have to be all Renoise right? Most tutorials are applicable to any DAW anyway. Let’s collect some cool vids in this thread.

Here’s one I’ve seen recently. It’s about using pre & post eq symmetrically to finetune distortion or compression effects. It works great and can be done inside a Doofer in Renoise. Not as elegantly as Reaper though :frowning:

Thanks for posting this, I found it inspiring! And renoise’ eq5 seems to react just like described there, 2 eqs in chain symetrically compensating each other, mixed with a send channel with a gainer inverting the original signal results in…silence. All that’s missing would be a active sensing parameter link, so tweaking one eq in the graph view would auto adjust the second. Via hydras it already works fine, but I find tweaking a graph easier than just a bunch of sliders.

For the compressors it’s the rock! Much finer control than with the inbuilt filters. For distortions probably not so grand, as the second deemphasis eq won’t really dig the signal back to “neutral with selective distortions”, expecially with heavy waveshaping. The harder the distortion is, the greater will be the deemphasis dip the signal after the chain, because the emphasised frequencies are mangled in a way that won’t rise their levels in equal measures to what a symmetrical deemphasis would easily “revert”. I tend to use pre and post eq on distortions, but rather tweak them individually. But maybe it’s great for softer saturation effects as demonstrated in the video, that won’t fuck up a signal too hard.

hey emre, that’s an interesting post. But I still didn’t get this, isn’t this just the same as routing a band to a distortion send using the multi band send device? I will try this. Very interesting :slight_smile:

Also found this one about stereo imaging:

Maybe nothing really new, but at least me usually forgets about separate m/s processing. Also the first technique, adding transient peaks to the side and then compressing it sounds cool. This mono compatibility stuff drives me nuts all the time.

Thanks for posting this, I found it inspiring! And renoise’ eq5 seems to react just like described there, 2 eqs in chain symetrically compensating each other, mixed with a send channel with a gainer inverting the original signal results in…silence. All that’s missing would be a active sensing parameter link, so tweaking one eq in the graph view would auto adjust the second. Via hydras it already works fine, but I find tweaking a graph easier than just a bunch of sliders.

For the compressors it’s the rock! Much finer control than with the inbuilt filters. For distortions probably not so grand, as the second deemphasis eq won’t really dig the signal back to “neutral with selective distortions”, expecially with heavy waveshaping. The harder the distortion is, the greater will be the deemphasis dip the signal after the chain, because the emphasised frequencies are mangled in a way that won’t rise their levels in equal measures to what a symmetrical deemphasis would easily “revert”. I tend to use pre and post eq on distortions, but rather tweak them individually. But maybe it’s great for softer saturation effects as demonstrated in the video, that won’t fuck up a signal too hard.

Yeah, it seems to get pointless using heavy distortion indeed. I find it pretty cool for adding saturation flavours though. You can really finetune it.

hey emre, that’s an interesting post. But I still didn’t get this, isn’t this just the same as routing a band to a distortion send using the multi band send device? I will try this. Very interesting :slight_smile:

Also found this one about stereo imaging:

Maybe nothing really new, but at least me usually forgets about separate m/s processing. Also the first technique, adding transient peaks to the side and then compressing it sounds cool. This mono compatibility stuff drives me nuts all the time.

It could sound similar I guess but as I understand it, this is more of a broadband processing with added sensitivity control. And you just compensate the increased frequency levels with a symmetrical post-eq. What I like about it is the extra amount of control you can have for a distortion or compressor inside a Doofer.

And nice vid about stereo imaging. Having multiple stereo-widening tricks for different tracks instead of using the same effect on every element seems important to have a wide stereo mix. I like these two freebies: Mda stereo& Voxengo stereo touch. They usually do the trick and are mono-compatible. That Brainworx plug looks sexy though.

Not Renoise specific but this is pretty cool.

fabfilter <3

A preview vid but it is a good one from Billain:

He’s sample based too! Love that. I can only imagine what would happen if he had access to 0Sxx and 0Bxx :stuck_out_tongue: His pattern based arrangement looks very intuitive too. Kind of like phrases, but for arrangement.

Wish we had some more goodies for arrangement in Renoise too

Yeah definitely looks something like that. In the lower pattern view, he programs his pattern based beat/bass using midi & FL’s integrated sampler. And the upper view seems to be mostly audio tracks for transition FX etc.

Being able to put all that complex programming into one pattern sure looks intriguing. And gj Image-Line for removing that functionality in the latest “updates” :stuck_out_tongue:

I’ve learned many useful techniques form The Recording Revolution videos:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjRzsiP_aDWWLHV4-2LKBtg

andhttp://therecordingrevolution.com/

Yes, he’s selling something, but the sales pitch stuff is mild. Once in a blue moon he throws in a pitch for books and video course (or something).

Also, folks may not care for his style of music. Doesn’t matter; the concepts he demonstrates are applicable to probably anything you want to do.