Tuesday
26May2009
011: Behind my back!
Tuesday, May 26, 2009 at 04:53AM I finally found a screen recorder for PC that works the way I want it to, so now I can record tutorials on my main DAW. So to try it out, I've decided to show my productional flaws by letting you in on the whole arrangement and the parts of my new single Airbase - Back.
Presented in 720p using Ableton Live 8.
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Reader Comments (12)
awesome tutorial!
WoW!
that reverse piano i have been searching for a long time!
it's used in a lot of songs
in wich sample cd is this available? or did you make it yourself jesper?
hey Jazper, Im just new to production (1 month), thanks to you I started to believe I can make some tunes myself in the future :) There is so little tutorials showing trance projects step by step, I even went from Cubase to Ableton because of your tutorials.
Anyways, I had no idea it looks so easy, some reverb, ping pong, comp & done. I just need to change my 7yo comp, because it cant handle more then 3 vstis with long reverbs etc ;)
BTW: This Back tune is great, expecially Break Lead, I copied it myself for sake of learning. I dont get excatly same tone sound from Gladiator, but Im still learning, arp is just lovely there.
http://www.box.net/shared/jhcfjp6zk7
Keep up great work!
If anyone wants to have the bass mono effect that's used in the tutorial but doesn't want to get the freeware plugin (I like to use Ableton's own plugs only if I can get away with it), you can get the same effect using an audio effect rack.
Chain 1: EQ8 with low pass of the low frequencies + Utility set to monoize the signal
Chain 2: EQ8 with high pass of all the frequencies except for the low passed ones in Chain 1.
Ta da!
Wow !!! Thank you VERY MUCH Jezper ! Awesome tutorial ;)
But please show us your Master line or maybe you're not using it ? Just -3.2db ?!
Hi jezper What bank you use for V-Station? this track is amaizing chau!!!!
Hey Jezper.
Amazing tutorial! Really opened up my eyes to what I was missing / over-doing..
Discovered I was focussing too much on the bassline and trying to make it more complex then it should be.. Very informative and keep it up!
Perhaps as a next tutorial, you could touch on basic track mastering? You have covered grooves, basslines, sidechaining, filter effects and touched on sequences, what about putting it together and take a look at the finishing touches that makes the track sound clean..
I understand a common technique is dropping an audio effects rack onto the master channel, followed by 3 chains within that effects rack with a compressor and EQ Eight to select the cutoffs (hi / mid / low) then adjusting the compressors to fit, however I even after hours of adjusting I still can't get it to sound nice. Do you use this technique often or do you let your audio engineers do the work?
For me, it ends up as a bassy mess or not bassy enough. Working out the balance to that would of course be the key but finding that balance is killing me even after hours of adjusting the thresholds on the compressors..
Anyway ive blabbed too much, if you could touch on that topic it would be tops!
Keep up the great tutorials and even better productions!
Take Care
Marc
Hi Jezper.
Could you please create the video about master compression, filtering etc. (mastering).
Thanks for the tutorial. What's the name of the screen recording software? I want to get something for my PC too. Thanks again!
Hi Jesper,
Thanks for your tutorials, its very help for me.
Could you please create the video about about compressors, distribution frequency, filters, etc. ..
Jezper,
Many many thanks for getting me back into composing trance tracks. I used to pioneer on the Amiga years ago. I use Protracker to create pretty famous tunes back in the days. I never found anything as easy to use again until i saw your tutorial. You make it seem easy but i know i will get the hang of this again, my head is full of baselines and tunes again. Thanks for keeping the melodic trance alive maestro , you are the best !
Hi Jezper :)
Many Thanks for the Tut :) Brilliant.
I'm writing to enquire about the name of the screen recording software?
Can you please let me know?
Many Thanks.