Man, I'm really scared how you share literally top secrets and skills that have been developed over the years, and even so structured. You're creating a new wave of UKG producers, I already feel the pressure of competition😅
Todd Edwards was a major inspiration for Daft Punk, that's why they approached him for collabs. He doesn't just chop and swap between different sections of a song or album - he has a massive library of sample chops from different records and combines them in his genius compositions.
I've seen hundreds of videos by now since I'm trying to recreate the UK garage, jungle and D&B. Out of all the things I've seen I got to say this is by far the best channel I've seen so far. And I've seen a lottttt... Edit: your channel needs so much more attention. I'm going to share on IG.
Can I just say, been watching your content for a while now Ben. You have such a pleasant cadence and delivery, always. Stellar, always. Thank you again
Thank you for this amazing channel.I made more progress with these tutorials than any paid music course.Hope you are here for many more years to come.Much love from America
so if you want to learn arrangement. all you need to do is drag in a garage song (or any genre you want to learn) to your daw. and copy the arrangement. do this enough times and you won't need to copy arrangement anymore and it'll come natural
I'm falling asleep with your 8th rhythm vocal, but the second example what you say is not grooving to me is so much more interesting. Also a more interesting voice. Sometimes duggatugdagdagtagga is the way to go.
Hey Bthelick, recently found your channel, the first video I watched got me subbed up, your videos are great. I love the garage vybes. Big up yourself man.
Man, thank you so much for this video! Love the explanation, and the methodology of searching for samples. Also, thank you for addressing multiple methods-- including those of Todd Edwards, who has been a hero of time for so long! Looking forward to more insightful breakdowns, and informative tutorials!!
@Bthelick -- hey man, you catch the remix Todd Edwards just did for Disclosure? I know you've probably talked about this, but how do you think he gets his iconic bass sound? You think it's a sample, or hardware?!
@sampyannotti definitively not a sample. Samples for bass are a bad idea, because the pitch shifting is never stable. Either you get shorter notes higher and longer notes lower or you have to use time stretching which introduces phase problems and makes the lows inconsistent. It sounds like a good old square under an enveloped filter to me.
hey B, love the videos :) you should do a series on making joel corry type songs start to finish. (Or direct me to your videos that I may have missed on a similar subject)
I haven't done one directly on him , although most times I've done anything sounding like pop house I will have referenced him. Like in these videos; ruclips.net/video/9oCE2K1F_lw/видео.htmlsi=OuufDTDg1bt3M_sV The only problem with pop stuff now is AI can do it really well, so I'm going to be moving away from that and encouraging aspiring artists to do the same (if you want a career that is)
Thanks again for a great video with such a good vibe and sound. If you'd make a track out of every example in this one, I'd be one to buy 'em. Deffo!!!
Sick! I found some of the techniques by my own, but it takes quite a lot of time. This is such a structured and detailed speed up. Ben, I have nothing but admiration for your skills and YT/teaching mastery. How much time do you spend on research? I really like how you point out Todd Edwards specifically. I am still missing MJ Cole reference for his chopped vocals :) From Reason's user perspective, I can say that Mimic and Grain are awesome to fiddle with vocals. I just guess there's not that many Reason users :D
Thanks mate! I've been researching garage for years, every since lots of people started tipping me off about the likes of Sammy Virji et al. Musically I know most techniques already so it's about trying to absolve the scene and recognize commonalities. But that's all surface level stuff, I like to go back and research the history so I can recognize directions and trends that way too and then if that all marries up I can begin to consider it true. Even though I'm UK I was nowhere near London when the scene blossomed so some of this is me sharing what I'm just learning well the bits that are relevant to the music theory of course
Now it almoat sounds like I think UK is just London. Although I must admit I enjoyed buying vinyl in Soho :) My best UK experience though was buying vinyls in one small shop in Exeter. I had to ask the fella 3 times to repeat the sentence and still didn't understand him. If I'm ever coming to UK again, you're up for a pint (or more).
good advice on the techniques used as always, i'd just be wary of using vocals from splice, as they are way oversaturated, meaning everyone uses them, so creating an amazing track then dropping a splice vocal on it, could totally ruin it. as an example the vocal used at 4:50 in the video, i did a quick search through beatport and found 13 tracks released in the last 2 years that all use the exact same vocal, and if you're trying to get a track signed to a label, 95% of labels will reject tracks with splice vocals as they are all way overused, you do get the odd little nugget you can dig out which is only sparsely used, but that effect doesnt stick around long.
@@Bthelick haha i know that YOU aren't interested, but a majority of your audience who are looking to get started in production probably are, as someone signed to 17 labels with numerous beatport and traxsource top 10 tracks released, i was just speaking from experience
@paulroberts8695 oh trust me I have experience haha. All my clients still release on all the big labels. Never mind splice vocals, most won't even accept original tracks now, they want covers only! The industry side will continue to eat itself
@@Bthelick hear that, theres a huge saturation in 'old skool' remixes - one of the labels im signed to has previously years ago, had a UK mainstream chart no 1 and theyre always putting out oldskool piano driven house tracks with the original vocals (which im guessing are never cleared). Ive uploaded many original tracks to the likes of Hypeddit website and they do ok, but recent did a remix of SL2 - Ragga Tip and its been my most heavily downloaded track on there. originality is dead these days, its all about the churn.
@@paulroberts8695 Based on what Paul said above then where is a sample website, like Splice, to find vocal samples that are royalty free that labels wont reject?
Another great vid there Ben. Being a hard house fan back in the day, a lot of those tunes had scenes from movies in. Where would be the best place to get that type of audio from?
Great question. Obviously if you went the official route you'd be paying a lot in license fees. A quick Google suggests loop masters did some "movie dialog" sample packs, I'm not sure if splice has them I'll have to dig
Yes definitely. Ironically it's coming back to that I'm seeing labels get too impatient to license stuff and just releasing and waiting for the lawsuit, it's cheaper than missing the boat apparently.
I saw your video where you 'don't master' your tracks, so was wondering if you could do a video showing how you manage your peaks when mixing? I've heard 'saturation' and 'compression' so far, but knowing how to apply them appropriately is a different thing entirely.
I don't 'manage' them with anything normally! I just pick sounds which have healthy transients where appropriate so those poke through. most importantly I manage the sub range by picking a good kick and bass combo for the key , making sure they don't overlap by side chaining / enveloping them. that area is what will take up the most sound energy and cause obvious distortion of not dealt with properly. See my video on how I process bass for more on that. Get those 2 bits right and the rest is preference mostly. Vocals can be tricky, I did add a limiter to one of the vocals in this video that was particularly spiky and clearly distorting,, but that was for speed of making the video mostly, I would investigate deeper normally as to what was causing that. I rarely use compressors or saturation in general, but certainly never for peak management. Peaks are good, that's where the groove is! Saturation is fine as a sound design tool for aesthetic purposes , like aggression, or adding harmonics for clarity but you have to be very careful with the loss of dynamics / groove from those processes.
Thanks, that all really useful information. I'm on the right track then, maybe just need to be a little more selective with my sounds! Appreciate the feedback!
@@KevinArdala01 btw I just had another thought. If you have time check out start to finish of the fisher style tech house track , my entire process is there.
@ChamilawarnaJayalath ah well we might struggle to find a vocal as quality as Hayla's haha. I've worked with that girl before , she's a great top liner.
@@Bthelick wow what a vocalist to work with, I'm just discovering vocal melody structures similar to this genre but I'm stuck writing my own. would be nice if you cover some of those topic too in future 🙌
For vocals can you record a voice, and take bits of that recording and add to the track? I use ableton have tried to do this, but it seems the whole length of vocals still shows if i lengthen the part i want, so its incorrect 😮
Yes I showed that here with the rack sampler. Or if you select the 3rd mode "slice" of the normal simpler it will attempt to automatically split the sample up which you can then trigger across different notes.
Hey Mr. BtheLick, I really like the groove and the sound from Sebb Junior and Haitiras song "Breathe". is it possible for you to create do one of your helpfully tutorials with this ? i'm looking forward to your response. best regards Mr. WH Link to the Song: m.ruclips.net/video/_oA9Zm6l1Hw/видео.html
its a chopped up sample of a rhodes piano. the bass is sub sample loop. This kind of tech is just a case of finding good loops that you like, and that fit together (same key, groove) and copping them up (maybe to make the groove the same) . I will be doing more videos on samples soon but there's not much more to say here, the whole thing is loops (yes all of it, the drums too), just get searching! type "tech house" into a service like splice and you'll have a groove like that in no time. make sure you watch my video on why some samples don't fit together first 👊
Man, I'm really scared how you share literally top secrets and skills that have been developed over the years, and even so structured. You're creating a new wave of UKG producers, I already feel the pressure of competition😅
haha errr, thanks?
A rising tide lifts all boats as they say!
Todd Edwards was a major inspiration for Daft Punk, that's why they approached him for collabs. He doesn't just chop and swap between different sections of a song or album - he has a massive library of sample chops from different records and combines them in his genius compositions.
Ah I see thanks, I thought they came up at the same time
The energy is so good with this channel 👍 I made my first garage beat today inside of Korg Gadget 😊
Nice one! 👊
Yes yes yes yes yes!
I've seen hundreds of videos by now since I'm trying to recreate the UK garage, jungle and D&B. Out of all the things I've seen I got to say this is by far the best channel I've seen so far. And I've seen a lottttt... Edit: your channel needs so much more attention. I'm going to share on IG.
Yeah he’s a real gem
thanks for the support 👊🙏
2:00 that is sick as fuuuuuuu
Yeah that bass sound is 🔥🔥
Right?? Need a full version
i beg he releases a full version it was acc bang on soundcloud
Goddamnit.. . I'm still learning stuff from the first drums video.. thankyou! Loving this series
That formant automation at the end 🤯
Genius!
this is becoming one of my favorite youtube channel..love how you break all the techniques on making UKG!
are you Dan Worrall
I wish! 😅 I do my best impression of him as I think he's really easy to understand and a great teacher.
Maybe the David Attenborough of EDM?
@@amhamper haha I'll take it!
This would be hilarious if true after all this time
Dan Worrall sounds more menacing, although he toned the menace down a bit lately.
Dude, your way of explaining truly amazes me. Thank you sir!
sheeeesh you've been on it this series. i don't even make ukg but these are some great tips. good ear
Can I just say, been watching your content for a while now Ben. You have such a pleasant cadence and delivery, always. Stellar, always. Thank you again
Aw thanks Michael. Doing my best Dan Worral impression haha.
love this guy
I've been watching through all your guides on garage and house. Thank you so much for making these!
Such a great video, your helping the music community tremendously🕺🏼🙌🏼
I’m thoroughly enjoying these videos
Great tutorial man 🙌 would love to see a deep house tutorial like Saison or Miguel Migs. Your content is worth its weight in gold!
Like Todd Edwards the pitched vocals 👍
Thank you for this amazing channel.I made more progress with these tutorials than any paid music course.Hope you are here for many more years to come.Much love from America
The sequence at 10:16 is a banger waiting to be released! Nice one 🙏
Best garage tutorials I've seen in a minute! Good stuff! Would love a video on how to arrange for garage next. I find I struggle with that a lot.
so if you want to learn arrangement. all you need to do is drag in a garage song (or any genre you want to learn) to your daw. and copy the arrangement. do this enough times and you won't need to copy arrangement anymore and it'll come natural
I'm falling asleep with your 8th rhythm vocal, but the second example what you say is not grooving to me is so much more interesting. Also a more interesting voice. Sometimes duggatugdagdagtagga is the way to go.
That's fair enough. I'm thinking of the beginners really, it's just easier to fit those simpler ones in before you get a more meticulous ear.
@@Bthelick Thanks for the reply, yeah I got you mate!
So nice! It brings back good memories, when I really had no idea how these tracks were actually produced. Keep it going mate!
Another excellent video B, great tips as always 🙏🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🔥🔥
Love you're content, ty!
Best tutorials 🐐
Hey Bthelick, recently found your channel, the first video I watched got me subbed up, your videos are great. I love the garage vybes. Big up yourself man.
Thank you and welcome! 🙏👊
Man, thank you so much for this video! Love the explanation, and the methodology of searching for samples. Also, thank you for addressing multiple methods-- including those of Todd Edwards, who has been a hero of time for so long! Looking forward to more insightful breakdowns, and informative tutorials!!
@Bthelick -- hey man, you catch the remix Todd Edwards just did for Disclosure? I know you've probably talked about this, but how do you think he gets his iconic bass sound? You think it's a sample, or hardware?!
@sampyannotti definitively not a sample. Samples for bass are a bad idea, because the pitch shifting is never stable.
Either you get shorter notes higher and longer notes lower or you have to use time stretching which introduces phase problems and makes the lows inconsistent.
It sounds like a good old square under an enveloped filter to me.
Again great tutorial 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Thanks Ric! 🙏
hey B, love the videos :) you should do a series on making joel corry type songs start to finish. (Or direct me to your videos that I may have missed on a similar subject)
I haven't done one directly on him , although most times I've done anything sounding like pop house I will have referenced him.
Like in these videos;
ruclips.net/video/9oCE2K1F_lw/видео.htmlsi=OuufDTDg1bt3M_sV
The only problem with pop stuff now is AI can do it really well, so I'm going to be moving away from that and encouraging aspiring artists to do the same (if you want a career that is)
Lets gooo BTHELICK!
That crate digging gif is sending meeee
You are amazing mate. Thank you so much for all your time and effort ❤
Yeah. This is the good stuff.
Please release the female vocal example as a full track.that was fantastic
Thanks! All these will be finished and released don't worry 👊
Amazing video! Really simple on the way you explain things. 👍 Thank you. 😃
once again on point... pure gold dust.. ;)
fancy seeing you here again ;)
Insane, youre a genius. Thanks for sharing ❤
dope asf
Thanks again for a great video with such a good vibe and sound.
If you'd make a track out of every example in this one, I'd be one to buy 'em.
Deffo!!!
Thanks Daniel. Yes they will all be finished and released.
Grreat content as usual!
Great stuff my man xx
Interesting, and nice to listen, thank you
Please please please do a video on heavy drum and bass noises like in Arcando buss back
Absolutely we'll get to that eventually.
Thank you!
Sick! I found some of the techniques by my own, but it takes quite a lot of time. This is such a structured and detailed speed up. Ben, I have nothing but admiration for your skills and YT/teaching mastery. How much time do you spend on research? I really like how you point out Todd Edwards specifically. I am still missing MJ Cole reference for his chopped vocals :)
From Reason's user perspective, I can say that Mimic and Grain are awesome to fiddle with vocals. I just guess there's not that many Reason users :D
Thanks mate!
I've been researching garage for years, every since lots of people started tipping me off about the likes of Sammy Virji et al.
Musically I know most techniques already so it's about trying to absolve the scene and recognize commonalities. But that's all surface level stuff, I like to go back and research the history so I can recognize directions and trends that way too and then if that all marries up I can begin to consider it true.
Even though I'm UK I was nowhere near London when the scene blossomed so some of this is me sharing what I'm just learning well the bits that are relevant to the music theory of course
Now it almoat sounds like I think UK is just London. Although I must admit I enjoyed buying vinyl in Soho :) My best UK experience though was buying vinyls in one small shop in Exeter. I had to ask the fella 3 times to repeat the sentence and still didn't understand him. If I'm ever coming to UK again, you're up for a pint (or more).
Bro. I need a full version of your "Todd edwards" chop example tune!! 😂🙏 Big up
Class channel
good advice on the techniques used as always, i'd just be wary of using vocals from splice, as they are way oversaturated, meaning everyone uses them, so creating an amazing track then dropping a splice vocal on it, could totally ruin it.
as an example the vocal used at 4:50 in the video, i did a quick search through beatport and found 13 tracks released in the last 2 years that all use the exact same vocal, and if you're trying to get a track signed to a label, 95% of labels will reject tracks with splice vocals as they are all way overused, you do get the odd little nugget you can dig out which is only sparsely used, but that effect doesnt stick around long.
Oh I'm not worried about labels lol. Stopped using those nearly a decade ago now! 🤣🤣
@@Bthelick haha i know that YOU aren't interested, but a majority of your audience who are looking to get started in production probably are, as someone signed to 17 labels with numerous beatport and traxsource top 10 tracks released, i was just speaking from experience
@paulroberts8695 oh trust me I have experience haha. All my clients still release on all the big labels. Never mind splice vocals, most won't even accept original tracks now, they want covers only! The industry side will continue to eat itself
@@Bthelick hear that, theres a huge saturation in 'old skool' remixes - one of the labels im signed to has previously years ago, had a UK mainstream chart no 1 and theyre always putting out oldskool piano driven house tracks with the original vocals (which im guessing are never cleared).
Ive uploaded many original tracks to the likes of Hypeddit website and they do ok, but recent did a remix of SL2 - Ragga Tip and its been my most heavily downloaded track on there.
originality is dead these days, its all about the churn.
@@paulroberts8695 Based on what Paul said above then where is a sample website, like Splice, to find vocal samples that are royalty free that labels wont reject?
The last few techniques were gold for me. I'm usually and old fashioned cut and paste type of guy. But finding vocals is a chore.
Great tutorial thanks. I saw somewhere you showed how to go about a choir type pad like in Peach but I cant remember which video that was in?
It's a short, called how I got the Virji peach choir
DAYUM
LMAO, i used those lyrics 3 days ago, Ranking Joe's vocal sample are awesome
Could you please make neo grime tutorial? Some artist are pholo, gl00my, night bloom, gastah.
I'll look into it , thanks for the artist suggestions 🙏👊
Another great vid there Ben. Being a hard house fan back in the day, a lot of those tunes had scenes from movies in. Where would be the best place to get that type of audio from?
Great question. Obviously if you went the official route you'd be paying a lot in license fees.
A quick Google suggests loop masters did some "movie dialog" sample packs, I'm not sure if splice has them I'll have to dig
@@Bthelick maybe they got away with it as it was more of an underground scene
Yes definitely. Ironically it's coming back to that I'm seeing labels get too impatient to license stuff and just releasing and waiting for the lawsuit, it's cheaper than missing the boat apparently.
I saw your video where you 'don't master' your tracks, so was wondering if you could do a video showing how you manage your peaks when mixing? I've heard 'saturation' and 'compression' so far, but knowing how to apply them appropriately is a different thing entirely.
I don't 'manage' them with anything normally! I just pick sounds which have healthy transients where appropriate so those poke through.
most importantly I manage the sub range by picking a good kick and bass combo for the key , making sure they don't overlap by side chaining / enveloping them. that area is what will take up the most sound energy and cause obvious distortion of not dealt with properly.
See my video on how I process bass for more on that.
Get those 2 bits right and the rest is preference mostly.
Vocals can be tricky, I did add a limiter to one of the vocals in this video that was particularly spiky and clearly distorting,, but that was for speed of making the video mostly, I would investigate deeper normally as to what was causing that.
I rarely use compressors or saturation in general, but certainly never for peak management. Peaks are good, that's where the groove is!
Saturation is fine as a sound design tool for aesthetic purposes , like aggression, or adding harmonics for clarity but you have to be very careful with the loss of dynamics / groove from those processes.
Thanks, that all really useful information. I'm on the right track then, maybe just need to be a little more selective with my sounds! Appreciate the feedback!
@@KevinArdala01 btw I just had another thought. If you have time check out start to finish of the fisher style tech house track , my entire process is there.
Will do. That's great, thanks!
awesome video can we do some melodic progressive house start to finish with splice vocal would be great 🙌
Sure, any tracks you like in particular?
@@Bthelick Kx5 (Deadmau5 & Kaskade) escape style I'm stuck at vocals structure and 8bar loop 😃
@ChamilawarnaJayalath ah well we might struggle to find a vocal as quality as Hayla's haha.
I've worked with that girl before , she's a great top liner.
@@Bthelick wow what a vocalist to work with, I'm just discovering vocal melody structures similar to this genre but I'm stuck writing my own. would be nice if you cover some of those topic too in future 🙌
Damn where can I get that Melodic_stack_let_you_be_vocal sample from?
0:22
Greetings, and what pack is it from? @@Bthelick
@@solo_boy_music it says "91V_CT"
Very nice and interesting content, may I ask about the chords plugin ?
Ask away! What chords plugin are you referring to?
@@Bthelick Found it, was a splice audio. Nice dig !
For vocals can you record a voice, and take bits of that recording and add to the track? I use ableton have tried to do this, but it seems the whole length of vocals still shows if i lengthen the part i want, so its incorrect 😮
Yes I showed that here with the rack sampler.
Or if you select the 3rd mode "slice" of the normal simpler it will attempt to automatically split the sample up which you can then trigger across different notes.
@@Bthelick thanks for the reply, I'll give it a try....after I've worked out a nice garage beat. 👊
how do you access a global swing % in ableton?
You need a groove loaded into the pool first.
Was literally just listening Burial lol
Formants in the negative only for that vibe!
Hey Mr. BtheLick,
I really like the groove and the sound from Sebb Junior and Haitiras song "Breathe".
is it possible for you to create do one of your helpfully tutorials with this ?
i'm looking forward to your response.
best regards
Mr. WH
Link to the Song:
m.ruclips.net/video/_oA9Zm6l1Hw/видео.html
its a chopped up sample of a rhodes piano. the bass is sub sample loop.
This kind of tech is just a case of finding good loops that you like, and that fit together (same key, groove) and copping them up (maybe to make the groove the same) .
I will be doing more videos on samples soon but there's not much more to say here, the whole thing is loops (yes all of it, the drums too), just get searching!
type "tech house" into a service like splice and you'll have a groove like that in no time.
make sure you watch my video on why some samples don't fit together first 👊
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