Join My Free Discord Server: discord.gg/sBbsE6e Topics Covered/Time Stamps 0:00 - Intro 1:50 - Pure Sine Tone 2:05 - Even Harmonics (2nd order) 2:25 - Odd Harmonics (3rd Order) 2:45 - Even vs Odd 3:30 - Tube vs Tape - which type of saturation 4:30 - Non Linear Behaviour (Discussion) 5:25 - Non Linear Example 6:00 - Recap 6:30 - Ear Training Checklist (headphones, plugins, gain staging) 9:30 - Audio Example Drums with Saturation 10:38 - Warming Saturation 11:35 - Tape Saturation 11:55 - Marketing Myths. Don't be fooled by Tubes! 14:00 - Guitar Exampl 15:07 - Final Discussion
It's really amazing that this man is offering all this information and knowledge in such high quality videos - FOR FREE. We don't pay respects enough to people like you, the online music community wouldn't be the same without you! THANK YOU.
One thing that I realized more acutely after watching Adam Neelys latest video is how little vocabulary we have in English that just describes sound. Almost everything is actually a description of another sense
For example which words? I am not native english speaker. So i didn't even know that saturation was meaning something else. What's even more funny, that there is almost no tutorials in my language, so i don't even know, how would i say these words. We just use english terms. It sounds weird, but i got used to it
VERE well the word saturation for example usually has to do with having brighter colors. Music has taken this word and used it to mean something else. But really, any descriptive word in music has this problem. Punchy refers to impact but that comes from touch, warm is also based on touch. There are so many words like this. I have to say that I don't know whether other languages are different or whether this is a common problem
@@deltanebula8622 It's not a problem in other languages, bcs for saturation we have different word, so when you say saturation, it reffers to music saturation
I've been following and watching both Michael and Paul Davids for the past year and a half, and suddenly today I find this comment! Both these channels have helped me an awful lot, thanks to both of you :)
What I love about your tutorials is that unlike many other similar tutorial series, you don't say "Do this and that to make your mix sounds better" You explain "Do this and that, to understand the tools at your disposal, so you know how to make your mix sound better"
Love this, before the hollidays I was selected for a producer/artist school. This school just send me an e-mail with learning material INCLUDING THE LINK TO YOUR CHANNEL. which is kind of amazing to see :D
As a genuine enthusiast, I feel the beauty of this channel and Michael's skill as a producer/engineer/teacher is that I can keep coming back to quality content and keep learning. I often refer back to many older videos for reset and recap. His professionalism, integrity and consistency is what is equally impressive. I have not found that content from much older videos is in any way contradictory - all the keys basics are the same. Superb channel, and head and shoulders about other similar content providers IMHO.
I seriously cannot thank you enough for making these, Michael. You are seriously my hero man you're so wise and full of encouraging, positive energy. God bless ya fam, forreal
@@inthemix Thanks for all the work you put into these videos mate, I've learned a lot about recording and basic vocal EQ in just a few months. Recently set up my old PG58 with a cheap interface to do some voiceover work, but in practice I just have really overkill audio quality for Discord calls hahah. I appreciate that you take the time to explain the details to beginners, as audio really isn't intuitive to everyone, and in my experience that attention to detail is the mark of a great educator.
How to record electric guitar like the example in this video would be really helpful. Lovely tone. Your other recent videos are only on acoustic guitar
Literally today morning I was going through some free saturation plugins & was thinking how does it really works or what it does... So thanks for this video today ❤ from 🇮🇳
Interesting. For decades we designed and built as noise free and distortion free gear as possible, and this generation can't hear music without crapping it up with noise and distortion, and of course, ZERO dynamic range and as LOUD as possible. You have a minimum of 96 dB dynamic range and you can't wait to ruin it all with whatever you call this 'technology'. Try it MY way. One mic., one MONO tape machine, one basement, 65 dB dynamic range, MAYBE. Add people who know how to play music. I've been doing this since 1961. When we really had to know how sound and sound recording worked, for real.
I love your methodical and concise approach to all your videos. You always make such a fluent attempt at actually displaying what you’re doing. Keep up the amazing work! ❤️
Damn this channel has to be the best resource for music production on the internet. I think I've learnt more from this channel than I have from every other recourse combined. Thanks so much for everything you do!
A nice idea is to sidechain your track to a separate mixer channel, go crazy with saturation and slowly blend in the signal. I know it sounds kinda useless, but it lets you apply effects *on* the saturation. For example an Eq can prevent it from getting too dirty, and a compressor will make it more consistent. Great video as always, Michael
@@prod.extelligence the steps I list below are what I do on FL studio but I think it's about the same in every daw 1. Assign your sound to a mixer track, let's call it track 1. 2. Select track 1, go to the arrow at the bottom of *another* mixer track (track 2 I guess), right click and hit "sidechain to this track" 3. (In FL studio you do this by fruity send) send the audio from track 1 to track 2. Now you have 2 identical sounds on 2 different tracks. Grab track 2's fader and pull it all the way down to -infinite 4. Apply a saturation plug in like softube saturation knob at the start of track 2's effects chain. You probably want to exaggerate here, as not all of this grit is going to be used afterwards. 5. So now you have the original sound on track 1 and a very dirtorted version on track 2. Track 2's fader is at - inf, time to change that. Start slightly pushing it up, thus adding more and more of this dirtorted volume. Once you are happy with the sound, leave the fader where it is. Keep in mind this increases the overall volume, so don't get fooled by making everything super loud. 6. Most fun part: the entire track 2's effects chain is empty, so you can add any effect there. The effect will only affect the distorted part of your sound, hence you actually get to shape this distortion any way you want. I hope this helped, have a great time producing!
@@rhydes_ wow! thank you so much for that elaborate explanation! i really appreciate it! i got it to work now :) but just to be sure, this is basically the same as duplicating the sound and putting the second version on another mixer track, right? i've done this with 808s where I cloned my 808, put it on another mixer track, distorted the shit out of it and then mixed the two versions together.
Hi Mike ! Just wanted to ask what are your opinions on producing orchestral music in fruity loops, and I got info from a fb grp that u have been using fl studio for like 4-5 years and have mastered it,thats great !! Mind telling from what different types of sources did u learn from? Edit:Yo is that a TR 808 lying on the bed? Great video BTW!
I have recently been figuring out saturation, and I'd like to share a couple of suggestions for plugins. First, there are the Air Windows plugins that seem crazy at first (no GUI), but really are great if you learn them. There's ToTape5, channel7 (and relatives), etc etc. Great. Then there's all the Analog Obsession plugins; just give some of them a try. For paid, there's a sale on plugin alliance Phil's cascade, black box HG-2 and the incredible HG-2MS. For transformer saturation, I think kazrog true iron is unbeatable. I should also mention waves NLS; very good for emulating an old analog console and in sale now. There's also chowtape for free. Other suggestions?
Might like to throw Klanghelm in here as well. Both free and paid plugins. Some distort, some can compress completely linear, if you want and the paid ones are affordable but really, REALLY good.
This is such an informative. I’m experimenting with saturation plugins right now, but I’m curious about the chain order. Is it conventional to saturate before making a couple of cuts with EQ?
Because saturation is very much affected by the input level of a track, it's important to consider placing automation after the saturator, otherwise the saturation will be affected by the automation.
UniversaL from what I know it’s just a function f (in the mathematical sense) that takes an input x and outputs y = f(x). That’s why you can usually draw your own function f in a lot of them. Now for the use ... I use them to make all kind of over the top distortion for any kind of aggressive element in a track, but not so much for mixing.
@@paulmichelon2176 Hm... Maybe this is "Transfer Function" actually. _ Quote from Wikipedia. "In engineering, a transfer function (also known as system function[1] or network function) of an electronic or control system component is a mathematical function which theoretically models the device's output for each possible input.[2][3][4] In its simplest form, this function is a two-dimensional graph of an independent scalar input versus the dependent scalar output, called a transfer curve or characteristic curve. Transfer functions for components are used to design and analyze systems assembled from components, particularly using the block diagram technique, in electronics and control theory. (In russian wikipedia that describes harder, lol) _ I think this IS "Transfer Function" :D
Yes sure it is a transfer function, but I didn’t know your level of expertise in engineering so this wouldn’t have helped I think. Still, the transfer function is just f : [0,1] -> [0,1] and can be anything (that’s why you can draw the transfer function). There is no time effects as opposed to filter. Now it can be a bit more complex as there is usually oversampling in those devices to avoid aliasing, which includes filtering under the hoods. But that’s not the main effect
I'm gonna preface with I'm not an expert but I'm pretty sure it depends on the sound you're going for. If you bus them all to one saturation channel then it'll homogenize the mix and squish it all together. Saturating each track individually allows you to cater the saturation (and maybe even use different saturation) to each individual track and get them individually sounding saturated. So it's up to you what sound you want. Doing both could even be really nice if you don't overdo it
Guys i got a questions.. if i wanna record a track and produce my vocals like "eminem in beautiful" then what shall i do to make my vocals sound thick like in he's?? n thx bro 4 the vid ❤️❤️
Thanks! that was really helpful :) regarding to your question, I would like you to review some of the best acoustic guitars you think are good for beginners and some tips of whether I should get an semi-acoustic or just normal, and also maybe what mics would work well with it, I'm looking to buy one and that would be so helpful if you would do that!
I’m glad I subscribed to you bruhh.. thank you for explaining in easy mode. I actually understand how your explaining everything.. quick n to the facts. Learn something new errrday !! 😂
Hi my name is Manuel Khoza Im from South Africa .I always viewed myself as a music genius as far as i can remember I've always tempered with music ,I can play guiatar, piano and I know how to produce my songs from scratch thanks to RUclips channels I've even learned more skills than I thought I would acquire,my problem is that I dont have a music certificate in which that crushes my spirit, I want to know about the music business so that I can Learn how to make money from music and that do I really need to have a music certificate coz I dont feel like I need it. Can you please 🙏 Help
I will give you a tip right now and i say this with the fullest respect and dont mean to insult you in any way. You really need to get back on the ground and stop calling yourself a "music genius". Your singing is average at best but you can tell there was a lot of progress from older videos to new videos. Your guitar chords and picking in your videos is also average at best. The melodies from your videos are nothing special at all. Some really basic stuff that someone from elementary school with basic understanding of music can do. The mixing is alright, i think youre just starting out so thats fine. I definitely respect how you use your keyboard as a midi piano tho. I can tell youre really passionate about it and you want to reach a lot but you need to reflect better on your work and on yourself. Be honest with yourself. Just because you love something it doesnt mean youre some kind of genius. Self reflection will help you a lot to progress and really work on yourself. Thats the tip i can give you.
actually, not every even harmonic is "plus octave" harmonic, am i being wrong? "plus octave" harmonics come when you multiple the original frequency x2, x4, x8, x16 and so forth. please, could you clarify this, i can't fully understand (
Haha! I was glad i ve seen that again and i wil try to explain you and your view-ers as well !Non -liniar behaviour.Many user do not fully understood that and of course is a advanced top but let me clear a little .what you shown is the 2 representation of the sound 'harmonics" Since the sound has a 3 d aspect including time axes make us read that bahaviour like having that 3-axes as well (instead we do not have it) .ok similar comparation on waves-rock-wather .Simple because sounds is a sort of energy that need to disipate in a medium !And regardless the ignition point (initial frevc or tonic) will always disipate from that point all directions! PLEASE UNDERSTAND !That in what we do in rec sound or sound "info" manipulation should respect by alter in some degree the real deal hapening in real world!MAKE SENS TO YOU ?Ok scientiest have conducted 3d sound experimentation and they have been descover that . Since we humains are not prone to hear mentaly lower harmonics we tent to think ooo look it s disipate twourds hight frecv.Instead is not !Because visually we can visual that ! Please look at sound fundamentals ,sound propagation and sound structure (generally ) and in deeph explination . Interesting way but many tech skip this bla bla bla and then make it harder to understand later. Now what is saturation starting from nature (direct to our hearing) ...... to saturation (coming from a havely alterated "signal" coming from a speaker) MAKE SENSE TO YOU ?
As someone who always gravitates towards subs in my beats as opposed to common 808s, this was extremely helpful🙏 I always get frustrated when my bass is non-existent through cheaper speakers.
This guy is an excellent YT teacher. So easy to follow..... until an obnoxious ad pops on omg. The ads are extra obnoxious when youre watching his tutorial
My biggest disappointment with Saturn 2 is there are no settings that provide more even order harmonics relative to odd. It’s not even close, even the tube models. Gsatplus and spl twin tube can do this easily, which are both on all of my channels. Crazy.
The issue I have with compression and saturation is I'm always incline to just use it on every single track. It's hard to tell if it needs it or not, especially since the effect can be subtle and hard to spot
The next step is to get your hands on a lot of different options for saturation-there's tons of free plugins out there,stock ones etc. You need to experience a lot of these different plugins as it's one of these effects where there is no wrong or right plugin,there's many of them and many producers have tons of different analog gear and plugins especially for this purpose-particular tools tend to fit particular jobs. Once you've got all these plugins if you're confused about what they're doing simply download the free Voxengo Span spectrum analyzer plugin,run a pure sine wave through it and see what your plugin is doing/what it's inducing. The next thing you must do when you're using saturation plugins or hardware is send in a good amount of signal. If you're sending in -30 or -40 db of signal you might actually not experience any saturation with these plug-ins;as explained re-the non-linear behavior aspect of working with saturation/distortion plugins and the relationship between the amount of signal/results produced,,some of these plug-ins don't even react to anything until you give them -20/-10 db of gain. Experiment with pushing up your gain going into the plugins and make sure that you're maintaining good gain staging. In this first example I'm going to be adding some distortion to this drum track;I'll play it clean just to start off with. The first thing I would recommend(which I don't usually recommend when mixing) is to solo the track as it allows you to tune in to what is happening with the saturation. I'm going to be using the Izotope Ozone 9 Exciter module because it lets me choose between some different types of saturation easily. First I'm going to use tube saturation and what I want you to notice is that as I'm increasing it up to around halfway you might hear that the low mids start feeling a little bit more full and a little bit more reinforced and then beyond there it's just getting a lot brighter with a lot more high frequencies and things actually start distorting and sounding almost clipped. Now it's sounding more reinforced and louder but what was interesting was that even though things were distorting and sounding a lot louder the peak loudness was actually going down on this db meter on the output so as I increase it we're getting less peak loudness but the average loudness and the perceived loudness is increasing. This is why I really wanted to explain that non-linear behavior at the start.Even just going a few more percent up here just radically changes how this distortion sounds. What is very common is distorting something quite a lot and then pulling the mix amount down,i.e. we're distorting it like crazy but then we're only going to blend in actually a small amount of that distortion....for this particular track I would pull it back like this. Let's try some different types of distortion,this time I'm going to go to "warm"....this should be a lot more subtle but you'll feel that instead of adding a lot of high end it's simply just reinforcing that kick and snare,pulling out the bottom of the snare/beefing up the kick drum...you can hear that as we get to the higher frequencies the hi-hats start to break apart so that's something to listen for in the high end.
Michael, thanks for posting all the great tutorials. You have a gift, bro. Rarely do you make a beginner video where I feel like something material was omitted. Usually, I do not have to watch other peoples videos to clarify something you taught. You have profoundly shortened my learning curve for FL Studio. I live in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. I assume because you rock the union jack wall hanging that you are British. Thus, I wish you would review the SSL 2 usb audio interface. I would love to here a Brit discuss SSL. My engineering teacher, who is Russian, not British, devoted a lot of time to discussing how SSL engineers historically set the bar. Due to pandemic backorder at the time I purchased, I ended up ordering my SSL 2 from Liverpool. The 4000 E eq saturation emulation is remarkable to my ears, especially at the price point. Easiest way to get that kind of sound.
Saturation is a very broad effect and it can be a deliberate and obvious effect such as an overdriven guitar tone or a heavily distorted 808 bass sample but it's also the more subtle side effect induced by signal processing so virtually any circuit i.e.(tube/tape/transistor or even plug-in)has saturation to a certain degree. Analog style saturation- Part of the appeal or fascination with saturation is that,as a lot of these devices are analog, records made back in the good old days often sounded really warm full punchy and thick and part of this is down to the fact that there was subtle saturation on every single track in those mixes just naturally due to the devices they were recorded on and mixed through. Saturation is when extra sound is induced or added to your original signal. There's two main types of harmonic saturation-even and odd harmonics. i.e- fundamental x 2/4/8 etc=even fundamental x 3/5/7 etc= odd In both cases we're adding signal or notes that weren't there previously albeit at a slightly lower level into the higher frequencies. In general the even harmonics tend to give a feeling of support,clarity and fullness mainly because you're adding in the octave and another octave above as well and adding the octave to the original sound sort of gives this feeling of support maybe a subtle sort of feeling of doubling that original sound whereas the odd harmonics add a lot more richness,edge,bite,+ buzziness to the sound w/more high frequencies. Even and odd harmonics both can sound excellent depending on what you're using them for it's not that one is better than the other. Besides a few plugins and wave shapers,almost all plugins and certainly all analog hardware doesn't simply induce even or odd harmonics as many people believe. All of these different devices and plug-ins have a different combination or distribution of these even and odd harmonics depending on a lot of different factors. You may have heard that tubes have only even harmonics and maybe tape has only odd harmonics but this simply isn't true. It's true that certain devices favor certain harmonics-even or odd,but it's much more than just whether it's got a tube in it or whether there's a bit of tape there. From an engineering background it' all has to do with the topology of the circuit,not just the tube or the tape-it's every single piece of wire,every capacitor...especially the transformers make a huge difference,it's just the general design of the circuitry and not just one component. Non-linearity or non-linear behavior= Basically with any device that induces saturation or distortion what you might expect is that at all levels of volume or gain that you feed into that device you'd have exactly the same type of saturation i.e.the same distribution of even and odd harmonics but at varying levels. However,actually with almost all of these devices and plugins,if you feed a different amount of volume into them or drive them differently you get dramatic differences in the distributions of odd and even harmonics and the tone of the saturation that's generated. I have an example here with a tube emulation and you'll see that as I increase the amount of drive there's a big difference in the distribution of harmonics.At some points it's favoring those even harmonics then the odd then back to the even again. These devices respond completely different to transients/different amounts of signal. To be able to accurately hear the effect of saturation being applied on a given signal you need something that can give you an extended high frequency response. Reference monitors are great in a well-treated room but most of the time the subtle differences of saturation are a little bit harder to hear correctly on studio monitors whereas in headphones you can hear if you're overdoing it a little bit too much
Hey, did you recorded and played the guitar yourself? If so, could do a video on how you recorded exactly this melody and especially showing how you get this sound? This guitar is so damn relaxed and nice that I would like to recreate this sound! :)
My personal taste, but drums were always with hearable distorting which I didn't like, there I wouldn't blend any saturation. Played on very good sound system doesn't sound good. My 2 cent comment.
I'm going to swap over to tape and what you'll hear is that it starts boosting the high frequencies,so with the mids and top of the snare and the hi-hats it starts boosting them a little bit sooner than with the tube saturation...even by the time I get to here I'm hearing those hi-hats substantially louder so what I'm going to use for the drums is the tube because I don't want the top end to be boosted this much. Although it says tube,it's not just modeling a tube,it's probably modeling the whole circuitry that was in that tube device;a tube on its own does not provide warmth although it glows really hot,is warm, if you touch it it would be hot,however the tube on its own is actually just inducing higher harmonics, it's the whole circuit(mainly the transformer)that is adding all of that weight,extra body and warmth to the signal. The crucial step once you've picked the type of saturation you want is to unsolo the track turn everything else back on and this is what you use to blend in the amount of saturation because on its own you'll almost always get the wrong amount of distortion. If you listen with and without the saturation you'll see that the one with the saturation is actually much more quiet in terms of peak loudness,it's 6 db quieter give or take but the perceived loudness and the overall loudness in my opinion is a little bit higher,at least in these headphones. The way I like to use saturation in a mix is usually just subtly so every single track just has a little bit of saturation.it doesn't have to be "in your face";those drums were probably a little bit over the top but especially when you're using saturation to reinforce a track with those extra second order even harmonics what you'll find is that if you use just a little bit on 10 or 20 tracks all together it sums together to a much punchy,full sounding mix. Now I'm going to go on to the guitar which is an excellent example of why you should be blending in the saturation with everything else playing. What this other saturation plug-in(Brainworx Black Box) lets me do is not really increase the loudness but just add a little bit of grit/texture to the guitar while also keeping it pretty smooth. More importantly it lets me hear the guitar without having it stand out in the mix,it lets the guitar sit a bit further back in the mix yet it pulls all this detail up,all of those extra harmonic overtones are pulled up in the guitar and it just sounds a little bit more cool/textured but again it's not an in-your-face sort of "screaming wall of guitars" effect,it's just sort of a subtle amount of saturation. That's the end of the examples;I hope that it's clarified what saturation is, the difference between even and odd harmonics,the difference in the non-linear behavior of the circuitry... The type of saturation that's induced really is all down to the specific topology of the circuit or the plug-in that you're using so the real take-home from this video is that you've just got to get your hands on a lot of these plugins,feed them a lot of signal and just learn what they do...it takes a bit of time to tune your ears into these things and learn the differences between all of these types of saturation...
In mastering I use Tape under 100 Hz only on the Mid Channel and if I need to tame a bit of the cymbals or S sounds, I do tube on the side channel above 5KHz, it works like a charm.
You're seriously amazing! Your tutorials are simply a treasure of information and I can't thank you enough for this quality of didactic and content. Sorry for saying this in almost every video, but man, ty a lot!
I was hoping to hear some vocal examples, especially when you want to keep the vocal pretty clean but just give it some more character. This seems like a real art in and of itself at times.
Why when i downloaded SPAN it says that "it is in DEMO mode, ouput is muted periodically. Purchase this plugin to stop muting" Do you have it guys aswell? 11:16 No i don't hear it much, so i am glad that you say these things at least for me
Musicaly speaking we will never have just one type of harmincs .Allright maybe only with some wave guide of synth but generally diatonic and nondiatonic are present in each gama (chromotic right)So from musician and producer or sound design aspect if we want a more clear ,distinct mix we should have more even harmonic and by that using tone presets that are also by natura describe as pure or clean.If we want a washy sound we use presets that are more nondiatonic so they somekind glue twourds chromatic or twourds some other kind od style or substyle.Sow generally speaking also if we want to compose a pure style from main tree of style we should look for that sound instruments combination starting from pure presets! And if we want to compose a substyle song Beganing from the main style twourds the substyle we aim too. I think this marked sentences wil be a great tip for people dealing understanding principle ither tech or musicians!Have fun!
Great video. You explained enough to give a useful background to what saturation is and what it does, without it being dry. The musical examples were also very useful, showing more upfront with the drums and more subtle with the guitar. I'm looking for saturation VSTs at the moment to introduce it into my music more - so absolutely relevant info - many thanks 👍😁
is saturation like a specific type of distortion? Because I sometimes see distortion plug-ins that use "tube", or "Tape" in the names. Or maybe I am misunderstanding something?
You are not convincing because you sound weird. Your microphone sound is too polished - no room. Radio sound is always weird on video. Its like young girl using too much make-up.
The most frustrating thing for me on my music production journey is the lingo. When I hear sound. There aren't any words attached to them at all. So it's damn near impossible for me to understand what people are tlaking about when i'm trying to understand how they're manipulating all that sound. I can't seem to link language to sound very well.
it was third day i was watching In The Mix channel and didn't heard almost any difference in sounds he was talking about. You'll say it's cause my ears are not trained, maybe that i'm deaf and maybe the music is not my thing. Maybe you right. But i'm so fascinated by the idea that i'm trying to learn from a crazy man who hearing things, that i want to learn from him even more
your channel, in a few years, will be the future free music school covering every single thing you can learn, and more. not that it isnt now hahaha you are doing the community a massive favor, thank you bro.
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Topics Covered/Time Stamps
0:00 - Intro
1:50 - Pure Sine Tone
2:05 - Even Harmonics (2nd order)
2:25 - Odd Harmonics (3rd Order)
2:45 - Even vs Odd
3:30 - Tube vs Tape - which type of saturation
4:30 - Non Linear Behaviour (Discussion)
5:25 - Non Linear Example
6:00 - Recap
6:30 - Ear Training Checklist (headphones, plugins, gain staging)
9:30 - Audio Example Drums with Saturation
10:38 - Warming Saturation
11:35 - Tape Saturation
11:55 - Marketing Myths. Don't be fooled by Tubes!
14:00 - Guitar Exampl
15:07 - Final Discussion
Should do an old studio tour with an old-head that did everything in analogue.
Thank you so much you ckarified any misconception
Have you done audio engineering??
@@bobby3eb I wish I could
@@arpantoppo3266 Yes
It's really amazing that this man is offering all this information and knowledge in such high quality videos - FOR FREE. We don't pay respects enough to people like you, the online music community wouldn't be the same without you! THANK YOU.
Beutax I appreciate the kind words, thank you so much :)
We can always donate :)) or purchase his products.
Couldn‘t agree more!
You were predestined to be different(Romans 8:29), he who has an ear to hear, let him hear(Mark 4:9).
HALLELUYAH!(PRAISE YE YAH!)
thats the same thing I was thinking the whole video. its amazing
This channel is like a Masterclass but its
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Amazing video, thanks!
Perfect as always. Thank you sir.
Thanks for wonderful explanation....
Good job s♥️sir🙏
Use seturation witch tip any vocal please videio
Thank you ... :)
Hope everyone reading this reaches their dreams❤ I think all of us are going for the same dream haha, just keep grinding homies
YEAH, YOU TOO
thanks you too :)
thanks fam same to you
Of course man,you keep grinding too😇
Thank you
I really like how Michael says "T H I C C". It's so nice how he says it 1:18
The way he said thic was also thic
@@harshilparmar877 ikr. That's why its so good
also 0:56
@@alisachu.mp3 Thicc, Silky, Creamie, Smooth...
Yum lol
that’s a body type / body positive term but ok lol
Thanks for this - really helpful introduction to saturation!
Thanks Curtis!
One thing that I realized more acutely after watching Adam Neelys latest video is how little vocabulary we have in English that just describes sound. Almost everything is actually a description of another sense
You’re absolutely right. I’ve tried to find better ways to put these ideas across but everything is just too abstract!
For example which words? I am not native english speaker. So i didn't even know that saturation was meaning something else. What's even more funny, that there is almost no tutorials in my language, so i don't even know, how would i say these words. We just use english terms. It sounds weird, but i got used to it
VERE well the word saturation for example usually has to do with having brighter colors. Music has taken this word and used it to mean something else. But really, any descriptive word in music has this problem. Punchy refers to impact but that comes from touch, warm is also based on touch. There are so many words like this. I have to say that I don't know whether other languages are different or whether this is a common problem
@@deltanebula8622 It's not a problem in other languages, bcs for saturation we have different word, so when you say saturation, it reffers to music saturation
Wow. The saturation really "excited" that beat. It really "transformed" the vibe!
Get out. Hahaha
Worst thing I have ever read
This guy is like the Paul Davids of music production
This is the best compliment I could get!
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@@inthemix i'd say you are the adam neely of music production :)
Thank god people are not saying that ur Davie504 of music production😂 OMG!
I've been following and watching both Michael and Paul Davids for the past year and a half, and suddenly today I find this comment!
Both these channels have helped me an awful lot, thanks to both of you :)
What I love about your tutorials is that unlike many other similar tutorial series, you don't say "Do this and that to make your mix sounds better"
You explain "Do this and that, to understand the tools at your disposal, so you know how to make your mix sound better"
If you reading this, have a good day and be safe. God bless you 🙏🏻❤️
Love this, before the hollidays I was selected for a producer/artist school. This school just send me an e-mail with learning material INCLUDING THE LINK TO YOUR CHANNEL.
which is kind of amazing to see :D
Wow that’s incredible, may I ask which school it is?
@@inthemix judging by the OPs last name, my guess is Herman Brood Academy in Utrecht or the Rockacademie in Tilburg, both in the Netherlands
ROC amsterdam
i've asked a few things about how I could learn a bit quicker and they replied with your channel :)
As a genuine enthusiast, I feel the beauty of this channel and Michael's skill as a producer/engineer/teacher is that I can keep coming back to quality content and keep learning. I often refer back to many older videos for reset and recap. His professionalism, integrity and consistency is what is equally impressive. I have not found that content from much older videos is in any way contradictory - all the keys basics are the same. Superb channel, and head and shoulders about other similar content providers IMHO.
Your comment is not only astute, but 100% accurate.👍⭐️
I seriously cannot thank you enough for making these, Michael. You are seriously my hero man you're so wise and full of encouraging, positive energy. God bless ya fam, forreal
Thank you for everything bro, and to the person reading this, I hope you have a nice day :)
I had. Thanks. Jumped naked with my girlfriend in the waves of the sea with our 3 kids play at the beach. 😁
@@jellewierda3828 You shouldn't be naked with 3 kids
The cursor when mousing over the dB meter looks like the Call of Duty hitmarker.
You’re right, man that takes me back, I haven’t played CoD in almost a decade!
lol
@@inthemix Thanks for all the work you put into these videos mate, I've learned a lot about recording and basic vocal EQ in just a few months. Recently set up my old PG58 with a cheap interface to do some voiceover work, but in practice I just have really overkill audio quality for Discord calls hahah.
I appreciate that you take the time to explain the details to beginners, as audio really isn't intuitive to everyone, and in my experience that attention to detail is the mark of a great educator.
How to record electric guitar like the example in this video would be really helpful. Lovely tone. Your other recent videos are only on acoustic guitar
Working on it :)
Literally today morning I was going through some free saturation plugins & was thinking how does it really works or what it does... So thanks for this video today ❤ from 🇮🇳
same
@Sahil Makhare Thanks 😊❤
He is the Future FL STUDIO owner !!
I also own one copy😀🙂
No matter how many times we thank you, it will never be enough. You are doing a lot for the community.
More power to you Sir. Salute
Interesting.
For decades we designed and built as noise free and distortion free gear as possible, and this generation can't hear music without crapping it up with noise and distortion, and of course, ZERO dynamic range and as LOUD as possible.
You have a minimum of 96 dB dynamic range and you can't wait to ruin it all with whatever you call this 'technology'.
Try it MY way.
One mic., one MONO tape machine, one basement, 65 dB dynamic range, MAYBE.
Add people who know how to play music.
I've been doing this since 1961.
When we really had to know how sound and sound recording worked, for real.
I love your methodical and concise approach to all your videos. You always make such a fluent attempt at actually displaying what you’re doing. Keep up the amazing work! ❤️
8:30 be when the pizza delivery guy get to your doorstep but you don't have any money.
Damn this channel has to be the best resource for music production on the internet. I think I've learnt more from this channel than I have from every other recourse combined. Thanks so much for everything you do!
A nice idea is to sidechain your track to a separate mixer channel, go crazy with saturation and slowly blend in the signal. I know it sounds kinda useless, but it lets you apply effects *on* the saturation. For example an Eq can prevent it from getting too dirty, and a compressor will make it more consistent. Great video as always, Michael
hold up. can you explain the setup in a little more detail? I just tried to do this but I didn't get it to work.
@@prod.extelligence the steps I list below are what I do on FL studio but I think it's about the same in every daw
1. Assign your sound to a mixer track, let's call it track 1.
2. Select track 1, go to the arrow at the bottom of *another* mixer track (track 2 I guess), right click and hit "sidechain to this track"
3. (In FL studio you do this by fruity send) send the audio from track 1 to track 2. Now you have 2 identical sounds on 2 different tracks. Grab track 2's fader and pull it all the way down to -infinite
4. Apply a saturation plug in like softube saturation knob at the start of track 2's effects chain. You probably want to exaggerate here, as not all of this grit is going to be used afterwards.
5. So now you have the original sound on track 1 and a very dirtorted version on track 2. Track 2's fader is at - inf, time to change that. Start slightly pushing it up, thus adding more and more of this dirtorted volume. Once you are happy with the sound, leave the fader where it is. Keep in mind this increases the overall volume, so don't get fooled by making everything super loud.
6. Most fun part: the entire track 2's effects chain is empty, so you can add any effect there. The effect will only affect the distorted part of your sound, hence you actually get to shape this distortion any way you want.
I hope this helped, have a great time producing!
@@rhydes_ wow! thank you so much for that elaborate explanation! i really appreciate it! i got it to work now :) but just to be sure, this is basically the same as duplicating the sound and putting the second version on another mixer track, right? i've done this with 808s where I cloned my 808, put it on another mixer track, distorted the shit out of it and then mixed the two versions together.
@@prod.extelligence yes, exactly!
THANK YOU BROTHER! I knew about this but never added it to my mixes,. thanks again for the break down.
Hi Mike ! Just wanted to ask what are your opinions on producing orchestral music in fruity loops, and I got info from a fb grp that u have been using fl studio for like 4-5 years and have mastered it,thats great !! Mind telling from what different types of sources did u learn from?
Edit:Yo is that a TR 808 lying on the bed?
Great video BTW!
I have recently been figuring out saturation, and I'd like to share a couple of suggestions for plugins. First, there are the Air Windows plugins that seem crazy at first (no GUI), but really are great if you learn them. There's ToTape5, channel7 (and relatives), etc etc. Great. Then there's all the Analog Obsession plugins; just give some of them a try. For paid, there's a sale on plugin alliance Phil's cascade, black box HG-2 and the incredible HG-2MS. For transformer saturation, I think kazrog true iron is unbeatable. I should also mention waves NLS; very good for emulating an old analog console and in sale now. There's also chowtape for free. Other suggestions?
Might like to throw Klanghelm in here as well. Both free and paid plugins. Some distort, some can compress completely linear, if you want and the paid ones are affordable but really, REALLY good.
Loving these more technical oriented tutorials!
You’re so humble, I really appreciate the videos you make for us, man. Thank you!
I pray to God I never hear an audio engineer use the term CREAMY
This is such an informative. I’m experimenting with saturation plugins right now, but I’m curious about the chain order. Is it conventional to saturate before making a couple of cuts with EQ?
I'd say after eq, especially if you do substractive eq
Great content mate. You're a true mentor.
You have an incredibly posh Scottish accent. Which part are you from? (Ps Glasgow here) (p.p.s, keep up the good work)
All over the place, I studied in Glasgow (I love the city) and down south in England for a while, so it’s a mix! I’m certainly not posh though haha!
In The Mix cool! No disrespect intended, you’ve been a great help, one of the best music production channels out there 👌👍
Because saturation is very much affected by the input level of a track, it's important to consider placing automation after the saturator, otherwise the saturation will be affected by the automation.
Plz reply
*Whenever I touch or change anything in helm it stop using my keyboard(or midi) signal so it is makes difficult for sound design*
I really appreciate the ear training cues! I feel like it really helps me hear what you are talking about.
could you do a maximus(plugin) tutorial pleaseeee??
All your producing wisdom aside, how do you maintain such great eye contact with the camera??
What about "Wave Shaper"
How it works and how to use it?
UniversaL from what I know it’s just a function f (in the mathematical sense) that takes an input x and outputs y = f(x). That’s why you can usually draw your own function f in a lot of them.
Now for the use ... I use them to make all kind of over the top distortion for any kind of aggressive element in a track, but not so much for mixing.
@@paulmichelon2176
Hm... Maybe this is "Transfer Function" actually.
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Quote from Wikipedia.
"In engineering, a transfer function (also known as system function[1] or network function) of an electronic or control system component is a mathematical function which theoretically models the device's output for each possible input.[2][3][4] In its simplest form, this function is a two-dimensional graph of an independent scalar input versus the dependent scalar output, called a transfer curve or characteristic curve. Transfer functions for components are used to design and analyze systems assembled from components, particularly using the block diagram technique, in electronics and control theory.
(In russian wikipedia that describes harder, lol)
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I think this IS "Transfer Function" :D
Yes sure it is a transfer function, but I didn’t know your level of expertise in engineering so this wouldn’t have helped I think.
Still, the transfer function is just f : [0,1] -> [0,1] and can be anything (that’s why you can draw the transfer function). There is no time effects as opposed to filter.
Now it can be a bit more complex as there is usually oversampling in those devices to avoid aliasing, which includes filtering under the hoods. But that’s not the main effect
Literally look up how to use a waveshaper saturation on RUclips
38th...thanks btw I was waiting for a saturation video from this channel, one of the best channels on music production
wow it's actually sound more lofi with saturation. Thank you Michael for explaining this.
Can you please do a tutorial on FM synthesis?
QUESTION! Should you saturate each track directly, or run them through a bus with saturation? Does it matter?
I'm gonna preface with I'm not an expert but I'm pretty sure it depends on the sound you're going for. If you bus them all to one saturation channel then it'll homogenize the mix and squish it all together. Saturating each track individually allows you to cater the saturation (and maybe even use different saturation) to each individual track and get them individually sounding saturated. So it's up to you what sound you want. Doing both could even be really nice if you don't overdo it
AYY!! I'm EARLY
Guys i got a questions.. if i wanna record a track and produce my vocals like "eminem in beautiful" then what shall i do to make my vocals sound thick like in he's??
n thx bro 4 the vid ❤️❤️
Doubles for verse and i think harmonies for hook.
saw it first at the discord server
discord in the mix gang represent love you mike
we get here early and loving it!
Thanks! that was really helpful :) regarding to your question, I would like you to review some of the best acoustic guitars you think are good for beginners and some tips of whether I should get an semi-acoustic or just normal, and also maybe what mics would work well with it, I'm looking to buy one and that would be so helpful if you would do that!
I’m glad I subscribed to you bruhh.. thank you for explaining in easy mode. I actually understand how your explaining everything.. quick n to the facts.
Learn something new errrday !! 😂
Bos saya telah mixing dan mastering tapi setelah di render WAV/MP3 bass gitar bergetar di speaker mohon solusinya boss.terimakasih
Hi my name is Manuel Khoza Im from South Africa .I always viewed myself as a music genius as far as i can remember I've always tempered with music ,I can play guiatar, piano and I know how to produce my songs from scratch thanks to RUclips channels I've even learned more skills than I thought I would acquire,my problem is that I dont have a music certificate in which that crushes my spirit, I want to know about the music business so that I can Learn how to make money from music and that do I really need to have a music certificate coz I dont feel like I need it.
Can you please 🙏 Help
I will give you a tip right now and i say this with the fullest respect and dont mean to insult you in any way. You really need to get back on the ground and stop calling yourself a "music genius". Your singing is average at best but you can tell there was a lot of progress from older videos to new videos. Your guitar chords and picking in your videos is also average at best. The melodies from your videos are nothing special at all. Some really basic stuff that someone from elementary school with basic understanding of music can do. The mixing is alright, i think youre just starting out so thats fine. I definitely respect how you use your keyboard as a midi piano tho.
I can tell youre really passionate about it and you want to reach a lot but you need to reflect better on your work and on yourself. Be honest with yourself. Just because you love something it doesnt mean youre some kind of genius. Self reflection will help you a lot to progress and really work on yourself. Thats the tip i can give you.
@@dotastillthebest5474 Thank you for the Feedback ...
Video quality is so good 👌👍...
& the way you explain things is really cool man... ✌️✌️✌️✌️✔️✔️✔️
actually, not every even harmonic is "plus octave" harmonic, am i being wrong? "plus octave" harmonics come when you multiple the original frequency x2, x4, x8, x16 and so forth. please, could you clarify this, i can't fully understand (
Haha! I was glad i ve seen that again and i wil try to explain you and your view-ers as well !Non -liniar behaviour.Many user do not fully understood that and of course is a advanced top but let me clear a little .what you shown is the 2 representation of the sound 'harmonics" Since the sound has a 3 d aspect including time axes make us read that bahaviour like having that 3-axes as well (instead we do not have it) .ok similar comparation on waves-rock-wather .Simple because sounds is a sort of energy that need to disipate in a medium !And regardless the ignition point (initial frevc or tonic) will always disipate from that point all directions! PLEASE UNDERSTAND !That in what we do in rec sound or sound "info" manipulation should respect by alter in some degree the real deal hapening in real world!MAKE SENS TO YOU ?Ok scientiest have conducted 3d sound experimentation and they have been descover that .
Since we humains are not prone to hear mentaly lower harmonics we tent to think ooo look it s disipate twourds hight frecv.Instead is not !Because visually we can visual that !
Please look at sound fundamentals ,sound propagation and sound structure (generally ) and in deeph explination .
Interesting way but many tech skip this bla bla bla and then make it harder to understand later.
Now what is saturation starting from nature (direct to our hearing) ...... to saturation (coming from a havely alterated "signal" coming from a speaker) MAKE SENSE TO YOU ?
As someone who always gravitates towards subs in my beats as opposed to common 808s, this was extremely helpful🙏 I always get frustrated when my bass is non-existent through cheaper speakers.
Ong but b so tuff in the car
This guy is an excellent YT teacher. So easy to follow..... until an obnoxious ad pops on omg. The ads are extra obnoxious when youre watching his tutorial
My biggest disappointment with Saturn 2 is there are no settings that provide more even order harmonics relative to odd. It’s not even close, even the tube models. Gsatplus and spl twin tube can do this easily, which are both on all of my channels. Crazy.
The issue I have with compression and saturation is I'm always incline to just use it on every single track. It's hard to tell if it needs it or not, especially since the effect can be subtle and hard to spot
The next step is to get your hands on a lot of different options for saturation-there's tons of free plugins out there,stock ones etc.
You need to experience a lot of these different plugins as it's one of these effects where there is no wrong or right plugin,there's many of them and many producers have tons of different analog gear and plugins especially for this purpose-particular tools tend to fit particular jobs.
Once you've got all these plugins if you're confused about what they're doing simply download the free Voxengo Span spectrum analyzer plugin,run a pure sine wave through it and see what your plugin is doing/what it's inducing.
The next thing you must do when you're using saturation plugins or hardware is send in a good amount of signal.
If you're sending in -30 or -40 db of signal you might actually not experience any saturation with these plug-ins;as explained re-the non-linear behavior aspect of working with saturation/distortion plugins and the relationship between the amount of signal/results produced,,some of these plug-ins don't even react to anything until you give them -20/-10 db of gain.
Experiment with pushing up your gain going into the plugins and make sure that you're maintaining good gain staging.
In this first example I'm going to be adding some distortion to this drum track;I'll play it clean just to
start off with.
The first thing I would recommend(which I don't usually recommend when mixing) is to solo the track as it allows you to tune in to what is happening with the saturation.
I'm going to be using the Izotope Ozone 9 Exciter module because it lets me choose between some different types of saturation easily.
First I'm going to use tube saturation and what I want you to notice is that as I'm increasing it up to around halfway you might hear that the low mids start feeling a little bit more full and a little bit more reinforced and then beyond there it's just getting a lot brighter with a lot more high frequencies
and things actually start distorting and sounding almost clipped.
Now it's sounding more reinforced and louder but what was interesting was that even though things were distorting and sounding a lot louder the peak loudness was actually going down on this db meter on the output so as I increase it we're getting less peak loudness but the average loudness and the perceived loudness is increasing.
This is why I really wanted to explain that non-linear behavior at the start.Even just going a few more percent up here just radically changes how this distortion sounds.
What is very common is distorting something quite a lot and then pulling the mix amount down,i.e. we're distorting it like crazy but then we're only going to blend in actually a small amount of that distortion....for this particular track I would pull it back like this.
Let's try some different types of distortion,this time I'm going to go to "warm"....this should be a lot more subtle but you'll feel that instead of adding a lot of high end it's simply just reinforcing that kick
and snare,pulling out the bottom of the snare/beefing up the kick drum...you can hear that as we get to the higher frequencies the hi-hats start to break apart so that's something to listen for in the high end.
I don't think I've been this early to one of your videos before!
And I was just wondering how saturation worked
Michael, thanks for posting all the great tutorials. You have a gift, bro. Rarely do you make a beginner video where I feel like something material was omitted. Usually, I do not have to watch other peoples videos to clarify something you taught. You have profoundly shortened my learning curve for FL Studio. I live in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. I assume because you rock the union jack wall hanging that you are British. Thus, I wish you would review the SSL 2 usb audio interface. I would love to here a Brit discuss SSL. My engineering teacher, who is Russian, not British, devoted a lot of time to discussing how SSL engineers historically set the bar. Due to pandemic backorder at the time I purchased, I ended up ordering my SSL 2 from Liverpool. The 4000 E eq saturation emulation is remarkable to my ears, especially at the price point. Easiest way to get that kind of sound.
Saturation is a very broad effect and it can be a deliberate and obvious effect such as an
overdriven guitar tone or a heavily distorted 808 bass sample but it's also the more subtle side
effect induced by signal processing so virtually any circuit i.e.(tube/tape/transistor or even
plug-in)has saturation to a certain degree.
Analog style saturation-
Part of the appeal or fascination with saturation is that,as a lot of these devices are analog,
records made back in the good old days often sounded really warm full punchy and thick and part of this is down to the fact that there was subtle saturation on every single track in those mixes just naturally due to the devices they were recorded on and mixed through.
Saturation is when extra sound is induced or added to your original signal.
There's two main types of harmonic saturation-even and odd harmonics.
i.e-
fundamental x 2/4/8 etc=even
fundamental x 3/5/7 etc= odd
In both cases we're adding signal or notes that weren't there previously albeit at a slightly lower level into the higher frequencies.
In general the even harmonics tend to give a feeling of support,clarity and fullness mainly because
you're adding in the octave and another octave above as well and adding the octave to the original sound sort of gives this feeling of support maybe a subtle sort of feeling of doubling that original sound whereas the odd harmonics add a lot more richness,edge,bite,+ buzziness to the sound w/more high frequencies.
Even and odd harmonics both can sound excellent depending on what you're using them for it's not that one is better than the other.
Besides a few plugins and wave shapers,almost all plugins and certainly all analog hardware doesn't simply induce even or odd harmonics as many people believe.
All of these different devices and plug-ins have a different combination or distribution of these even and odd harmonics depending on a lot of different factors.
You may have heard that tubes have only even harmonics and maybe tape has only odd harmonics but this simply isn't true.
It's true that certain devices favor certain harmonics-even or odd,but it's much more than just whether it's got a tube in it or whether there's a bit of tape there.
From an engineering background it' all has to do with the topology of the circuit,not just the tube or the tape-it's every single piece of wire,every capacitor...especially the transformers make a huge difference,it's just the general design of the circuitry and not just one component.
Non-linearity or non-linear behavior=
Basically with any device that induces saturation or distortion what you might expect is that at all
levels of volume or gain that you feed into that device you'd have exactly the same type of saturation i.e.the same distribution of even and odd harmonics but at varying levels.
However,actually with almost all of these devices and plugins,if you feed a different amount of volume into them or drive them differently you get dramatic differences in the distributions of odd and even harmonics and the tone of the saturation that's generated.
I have an example here with a tube emulation and you'll see that as I increase the amount of drive there's a big difference in the distribution of harmonics.At some points it's favoring those even harmonics then the odd then back to the even again.
These devices respond completely different to transients/different amounts of signal.
To be able to accurately hear the effect of saturation being applied on a given signal you need something that can give you an extended high frequency response.
Reference monitors are great in a well-treated room but most of the time the subtle differences of saturation are a little bit harder to hear correctly on studio monitors whereas in headphones you can hear if you're overdoing it a little bit too much
Hey, did you recorded and played the guitar yourself? If so, could do a video on how you recorded exactly this melody and especially showing how you get this sound? This guitar is so damn relaxed and nice that I would like to recreate this sound! :)
More tutorials Yayyyy!!!
Thank you mentor
I'm 13
From Zimbabwe
Hi, maybe one of yall can help. But what if the track is oversaturated? How could one go about fixing it?
My personal taste, but drums were always with hearable distorting which I didn't like, there I wouldn't blend any saturation. Played on very good sound system doesn't sound good. My 2 cent comment.
I'm going to swap over to tape and what you'll hear is that it starts boosting the high frequencies,so with the mids and top of the snare and the hi-hats it starts boosting them a little bit sooner than
with the tube saturation...even by the time I get to here I'm hearing those hi-hats substantially louder so what I'm going to use for the drums is the tube because I don't want the top end to be boosted this much.
Although it says tube,it's not just modeling a tube,it's probably modeling the whole circuitry that was in that tube device;a tube on its own does not provide warmth although it glows really hot,is warm, if you touch it it would be hot,however the tube on its own is actually just inducing higher harmonics, it's the whole circuit(mainly the transformer)that is adding all of that weight,extra body and warmth to the signal.
The crucial step once you've picked the type of saturation you want is to unsolo the track turn everything else back on and this is what you use to blend in the amount of saturation because on its own you'll almost always get the wrong amount of distortion.
If you listen with and without the saturation you'll see that the one with the saturation is actually much more quiet in terms of peak loudness,it's 6 db quieter give or take but the perceived loudness
and the overall loudness in my opinion is a little bit higher,at least in these headphones.
The way I like to use saturation in a mix is usually just subtly so every single track just has a little bit of saturation.it doesn't have to be "in your face";those drums were probably a little bit over the top but especially when you're using saturation to reinforce a track with those extra second order even harmonics what you'll find is that if you use just a little bit on 10 or 20 tracks all together it sums together to a much punchy,full sounding mix.
Now I'm going to go on to the guitar which is an excellent example of why you should be blending in
the saturation with everything else playing.
What this other saturation plug-in(Brainworx Black Box) lets me do is not really increase the loudness but just add a little bit of grit/texture to the guitar while also keeping it pretty smooth.
More importantly it lets me hear the guitar without having it stand out in the mix,it lets the guitar sit a bit further back in the mix yet it pulls all this detail up,all of those extra harmonic overtones are pulled up in the guitar and it just sounds a little bit more cool/textured but again it's not an in-your-face sort of "screaming wall of guitars" effect,it's just sort of a subtle amount of saturation.
That's the end of the examples;I hope that it's clarified what saturation is, the difference between even and odd harmonics,the difference in the non-linear behavior of the circuitry...
The type of saturation that's induced really is all down to the specific topology of the circuit or the
plug-in that you're using so the real take-home from this video is that you've just got to get your hands on a lot of these plugins,feed them a lot of signal and just learn what they do...it takes a bit of time to tune your ears into these things and learn the differences between all of these types of saturation...
In mastering I use Tape under 100 Hz only on the Mid Channel and if I need to tame a bit of the cymbals or S sounds, I do tube on the side channel above 5KHz, it works like a charm.
ISTG half of the stuff I know about advanced production is thanks to this guy
Great simple straightforward explanation - thx. JPMusic
As all your vids...love this one. AWESOME man..👈🏾🧢!!!
You're seriously amazing! Your tutorials are simply a treasure of information and I can't thank you enough for this quality of didactic and content. Sorry for saying this in almost every video, but man, ty a lot!
I was hoping to hear some vocal examples, especially when you want to keep the vocal pretty clean but just give it some more character. This seems like a real art in and of itself at times.
Why when i downloaded SPAN it says that "it is in DEMO mode, ouput is muted periodically. Purchase this plugin to stop muting" Do you have it guys aswell?
11:16 No i don't hear it much, so i am glad that you say these things at least for me
I so wanted to learn about Saturation. Thank you so much for this. Namaste 💜
Musicaly speaking we will never have just one type of harmincs .Allright maybe only with some wave guide of synth but generally diatonic and nondiatonic are present in each gama (chromotic right)So from musician and producer or sound design aspect if we want a more clear ,distinct mix we should have more even harmonic and by that using tone presets that are also by natura describe as pure or clean.If we want a washy sound we use presets that are more nondiatonic so they somekind glue twourds chromatic or twourds some other kind od style or substyle.Sow generally speaking also if we want to compose a pure style from main tree of style we should look for that sound instruments combination starting from pure presets! And if we want to compose a substyle song Beganing from the main style twourds the substyle we aim too.
I think this marked sentences wil be a great tip for people dealing understanding principle ither tech or musicians!Have fun!
Great video. You explained enough to give a useful background to what saturation is and what it does, without it being dry.
The musical examples were also very useful, showing more upfront with the drums and more subtle with the guitar.
I'm looking for saturation VSTs at the moment to introduce it into my music more - so absolutely relevant info - many thanks 👍😁
Hey mike... Can you make a video for how to unlock fl studio trial version because in trial version i can't save my project...
I have the Ozone 9 plug-in too, How can I use the exciter on its own? Without loading whole Ozone 9 on my track?
is saturation like a specific type of distortion? Because I sometimes see distortion plug-ins that use "tube", or "Tape" in the names. Or maybe I am misunderstanding something?
Thanks for the knowledge, I've been sleeping on Saturators for a while.
This man is absolutely fantastic.. I love your explanations young man.. Excellent presentation.. Thank you so much..
Yeah
This dude stays in the lab….no sun 😂
Seriously though thank you for all the great information ❤
You mentioned an ear training course in this video but I'm having trouble finding it. Anyone know where it is?
You are not convincing because you sound weird. Your microphone sound is too polished - no room. Radio sound is always weird on video. Its like young girl using too much make-up.
Thanks for this video! This helped quite a lot!
Very strange how it sounds louder, but literally is the opposite. Mind=Blown.
The most frustrating thing for me on my music production journey is the lingo. When I hear sound. There aren't any words attached to them at all. So it's damn near impossible for me to understand what people are tlaking about when i'm trying to understand how they're manipulating all that sound. I can't seem to link language to sound very well.
Having all coming from a digital could sound wierd but could loose its signification.introduced by a analog always get a plus to your mixes!
wow bro you AMAZING! you are first person who explain well this
it was third day i was watching In The Mix channel and didn't heard almost any difference in sounds he was talking about. You'll say it's cause my ears are not trained, maybe that i'm deaf and maybe the music is not my thing. Maybe you right. But i'm so fascinated by the idea that i'm trying to learn from a crazy man who hearing things, that i want to learn from him even more
Man so many things I didn't know. Have watched a bunch of your vids and now you have a subscriber :)
Who else says He/She is a student of In The Mix University? Michael you are the best.
Bruh the black box plugin part was hilarious 14:09 🤣🤣🤣🤣
your channel, in a few years, will be the future free music school covering every single thing you can learn, and more. not that it isnt now hahaha you are doing the community a massive favor, thank you bro.