everything is based on inspiration and I'm listening to all records trying to
sample things
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that are willing to share their ideas share their secrets we're gonna visit
one of those people today I've been messing around with sampling so far I
basically just taken an old song that I like taking a little slice of it and
inserted it into a new song I haven't really messed around with things like
Reap itching or properly EQ to like get rid of drums or get rid of vocals and
things like that but I know someone who has today we're
gonna meet manny amalgam and he's a hip hop producer that does a lot of sample
based hip hop and he is going to share his secrets with you let's get going
hey what's up Dan I think this looks amazing
my name is Manny I am a producer I go by Manny amalgam
it's my production name and I do a lot of hip hop soul type sample based stuff
I've been doing this for about a decade do you have any training doing this did
you let out play the piano or anything when you were young no piano no Music
Theory no guitar nothing drum machines computer stuff good
real instruments no it's how did you learn just by tinker I started with what
was called fruity loops it's now FL Studio that is still sort of my bread
and butter I'm new to machine I think the workflow and machine is better so
everything is based on inspiration and I'm listening to all records trying to
sample things the other thing that I specifically like to look for his
instruments with sustain as a song is going on that we met that might be good
for a sample obviously there's rhythm that's happening drums percussion but a
string section might sustain or a singer might vocalize and they might hold their
write notes long yeah and that's that's good fodder to start slicing up the way
that she's singing it extends over many different beats and so we can cut it up
into different sections and we can take the end and we add it to some other part
now she's not singing guy in our song but we get this noise what's next we
need to rearrange a sample we need to come up hopefully with some some
interesting melody and we start adding drums we start adding percussions
at least for sample-based head pop type stuff when you sample the original
content in that sample can be masked so there there are plugins today that can
run in your DAW we can at least make some progress on say getting rid of an
annoying sound that you don't want in your sample or lowering a vocal and
here's our plugin so you could use this with any any typical production software
typical yeah this first one on screen right here is called synaptic pitch map
you see these base notes coming in this is in our song we can actually go ahead
and just remove them and you'll see that they get grayed out and those notes on
the keyboard are no longer valid so we aren't hearing them anymore
different than just an EQ because the notes themselves and their harmonics are
being removed another example unmix drums which you can probably guess what
it does you can turn your drum level up and down there's one other one that I
use often fry ROM it's bass honorable it's three different equalizers smart EQ
there's proximity EQ and then there's entropy is kind of ends up being big
bursts of energy like drums so we can lower the big bursts double channel
microphone preamp compressor professors a mastering style compressor equalizers
here monitor controlling something mixer faders if you were stuck on an island
yeah that's the one piece of gear that you would have with you haha that's a
good good question the speakers which maybe we can get a shot or durability
yes they are a few 6d one X's and they are made primarily for
they're very detailed very loud very fast it's over six foot with it spins
over about over 200 pounds yes what would you tell somebody else
that's just starting out and kind of wants to do this type of music just
start going at it what you make initially and even later on when you're
really really good sometimes what you make that morning
that day it's not gonna be good just get past it and make the next thing and keep
making the next thing I hope you guys learned something because I learned a
lot holy crap I just need to go home and work on this stuff like right now so if
you like this video like I loved all that learning in that cool out studio
hit that like button and subscribe and if you have any questions ask me and if
I don't know the answer I'm gonna ask Manny and keep making that music that
you love I will see you guys later that things that come with machine
things that come with FL studio sounds that we've found from records okay all
kinds of stuff I just realized that I keep saying we and I don't know what
that means are you in Charlie yeah
Charlie is a very experienced producer as well that's right he runs this way