What's up Beatmakers in today's video I'm going to break down every instrument
I used in the song I just released I can't go for that by Daryl Hall and John
Oates if you want to see how I mix my vocals watch my previous video. We're
gonna try to do this in three minutes if we can. Let's go! The song starts out with
drums so let's take a look at the drums first. Here's what they sound
collectively. So I've got one two three four drum tracks here. I started with the
Ableton 606 Core kit. I didn't change anything here. Pretty quiet. To get the
drums a harder hit I added a second kit. This is from a Machine expansion I
believe.
And I added the Transient Master by Native Instruments on top of this to
give it even harder hit. For the collapse I just downloaded a clap from Splice.com
So after the drums the bass comes in and you see that I have two basses in here.
They're actually the same instrument the Scarbee Jay-Bass by Native Instruments and
the second one is playing the same thing although I've added the waves CLA Bass
to it. So this is the lower one. The other one is pitched one octave higher.
Together. For a bass guitar you really can't beat this Scarbee bass by Native
Instruments. They sound so realistic. The next instrument that comes in is the DX7
by Arturia. And for this one I'm using the preset ROM 1A electric piano. This is
the classic electric piano sound from the DX7.
and then several other things start coming in. First and most prominent is
another electric piano. This is by the Scarbee Vintage keys and I'm using the A
200 Dreamatizer. And I've added something to this. Let's just listen to that by
itself. I wanted to add some harmonics to it so I use the UAD SPL TwinTube and I
also added to it - the Transient Master to make it snappier. At the same time
we've also got the guitars coming in
this is from Nexus Expansion Guitars. Steel Fuzzy preset. Now as it progresses
you're going to start to hear some strings come in and those strings are
coming from the Solina V by Arturia. There you can hear it come in in there.
Of course I could have used my own Solina but it was under repair so I wanted
something real quick. Certain parts of the song I've also
added but it probably comes across as a rhythm guitar in this song but it's not
really it's from the plugin Signal
Doesn't sound like much by itself but it's adding this rhythm in the
background.
I didn't add too many effects to these instruments except for that
electric piano. The other ones have just playing the presets. I needed to put this
song together really fast so I just picked the best presets I could find. I
did use a riser at one point in the song between the verse and the chorus. Last I
should mention what's on the master track Valhalla Vintage Verb. It's mixed in
with very little and very little to decay as well so it's not very
noticeable. I sometimes add a reverb to the master track just to pull everything
together to make it sound like it's been performed in the same place. Then I
mastered it with Ozone 9 and of course on top of that I had to add Gullfoss
which is my current favorite plugin. If you don't have Gullfoss go check out my
video about it because I have an exclusive discount code that's still
active right now - it's awesome! And I add it to every single track.
And with Gullfoss, Gullfoss does this very very subtle thing to your mixes but I
always put it on there because it just does that last bit of EQ to take the
song from 90 to 100%. If you have any questions leave it in the comments below
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watch one of these videos next. :)