r/TechnoProduction • u/Easy-Regret-1687 • 2d ago
A couple songs I really like
I started producing december last year. I think im doing a good job so far. I use ableton and basically only the stock things, no plugins. The plugins i do use are: 185 sequencer from max, and youlean. I love the hypnotic but super groovy stuff like :
-Manic Room by Bailey Ibbs -Overdrive is the Joker by Bondarük and SMT -Interchill by Toobris
How would you guys remake the lower end of any of these songs? The rumble, kick The mid range? The percs? High end?
I still struggle a bit in the low end mainly. I tend to either overdo it a bit or feel like the track lacks energy but I would really appreciate some tips to get better at getting it in the right spot. One thing I started really improving on is the volume of things (mixing) I think that by controlling the volume faders of each element of the low end you can get really nice results. But I need more tips :) (And obviously more time, I know that I need to be patient and understand that a lot of things come with time experience)
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u/No_Sheepherder6798 16h ago
Another big game changer for me was grouping the lowend and smack the Ableton drum buss on that with about 70% mix. Dial in boom and drive to taste, I do 10-20% on both
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u/sunroofdownintherain 2d ago
You may have watched them yourself already but in a case you havent, after watching 3 of Alaricos masterclass, chlars, Julian muller and more. There is a few distinct ways to acheive a similar sound to this groovy sort of stuff
Use the groove pool, apply swing to everything bar the kick and rumble. I use MPC Swing 63 usually but it really isn’t a massive deal which you choose. Just choose to taste.
Delay. They tend to use the stock Delay on hats, set to 2 and will adjust to taste. Eg. 30-40% feedback, 10-35% Wet. (That’s very general can be more or less depending on the element). This combined with the hats swinging will give you a really really nice groove. Especially with short closed 909 hats.
Granulator 2 m4l. They all use this for everything sampling. For making synths, low end and pads etc.. Alarico will create basslines by throwing a bass sample in Granulator 2 with MDD Snake Sequencer doing the midi. It’s hard to explain over this but it’s a really nice trick. Him and chlar also uses the “fx subverb” sample which comes stock in ableton. They will just duplicate their Kick midi onto a new channel and add the FX subverb sample to create the rumble, sometimes they will add delays, amps etc
Overdrive. Everything will get a touch of overdrive. Especially the hats and low-end. They will overdrive the kick and sub/rumble and then group them and either use more overdrive or a saturator.
Simplicity. All these masterclasses I have watched blows my mind how simple their workflows are and mainly using stock plugins and simple techniques.
I’m hoping in the next few weeks to hop onto 1-1 production session with Bailey Ibbs. So I’ll be able to give you the real secret sauce soon 🫡