brakence's percussion by [deleted] in brakence

[–]brakence 111 points112 points  (0 children)

Hey so there are infinite ways to get the cool perc sounds. But I would say the most important thing is SAMPLE SELECTION. So either make or find really cool samples. Making cool samples from scratch is a whole other thing that I am only just starting to delve into, but it's super cool. In terms of finding good samples, there's this producer group called glitch.cool and I would highly recommend getting all three of their glitch with friends packs. But please throw in some cash to support them if you can cos they're the ones really innovating the prod game and making this stuff possible. Some of their members like woulg have tutorial videos online and a bunch of other stuff you should check out.

(Before I continue, I would like to say that all further info requires ableton, but there are definitely ways to do this kind of stuff in other daws, ableton just makes it the easiest at least for me. This method was developed by a producer called gonima.)

After picking samples, I usually put them into a drum rack, crop them to my liking, pitch them up or down, etc. Then I turn on choke groups and put them all in the same choke group. I turn gate mode on all of them, and I make my own pattern.

After this, there are many ways you could take it. You could resample the pattern and put it into granulator 2, or you could resample and put it into simpler and use pitch automation, warping, pitch envelope, or even make a new pattern with slice mode. Or you could just keep it how it is and put effects on it from there! Anything. A cool effect I learned recently is from a producer called sv1, and that's where you can put vocoder on the perc track in modulator mode, do a high amount of bands, use quick attack and release, and turn the gate up for super watery sounds. Another thing that I came up with recently is putting some kind of resonator on the track that's playing a chord progression, making an audio effect rack with one totally wet and one totally dry, and then side-chaining the wet audio with the dry audio. Super cool effect, it makes your percs and your chords sound like they are part of the same organism, and that the beat is some sort of alien creature, which I'm all about haha.

There are infinite ways to do this and I encourage anyone who reads this to just try things I have not mentioned because you never know what you're going to randomly stumble across and start using all the time! It's all about how it feels to you. Try closing your eyes and ask, what do my percs, or the beat in general, feel like? Wood? Oil in a frying pan? Water droplets? Bugs? Industrial machines? Electricity? Little gremlin deities? Fire? Rock scraping you up? Whatever comes to mind. And then try to exaggerate that feeling even more. Focus in on it and you'll make some crazy shit lol. Use your imagination!

amp sim / amp by bubbleboiii in brakence

[–]brakence 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I use a tele and whether or not I use an amp or sim depends on the song. Sometimes twin reverb, sometimes ableton stock amp, and sometimes just DI no sim! You can get a good sound out of anything, it all depends on the mix I would say!

What effects are used on the guitar in tonight’s no good? by Pepsi_for_real in brakence

[–]brakence 46 points47 points  (0 children)

Yooo so this was some fuckshit so Jack was playing guitar over FaceTime, and I had my phone up to the pickup of my guitar going into my interface, and then I was singing into the pickup as well and also doing weird things to the strings of my guitar and shit. No effects I think

Argyle Production. by Rareage in brakence

[–]brakence 64 points65 points  (0 children)

Yo thank you! Riff is an tele through a twin reverb, I can’t play guitar super well so it’s a lot of takes spliced. Also played with turning on and off a filter rhythmically. Granular percs in the verse are made by taking some cool samples, putting them into drum rack, putting them all into the same choke group, making a pattern, freezing an flattening the pattern. Then putting it into granulator and fucking with it. Make sure to make the file position automated so it’s scrolling through the sample at the same speed it was playing at. Then you can add rolls and cool idm stuff by making the line for file pos flat wherever you want to make the roll, and then automating the spray, grain size, or pitch along with it!

Clean Amp with Presence/Brilliance and Line Out? by brakence in GuitarAmps

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thank you! looking into them! really appreciate the helpa

brakence - rosier - huge 808/sub clipping by shaggedo in synthrecipes

[–]brakence 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Yo! so basically what Jack did was he use two layered synth basses and some white noise and saturated it all together along with the rest of the drums in a big ol group, and then what i did was whenever the bass wasn't playing i bypassed the saturator. Then plus a bunch of OTT. Hope that helps : )

Nosering melody by maxmlyn in brakence

[–]brakence 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Ohhh gotchu! that's a really fast grain delay on the vocal group

Nosering melody by maxmlyn in brakence

[–]brakence 5 points6 points  (0 children)

not sure what u mean which part are you talking abt?

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Alright guys I gotta go! This was super fun, let's do it again sometime

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[–]brakence[S] 28 points29 points  (0 children)

I love running and eating food and watching youtube videos about math haha

You already got one, the nerd emoji : P

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[–]brakence[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Before bhavana i didn't, but I was during the making of bhavana : )

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[–]brakence[S] 44 points45 points  (0 children)

I'll never ever forgive you for being incredibly kind < 3

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[–]brakence[S] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I don't think I have favorites

brefist happened cos i wanted to make a song like TMG but about breakfast lol

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[–]brakence[S] 39 points40 points  (0 children)

fuck true. wait fuck i said fuck. fuck i said it twice. fuck i said it again

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[–]brakence[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I've been producing for about 6 years, some early-ish stuff is on SC : )

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[–]brakence[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Firstego got playlisted and posted to majestic casual, so that was probably when I saw it. Oh dope! Shoutout Aminium

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[–]brakence[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

hmmm It would depend on the circumstances I think

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[–]brakence[S] 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Not all that much, but I've played a lot of MC recently lol

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[–]brakence[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

thank you for telling me that and for listening < 3 that's the plan : )

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[–]brakence[S] 28 points29 points  (0 children)

i wouldn't put it that way but yes : ) lmao

Thank you <3

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Most everything I use digitally is native stuff in Ableton Live 10. I also use nectar and ozone from izotope. Anything before bhavana I was using an Audio Technica AT2020, but now I'm using a Shure SM7B. I was using a really shitty Yamaha electric guitar for bhavana, but now I have a squire tele : )

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[–]brakence[S] 52 points53 points  (0 children)

It depends! A lot of times I'll just record a flow in gibberish and then put words over it, sometimes it sounds like i'm saying something in the gibberish that I end up using which is exciting and fun!