Description
If there is one area that confuses both beat-makers and producers alike it is the management of “the Low End” in the mix. It can be extremely difficult to understand how to get the bass and kick to sit comfortably with each other: for example, in Urban genres the difficulty can be to get a 909 bass drum not to conflict with the bass-line and in EDM the low end can be even harder to manage as there are many sounds that encroach into this frequency range.
This series shows how to construct killer beats, process epically low bass-lines and lay down savage rhythms! But it also goes even further and demonstrates how to layer drum sounds professionally, dynamically processing your existing low-end 808s and bass-lines into delicious rhythms and ripping (profile and extract) your favourite drum beats from commercial songs and making them your own, using your own custom-designed drum sounds.
While I thought I already knew a fair bit about many of these techniques, I gained a huge amount of new knowledge to help me combine my own low-end components to maximum effect and most of all how to inject life and movement into my grooves. I shall be returning to this Low End eBook again and again.
Martin Walker
eBook Contents – Low End
Foreword
- How to use this book
- Low-End Frequencies
- Energy and Referencing
- Filtering and EQ
- Working in Parallel
- Dynamic Management
- Signal Paths
- Middle and Side – M/S
- 808 and 909
- Mix Bus
- Bounce
- Pads
eBook Contents – Beat Construction
- Foreword
- How to Use This Book
- Beat Construction
- Dynamics
- Quantize
- Recycle & Battery
- Filters
- Frequencies & Tuning
- Shadowing Beats & Ghost Notes
- Modulators
- Motion
- Automation
- MIDI Control & Templates
- Ripping Beats
- Ripping Timing Elements
- Ripping Drum Elements
- Creative Ripping
- Profiling
- Creative Tools & Processes
- Dance
- Urban
eBook Contents – The Art of Drum Layering
Foreword
- Structure
- Frequencies
- Attack, Decay, Sustain and Release – ADSR
- Creating ADSR Components
- ADSR Extraction Layering Examples
- Layering Entire and Complete Waveforms
- Using Tones as Layers
- Dynamics: Compression
- Dynamics: Equalisation
- Stems and Tree
- Creative Layering
Final Word
Video Contents – Art of Drum Layering Advanced
- Layering Drum Sounds
- Creating and Layering ADSR Elements
- Layering Primary and Secondary Sounds
- Calculating Sample Nudge Values
- Real-time Nudging of Flipped Channels
- Using Filters
- Band Cancellation
- Understanding Energy. Band Specific Processing
- Using Middle and Side: M/S
- Extracting Middle and Side Information
- Inversions
- Phase and Phase Cancellation
- Stereo Widening. Using Envelopes
- Peak and Trough Alignment
- Channel Summing
- Realigning Elements for Different Textures
- Switching Elements
- Inverting Single Channels from Stereo Channels
- Summing Inversions. Dual Channel Tonal Layering
- DAW Tools
- Best Practices
Specifications
Contents: 3 eBooks PLUS 1 one hour video
Format: MP4
Compatibility: Mac/PC
Author: Eddie Bazil
If you found this series helpful then maybe these will also be of benefit:
The Art of Drum Layering (second edition)
The Art of Drum Layering – Advanced
Although a vast array of plugins are used in this video series the main DAW is:
