Mushroom Song Vocal FX - Psytrance Tutorial Ableton — Transcript

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1. 0:00You asked me about the cool vocal effect
2. 0:01in the killer mushroom song and I will
3. 0:04show you today how to make that.
4. 0:07[Music]
5. 0:09So step number one, we need a vocal from
6. 0:12a professional singer like me which
7. 0:14sounds ultra amazing like this one.
8. 0:17>> We take the mushroom and LSD. Better the
9. 0:21input, the better the output. And I'm
10. 0:23sure um some of you guys will have some
11. 0:25very nice vocals um to sing. Um, just
12. 0:28check that you record it um good so that
13. 0:30you don't have too much noise in it or
14. 0:33use some AI tool to clean it up. Uh,
15. 0:35record it like as loud um, that you're
16. 0:37not clipping but you have like a good
17. 0:39like signal to noise ratio. And that's
18. 0:41basically all. And maybe you want to
19. 0:43kind of like already bring the the pitch
20. 0:46progression in there which you um plan
21. 0:48to do later a bit. Uh, that will help in
22. 0:51making that vocal. But you can also use
23. 0:54probably like any vocal or sing like
24. 0:56splicer loop cloud. Um, so the options
25. 0:58are endlessly here. Step number two is
26. 1:00that you already arrange the vocal. Um,
27. 1:02so bring it into the right rhythm. As
28. 1:04you can see, um, I chopped it like a
29. 1:07little bit here and rearranged it so
30. 1:09that if we have like a 16th grid here
31. 1:11that it falls like nicely on the grid.
32. 1:14Also made these things like longer and
33. 1:17shorter um, in order to really have not
34. 1:20too many like gaps in here. Um, so that
35. 1:23everything kind of like works a little
36. 1:26bit already with the vocal without the
37. 1:28processing so that it already has like a
38. 1:30rhythm um, you want to have later. The
39. 1:32mushroom and
40. 1:35>> you can play a bit around with the
41. 1:37warping modes. You will get like
42. 1:38different results, but complex is a
43. 1:40pretty good one um, for vocals. Um, you
44. 1:43can try that one or you could try like
45. 1:44with tones and texture if you want to
46. 1:46have a little bit more um, processing in
47. 1:48it and a different sound. In the third
48. 1:50step, we come to the processing and the
49. 1:52processing basically has three parts and
50. 1:55an extra part which I will show in the
51. 1:57next step. Um so the first um is the
52. 2:00pre-processing. So I'm already like
53. 2:02cutting um some lows which I don't need.
54. 2:04And you can write the vocal here the
55. 2:06volume a little bit to compensate for
56. 2:09example things which peak out so that
57. 2:11you don't need to like compress this as
58. 2:14much later. You can also put like DS's
59. 2:17and everything, whatever you need in
60. 2:19order to get like a clean source vocal
61. 2:21in there. And from there, we actually go
62. 2:23into the the trick here of this
63. 2:26tutorial, what makes that sound. We had
64. 2:28now four students releasing a duck
65. 2:30record and you could be one of the next.
66. 2:32If you're interested in leveling up your
67. 2:34music production skills, then check the
68. 2:36link in the description box below and
69. 2:38see the course. The thing which really
70. 2:40makes and breaks the sound here is this
71. 2:44spectral resonator here. Um, and I would
72. 2:46put it to the key of your track. Um, so
73. 2:49you will need to find like a good octave
74. 2:51which sounds nicely. And the chorus in
75. 2:53the wonder mode um are pretty good for
76. 2:56this. Um, you can play a bit around with
77. 2:57the DK. Um, you can um change the the
78. 3:02pitches in here. So to make it even more
79. 3:04melodic and add a little bit of unison.
80. 3:07Um, don't do too much because then it
81. 3:09gets like this kind of like spooky
82. 3:11horror sound and then you get like a
83. 3:13sound like this.
84. 3:15[Music]
85. 3:22And I layered this a bit. So I added
86. 3:25like a higher layer with a little bit
87. 3:27different settings. Um, so they all have
88. 3:29the same um, pitch here, but this one is
89. 3:31one octave higher and it has a little
90. 3:33bit longer DK and the same I have one
91. 3:36octave lower with a little bit shorter
92. 3:38DK in here. Um, without unison in the
93. 3:42lower one and with a little bit of
94. 3:44unison uh, unison of two, a bit more
95. 3:46amount. So you basically tune them like
96. 3:49a little bit different um, to make that
97. 3:51whole thing kind of like stack nicely in
98. 3:53different octaves. So if we compare like
99. 3:55only this one
100. 3:59with all three
101. 4:03it gets way richer. Um, so I will play
102. 4:06you the other two also as a comparison
103. 4:09[Music]
104. 4:15especially the low one kind of like adds
105. 4:17that a little bit like gritty kind of
106. 4:20like chopped feeling um to it. Um, so I
107. 4:24did another tutorial as far as I
108. 4:26remember about like creating like robbo
109. 4:28vocals where you also use like spectral
110. 4:30and then you just put it like in a
111. 4:31really low octave and you get that kind
112. 4:33of like robo sound. And if you have it
113. 4:35in a higher octave like here, then you
114. 4:36get a little bit more this kind of like
115. 4:38alien type of sound. Um, so that's kind
116. 4:41of like the main processing here which
117. 4:43really changes the vocal a lot. And then
118. 4:46we have um a little bit of mixing here.
119. 4:48So I have like a transient shaper. Um, I
120. 4:51do have a compressor. Uh, this one is
121. 4:54not doing anything. I have a little bit
122. 4:55of delay here. Another compressor here.
123. 4:58Um, some EQing to get out some
124. 5:00resonances and to boost some spots where
125. 5:02there were frequencies. And in the end,
126. 5:05I put like a little bit of reverb. Um,
127. 5:07so I will turn each of those off and
128. 5:09then I will turn each of them
129. 5:12individually on and you can see what it
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137. 5:28[Music]
138. 5:31So it's not like huge uh things which
139. 5:34happen here. So let's put that one.
140. 5:37This one is actually not even
141. 5:40[Music]
142. 5:42we could turn that one off as well. And
143. 5:45we have the delay here.
144. 5:49So I put it to a 1/16th delay without
145. 5:51ping pong. A little bit more dry wet.
146. 5:54Not too much feedback. Um I have another
147. 5:57compressor here um which is on a
148. 6:00aggressive vocal setting.
149. 6:02[Music]
150. 6:11[Applause]
151. 6:11[Music]
152. 6:17So, it's also only adding a little bit.
153. 6:20This makes it a little bit more
154. 6:21pleasant, I would say,
155. 6:23[Music]
156. 6:29and colors it a little bit. And then we
157. 6:31have the reverb here.
158. 6:33[Music]
159. 6:34[Applause]
160. 6:39But the reverb is also like pretty um
161. 6:41subtle. You can also try like a bigger
162. 6:43one. Then you get a little bit more
163. 6:44atmospheric.
164. 6:46[Applause]
165. 6:48So the reverb has a very um subtle mix
166. 6:50here and a very tiny kind of like deck.
167. 6:54Um I can also show you it gets a little
168. 6:57bit more atmospheric if we use a bigger
169. 7:00one here.
170. 7:06[Music]
171. 7:08Then you have it a bit more atmospheric.
172. 7:10Uh, whatever you prefer. Um, I prefer
173. 7:12this one. And then I have like a little
174. 7:14final trick. Um, so I recorded
175. 7:16everything with all the stuff on here
176. 7:19with the the reverb and the delay on it
177. 7:23and the transient designer and all the
178. 7:25processing here into this um channel
179. 7:28here uh into one channel like this um
180. 7:31with like a lower octave. So I basically
181. 7:34went in here and set all those one
182. 7:37octave lower. So instead of E3, E2, E1,
183. 7:41and E 0. And then we get this one here.
184. 7:45[Music]
185. 7:48And one higher
186. 7:52on both. I put them to beats 116 in that
187. 7:58with that arrow here. And around like
188. 8:0140. And I think the other one is more or
189. 8:03less the same, 47 here. Um, and what it
190. 8:06does, it chops it again to 16. And I
191. 8:09also put the warp markers because
192. 8:11through all the processing, it wasn't
193. 8:12really on the grid as I wanted to have
194. 8:15it any more. Um, so together, this
195. 8:18sounds a little bit nicer. So, if we
196. 8:19compare um this version here
197. 8:23[Music]
198. 8:25with this, this sounds a bit more on
199. 8:28time and richer.
200. 8:31[Music]
201. 8:33and the chopping is a little bit more
202. 8:36pronounced. I show you one time in
203. 8:38context
204. 8:40[Music]
205. 8:41and then gets a little bit more of that
206. 8:43rhythmic feel. So, I hope you got the
207. 8:46idea how to make those kind of vocals
208. 8:48and I'm really curious what you're
209. 8:50experimenting on. And as this was from a
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