Opiuo is a New Zealand born, Australian living, music producer making glitch hop in his sunny Northcote studio and taking it around the globe. In this segment he shows a quick way to make a wonky, wobble bass sound.
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Wonky Wobble Bass Sound
Recording Acoustic Guitar
Arlo shows us how to record acoustic guitar effectively.
Drill Samples
Arlo gets down and dirty with a drill to create the some nifty sounds for his sampling pleasure.
Little Snare Snare Sounds
Arlo has showed us already how to create killer snare sounds. In this segment from the first episode of Pro Juice Series 1, he shows us how to create tight little snare sounds. Very rad indeed!!
Prep Your Drums
In this segment Arlo shows you how to prep your drums to keep super efficient in the studio!!
LoFi Tape Sound
This is a way to get some nice warm analogue dirt into your normally stale, digital recordings. What’s better it shouldn’t cost a cent and it can be done with things you can find in your own home. For starters you’ll need something that you wanna spice up. I’m gonna be using this drum-loop.
Breakbeat Kitchen
Arlo show us how, cutting and splicing a real drum recording, can make the 'Breakbeat' a most powerful weapon, in your arsenal.
In this tutorial, Arlo uses the shareware program - Madtracker. Grab yourself a copy here.
Side Chain Compression
Arlo explores the fundamentals of side chain compression, a dynamics process that can make your tunes 'pump'!
A side chain, in biochemistry, is a component of a molecule that is attached to a core structure. But this isn't biochemistry.
When WE talk about side chain, we talk about a signal routing method, mostly employed to activate an effect from a separate channel. This means for example, you can use the dynamics of one channel to activate a compressor on another.
It's used in abundance with house music at the moment and it's a great trick to learn, because it can add new life to you mixes. Rather than mixing everything 'around' everything else, you can make certain channels demand their space in the mix.
This example shows a kick drum side chained, to a compressor on some synth pads.
Powerup
Arlo show us how a powerup can be used to psyche your audience into a fat drop.
Guitar Synth
This is a trick that changed the way I wrote music.
With this simple example, you can see how electronic music is limitless. We don't have to make 'techno' that sounds like vintage synths and old drum machines, just because we write electronically. There are truly infinite textures to explore.
Don't think just because you work alone in a home studio, you have to make a certain genre of music. All the instruments in the world have been recorded at some point. So with a mixture or sampling, synthesis and creativity, you can turn your computer into a metal band, a Jazz Trio or an orchestra. That's when you can make true expression because, you're not bound by tone or genre.
This tute features 'mda combo' an open source plugin available for free from: mda.smartelectronix