4 PRODUCERS FLIP THE SAME SAMPLE: Jamie Lidell, Flux Pavilion, Laura Escudé, Recue

[Music] for producers one sample space edition it's the exact exact same thing hey it's andrew huang and this is the show where four producers are gonna start from the same audio material and each create their own original tracks i've got an awesome lineup of guests today we're going to be hearing from laura escoda riku and flux pavilion and i also have an extra special fourth guest for today because the sample this time was provided by jamie liddell which is amazing i've been a huge fan of his for years i was on his podcast a little bit ago you should check that out but uh let's hear what he gave us to work with i cannot hold you anymore so am i next to close the door so just a little snippet of an unreleased track of his let's see what everyone did with it [Music] hi i'm laura escadae i'm a future classical artist violinist producer and ableton certified trainer thank you so much andrew for inviting me to do this this is one of my favorite shows on the internet when i first got the sample and i heard it i was like oh my gosh this guy's voice is so beautiful one of the first things that i thought of was to try this plug-in called paul stretch i have no idea why this just popped into my mind i map some of the parameters on here like the harmonics harmonics bandwidth as well as the stretch amount i used my midi fighter to tweak these amounts over time and i just kind of went through and picked apart the paul stretch 13 minute long clip that i recorded and then from there i re-re-sampled all of this stuff into another track and started moving around the loop making the loop longer and after i was done with that i had a bunch more audio resampled of the resample and then i started to fit that into my song [Music] i created a melodic version of the vocals here so i also recorded a bunch of my own vocals in the session and treated each one different ways did different kinds of panning and added effects i recorded using three violins the first one is my five string realist acoustic violin and i use that for all the regular violin and viola parts i also played my five string glasser violin this one is a baritone violin so it has octave down strings and it sounds like a cello as well i used my 3d printed 3d various violin it's also a five string and i use this to play the synthesizers in the track so for some of the vocals in the track the sample i used my wii controller to mess around with some of the parameters in tornado i also use my booklet thunder by stencil to control my future classical sample pack that we created together it's a free download on their site one of my favorite synthesizers in my studio is the moog subsequent 37 so i decided to use that in the drop of my song oh liking this one already really kind of thick layer of strings super huge atmosphere right off the bat cool oh man really kind of cinematic soundscape let's move i love this piano [Music] yeah like the cinematic vibe it's cool streamy i love that there's this acoustic feeling that's mutated [Music] [Music] [Applause] oh yeah i love that delayed gratification into the drop pretty sure that when the voice wasn't originally there that's real nice wobbler you know i love a wobble [Applause] sick backing vocals [Music] she keeps bringing in these layers but the mix is still super clean [Applause] [Music] a lot of layers a lot of details here [Music] i appreciate that i really do such great atmosphere and so much movement to all the sounds [Music] yeah reload the way it takes the vocal into a whole new context especially with the layered harmonies earlier [Music] oh you're killing me this is so good [Music] yeah there it is that was great yeah hey that was fantastic absolutely crushed it that's one of my favorite things i've heard from you laura so good [Music] my name is rico i make music with those equipment under the name riku thanks andrew for having me mr liddell you're a legend i decided before i got the sample that i want to make the whole track only by using that sample as source for all of the sounds let's have a look what i've done first thing i did was i imported the sample into isotopes rx separated the vocals from the violin and the guitar and then i imported those into this little box here which is the tasty chip gr1 granular synth [Music] i then took this output and fed it through the modular modules i used were clouds a bit of picot esb and scooper as well i just basically they did a half an hour session feeding everything through everything and then recording it into ableton and then chopping and selecting the good bits from there so for the base i loaded the vocals into native instruments form which is a granular sampler i started laying down the beats with the bass drum i'm using a pitch envelope and a filter envelope to make it kind of kick and then i'm really smacking it with a compressor and it's the same thing with the rest of the drums jamie's voice transformed into all this [Music] then there's one layer of random bleeps and blues from the modular recording and one simpler that plays random chops of the vocal and another simpler which plays an arp that's forced to scale in autotune and all of these elements combined create the main beat straight in [Music] here we go sick sound design already nice grains the panning is amazing sample [Music] so deep that's how i was feeling last [Music] night [Music] no it's just coming you know you notice it's ramping the sounds are razor sharp okay i don't know what's coming next i'm saying flutes flutes oh this is the re-cue i'm used to there's always a float in my mind i can always hear the food could answer this the laser percussion so wet those drums that's nice everything's cinematic though everyone's brought out such an emotion in this song it's ridiculously tight but precise as well okay i could definitely listen to this on repeat too this groove is just so funky gorgeous mellow piano i love how it keeps evolving i'm bouncing i'm bouncing [Music] how is it possible to have this many laser beam sounds and for the mix to still be so clean so tight [Applause] okay break it down a little bit [Applause] that little arp is amazing i'm like an arm connoisseur and yeah that's a good one wow that is a mood that is a serious mood oh beautiful detailed work my god you guys are good very cool very cool indeed all right how's it going i am flex pavilion and it is an honor to be part of the four producers one sample thing that andrew does i'm a massive fan super cool the sample is from jame liddell who i'm also a massive fan of with sample manipulation not really being a core of what i do got me thinking about what is the core of what i do and i think composition is probably where i spend most of my time finding a sequence or a new melody that really sets the remix into it like puts it into a new space and this is the chord sequence i ended up with how can i hold once i've got my chord sequence i tend to then layer an extreme amount the sounds are never normally that great but collectively with lots of other things you can start to really build up a massive palette [Music] i wanted to do a traditional flux pavilion type song my fundamental sound in the stack is a sawtooth from massive which i've been using since i was about 16 years old i recorded my guitar which is this guy which i just built recently called alphonse and that's a treat and yeah recorded some guitar and my bass and i've got a electric drum kit too built a nice bed underneath the vocal and did a little bit of singing too [Music] [Music] [Applause] um you guys with your moods oh got another atmospheric one digging in the guitar [Music] i just dropped right into a movie so cinematic it was definitely not expecting this that porter's head vibe love it [Music] there it is [Music] oh my gosh vibes [Music] epic love the use of the sample here this is like james bond in the year 3000. [Music] that's pretty cool my heart just like i feel the intensity you know wow oh my gosh i loved that nice little tempo change nice placement of the vocal in the stereo field this guitar heck yeah [Music] wow that was super moody and i'm just blown away crushed it that definitely had soul in it so sick ah this is such a good series so i started my track by cutting up the sample and making this kind of lo-fi thing [Music] and then i decided i didn't like any of that and i started again this time throwing the sample into simpler to do my chops envelope on that and i thought i could go in kind of a funky direction with that so i added some drums [Music] and a couple of those are made from the sample i've got this shaker sound which is the x from when jamie sings it's a little next topper here and that's from it's the from jamie singing clothes saturated quite a bit i also did that thing where you loop a tiny piece of the sample so it turns into a pitch and then you can play it as a synth and you know you can do that with any sound but uh just that why not we're already here messing with this sample so once i got to this stage i had a vision where i wanted to turn the track into this kind of choppy glitchy thing where the sample would still be really recognizable but just in really small pieces and kind of twisted around in different ways so i started just resampling it while running it through a bunch of effects and tweaking a lot of parameters and the thing that i actually used the most here was stutter edit this thing is like a ton of different effects and modulation that you can adjust and then turn on and off with midi nodes so here's an example of some of the stuff that came out of stutter edit from just running the sample through it while i was tweaking everything like crazy pretty wild stuff and most of it actually wasn't even usable for this track it was just a bit too extreme for what i wanted to do but i found the parts that i liked and kind of arranged them into the b section for my track [Music] so there's a lot of stuff that's constantly changing and glitching out here and a bunch of fills that only happen one time throughout the whole track but i kept the musical coherence here by having a recurring motif so i took that how can i hold put that at the start of every two bar phrase as well as other little repeated details for your ear to catch on to like our synth from earlier which is doing this now and then of course there's a bass line giving everything a foundation and the bass throughout this whole track is just sublab but the bulk of creating this track was really just taking those weird little chops of affected bits of the sample and sprinkling them everywhere warp this one into a little riser here's one of the guitar chords from the sample turned into a riser [Music] this is the sample run through some guitar pedals and then outputs thermal and i'm doing some automation on the volume as well as thermals dry wet to create another riser so many risers in this track and then there were a few other non-sample things i added in some breaths i played the tiniest bit of guitar three layers of extra shakers some extra little synth details from faze plant and then actually right near the end of producing this track i realized that a couple sections needed a stronger melodic element so i just downloaded a vocal off splice and chopped it up and [Music] now this song has never felt like this [Music] i love those vocal chops see that dynamics andrew you know you know it's still grooving you keep that bubbling then you're gonna have to always be loud okay i want to be in the club [Music] [Applause] [Music] completely different use of the vocal than the rest of the tracks it's got a really organic feel to it even though it's really kind of edited i like it it's like when i come back around man [Music] i can't even tell how he did any of this stuff mysterious vibes getting european on my dance floor right it now [Music] well done andrew as usual great work i mean a lot of small details playful melodies excellent groove yeah i like how the editing it wasn't an imposition to the groove which i think is really important amazing thank you guys such incredible takes on this song all right team thanks so much for watching as usual all the artists and tracks are linked in the description and if you're interested in trying out this kind of music making download my sampler app it's called flip it's only 10 bucks u.s uh it's a lot of fun check it out it's linked in the description as well i'll see you next time flutes

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Id: 7JUNnmehy8k

Length: 22min 48sec (1368 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 15 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/illGATESmusic]

Whoah! What a lineup!

[u/mrperson221]

Flux Pavilion's gave me goosebumps