How To Create AMAZING Pads and Drones 🌌 | A Sound Design Tutorial
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Howdy doody, frienderoonies! Today we're here to talk all about designing amazing pads, ambiences, and drones for your track. I wanted to present things in somewhat of a sound design 'video lecture' format this time around and instead of breaking down a specific patch or formula talk about the broader strokes and applications/theory of designing EPIC sounding pads for your tracks.
Everything seen here today can be done in any DAW with a variety of plugins both free and paid, so feel free to mix and match as you see fit.
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0:00 Existential Reverb
2:40 Howdy
4:08 The Importance Of Layers
6:28 Modulation And Movement
8:16 Layers Breakdown
9:53 Compliment And Contrast
13:31 Reverbs And Space
15:04 Character And Vibe
17:35 Painting A Sonic Picture
20:52 Adding Texture
23:09 Expanders And Details
24:45 Other Ideas And Tips
26:41 TL;DR
28:34 Closing Thoughts
Stay classy!
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@VenusTheory 3 жыл бұрын
So do you actually like Taco Bell nacho fries? 🤔 👇Wanna win a copy of Spaced Out? Join the giveaway in my Discord!👇 discordapp.com/invite/p7RUmTt
@ambivibe6602 3 жыл бұрын
No, They are gross! 😂 😂
@dbhammond 3 жыл бұрын
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@AndyAffleck 3 жыл бұрын
I love that first bite followed the slowly growing sense of horror as the aftertaste comes in like a mad contractor and begins demolishing everything in reach leaving me in a pile of rubble with the gentle sound of water dripping somewhere. Now I want to make a pad that tells that story…
@logancoats 3 жыл бұрын
They hooked me. But dipping anything in nacho cheese is a win!
@generalawareness101 2 жыл бұрын
lol, I made as close to the same preset as you did in Dune and it never sounded like yours.
@BrofUJu 3 жыл бұрын
This is literally the greatest KZfaq intro I've ever seen, and I'm not exaggerating. Absolutely dying. Glorious.
@emmosea 3 жыл бұрын
I thought you might be exaggerating, there, and I normally skip intros anyway - so I heard it. properly. on studio speakers - on LOUD - and you're totally right ! The .best. intro. ever.
@dispatcheraaron5034 2 жыл бұрын
🤭🤭🤭
@aegisraven1284 2 жыл бұрын
I couldn't stand it I skipped it
@Jason75913 2 жыл бұрын
oh yes, glorious intro, perfect delivery
@WinItReigns 2 жыл бұрын
Nice, and one year later I contributed the 200th like to this comment. Word
@SongOfItself 3 жыл бұрын
"As a youtuber described by one user as having no idea what he's doing, I feel fully qualified to say that today I'm going to show you how it's done." Instant immortality!
@vertigev 3 жыл бұрын
I'm a simple man, after I heard that, I subscribed
@hodelmusic Жыл бұрын
Hhahahah what a f* line! Love it!! 🤣
@sspiderandbee 3 жыл бұрын
Mmkay I'm gonna need you to do a guided meditation on synths, please.
@CarlosEduardoGuerraCova 3 жыл бұрын
You have caused a total shift in my view of "sound" and how it serves a song with that philosophical approach, something suddenly just clicks now and I'm inspired. You made me understand sound design on a whole new level. Thank you!
@VelvetVoice Жыл бұрын
Inspired, eh? Then I hope you “got out there, and made something awesome.” 😊👍
@Jesus-ss2rn Жыл бұрын
Same bro😆 same!
@marctestarossa 2 жыл бұрын
I spent pretty much my whole life making music, but a couple of days ago I got into using the computer to create music. So I'm in the middle of figuring stuff out. And all this 'how to make a beat' and stuff is great, but then I found your channel and that's a completely different level. You're amazing. I love your approach to sound, thanks for sharing all those things. I have so many recordings of ambience that I made over the years and didn't know what to do with them.
@Wayne_Robinson 3 жыл бұрын
"Portentous existential reverb" alone is worth a like, but plenty of other value here too. Thanks for helping up my game for these sounds.
@earlgrey2130 2 жыл бұрын
Pretentious
@SongOfItself 3 жыл бұрын
One night I took my Zoom recorder and started walking around the house and recording any random noises that I could make on the spot. Obvious things, like turning locks, opening and closing doors, throwing and catching various objects, rubbing my fingers against a piece of cork, tearing tissues, gently knocking the wood on my ukuleles, nothing very fancy at all. I recorded well over 50 individual sounds, most of which turned out predictably crappy, but a few turned out to be gems. A large, sharp knife slicing through a big onion sounds both wet and crunchy, and the best part is, you can hear the blade engage each layer of the poor onion, one by one. All sorts of fun can be had with putting effects on that. But the winner was a kind of big knock which, with a bit of a filter and reverb, sounds positively scary, as if death itself were stomping across a boarded floor. Just that one knock has darkness in it, loneliness and creeping fear. Of course, I have no idea how I made it, but that's life :-)
@steveditore3165 3 жыл бұрын
The perennial dilemma: to track down all the gold, you'd have to keep notes of each audio snippet, what was done and how. Tedium kills spontaneity and turns random fun to plodding drudgery, gold into lead. It's even worse when designing sounds: each step in the process has to be either notated or lost. Some- times it's just better to let it all flow, and take whatever you get as the end point, no option to duplicate or develop, whatcha got is all ya get. It's good enough, enough of the time, as long as you don't look back. The ratio of gold to throw-away garbage is the measure of your genius. Or lack of it. This from somebody who has disks jammed full of mostly crap from years of hacking around in the weeds and picking through junkyards.
@sdejo 3 жыл бұрын
I love session like that and i love even more the question i ask myself when i listen to the song a couple month later like "holy shit how did i do this?"
@NateHorn 3 жыл бұрын
Happy accidents are the fruit of life
@mikedegrazia 3 жыл бұрын
Foley sound art is magical...
@colinbabb8061 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the onion tip! I'm preparing a meal as we speak...will grab my zoom!
@jcgamin1080 3 жыл бұрын
What a epic intro with his amazing voice, he should make a movie and win Oscar
@KnzoVortex 3 жыл бұрын
What if Oscar doesn’t want to be won? :
@flickeringscreens211 2 жыл бұрын
@@KnzoVortex That's deeper than asking if anyone likes taco bell nacho fries
@KnzoVortex 2 жыл бұрын
@@flickeringscreens211 destroy capitalism
@flickeringscreens211 2 жыл бұрын
@@KnzoVortex Industrial Society and it's futur-
@theplacebeyondthelies2429 Жыл бұрын
@@flickeringscreens211 definitely Taco Bell nacho fries cheated on the guy or something
@snardash_1197 3 жыл бұрын
Honestly that advice of picturing a sensation, color, moment, whatever is the best advice for making art in general. It’s tremendously overlooked most of the time. Better said You gotta get yo’ vibe men.
@futur_sunds 2 жыл бұрын
“Dollar Shave Shadow VPN”😂
@erkamoztoprak 3 жыл бұрын
its like blade runner soundtrack i love it
@eugenewhite1937 Жыл бұрын
One of the best things you do almost in every video you producing (and this is the reason I love your work so much), is the sort of "sense behind the music, something deep and almost philosophic, something that makes you think about the music which is more that just an arrangement, just a couple of instruments and layers, more that just a thing that would be played once or twice, and about the impact to the listener, that music makes. And together with all that, the video about the pads and drones 😍😍🤩🤩
@kon4m 11 ай бұрын
100% agree. You've just saved me valuable time writing out a thought haha
@jaimemorales6695 3 жыл бұрын
I’m really digging the philosophical heady heady stuff
@SoundDiggerFozo 3 жыл бұрын
This is what I call proper guide throughout the production process include a emotional background of it. As usually on this channel very useful piece. 👍🙂
@paulmoadibe9321 3 жыл бұрын
You literally decompose those sounds... each time I watch your videos I feel "i'm so incompetent..." but the way you show us how to do things with synths, it makes me feel more confident again ! thank you 👍👍
@umanoid1523 3 жыл бұрын
You killed it with your woo-woo style opening questions on the meaning of life. Supermassive has become my go-to for washes on my pads. I also use tape emulation for some warble and saturation, noise, and a bit of movement on the verb wash using shaperbox. I hadn't considered layering several different tape plugins and like the OTT compression addition.
@jfilbert 3 жыл бұрын
"You're travelling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's the signpost up ahead - your next stop, the Pad Zone!". Thanks for this-- I'm all about the pads.
@sdejo 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you! You are right i always felt the pad is done almost right at the point you mentioned
@marcolamasironi 2 жыл бұрын
I really love the philosophy part of sound design. I think the most valuable thing is that you are teaching how to think about a sound and not just how to make a patch.
@olivert4648 3 жыл бұрын
I love pads and I always struggled to create my own pads, because I don't know how to go about it and i don't want to use presets all the time. Your video gave me a huge insight, man. Thank you so much!
@DanUpdegraff 2 жыл бұрын
Wow! That multi-band expander after the reverb is a sweet idea. Love it.
@magneticmonopole7824 3 жыл бұрын
Then record it with the effects, pitch it up an octave or 2, render it then put it in Tal Sampler. Play it back pitched down for more grit.
@collidamedia2410 3 жыл бұрын
Dude this is top tier production tutorial, thanks for the qualities of explanations, and visualization of concepts.
@peterkoval 3 жыл бұрын
I usually think your videos are ok. But this is probably one of your best videos. Not because the technical info is all that great, but because your insight and approach to sound design and the way you made it personal and honest. I like how you kept referring to the sounds in visual terms. I thought I was crazy doing it this way as well. Good to know I'm not alone. Anyway, probably one of your best on a deeper level.
@brandtreppond2167 5 ай бұрын
This is really enlightening, im using this video often just because the depth has me making use out of plugin tools im not very familiar with. The saturation was a great tip
@chrisliddiard725 3 жыл бұрын
Lol 4th wall meets the 4th ear - Love it.
@andrewbruch5643 9 ай бұрын
I gotta be honest. I find myself spending hours researching how to make evolving drones and sounds with no success. I see a VenusTheory video and of course I learn everything I need… lol thankyou
@lokelosk 3 жыл бұрын
This was very helpful. My new pastime is to open DX7 V, mix in the operators in a very subtle way, then drown the sound in reverb with Valhalla Supermassive. Just recently found out that adding Sketch Cassette + Izotope Vinyl in moderate amounts can help create an even better atmosphere, then running through Gullfoss to clear some of the mud. I'll definitely try using other combinations of reverbs, saturators, and tape emulations in the future.
@mikedegrazia 3 жыл бұрын
This is the kind of thing that I'm glad other deep minds contemplate, i watch it absorb it and digest it...if i actually thought about things this deeply while making music I'd never get anything done...well done!
@itinerantghost 11 ай бұрын
Coming back to this one for like the fifth time! Love, love the conceptual approach about designing a sound, Cameron! 🔥
@lucave15 2 жыл бұрын
That intro is amazing. I checked out your channel after this video and it's a hidden gem for music producers. Keep it up man! Cheers form spain.
@NigelMerrick 3 жыл бұрын
This is an awesome tutorial, Cameron, and great to see such an in-depth explanation and walk-through of the process and especially the ideas and thoughts behind the sound design. Thanks, and keep up the great work you do :-)
@johnchongsing7745 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks. This was very informative. I’m new to synths and have been struggling to understand exactly what a Pad was - Until your video.
@s1gns0fl1fe 3 жыл бұрын
The whole thing is 🔥🔥!! One again Venus Theory killing the game and reinventing it. 👏
@jwp2460 3 ай бұрын
I am truly inspired by some of your ideas about sound design. These tips are helping me to create sounds to use in my compositions that help to take it to the next level. Thanks for the inspiration!
@brianhudson7058 3 жыл бұрын
Listened again today to this, that incredibly slow diminish in the tail(s) near the end of developing this particular pad, brings to mind echoes of the Big Bang, like it never will reach zero and keeps one hanging on, enjoyed this, learned some more now, thanks Cam
@larrybwoy2970 Жыл бұрын
Great video Cam, thanks a lot. The Synapse is a such a beast of a synth!
@maxrodes2085 2 жыл бұрын
SO incredibly deep for no reason and i love it.
@KUPHSER Жыл бұрын
nice. with pads sometimes i like to subtly layer choir or use formant filters like you did with the noise. can never get tired of pads!
@quantumphlo3541 3 жыл бұрын
That Taco Bell comment caught me off guard in the best way possible 🤣 I love the NOTT preset in Multipass for the OTT effect but now that the non-linear filter is out I also find it great to filter different frequency bands with different filter types and mess with/modulate the cutoff, resonance and drive of the each filter.
@donricardoceramics 2 жыл бұрын
Awesome video as usual. Thank you for sharing your creativity. Had me running of making thick fat pads. cheers!
@michaelkonomos Жыл бұрын
This is really helpful! I honestly never really tried doing drones before, which is stupid because I own a Lyra. I just layered that with another synth and really got a great effect. Thanks for sharing the knowledge!
@IanWaugh 3 жыл бұрын
Like everyone else - love the intro! :-) As you say towards the end, many pads have a cold feel. Apart from adding rain and organic sounds, is there anything you would do to create a warm, snuggly pad? Maybe another video on that...?
@VenusTheory 3 жыл бұрын
Noted!
@futur_sunds 2 жыл бұрын
I second that!
@guided-introspection Жыл бұрын
Spitfire Audio - Labs - Organic Texture's would get you some organic pads if you're looking. On Ableton's website spitfire audio's guys have a tutorial on making synths out of recorded field ambience such as rain, traffic, and birdsong. This isn't at all the answer you're looking for but it may be helpful.
@IanWaugh Жыл бұрын
@@guided-introspection Hi - Thanks for your reply. I use some of these ideas. I was wondering if Cameron - or anyone - had a design tip for the snuggly pad. Organic and some movement work well but iut's always good to get new ideas.
@floatinganarchychannel3204 3 жыл бұрын
Extended tutorial from shorts :) yesss!
@kimyona9746 2 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite plugins to use is instability. (I only have the lite version and im still enjoying this). It's like borderline tape but can be as fast, slow, and wide as it wants with it's pitch modulation and amplitude modulation. Very nice to put on leads and pads to get some kind of mmph on it. I like that you can edit the randomness of the pitch modulation and randomize the stereo image that randomness takes up. Also. Saturation best effect hands down distortion saved music.
@roberthbennett 2 жыл бұрын
Nice job! Thanks very much. I have been fascinated by sound sculptures for a very long time. You may have mentioned this, but I don't recall so I will mention something I like to do. In addition to all the great tips you mentioned it is cool to have random, nearly inaudible distant sounds that could be anything from a dog barking to children laughing to people whispering, etc. Headphone only kind of stuff. Also misc. panning and volume dynamics of various sounds in the patch. Thanks again!
@hymen0callis 3 жыл бұрын
Great production value here. Keep them coming!
@rayderrich 2 жыл бұрын
A very inspiring, storytelling talk with fitting end result, thank you Sir!
@LawrenceAaronLuther 3 жыл бұрын
That chow tape is awesome. Great video!
@bsbazzman 3 жыл бұрын
Love your philosophy man. That’s my kinda sound design ❤️
@DR4GON8IT3music 3 жыл бұрын
Wow, this sounds super epic :D I love your tutorials! I also like how you talk about your thaughts while creating this sounds. Greetings from Germany! Peace
@arcsibo 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Have a great day!
@stormfate2108 2 жыл бұрын
Amazingly deep and cool tutorial! Keep rocking man love your channel!
@mannmusicaproductions7093 Жыл бұрын
Perfect tutorial. I think it's important to add that it's important to experiment with the order of the effects as well
@aipsong 3 жыл бұрын
Great info, very well presented. Repetition of identical sound is attrition for the mind - we need the unknown and unfamiliar to hold our attention. Thanks for the video!!!
@lateralshiftmusic Жыл бұрын
This tutorial is amazing, so gonna try this out!
@dj_Davepz 9 ай бұрын
Mate this is tremendous. Well explained, stunning sounds.
@cameranwolfgramm8175 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for this man. I’m going to let my synth tell a story and build around it. Thank you again
@hodelmusic Жыл бұрын
Absolutely fantastic vid regarding drones ❤️👏🏻👏🏻
@RobertMatichak Жыл бұрын
Seriously this intro is hilarious! Not only are you articulate and concise in your explanations, you’ve got a great sounding « voiceover » voice! Thanks for all you do!
@babymdlm Жыл бұрын
best music production channel. Thank you!
@wesrosner 2 жыл бұрын
You my friend are an amazing story teller and teacher. Subscribed!
@_Loop_0 Жыл бұрын
Thx 4 this tut... highly appreciated❤
@shawnalove5050 3 жыл бұрын
Dude! You've given me some really great ideas for patch making! And thank you for the free plugin tips! I usually avoid the free stuff, thinking it can't be very good if they're giving it away... but you've made a believer out of me! Thanks again!
@wepsar Жыл бұрын
The best things are always free.
@mimikova390 2 жыл бұрын
This intro deserves an award.
@soundtechnology 3 жыл бұрын
Such compelling content man, amazing to watch, thanks!
@ftmch8864 2 ай бұрын
this is fantastic and insightful, thank you
@otterguyty 8 ай бұрын
Beautiful pad! Great tut thx
@DeathSensei 2 жыл бұрын
One thing I really love doing to drones as a result of me messing with some shoegaze pedals is running your synths through reverb or delay and then experimenting with different forms of distortion that a really chaotic but also liminal feeling synth. Rn I'm running reverb to delay to a fuzz pedal emulator.
@edwinbrown9951 Жыл бұрын
Great video Cameron. Thank you
@Fauna_ofc 3 жыл бұрын
Damn ! Please do more of these pallet paint things. Some of the best content I've seen and enjoyed in the last 2 months.
@shepsel7 2 жыл бұрын
very helpful video thank you Venus Theory
@dystopianvisions5566 9 ай бұрын
Excellent! So helpful and inspiring!
@sebastianvallejoperez9754 3 жыл бұрын
excelent, this really is worth a lot. thanks man
@marcellszabo85 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for your amazing videos!
@AndreasR86 3 жыл бұрын
A thing I like to do is to add some noise run through resonators. You can get some cool textured notes.
@johnnyt5054 3 жыл бұрын
So glad you used Dune 3! Thanks for the great vid.
@neilarmstrong1883 Жыл бұрын
Best pad sound design video I've seen, excellent 👌
@stefandamian5519 3 жыл бұрын
Wow, that was amazing!!!
@krazywabbit Жыл бұрын
It's been two years since I jumped into this space of dabbling with making noise. At that time, this didn't make sense. Today, it does. Does not mean I'm ready to spice up my tacos yet it's progress. Thank you for the tutorial.
@ckjjclan 3 жыл бұрын
I am so enjoying your channel. The intro on this video was just awesome….
@PeterBogolub 2 жыл бұрын
This was a fantastic video. I had been making more standard indie rock, but have recently been making ambient tracks. This was an extremely helpful video. Based on your video, I downloaded a demo of Dune 3 and the chow tape plugin. I thoroughly enjoyed the existential musings on music. Originally, the name of the band I played in was called The Sems. The term was based on Roland Barthes work where he dissected a novel using a series of linguistic code a sem was anything that had nostalgic references. Looking forward to trying the techniques that you eloquently delineated in this video. Have an awesome day/night :)
@BorisBarroso 3 жыл бұрын
Really nice pad I'm inspired with this video. Your intro is way to cool
@NeilBaylis 2 жыл бұрын
This was fantastic, thanks so much.
@leonk4319 Жыл бұрын
Loved this brother. Going to cook up some stock ableton devices with a bit of supermassive and explore a bit of this shortly
@LightsPersonalAcc 3 жыл бұрын
The quality of your videos always amaze me.
@andydutchman1970 3 жыл бұрын
Great voice, great inspiration, great sound!
@demotrexx 7 ай бұрын
Спасибо, очень интересное и полезное видео, ты меня вдохновил!
@jmfreeland Жыл бұрын
No question the best sound design video I’ve seen
@Enice43 2 жыл бұрын
This makes sense.... incredible value
@igorbeuk6298 3 жыл бұрын
Ambient music is free form of expression not only past, there is no rule but there are playlists that dictate mood and sound but we don't need to obey because it is only matter of time when. New way is heavy BASS futuristic Lower case sounds and that's will change as time passes so it's only matter of time when some different Ambient will be in focus that's why we have to be free to explore new ways.
@TheGhostRecordsChannel 3 жыл бұрын
WOW that intro was amazing man! Awesome tutorial , thank so much Cam :)
@GhanimaGalach 3 жыл бұрын
That intro synth is awesome!
@d0ntbeevil Жыл бұрын
Bravo maestro!!! 🤣😂 Intro: successfully droned. Now to the pads... ☺
@elektrikblu7331 3 жыл бұрын
haha. well done. I'm only at the intro but I'm already loving it. Keep that sense of humor alive
@OneMinuteMeds 2 жыл бұрын
Pads. And Drones. My music life depends on them. Thanks Brother.
@DSVN23 3 жыл бұрын
Bro you could for sure make some money doing guided meditations alongside celebs on that Kalm app. Or even voice acting !
@SyncdAlien 3 жыл бұрын
Darragh O'Sullivan, that's what I was thinking.
@nebroskitheraut6705 3 жыл бұрын
Loved the video Cam! But I have one request: could make more videos about chords and melodies? I watched your chords video that you uploaded a year ago and I significantly improved my progressions. If you have any other tips im sure many of us would be thrilled to see another video.
@zakkibassi 2 жыл бұрын
jaw dropping work
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