As you can see, most of the work was to take ''lo-fi'' drum machine samples and make them sound modern by boosting the mids and high-end. It's very important to be careful with that because if you boost too much it's going to end-up sounding very very bad haha Also most of the time these old samples are already full of character and compressed af. So no need for over the top processing with parallel saturation or compression. I like to keep things simple! Would you be interested in videos about vocal processing? like FLA or Ministry style? hope you liked the video! cheers

when you played that snare on it own, all I could hear was "I walk the line between good and evil!"

We need Industrial music again !!! ❤

That was Rodent. Love that song, especially Ken Marshall's remix. BTW his channel is pure joy.

Honestly I really appreciate what you're doing here fam As a producer when I started my work there were no tutorial videos on genres like Industrial and it took me so damn long to learn some of these stuff that you're mentioning in your videos I must say and I mean it, god bless you!!! Even with my current knowledge of the genre I still learn new things from your videos Keep up the good work and if it's possible do more breakdowns on some NIN and Skinny Puppy songs.

Actualy the zap hit drum (you call laser drum) and the gunshot snare was also highly use on 80s pop and prog rock band like YES or Genesis and Peter Gabriel was one of the first to devellop that gated verb sound snare to there sampling fairlight and other E-mu Emulator and SP 1200, Michael Jackson also make a heavy use of that kind of sound in BAD and Dangerous album, but we must admit that young gods , front 242 and skinny puppies make those roland drum machine and E-MU and Akai sampler sound more badass , by adding also metalic sample and other guitar and distorted stuff.

a great drum machine for the genre is the boss dr550, guaranteed

When you spent hours looking for a perfect drum sample in your library and still not found it, you can allways find a usable sound in a R-8. Or the Boss Dr 550 mk II.

As someone who made 90s industrial, it was more about signal chain than source. 8 and 12 bit samplers were important. The early MPCs were used a lot. Take a crow bar to a dumpster and process the result. Be creative.

Basically a 90s update of the 80s.

Smell like old Amiga Demos traxx. Good job!

The Kawai only emulated what was done in the Fairlight. Also there were add rom chip mods with Drumulator and Drum Traks PCMs. I am shocked there is no mention of the Alesis HR-16B.

As a lifetime industrial music fan (all styles, from industrial techno to industrial rock and from power electronics to dark ambient) I a m really enjoying your videos! Thanks!!!

Awesome job on this! Thanks for the video.

I finally learned how to make laser sounds from synths. I used to use only one sample of a laser sound.

That was amazing! I adore industrial music and wondered a lot about the drums. Thanks so much for this break down. ❤

Damn, that outro jam sounds fantastic. 90s Industrial was THE BEST for me and I love when someone puts in time and effort to recreate those magical sound capsules. Thanks for the great vid.

In the 90's, your Snare Drum had to sound like a punch from a Martial Arts movie!! 🥁

I had the original Kawai R-50, but I wasn’t using anymore once I got my RY30, which was superior in every way. I got some good money for it at local store since it’s a classic. Just a note about Cevin’s machines, don’t forget the TR-909.

cool retrowave on the end :))))))))))

I think it wasn't just in the 90s when these sounds were used. These drums were mainly used in the 80s with EBM and Electro-Industrial bands, such as Front 242, Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly, Nitzer Ebb, à;Grumh…, The Klinik, Pankow, etc, and even by Synthpop bands such as Moev , Single Gun Theory or Depeche Mode.

I'm so happy that I've discovered your channel, these tutorials are very helpful!

Just thought I'd share, but I ended up discovering a TON of old Ministry drum, and other sounds from the "Twitch" time period. A while ago, I had downloaded the entire library of sounds from the Fairlight CMI that some kind soul had recorded into wav files. I was exploring the collection and discovered MANY of the sounds used on "Twitch" and all of Al Jorgensen's projects from that time period. He used a lot of Fairlight CMI samples. Many of the drum sounds were completely unchanged from the way they were on the albums. I'm going to have to go back through the collection to find the specific samples. I didn't make note of them because at the time, I was just noodling around exploring the sounds. It's definitely on my agenda to dive back in there and find those sounds again. There's a LOT of sounds in that collection. I just figured I would share that. Ministry definitely was using sounds from the Fairlight CMI library back then. Also, a fun technique that I copy to make cool industrial drum sounds is the technique that Big Black used. They recorded rhythms on a Roland TR 303 or 606, onto tape, but then played the tape back at slow speed with some reverb on it. I've tried to emulate this on a DAW, but it's never perfect. Even stretching the audio doesn't work perfectly. The sound just falls apart.

The perfect rivet anything ever is Ministry's "Corrosion". I could listen to that track on loop for hours.

If you want to hear the one act (unless there are others) who has brought the old style into the modern era 100 percent it’s Youth Code. I saw them open for Puppy awhile ago and they impressed me so much I picked up their greatest hits.

That r 8 snare sounds like it was part of Depeches behind the wheel, great video by the way 👍🇮🇪

Very nice! I have a Fantom 7 as my main music machine and this inspired me to try and make one of my sample pad sets an industrial drum kit. 😁

Nice track!!! Love it!

Thank you. You’ve read my mind. I needed this.

Great introduction, THANK YOU! I will forever be an industrial music fanatic!!

I spend most of my time listening to 80s/90s industrial and ebm. You are really nailing it! Thank you for focusing on this music.

Thank you so much for this very insightful deep dive into my favorite style of Industrial. Liked & subcribed !

Nine inch nails made the best sounds. If you can get the stems to Downward Spiral , you can tell they handcrafted every sound it seems.

Dude. Sick jam. Keep it up. 🤘🏾

Love it! Just got all my RY30 Samples at the ready.

Excellent video! Thanks a lot. My first drum machine was a SCI Drumtraks, which I still own and use today. My second drum machine was an EMU Drumulator, of which I especially loved its dry clap-sound and the fact that it fits perfectly into a retractable tray for 19" rack equipment. Besides the Drumulator was easy to retrofit with MIDI. Later on and up until the present day I mostly use drum modules as the Vermona DRM and Kick Lancet. I call such units drum modules and not drum machines, as they do not have a sequencer. Sorry, just my terminology. Another piece of hardware I can really recommend especially for creating metallic sounds is the MAM ADX-1. Sadly ADX-1s have become hard to find and nonetheless it's become a pain in the a** to find fitting potentiometers for this machine if replacement is needed.

Super dope video 🔥🔥

Well put, and good stuff yourself

Great video again! THX

WELL DONE, GREAT VIDEO!

That second R8 snare will ALWAYS be one of my go-to sounds

You're the best thing on KZfaq right now. Thank you!

Huge fan of Project Pitchfork as well..... Good videos, subbed!

Tip: Check out the Cubase Media Bay sample content for hundreds of industrial drum sounds...

The clap song is Skinny Puppy - Rodent

Absolutely love this video, started off listening to early 80’s electronic/synth music moving on to club electro techno and house and although modern electronic music is less of a mystery all the 80’s and 90’s EBM/industrial technique is a lost of how it was conceived

This is amazing, thanks so much

Bought these samples so fast! Killer pack, and awesome track at the end!

Speaking of Front 242, they're prepping for their final tour....

Tonepusher, you are on a roll.

Front 242 was straight LEGIT avante garde industrial/trance. Listen to Crushed. Holy crap. Also, check out UX and the other projects by Kris Kylven. UNREAL industrial psy trance.

Hell yeah love this

There was a torrent floating around years ago with 200 drum machines sampled. Nice addition to your library if you can still find it. The machines mentioned are in it. R O D E N T

I had a kawai R-100 which was the big brother of the R-50. Very industrial sounding.

One more drum machine recommendation just popped into my head. Find yourself an Alesis 16, but find it with the B chip which has more processed sounds instead. I’m not sure which version was used by Godflesh, but it’s all over the early albums like Streetcleaner.

Anyone who knows music gear and loves industrial is good by me

I haven’t watched this video yet, but if you can track down a Yamaha RY30, you’ll be set. I’ve had mine since ‘93 and it’s still kicking ass. One of the things that makes it so cool is that you can mix samples together on each drum pad. You can pitch sounds way up or down, and it has hi pass and low pass filters. One of its coolest tricks is the ability to automate parameters via a wheel. You can also do the same thing in the step recorder. The machines only downfall, is you can only have 4 bats per pattern. The Roland R8 was also heavily used during this period., and it’s pretty heavy sounding.

I always liked putting the tom sounds through a DS-1, but recently discovered that a POD amp sim with the cab off gets the sound nicely.

One of the best bands doing stuff I’ve heard lately that still sounds like this is Mildreda All similar drums, bass, and is honestly just an awesome artist

Final track sound sooo good

I have Elektron Rytm Mk1, Roland SC-880 rack rompler, two sansamp distortion processors and an elektron heat distortion processor. i get great drum sounds with this setup.

This was a cool video, gave me total nostalgia for my teens when I was neck deep in skinny puppy. Your production, but especially the drums, are absolutely spot on to the style and you explain your rationale for everything extremely well. In short a very informative video that would be helpful to those new to the style as well as those like me who just dug the nostalgic aspects. I would offer one suggestion that I think would significantly improve stuff. You spend a 3rd of the video talking about EQ. Now, I happen to love detailed mixing stuff, but it does go for far too long. I would suggest you talk about your reasoning behind the EQ techniques for this style - maybe discuss how you use EQ on track then bus instead of 5 EQs on a single track. And after discussing your rationale, give a few examples. Because it got a bit boring about halfway through the EQ stuff. Anyway, really cool video. I am tempted to go on a skinny puppy binge now.

The R8 is a sexy BEAST🐶 Kool video bro ☝️💪👍

Thanks. Dusting off my Yamaha RY-30. Literally, so much dust. I have been meaning to redo some Noise Unit songs.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="67">01:07</a> Douglas McCarthy as a censoring sound, great choice! xD AUH!

You should be talking about Front 242 a lot more, their production was always head and shoulder's above a lot of the american stuff.

MINISTRY RULE 🤘👿🤘

Funny those drun machines were priceless for about the last ten years, besides 909 or 808... Some of them almost impossible to find nowadays, others already increased price more than three times. Happily my r8 for 150€, r50e for 90€, and ry30 for 180€ were purchases by the right timming i guess, along with other classics ;) Most interesting bit regarding all those drum machiens is thar samples dont donany justice. Great content by yhe way!

Not sure if it's similar but it reminded me of some of the Yamaha RX5 sounds.

Helpful video, thanks! For me most of the iconic character comes from the toms. What cymbal/crash did you use?

Great video. subbed. I grew up with all these bands and sounds. A little away from industrial but do you have any idea what hardware Sigue Sigue Sputnik used?

Watching this makes me want to work on music again.

Nice to see some love online for my Kawaii R-50-e

This maybe a dumb question, but could you please make a video showing how to make gated kicks and snares? How to get that delayed or pumping effect on the reverb. Thank you in advance. Another great video btw.

the song was "Rodent"

yamaha rx was great also

The drums sound amazing, but I can't get enough of the bass and pluck synths in the final track. Care to share how to create them?? Thanks!!

When some of your examples are from your hometown. 🇨🇦

OMG your track is 🔥 dude. Can I buy it or download it somewhere?

I would like to learn to do all that , I love Industrial / EBM music. Any recommendations to get started on this?

Great vid. Ill try it out. Never heard of skinny puppy. Looking forward to next vid w ministry exercise!!

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To me this sounds more EBM than Industrial. Both are close, however Industrial in my opinion is more hard, dirty and distorted.

Sounds so good! Well done! Question tho, why don't you use Groove Agent instead of the samples? For me it makes it much easier to program drums and you can still export each sample to their own output and process them like you did now. Plus, GA has some awesome options built in, I think.

The ICONIC would be responsible for the ICON of THE ICONIC....

Damnit now I have to buy an R8 🤦‍♀️

Have you ever heard "Dead when I found her"? Great one man band.

Rodent! ...tasty

I have thr R50e in my studio

IN-DE F@CKING DUST TRIAL!!! 💣🤘🖖

Here's me plugging my pocket operator through a bass multi effects pedal 😂

I'd love either a lexicon PCM41 or 42, but those are incredibly expensive nowadays, and i haven't found anything modern in a rack format that can do those things.

I still miss my R-8...

Compression,Distortion, verb gate,compression. Yes twice.

This "crash" is from which drum machine ?

It's the 8 bit and 12 bit sampler synths, ensoniq Mirage, sequential Circuits prophet 2000 , e-mu emax or emulator II , oberhiem DPX-1 akai s-900 s-950 Software emulators pail in comparison to the real machines win projected in an actual space through big drivers . EBM electronic body music It pulses through your body ,the deaf could dance to it .

Take any drum gate reverb and saturation. You are welcome.

As much as I like late 80’s-early 90’s industrial, the mixdowns are usually very flat. There’s usually not enough bass and everything is very midrangey. High end usually sounds good in Skinny Puppy tunes (especially Dwayne’s weird sampling and subliminal stuff) but overall the mixdowns don’t hold up to modern scrutiny.

Akai Sampler loops

cant believe you didnt mention compression or overdriving the desk channels. ministry's sound comes from overdriving everything