This is a truly AWESOME tutorial!! Your sound is so authentic, in terms of achieving a retro ideal, and you do a great job of explaining how to coax that out of a modern DAW. (Totally my type of thing!) Just recently I've had a couple of folks ask if I could do an 80s/Retrowave drum tutorial on my channel, but I think I just need to point them here! Thanks a lot for this.

12:11 my motivation when I start mixing a song.

I work for a bit in an anolge studio. There is some tricks they used for layering back then. 1 white nose throw a gate being trigger by the snare is super common. (Eq after for a destructive sound. Slap back delays on whole kick and EQ most of the lows and hi out give you that mid vibe Trigger for drums existed even then and where used to trigger sythns to play drum sounds on top Or a sub on the kick or by using a gate trigger by the sound NYC compression set up a comp on a send and send all the drums to it. Set the comp to crash the sound completely Bit crush your reverb send will give you that super old reverb sound

I wish all production tutorials explained the genre they dealt with in this much detail. Thank you!

You are a natural educator Eliana. You ask yourself the right questions. This is super helpful for us funky folks who search hard for this info. Thank you.

Someone with serve attention issues and a learning disorder you really are the best at exposing concepts I am so blessed to found your page

"Pepper, OMFG I'm going to kick you out"

I didn't even know i liked synthwave until Spotify said that was my favorite genre in my yearly playlist. I'm still pretty new at making music and something I've been struggling with lately is finding the right drum sounds. For hip hop and trap it's easy but for everything else I cant get my drums to sound right. This video was very helpful and I am happy with my drums so far after following along with this video. Thank you!

This has far exceeded my expectations, mad respect, you really nailed that authentic sound.

This is one of the best (if not THE best) tutorials on 80ies/synthwave drums out there! Great job! Thanks for sharing this!!

I have started working on some "80s vibe" that really sounds close to this funky style you're doing. Was doing everything on my own but I thought well why not speed things up and look for someone that will teach me some neat techniques. This is it!!! Thank you so much for putting the time into this!

Came here for 80's drum techniques, left here adopting the playlist arrangement method. Thank you for devoting your time and effort to bring us these videos, you are awesome.

wow thank you so much, i have never in my life felt such a night and day difference between two project files as i did after learning how to layer drums from you!!!!! its incredible!!!

I've been getting more into the synthwave sound and this video helped tremendously with sorting out my drums!

I'm not really skilled with programming or making music but i found it fascinating to see the process behind making 80s style music. :)

Best video I have watched on modern drum programming. So much valuable and practical knowledge

This video was very helpful. Everything was explained in a clear & streamlined manner with real-world examples. Overall great content, I appreciate the effort you put into making this & I hope to see more of your videos soon,

So clear and instructive, thank you so much for these!

I'm grateful for your detailed tutorial. It's exactly what I needed.

Great tutorial ,not just for make drums but the general process of samples selection and vibe.

i like how thorough you cover the subject of producers drums sounding the same, im glad you actually explain that and make note of it because indeed there are always different teqniques. imo the drums are the glue of the mix, and if they sound generic well... thats how the final project will sound

I could watch a whole series on your methods. Thanks! You go, girl!

I love how in-depth the tutorials are

This was very helpful, thank you for the idea about layering the drum segments. Getting the best of 'both' worlds, very cool!

Really great presentation. You’re good at this! Drums are my Achilles, so these types of videos are truly helpful.

Incredibly good tutorial, thank you!

This video is classic, love the info!

Awesome stuff Eliana! I really appreciate the calm and clear way you explain things :)

You're amazing! So clear and complete ... thanks a million! Love your channel ✨

This is the real deal Holyfield tutorials! Its was how 80s music was created!...This is Brilliant

This was great instruction. An excellent balance of practical and theoretical information. I feel this video fills the void on synth/retrowave instructional videos. Thanks again!

finally getting the hang of making this era of music, thanks, notes, notes, notes...

thank you, you’re brilliant

Love the track

Damn! it's the first video I'm watching from your channel but it's not the last for sure! Your tutorial is so great with a lot of greats advices, I ve learn lot of things. Good job, thanks a lot!

Great lecture. It was a pleasure to listen to it.

You're breathtaking! Thanks so much :)

This is really good. Thank you so much!

Hi Eliana, thanks for this great tutorial. I was a total noob few months ago in terms of mixing and mastering my own music. Your video in particular helped me getting the kick drum sounding full, but at the same time not stealing deep frequence from the synthbass. Thx again! Take care!

This is like the best explanation ive have ever seen no lie.

Thanks for the tutorial! I've been trying to get more into programming synthwave drums. Very helpful! You rock 👍

Great tutorial, thanks!! 🙏

Very good tutorial,well covered.

THANK YOU FOR THE TUTORIAL!!

Great tutorial!! i love it! Thankyou for share ur knowledge

Super useful tutorial! Thank you so much!

Great video!!! I love your explaining!

damn that's clear and on point. Thanks !

Thank you very much Eliana! I tried it, became super! Thanks :)

Your amazing!! You've helped me out so much. Thank you!

Thank you so much for the valuable info!

Excellent video Eliana. I have been writing and producing for 20 years plus but still watch youtube videos to listen to other peoples perspectives and ideas as it's great for inspiration and this video tutorial has done that - keep em coming :)

thanks for making this!

I am really glad to have found your tutorial. You have a great way of explaining how and why you are doing what you're doing. Subscribed!

Thanks! This was exactly what I was looking for....thanks for the lesson!

Jeez man this channel is highly underrated

Hey Eliana, I'm just starting out and I want to say thank you for taking the time to do this for people. You come across as a very nice and authentic person and you do a very good job explaining your philosophy and execution.

I´ve improved my english skills just to be able to follow amazing tutorials like yours. Cheers from Brazil.

You're super talented! Great tutorial. 🙏🏽

you speak like a medic, it's fascinating, great explanations! thank you

The Akai S1000 and Roland S-50 factory libraries are a gold mine for 80s drum samples.

Great tutorial! Thank you

YESSS please keep this up.

This is tutorial is the best loved the way you were explaining this and earned a new subscriber :)

Thank you SOO much for this, super in depth and helpful! :-)

Hi Eliana! Thank you so much for this amazing tutorial . i honestly didn't see such deep and nice explanation of the 80's drums so much good tips. great one! i definitely recommend to every 80's producer to come and watch !

This is pretty epic style

Damn son! Where was this useful video all my life? D: Now I know how to make the drums sound better. Thanks a lot, you Goddess! :D

Thank you. I learned a lot that I had not picked up anywhere else. Happy to sub.

these are some damn good tutorials, really glad I stumbled upon your channel.

Excellent video! A plethora of valuable info, punctuated by occasional Pepper chaos. Keep up the great work!

Thank you! That is exactly what i needed all this week! I'm beginner, and trying actually to make synthwave, but drums in my mix is too sharp and boring i think, this video helped a lot thank you! Keep watching your videos!

I'm a hip hop producer so whenever I find chord progressions I like or drum breaks I like, etc. Instead of sampling, I transcribe them to midi so I can use them later. And this drum groove is so dope I had to transcribe to midi the NecroFunk Drum Break so I could use it later. Too good! Jajaja thank you so much for this. And you explained how you created this groove so I can apply that to my own original drum grooves in the future. You da best!

this video is so helpful and informative thank you! i'm just getting into this and this really helps give me direction stay awesome

Wonderful!

Brilliant! Thank you

PEPPER STOP! I'M TRYING TO LEARN FROM THIS AWESOME TUTORIAL YOUR OWNER PUT OUT AND YOU'RE OVER THERE BEING SALTY DAMMIT! So anyway, thank you for also breaking down the music theory it truly helps in the process. 10/10

I'm in love, just trying to make midi music, I feel revitalized, thanks

this video was a nice refresher on the production style, thank you. you've earned a like and sub.

Thank you much for this!

Awesome!

Haven't watched everything yet, but thanks a lot already!

Hello from the U.K 🙂 Thank you for making the best tutorials, very informative! Your style of teaching is refreshing , I've learned quite alot and I'm still learning ,mainly because of you I decided to get writing music again ,so thank you ❤️ I honestly don't bother with other teachers much ,, as you're the best for me 🙂 see you on the neon side

criminally underrated

Thanks for the tutorial and the epiphanies! I have been obsessed with 80's music since MTV debuted and I have been writing songs for as long as I can remember - ever since getting my Fostex 8 track cassette tape multi-track portable studio in high school sometime in the early 90's, I have been obsessed with the 80's sound and production techniques as well (a very unpopular time to like it, as grunge was king)!

excellent video

Amazing video.

It was funny how you cursed at your dog. Each time I wanted to point something out, you explained it seconds later. You actually knew what you were saying, I can tell. Even with my adhd I was able to focus on this video every minute. And I learned something, whilst refreshing lost knowledge. Thank you for this video.

Your videos are actually amazing i hope you get more popularity cause you definitely deserve it 💗

Hello from Texas! I'm new to your channel, but I wanted to drop a note and thank you for sharing your knowledge.

This is nice

Cool!

Muchas gracias, excelente.

amazing content!!

Thanks you helped me a lot!

Thank you so much

thank you so much! ive just been starting out and this video helped tons :)

Would love some 70s jazzfunk/funk/disco ish content, feel like you have such a good grasp of the genres’ elements and could make a cool video on this!

This is super useful in several ways, layering, mixing, gated verb, patterns. The part about kicks following the bass player is super interesting, that's the same approach as Michael Jackson's drummer, "Sugarfoot". He mentions near the end of his drumeo vid. Thanks for vid

Great info