A half-hour episode! Go and get a tea and let’s look at some techniques to enhance your productions. The records which keep us coming back for repeated listening, tend to be the ones in which sonic jewels are buried; treatments and tricks which we didn’t notice on the first listen.
In this video, Jono is putting 8 bars of a song under the microscope to see how little Easter eggs can be hidden in plain sight. He’ll look at automated vocal treatments, finding little phrases to loop, add reverb to or delay. Jono will also process beat loops in a couple of different ways, making sure each has its own tonal footprint, to avoid sounds clashing.
Production gives us the opportunity to make bold sonic moves. But at the mix stage, the subtle ones often endure just as nicely.
00:00 Intro
01:43 Track Playback
02:22 Adding Vocal reverb
04:00 Making reverb dynamic
05:36 Pitch Shifting Vocal Doubler
10:39 Creating vocal loops
15:14 Vocal one-off Delay
18:00 Bitcrushed Delay treatment
20:40 Understanding the difference between Regions and Audio Files
22:19 Reversed beat loop
25:44 Stretched beat loop
28:45 Summary