(e-book + video lessons)
It doesn’t matter if you are a film composer or music producer. We all work with virtual instruments, samples and digital sound. And we all want to achieve the most organic and natural sound, even in mockups. Warm analog sound is something you simply need to understand and use in your music.
Without this you will be limited by presets or samples rendered by somebody else. This guide will help you to understand how to make your own recordings and how to avoid being pointed out as a talented but „poor sounding” composer/producer.
I will show you step-by-step how to turn your DAW into ANALOG and how to:
– add pleasant analog warmth & color
– imitate analog hardware (tape, vinyl, tube, beat machine, console etc.)
– make your digital sound rich and full
– create mellow Lo-Fi
– explained with free VSTs (you don’t need hardware!)
– audio exercises included
It is the Holy Grail of computer music and well… I took me a while to learn it. Now I decided to share with you techniques I use in every project in this most practical and comprehensive course.
In the first chapter I will explain the structure of warm sound and where it comes from (text + video & audio examples). In the second chapter I will show which free or paid VST effects you can use to create analog-a-like sound (text + video + audio examples). In the third chapter I will explain how I made my own „analog” chain effect and how I use it in my DAW projects (video workflow + audio excercises).
Each feature of analog sound that I describe has an abstracted audio example so that it can be easily heard and compared with non-processed sound.
In this course you will find:
– 40 pages e-book
– video lessons and examples
– 7 videos showing in-action workflow
– 43 audio examples and excersises
– link to the facebook group where you can ask for help or feedback
If you don’t have time for theory, you can start from Chapter 2.
If you’re a pro and just want to pick up my tricks, check out only Chapter 3.
That’s why this tutorial can be useful for both: beginners and professionals. I explain analog techniques using Ableton but they are based on free VSTs which work exactly the same in any other Digital Audio Workstation e.g. Cubase, FL Studio, ProTools, Nuendo, Bitwig, Reaper, Logic Pro and others.
Chapter 1 – theory
Chapter 2 – tools & techniques
Chapter 3 – step-by-step workflow examples (video only)
Table of contents
1.1 Warm sound and where it comes from
– sound structure
– saturation & harmonics
– artifacts
– saturation levels
– coloring existing harmonics
– dynamics
1.2 How analog devices change sound
– non-linearity
– non-transparency
– noises, hums, buzzes, crackles…
– mono vs stereo
– wow & flutter
– digital degradation
– smaller frequency range
– high vs low quality analogs
1.3 Digital simulations
– digital simulations of hardware
– digital simulations of hardware-a-likes
– digital simulations of analog workflow
1.4 Hardware-a-like sound:
– vinyl
– tape
– tube
– console
– beat machine
– guitar gear
– old gear
2. Tools & Techniques:
– coloring EQ tools
– Lo-Fi compressors
– glues & color limiters
– standard analog compressors
– light saturators
– heavy saturators and distortions
– stereo reductors
– wow, flutters and stereo phase shift tools
– sample rate and bit depth reductors
3. Workflow video examples:
– my effects chain presentation
– vinyl-a-like vocals
– warm analog rap
– tape-a-like synth
– beat-machine-a-like drums
– saturated drums
– 808 kick & bass tube-a-like
– distorted bass
4. Excersises