Kreature – Stepper Track Deconstruction

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Kreature – Stepper Track Deconstruction

• Course Preview
• Introduction
• Track Foundations – Kick
• Track Deconstruction – Bass
• Building Drums – 1
• Building Drums – 2
• Drum Processing
• Pads, FX & Vocals

Live Q & A

• Q & A

Meet Your Teacher
Kreature

Although Ash Burgoyne – better known under his moniker Kreature – has retained his youthful appearance, he’s actually already a veteran in the dance scene, having been involved in music for over 15 years. From humble beginnings as a precocious bedroom DJ, by the time he turned 18, Ash had already secured a career in music, touring as a DJ around South Africa, Australia and Europe.

Growing up, Ash had a broad and eclectic taste, listening to everything from jungle to garage to disco. His productions can be seen to reflect these diverse listening habits, spanning deep house, tech, minimal, techno, acid and down tempo electronica. Quickly earning the respect of his peers, Kreature has released across numerous labels such as Solid Grooves, Under No Illusion, Swerve Digital, Resonance Records and District 9.

About This Course

Kreature deconstructs his Tech House track ‘Stepper’, which was and produced in Ableton Live and released on Solid Grooves.

In this masterclass, he reveals plenty of production tips and techniques that you can implement to make your own productions sound more refined and professional.

You will learn:

• How to create a minimal / tech house track like a pro
• How to create your own kicks
• How to shape kicks for better mixing
• How to synthesise your own bass sounds
• How to use transient shapers like Smackattack
• Layering techniques and tips
• How to use Ableton Live’s groove pool
• How to build percussive layers
• Sound design techniques
• EQing best practices (subtractive, mid side etc.

Lessons: 

1. Introduction: 

Tech House producer Kreature introduces himself, his track ‘Stepper’ and explains how he plans to break down each element so you can see exactly how he created his tech house groover.

2. Track Foundations – Kick:

How to synthesise your own kick. Kreature discusses different ways of creating kick drums, either through synthesis or layering. Learn how to sculpt a kick drum using Punchbox, or blending different kick samples on top of each other. Kreature shows you how to tune and EQ kicks so that the low frequencies of your tracks work in harmony.

Creating a kick with Punchbox

In depth: synthesising kicks in Punchbox

EQing low end

Shaping kick samples

Tuning the kick

Layering different kick samples

3. Bass:

How to create bass sounds for tech house. Kreature analyses his bass sounds and offers insight into the techniques he applies in order to achieve a solid low end. You will learn tips related to EQ, sidechaining, transient shapers, useful bass plugins and layering that will help you to create big, clean, powerful bass yourself.

• Bassline deconstruction
• Recreating the bass using Operator
• Sidechaining bass to the kick
• Eqing the bass

4. Building Drums 1: 

Part 1 of building the drum section of Kreature’s tech house track ‘Stepper’.

Having finished creating the bass and kick, Kreature shows you how he creates the percussive layers’. Ash deconstructs the individual drum parts, the processing applied to each element, how he uses return tracks, and how to add swing using Ableton Live’s groove pool. Plugins used include the saturator, MetaFlanger, Decapitator and Abbey Road Reverb.

• Adding percussion
• Adding the open hat
• Sampling drum hits
• Adding swing and groove
• Adding reverb with send and return channels—
• Applying a transient designer with reverb
• Using Impulse for additional percussion
• Using the Flanger / MetaFlanger

5. Building Drums 2:

Part 2 of building the drum section of Kreature’s tech house track ‘Stepper’.

Ash explains how he creates the top layer of his percussion, modifying and shaping them sonically to taste by using Smackattack transient shaper. He goes into greater detail how he uses percussive samples and the additional plugins (e.g FilterFreak) he uses to enhance their sound.

• Breakbeat sample deconstruction
• Smackattack transient shaper
• Using Soundtoys FilterFreak

6. Drum Processing:

A more in depth look at the processing applied to the drum elements of ‘Stepper’.  Plugins discussed include Soundtoys Decapitator, Glue Compressor, FabFilter EQ, Autofilter, Ableton’s EQ 8. Ash also answers questions related to mixing, making drums sounds glue together and how to use mid side EQ.

• Drum Group Processing
• Mid side EQ

Drum Qs:

• What dB level do you set your kick and bass at?
• Do you do your mixing and mastering in other DAWs or just Ableton?
• What is the best way to glue your drums together to sound cohesive?
• If you are bouncing down STEMS for mixing, how do you deal with the sends and return channels?

7. Pads, FX & Vocals:

Ash examines the final parts of his track ‘Stepper’. Kreature shows you how he created his pads and noise FX, what vocal processing he applies, and how to synthesise one of his additional bass sounds.

• Musical Elements Deconstruction
• Pads
• White Noise FX
• Vocals & Processing – Soundtoys EchoBoy
• 2:09:02 Squarewave upper bass

8. Arrangement & Final Q&A:

Kreature breaks down how he arranged his track ‘Stepper’. He discusses structuring techniques that will help you arrange your tracks quicker and better.

• Track structure
• When arranging your track, do you use reference tracks to help you map it out or is it arranged instinctively?

9. Live Q&A:

• Do you use plugins like Smackattack to shape transients?
• Do you ever layer your kicks on an instrument rack?
• Do you ever use long kicks?
• How do you decide when your bassline is finished?
• Is confidence a key part of finding your own sound?
• Do you use Splice and Loopcloud?
• Do you ever layer your bass sounds? Do you use multiple bass sounds to create one overall bass sound?
• Would you ever put a bass layer more in the stereo field?
• If you do not have the Punchbox plugin, how do you recreate adding sub frequencies to your kick?
• How many sales does it take for a track to enter Beatport’s Top 3 tracks in the charts?
  

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