Deadmau5 & Steve Duda Explaining Sound Design and Arranging a Track

[@ChantingInTheDark]

Wow, this makes me feel a little better about my musical experiments. I too name tracks with crap names, and often will just create interesting loops that I then end up layering, and then once I have a ton of things happening, start to separate them out. I thought I was just amateur (well, I am) but nice to know my method isn't actually that terrible!

[@FirebladeXXL]

i was also kind of reliefed to hear that building a layered section or a hook and then building up everything around it doesnt seem so uncommon.

[@JakeSignalYT]

@@FirebladeXXL I just started taking producing seriously this year and just stumbled into doing just that, relief to see Im kinda on the right path. I found that just messing around until some idea clicks worked out best for me, often times I just make random drops or progressions then something hits, and when it does I can bang the track out in a day or so. Whenever I try to start a track from the beginning I never get to the first drop.

[@dBs-strange-state]

It's crazy hearing the full track from the DAW vs the traditional version we get to hear. So much more going o.

[@darrenhirst9900]

I love his music it takes you on a journey. Both great guys.

[@iggswanna1248]

this is the cardinal sin of EDM right here

[@DJHipNaughty]

How so?

[@iggswanna1248]

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[@LucasSchaffer]

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[@xXGrandclosingXx]

@@DJHipNaughtyhe was making a reference to the Deadmau5 MasterClass meme haha

[@Jono.]

BSOD need more tracks. These dudes are awesome.

[@simondanielssonmusic]

While Deadmau5 likes to clown on his "minimal" knowledge of music, he undoubtedly has an obscene sense for what makes a song good, even though he may not always be good at explaining his process in a defined and nuanced way.

[@JacobSimonsen]

the guy made like 5 good songs in 25 years

[@jasez8812]

@@JacobSimonsen Lol I think Steve is the main driver behind Deadmau5's music. Steve is quite a genius and created a synth that is almost heard in every modern EDM song call Serum.

[@jackneighbors666]

Like how rappers say "real recognizes real" nerds recognize other nerds when observed.

[@aperturewells]

@@JacobSimonsen maybe to you. To me almost everything Joel comes up with is amazing

[@ieatthighs]

@@jasez8812 called*

[@dxboommusic]

VALUBLE SHARING BROTHER

[@chrisdorsch9754]

I was a Lighting Designer, in a 24 hour Nightclub and the best record makers that I ever heard were actually the Top 40 remixers of the late 90 and early 2000s. Hex Hector, Tony Moran, Thunderpuss, and others would use very few elements, but the Arrangements were so great and the sound choices that became thier sound was so distinctive. Unlike today's records, they had no drops, just usually on breakdown. If you list to the 2007 remix of the Freemassions Love Sensation, it might be pound for pound the Greatest dance record ever produced.

[@WhizPill]

You got more track suggestions? Like 10 will do.

[@chrisdorsch9754]

@@WhizPill Scumfrog, Rosabel, Peter Rahoffer, Thunderpuss 2000, Junior Vazquez, Johnny Vicious, Victor Calderon, Widelife, Johnathan Peters, Razor N Guido, Michael T Diamond, Offer Nissum, Ralphie Rosario, Able, Murk, Funky Green Dogs, Al B Rich, Hex Hector, Tony Moran, Freemassions, Tracy Young, Illicit, Mike Cruz.

[@seth5394]

Better than Justice “Cross”?

[@chrisdorsch9754]

@seth5394 if you listen to the producers that I listed above, yes and they are all incredible DJ'S.

[@NoFlyDrone]

@@chrisdorsch9754 Bangin list. I had the pleasure of hearing them live on many occasions from the 90s-2000s. Started with Vazquez, Sascha and Digweed at Twilo. Then into Sound Factory, Exit, and many clubs in NJ. Great times.

[@ItsWesSmithYo]

Always fun…If you haven’t seen the Steve Duda interview at Ableton from a few years back…give that a spin

[@chrisdorsch9754]

I stand corrected Love Sensation came out in 2006, the Freemassions Remix that is.

[@zeman8705]

cool stuf, i can see him going places someday

[@LesterBrunt]

A key to original content within a structure is to engage with the structure consciously. For instance take an intro, you know the standard structure and then you want to change something about that. But then think about what you want to change, engage with it, think it out a little bit. If lets say you want to deviate from the typical length then think about why, what makes you like that more than the standard structure, and how could that be translated into other parts of the music?

[@mistertea597]

Thank you for the amazing content!

[@leewightman8619]

Alot of people build the whole track in a few bar make the main drop and just brake it down then build it up as im a hardware guy i dont i do each part sepreate in order ...i think i need to start using a daw

[@crim-jim6814]

Kinda the best Deadmau5 interview..

[@Guntherthefool]

Lol main dance part

[@CUAUHTEMOCVEGATORRES]

I wonder why he stopped using FLstudio

[@DigitalBroomstick]

If I remember correctly, it’s because he became more interested in doing elements of his set live, and the scene view of Ableton is super flexible for switching up and modifying songs live

[@frankquither4980]

Deadmau5's studio looks like the inside of the Tardis from 1970's Dr Who.

[@JacobMedrea]

Okay it's all interesting what they're talking about but what about the song? Would be nice to listen to it

[@yusefaslam9675]

deadmau5 - imaginary friends is the song

[@baronetessdawson]

Boss.

[@valdeEDM]

Don't mind me, I'm just taking notes :D

[@allenleclerc7878]

Liberacci... Fucking hilarious.

[@grimmwerks]

Where is this from?

[@denisbrodovskyi7135]

2016?))

[@cahns5025]

yeah damn bruh

[@LRonHubbard-um1tp]

'Pretty formulaic' and 'mr. Potatohead music' is a good description for every track this yob ever did

[@Victorcolongarcia]

I make music but I avoid making them longer than 4 min. I have to be able to tell everything in 4”. I use the same method. My problem is I tend to overproduce and add too many stuff.

[@927tripp]

it's cool to see their process. haters can say what they will, i think these two bring value to the playing field. just remember.. at the end of the day what matters most is what comes out of the speakers. easy to overthink and overdo this stuff. your ears are the best judge. ...and if you don't like his music - i don't like asparagus. but i don't go on the asparagus channel and throw rocks.

[@doldrumdoesit3862]

Ableton 8? I love that he doesn’t upgrade his DAW 😂

[@insict]

This video is from 2017 or sth

[@Диванныйвоин-ф1з]

2/3/2016 as it's written in the bottom right corner of the recorded screen

[@SlavaChrome]

There is 9 =)

[@sonnyobrien]

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[@unkown34x33]

live 9 actually

[@urphakeandgey6308]

Love him or hate him, this is basically the Beethoven and Mozart of our time in the same room. It's hilarious watching Deadmau5 say some off the wall shit and then Steve come in trying to translate what he said in a more polite tone. Deadmau5 composed some of the greatest pieces of electronic music and Steve Duda engineered some of the best tools producers use to this day. I think it's apt to call them the "Beethoven and Mozart" of our time.

[@lavenderllamamusic]

They're definitely a power duo in electronic music. Masters of their craft. Duda is like the Steve Wozniak to deadmau5's Steve Jobs lol

[@tamashalo]

Been making music before I was born still doesn’t know the different notes 😂😂 he’s probably a better drawer then musician drawing all those unknown notes!

[@peko1967]

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[@Agrav64]

Paul McCartney from the Beatles also cant read notes...

[@zakleever1105]

Mr potato head edm

[@krismurray9345]

Another explanation with out giving anything away.

[@wack...]

what do you mean??? there is no secret...

[@randompianist8359]

being good at sound design (for electronic bass music) is basically just understanding the harmonics of different waveform/modulation/effect combinations. learn what every serum effect does to different waveforms and then what other plugins do to those serum patches in post processing. over time you will develop an intuition for knowing what something will sound like before you make it. there is no shortcut to this, just do lots of sound design and watch lots of youtube tutorials (ones where they recreate a sound from a song you know are good).

[@itsjebu]

He explained everything lol

[@anonymousdcal]

why don't u give steve the credit for creating serum that you're using deadmau5 you're dancing around it obviously he knows more about it than u its his own plugin

[@jackkerry4137]

Anyone who clicks this video knows who Steve Duda is. Deadmau5 is well aware of Steve’s contributions to sound design

[@anonymousdcal]

@@jackkerry4137 That right?

[@Joshua_Griffin]

They're friends and colleagues dude​@@anonymousdcal

[@ehrenzigeuner6917]

Steve Duda id is the serum guy