George Daniel & AG Cook Unpack Logic Session for Charli XCX's "Club Classics" from New Album "BRAT"

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[@M0M...]

How long is the full episode?

[@TheodoreWheeler-q9v]

The way ive been waiting for my entire life to see ag break down something hes produced and i will now be mapping my reverb to an lfo on every single synth i ever make bc thats all he said LMFAO

[@shrekogreface7411]

Right?!? I couldn't believe how simple it was. Just the default sawtooth with an envelope, reverb with that 1 mapping and it sounds so good. Same with the drums. Definitely looking at music differently after watching this.

[@travbrack]

@@shrekogreface7411 Detuned saws are OP

[@KillBill808]

@@shrekogreface7411 music is simple, it's just about having the right ingredients smashes together. Like charli said, simplicity most of the time makes it harder and is the key

[@shaunfaesolar]

@@shrekogreface7411 simple sounds bigger most of the time

[@ErosWhite]

This is college to me

[@koychet]

this teaches you more about producing in 5 minutes then college does in 4 years

[@dehazesings]

All anyone ever needs is real world examples

[@Prodby_trxnyshottedinthetit]

Lmao yeah

[@thedigitalescape]

fr

[@EisenbauYoutube]

YESSSS

[@Zachx]

Charli, AG, and George need a podcast of their own. I love them. Vibes are good.

[@bexiexz]

best vibes

[@smoothiethepotato]

i could listen to charli talk for hours

[@cmooreHD]

I wanna hear how everything romantic was done. This and romantic are STILL on repeat!

[@dylantheevillain]

Everything is romantic was produced by El Guincho so they can’t really talk about it

[@yeetyeetonthestreet-colinm1186]

nah frfr

[@dylantheevillain]

that was El Guincho

[@dreamygazes99]

does everything is romantic have hardstyle elements during the chorus? been wanting to ask if anyone knew

[@jenathent4840]

@@dylantheevillainhe only made the beginning drum loop the rest was a,G cook and George

[@alexzsco]

the way ag talks is just so like... gripping and intellectual so im like....... tell me more bebeeee

[@dubzy4485]

6:00 that reverb detune trick is GENIUS

[@sarahr4184]

Agree! It works so well and really takes you to a place of feeling wavy at a rave

[@sebastianwalach8626]

I know that they are talking about detuning but it looks like the lfo is mapped to reverb size? It will just change dry/wet signal. I think they bounced it and the detune is done after.

[@dubzy4485]

@@sebastianwalach8626 nah bro, if you change reverb size while the track is playing it’s gonna detune everything in a really cool way. it would only change the dry/wet signal if the lfo was mapped to dry/wet…which it’s not…

[@knobs329]

I love that they say charli world

[@MarinaAndTheDevil]

They could unpack my session any day

[@undon3]

unpack FOOT for us pls

ily marevil ❤️

[@slayeulgi]

i havent seen you in forever hi marinaandthedevil

[@matt_r_w]

The way that patch was just a detuned saw wave, I'm like actually gobsmacked

[@atomsplitter601]

right??? like it's driving me crazy

[@j_c_r]

The filter does it haha

[@valentinovigovv]

yeah it's pretty basic synthesis, the thing is to know how to execute it in a song

[@Zarnder.b]

his got multiple layers playing deffo not just this one sound

[@PANDAMONEYUMM]

shoutout to OTT on the master channel 🙌

[@m3rify]

how did you spot it?😭

[@aaronscore]

I need the settings

[@tomsentaylor1268]

This is like Da Vinci walking through how he made the Mona Lisa

[@antoniog2854]

darn...we almost, ALMOST got the main bass sound breakdown towards the end...ugh.

[@ChadSkittles]

The wubwub bass is a tweaked version of the BA Digimods preset in Serum.

[@Mariooo57]

Listen to the audio version of the podcast, it's the full thing instead of the drip feed of video snippets they're sharing on KZbin

[@LDR4Lyfe]

I was excited for tgat part lmao

[@yohjinonoki]

@@LDR4Lyfe SAME like the end of the song where only that synth dominates is so cunty naa

[@yeetyeetonthestreet-colinm1186]

@@yohjinonokithe other day i was on shrooms and listening to the song and when that part came i was like Wtf how do they make a synth bass that literally sounds like a living animal Wub wub wub trying to escape the low end

[@Robbie-tl5iw]

when I see videos like these, it makes me super annoyed at myself that I've wasted the last ten years not learning music.. DAMN... this looks so cool.

[@moresnqp]

its never too late to start!

[@maco34576]

start today or youll be even sadder in 10 years buddy.

[@mich3134]

this is me. just graduated 10 yrs of arch school 😅

[@sarahr4184]

People pick things up at all ages! Plenty of people 'make it' after 30, even in 40s or 50s.

[@1almostblue]

Real asf. Start now! 🌟

[@bmw9792]

me studying this like i know music

[@TheTriangleOffense47]

1:40 Im glad he gave credit to the Jersey/Baltimore Club pattern

[@mich3134]

same! I’m surprised I didn’t recognise it. but I also feel like maybe my subconscious did cause I loved this song immediately upon hearing it

[@vinylarchaeologist]

If you're here to shout "RELEASE THE WHOLE EPISODE", perhaps take a tiny second to read the description. The answer's in there.

[@minimoto99]

That's not very Brat though....

[@matthew-e2p3m]

It’s very brat wym

[@sadoklajmi]

Yeah we know, the whole thing is an ad... isn't that annoying ?

[@carll.1405]

@@sadoklajminot only is the whole thing an ad, but there are ads for the recording app inside the ad, so it’s an ad in an ad

[@artphetamines]

Release the full video!!!

[@prongpraison8463]

Wanna see Guess next. That song is so good. Love seeing this

[@slacebo7306]

I love session breakdowns SO much!!!!!!

[@DHU11]

George wearing Britpop merch… ag…please… we need it…

[@AlexMoudgil]

looking at OTT on the master is fascinating af

[@KillBill808]

thats some secret sauce fr

[@AntiSocialExtrovert323]

Ok shout out to Mustard (producer of Not Like Us)! LA stand up!

[@dustydusty]

The kick mentioned here is known as the “rack kick”- used in countless songs- usually trap/hip-hop whatever. It’s found in a lot of old sample packs and isn’t posh like they said lol

[@EczemaQueen]

Love these clips

[@mschirmersf]

They look like they’re struggling from the night before. lol. Love BRAT

[@drmiguel3299]

I was waiting to see a video of AG’s production on Logic.

[@TylerLethersin]

5:19 that was an intro for a remix!!! I’m telling you it would be iconic tho

[@slayeulgi]

its the alternate intro for the demo

[@scrolling.shutter]

This song needs a longer remix so bad. It could easily see this being an 8-10 minute techno track.

[@AngieSmiles123]

This song is so freaking good.

[@allieoco]

I love these three together

[@iharley7815]

Love this album but could totally get behind the instrumental’s alone

[@froufroufoxes0000]

8:11 money on a gold plate reference

[@cellphonesex]

george explaining things is like pulling teeth

[@Theonlyorchid]

Geniuses at the work.

[@omarcianocordobes9579]

let him Cook

[@ChristianBlandford]

What a privelege to see and hear all this lore

[@SnazzyBoxx]

A.G. at least has got something useful to say. “Rich” “Posh” kick 💀

[@arko9151]

I think he meant a very mixed vs dirty kick

[@johntylerscores]

Shout out Baltimore club !!

[@macnoel]

did anyone else notice they used a SOPHIE clap sample? :,)

[@beautfulstretch]

they wanna listen to her :)

[@yurrrrr3333]

This is so cool I’m gonna die music is so cool

[@mich3134]

same

[@beurredemisell]

love them

[@hasunkhan]

This officially has 360 likes EVERYONE STOP

[@misterme436]

Y’all don’t comment about posting the full thing or else they’ll stop posting these clips for us!!😭😭

[@kitanaiBL]

Nah I rather they post the full thing

[@misterme436]

@@kitanaiBL right right

[@kaloyandimov2094]

so pc music is made on a macbook?

[@anushasavi]

i love it

[@connormilstead1773]

BALTIMORE MENTIONED!!!!

[@dl9179]

5:10 @Laneige must book Charli! She genuinely loves your lip balm! 👄

[@tigersteffi]

Keeping the varispeed option is a dub

[@Heirenmusilin]

RELEASE THE STEMS CHARLI!!!

[@Superboy7456]

You gon’ jump if AG made it !!!

[@Amangiechsin]

i swear to god i thought that Acid bass was a Sicko Mode sample

[@scrolling.shutter]

This song if perfect for remixing it into a techno track

[@delreyluvr89]

please consider getting the producer rick nowels on the podcast hes a great musician and did amazing work with lana del rey!!

[@HexZero]

7:38 HAHAHAHA HOLY SHIT

[@MikeHack-s7b]

Hi, Charli XCX, thank you for sharing your video. While those wearing-headphones-with-your-hands-down routine might not be my cup of tea, I appreciate the effort you put into creating it. Everyone has different tastes, and I respect your perspective. Wishing you the best with your channel!

[@itstonycia]

I wanna dance to GEORGE. oh that’s her fiancé

[@TheCaptainblaubeere]

does anyone know what song this chord progression reminds me of , it feels so familiar i just cant grasp what exactly it reminds me of! especially at around 0:40 in the song when the filter opens up. theres some song with what feels like that exact chord progression and similar synth sound but i cant remember what it was HELP

[@SgtSmugleaf]

my nuts

[@sebastianquesada3716]

why won't you make up your mind by tame impala?

[@TheCaptainblaubeere]

@@sebastianquesada3716 thx for the suggestion! i dont think it was this tho, but it does sound very similar. i think it was some rap song maybe they sampled that tame impala track. just checked whosampled and it says asap rocky samples that song... maybe that was what i was thinking about but i dont believe so bc i dont listen to that song much at all.... and it doesnt remind me of this charli song. maybe it was some kanye song or something idk..

[@santiagogonzalez3000]

For me it’s “get together” by Madonna

[@mich3134]

@@sebastianquesada3716OH MY GOD THATS INSANE! ITS SO SIMILAR!!?!

[@antonionsfw]

young chop is crazy

[@bexiexz]

first day of university

[@BooAura]

I love this whole album but I usually skip past this one when listening. It’s nice first two listens. But it’s unfinished as a club track. This one should definitely get a volume 2 with some Baltimore Philly or Native Jersey Artist on it like the shows inspired by UNIIQU3.

[@littlehelix]

Very interesting

[@johncubberley1943]

AG is so pretty bro

[@artphetamines]

Release the full video!!!

[@iLikeTheUDK]

You can quote me on this, in 3 years' time AG cook is gonna look like Ada Rook

[@Yizak]

Pulsar23 is such a sick drum machine

[@christdolphin69]

oh wow, "yeah our signature sound for this world we've built was really made up of 808s and 909s". incredible insight into a true innovative artistic vision

[@darius4405]

Maybe there’s something to learn from dat

[@jamesdavis8154]

I rate it

[@saint-th9yu]

Does anyone else hear Madonna song "Get Together" in that Club Classics instrumental?

[@jjo635]

Not sure what's so mind blowingly complex about this that it can't be surmised in a 5 minute video. They probably produced this song in an hour. What makes it good is the writing - all of the sounds can be cranked out on serum with minimal processing 🤷‍♂️

[@kienkien8636]

People have be having the best gear in the world, spending years on complex sound design, but still can’t write any good music 😆

[@prodbyferdi]

yeah but they exactly knew what they needed to do to make it hit. and that's what they did

[@arko9151]

Me when I think a song needs to have 100 instants of Serum and 50 envelopes to sound good

[@mich3134]

this is a garbage take

[@jjo635]

@@mich3134 care to expand on that? I'm praising Charli and her team for being good songwriters. My assertion is just that the producers are clearly trying to obfuscate what they're doing. Which is silly because the sound design itself is incredibly simple - just a bunch of square waves and saw waves.

[@20thingsgoing62]

I love internet

[@maxznapo]

Silencio, ya comenzó mi novela

[@aircatcher6891]

When is android tapeit

[@camscorch7096]

Can anyone help me understand how the reverb detune is having such a big effect on the sound? My attempts at recreating have not been able to get it. I can't help but wonder about that super vhs plugin affecting that synths detune too

[@MitchellPeterson88]

I actually (I could be wrong) think they were mistaken in this video to be honest - the detune sound is most likely coming from the SuperVHS plugin on the track and not the (very minimal) modulation on the reverb size. They also have a unison with a bit of detune on the saw wave.

[@camscorch7096]

@@MitchellPeterson88 Think your right unfortunately. Thank you ha, it was driving me crazy

[@not_a_windup_toy]

Homie giving me a lecture about a sample kick drum, music is ran thru

[@Carrythe2]

FUCK that Pulsar thing is so nasty. LOVE IT

[@Lilly-Vuitton]

Please if someone has a serum preset for the synth I’d be so grateful I cannot figure it out lol

[@isaacmaze7897]

i really wish they played the out of tune version

[@Wings_of_a_sheep]

It brings me endless joy to know that the pulsar 23 makes an appearance on this track

[@toumaband]

it makes me so happy that George uses Logic

[@sonny8924]

Yas

[@juliekrol]

They say ‘like’ so many times it’s painful listening through this 😂

[@Mathuyius]

Are they using ableton

[@phantommagnolia]

Read title

[@jethroteece4750]

Logic pro

[@erinboom]

❤❤

[@SebDan14]

the thelema symbols in the back omg?

[@jorgeskuf]

john lennon

[@ES-qm5hr]

I'm glad people are appreciating the creativity of underground dance music and putting it into these pop songs, but my big beef is how neutered and lacking in bite and rawness they sound because they are all coming from in the box. Seeing that OSCAR synth in the background and remembering how nasty a sound Ed Rush and Optical got from that thing, makes me feel that people should get back to using more hardware and not just drenching things in VST reverbs and bollocks like that to make stuff sound interesting. Nothing really gets you going as that nasty dance music that was being made from the late 80s to the late 90s in all those home studios and small independent record labels. It all sounds too nice to really hit the same way. Give me Drexciya and stuff recorded into a tape 4 track any day over this new stuff.

[@brineferry7032]

i will graduate and i will invite all three of you to watch

[@DHU11]

Wb me

[@jayrey93]

3rd!

[@San-d9j]

Why does a.g have a valley girl accent lmao

[@darius4405]

He moved to LA yrs ago

[@n3r0n3]

The difference between the over the top quirkiness of Everything is romantic and the provocatorily obvious Club classics was clear but I realise just now they were produced by different persons. Still on the album the more banale (von dutch, club classics or apple) works well with the wacky and outlandish. I guess it grounds the album and makes it palatable for the mainstream because let's be honest, this is not a mainstream record at all. Its savage depiction of the average tiktoker girl (starting from the green screen green on the cover) is tragicomically cruel. And naturally Charli and AG Cook are a talented artistic couple ..the microtonal games pc music has been playing 4 a decade now I always found quite brilliant.

[@oceancat0450]

They look wreckedddd 🤣 which makes for better music.

[@SgtSmugleaf]

Ooooooh wow, nice hyperpop kick loop with 30 channels of synth automation that could have been achieved with just 4-5 channels, sooooo original and impressive

[@MichelSebastian8]

57 channels is crazy

[@SgtSmugleaf]

@@MichelSebastian8 if you're a beginner then yeah lol

[@alexclark5145]

Look at this guy gatekeeping music production and hating on 3 inarguably talented musicians. You’re so cool!

[@SgtSmugleaf]

@@alexclark5145 if you were good at music production, you'd gatekeep it too

[@SgtSmugleaf]

@@alexclark5145 if you were good at music production, you'd gatekeep it too.

[@MusicKnowte]

George doesn't give me the vibe he respects Alex's contribution

[@SnazzyBoxx]

seems cocky with nothing useful to say unlike Alex who is actually talking about production

[@yohjinonoki]

so true idk why charli actually hangs out with sm jerks ik that is her fiance but bro yk

[@funnyonlineuploads]

least parasocial charli fan

[@christianurena510]

The presenter was so lost LOL

[@joejoiner2780]

Sorry to George but he is the least interesting person to listen to talk about this stuff. I'm sure he's a fine producer but he did not say a single useful thing in this entire video.

[@realBenjaminQuinn]

how many drugs do you have to take for this to sound good?

[@realBenjaminQuinn]

just a stupid boomer question I know, but...really

[@jethroteece4750]

A lot 😂