How to Add PRODUCTION To METALCORE Music | TUTORIAL

In today's modern metal, djent tutorial I add synths, guitar, drums and percussion production to a metalcore song similar to bands like Glassjaw. All modern metal has some layers of sounds and in this lesson I go over my thought process while adding production in real time to metalcore music. Djent, deathcore, metalcore and all genres use layers as a way to make the song more interesting, so join along for this lengthy look into my mind when writing music of any genre. Enjoy my complimentary attempt at metal humor / comedy.
I'm Brendon Padjasek of the band Structures from Toronto, Canada and welcome to my channel based on modern metal, djent, and deathcore music, production, mixing and song writing.
Gear used today: Sequential Pro 3, Nord Electro 6D, Korg Wavestate, random thrift store snare and percussion. Heavy use of Sound Toys plugins as well as Fab Filter
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0:00 Intro
0:15 Thought Process
0:46 Begin Production Intro
4:56 Verse
8:25 3/4 Riff
13:10 Chorus
17:36 Bridge
20:37 Outro
21:33 Final Thoughts/ Revisions
Thanks for watching!
#metal #music #production

[@BrendonKPadjasek]

What would YOU have done different? Thanks for watching!

[@6oundStudio]

i really like to put ampsims on my synths. putney is pretty great in that regard

[@6oundStudio]

would've been cool to add that whistle of yours before the breakdown

[@BrendonKPadjasek]

Interesting! I do that for very few things but maybe I should mess around with that a lot more. Thanks for all the suggestions !

[@6oundStudio]

i thought my pc broke when the vocoder part started

[@BrendonKPadjasek]

Hahaha little alter boy and auto tune

[@agustindiano]

Being a guitarrist i never thought of trying sounds with a keyboard while the music is going, i always worked writing directly through midi. This will help me a lot with creativity, thanks!

[@BrendonKPadjasek]

oh very interesting. Yeah I feel like I never midi stuff. I'm not amazing at playing, but I figure if I keep miding stuff I wont get any better at keys. Thanks for watching!

[@ImDzp]

the videos you've been pumping out are unbelievably helpful. rarely see metal/rock tutorials using ableton which i primarily use.

[@BrendonKPadjasek]

I’m super stoked to hear that. IMO Ableton is the best DAW for song writing for any genre. I know Jon Deiley uses Ableton too Thanks for watching! If there’s any other video topic I can help with lmk

[@6oundStudio]

i immediately thought about Humble and then you've said it haha

[@BrendonKPadjasek]

Haha I feel like it might even be the same note haha or sound

[@6oundStudio]

@@BrendonKPadjasek probably both

[@kingnary9th688]

the funny part for me about watching all of your absolutely golden videos, is that you were a huge part of one of my favourites album in 2019, and my favourite EP in 2021 (and one of my favourite EPs of all time) and it leaves me kind of starstruck hahah

[@BrendonKPadjasek]

Haha thank you so much for enjoying the projects I’ve been a part of. I’ve certainly been lucky to work with many musicians that I love and respect

[@adriengonzalesmusic]

One of my favorite videos of yours ! Your synths sound great and I love that synth shelf 😍Ableton's quantize and warp algorithms are amazing sound design tools, I use the transient function a lot :)

[@BrendonKPadjasek]

Thank you my man! A lot of people are stoked on metal musicians using Ableton as I guess it’s a lot rarer than other DAWs. Which is insane seeing how amazing the tools are within it. Now that they have the group and Link fiction, I could comfortable track an album of drums in there

[@pablo1982100]

This channel is so helpful !! Awesome tips, awesome ideas, really inspiring. Cheers !!

[@BrendonKPadjasek]

Thank you so much. Glad you found it. Did you have any topics you’d like covered?

[@thalesjeanschwingel9428]

Man, just found your videos when i was looking for orchestration for metal music. This is just supercool! A few years ago our band put out really cool EP but I miss this kind of production.

[@BrendonKPadjasek]

Oh that’s awesome. Thanks for tuning in my man!

[@Jaepo33]

Dude ive been a huge fan since the early structures days all the way up to the northlane days. I had no idea you had a youtube channel til about a week or 2 ago. Please keep making these awesome videos! Youre doing a lot of people a great service and helping people like myself break out of this writers block rut! Keep rocking dude!

[@BrendonKPadjasek]

That’s amazing thank you so much for the kind words! Are there any videos on certain topics you’d like to see?

[@carlosj9908]

Really awesome!!! You are an amazing music producer. Glad I found your channel

[@BrendonKPadjasek]

Thanks so much Carlos! I’m making a point of posting at least one a week this year. If there’s any topics you’d like covered lmk

[@Elevada]

Lmao. That clap was so rude dude. I come here for the information and stay for the comedy 😂. Great video! Always need more wub-wub ;)

[@BrendonKPadjasek]

Haha I couldn’t believe the audacity of that clap. Thanks for watching again Matt!

[@fragile1able]

Idk if u alr have a vid out covering it, but also would be sick to see ur master chain or if u dabble in top down mixing that too! Keep up the great vids! 🔥

[@BrendonKPadjasek]

Thanks for the suggestion. I could do that for sure! I always have a master bus going but it’s fairly basic just to make sure my stuff with translate when it goes to mastering. I always hire a mastering engineer as my guy always cleans it up nicely.

[@beanpastekabana]

Yay helpful video!

[@BrendonKPadjasek]

Thanks for watching. Glad you found sound use in it and yeah, it would definitely be slightly different with every song

[@arjunjsatheesh8899]

Great content ❤

[@BrendonKPadjasek]

Thank you so much for checking it out!

[@ZidanElmuddin]

Holy shit bro. This is super helpful. You have a sub

[@BrendonKPadjasek]

Thank you so much Zidan! Are there any other aspects you could use a video on? Always looking for new ideas for videos

[@ITzRobertoBRO]

Awesome stuff broham, I am curious to hear the whole thing, and wondering what the track is during the outro it's also super smooth

[@BrendonKPadjasek]

Thanks Roberto! The whole track is available in the link in the description so give it a listen there. And tbh I’m not sure. I use a site called Story blocks for all my random video clips and music that isn’t the metal songs from this channel. Thanks for checking out the video!

[@DonnyBartoo]

Absolutely love all the content and info Brendon can't wait to see more!! Is there anywhere I can message you directly?

[@BrendonKPadjasek]

Thanks so much Donny! If you have business inquires you can email me at [e-mail] Otherwise here is best and where I’m most active

[@travisalstrand4237]

I'd love to see your approach to editing guitars. Seems to be a lacking subject elsewhere. Love your content and your tunes man, thanks for everything you do!

[@BrendonKPadjasek]

I do have a video on how I record and edit guitars if you haven’t seen it. It’s got a red and green thumbnail

[@travisalstrand4237]

What?! How did I miss that?! Hahaha 😂. Sorry man, thanks for the reply! I'm a big fan!

[@BrendonKPadjasek]

No worries at all. If you have any other questions after that feel free to comment them And thanks so much haha appreciate you checking out the channel

[@travisalstrand4237]

Will do man, thank you!!

[@BrendonKPadjasek]

Thank you my man!

[@spaceexpireaudio666]

funny never seen anyone with Blender cap, even on decicated channels. Looks sick!

[@BrendonKPadjasek]

Hahaha same here. I subscribe to Ian Hubert’s Patreon and he wears the shirt sometimes but I’ve never seen anyone wear the hat haha. Blender literally changed my life and came at a time where music was completely wearing me out. Had to give them some money since it’s free haha. Was thinking of signing up for Blender Studio

[@mathewmcconaughey6557]

Ty

[@BrendonKPadjasek]

Thank YOU haha

[@gianluigitarantino]

Make a video about bass, sounds, plugins, how you work with it, please 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@BrendonKPadjasek]

Ohh that’s no a bad idea at all! I haven’t really covered bass at all yet

[@thisisflojo]

Always curious how to blend synth and other Instruments like this, love this video. BTW are you mixing the GGD invasion by yourself or you're using the default setting?

[@BrendonKPadjasek]

Thank you so much for watching Cody ! I use the multi channel out and mix them on their own tracks in Ableton or protools. I can never get it to sound good just using the in plugin processing

[@thisisflojo]

@@BrendonKPadjasek I see. I also can't get the sound I want from those drum plugin's default settings/mixing, but my drum mixes sounds awful haha

[@BrendonKPadjasek]

@@thisisflojo Yeah I don't think they were intended to be final sounds without mixing each separately in a SAW. I saw a recent Nolly video where he even mixes them as a multi out. You just get WAYYYY more freedom and options when using external plugins

[@leopardboy18]

What plugin would you recommend for production for those who dont have things like a midi keyboard available? Been wanting to mess with synths but i dont have a keyboard to use.

[@BrendonKPadjasek]

Most DAW's now have a built in midi keyboard (using your computer keyboard as the keys) Which DAW are you using?

[@SafelandingRecords]

any recommendations for computer motherboard or processor? my ableton cpu handling has been meh for awhile, but now im wanting to do more in my projects after watching your production tips and videos lol

[@BrendonKPadjasek]

Thanks for watching. I definitely was getting that a lot. I’m assuming you’re on PC?

[@SafelandingRecords]

@@BrendonKPadjasek indeed i am! I'm currently running with an Intel core i7 3.7ghz 6 core processor, and Asus prime z370-a atx lga1151 board

[@BrendonKPadjasek]

Hmmm I unfortunately don’t know much about computer stuff. I use an i9 11900 , 32 g of RAM and an RTX 3080ti for my CGI work

[@constantinranis]

Nice, how to you mix the synths , I mean how do you eq them compress them etc

[@BrendonKPadjasek]

I’m mostly using synths for the mid range (500-3k) and cater around my guitar, and vocals. I don’t typically like too much low end in my synths so cutting them around 60hz and upwards seems to always help as well

[@constantinranis]

@@BrendonKPadjasek that helps thank you , I m not actually sure how to fit the extra layers of elements in the production so I try not to overdo it but I think I should just experiment more to see what works and how .

[@BrendonKPadjasek]

Experimenting is key. Just remember that low frequencies can build up QUICK and not every instrument needs the low frequencies they have The hard part is not thinning your mix out too much by cutting out too much sub/ lows

[@6oundStudio]

meow meow synth is funny. catcore

[@user-xl8qs4gb2j]

id like to point out that your entire youtube channel is built around ways to make riffs that have no melody of interesting elements more interesting, and in doing so, only points out why those riffs are no good

[@BrendonKPadjasek]

Thanks for watching. I feel like of all videos, this is the most melodic one hahaha, so I would say you’ll most likely not like any of my videos

[@user-xl8qs4gb2j]

im just sayin as someone who loved the structures stuff as a kid, you could just pay more attention to melody and chords and not so much about fixing the inconsistencies that occur in music in order to make simple/bland things sound better @@BrendonKPadjasek

[@BrendonKPadjasek]

@user-xl8qs4gb2j I could, but I’m more concerned with sounds as opposed to notes. There are so many channels of shredders and people concerned with notes and chords. I don’t really care about that kind of stuff because EVERYONE plays notes, but not everyone plays sounds. Thanks for listening to old structures though. That’s cool!

[@user-xl8qs4gb2j]

you are playing notes whether you like it or not, dont ignore it because you think it's overrated to play notes... notes are the meaning of life@@BrendonKPadjasek

[@BrendonKPadjasek]

@user-xl8qs4gb2j that’s a great point. You should make some videos on it. Or even one might be a good start and then maybe I can learn a thing or two