How To Make - Carpenter Brut - "Turbo Killer" (Ableton Live 10)

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[@thegooddoctor5573]

You're great at recreating this stuff, man. Can you recreate my relationship with my son for the next video?

[@Thoriphas]

You reap what you sow, but its never too late to plant a new seed , good luck to you.

[@flooperjunk2871]

OHHH SNAP

[@hughzev2336]

instablaster.

[@CaptJackAubreyOfTheRoyalNavy]

About the drum sample selection: they're TR-707 samples, which CB uses heavily. They sound acoustic because they are indeed digital samples of acoustic drums, originally sampled at quite a lo-fi sample rate/bit depth. They have that characteristic tight, dry, punchy sound of 80s digital drum machines, like the famous LinnDrum, which Roland was trying to emulate/undercut with the 707. Other examples of 80s digital drum machines with this sort of sound are the Oberheim DMX and DX and the Sequential DrumTraks. My two favorites are the LinnDrum and 707 though. These samples always require A LOT of processing to sound fat, but when done right, nothing else sounds quite like them. I like to give the kicks a Pultec EQ treatment to fatten the low end and tighten up the mids and highs (that EQ is uniquely suited to this task). The snares require a boost at the fundamental frequency to sound fat, either a regular bell EQ boost, or a resonant highpass filter work well. Then another little boost at 5-10KHz for the high grit. I like to then add more transient punch to the snare with a DBX 160 compressor emulation (it does this one job beautifully, and that's about all it does well). SSL Bus Compressor emulations, like Ableton's Glue compressor, also work well for this task (attack at 3 or 10ms to bring out the transient). Then I parallel compress the crap out of the drum bus with an 1176 emulation in "all buttons" mode, which adds grit and drive. Some kind of overdrive or saturation obviously works well too, either before or after the compressor.

[@GARDNSOUND]

Good info! Thank you. I end up going back to articles on how things were written after I make these videos. Part of the challenge and requirements, which I often accidentally leave out is that I don't do any research beforehand - focusing on getting the sound right purely with my ears.

[@SecondUniverse101]

thanks for the informations - do you process the samples in mono or stereo?

[@BlazertronGames]

And people say electronic music takes no effort...

[@ZorrroUK]

I fucking love Carpenter Brut and the genre in general, I hope one day I can figure out how to make something like this with free software while I'm trying out music-making for the first time

[@matmightstir1427]

I'm quite late but lol if you're a procrastinator like me this might still be useful. The ableton live 11 trial is free and it lasts three months, that should be more than enough to get started making stuff!

[@FlipHybrid]

You're a brave man attempting this...

[@mrcombine7983]

How dare you insult my god To be honest I wish I understood what you are talking about and hearing you recreate one of my favorite songs is amazing

[@GARDNSOUND]

Thanks for watching!

[@thewolfin]

Lots of both in-depth and easy-to-follow Ableton tutorials on YT. Took me maybe 10 attempts at trying to learn it over the course of years for it to click, and it's still always about learning new and better ways. Stick with it and create something, express yourself!

[@marcosvalium2712]

@@thewolfin can u recommend some good channels?

[@SimonCoulton]

As someone who really enjoys CB this was fascinating, thanks for uploading!

[@GARDNSOUND]

Thank you for watching!

[@nijiofficial3180]

Bro. NGL, my synthwave be kinda too light on the edm side so I was gonna sit my ass down and disect CB on guitar and synths to improve my game. This was extremely helpful. Actually saved me some time.

[@NeZversSounds]

F key is pretty common in heavy EDM.

[@KitelessMusic]

Great video my dude! The bass especially is on point

[@itsnotsure]

"The Boom knob adjusts the amount of low-end enhancement that the resonant filter produces. The Bass Meter lets you see the Boom’s effect on the signal, which can be particularly useful if you can’t hear it."

[@GARDNSOUND]

very thank

[@dotMPEGmusic]

Drum bus breakdown..... After the Drive stage, the signal is split into three frequency bands behind the scenes: Lo, Mid and Hi. The Low part of the signal is piped into the Boom section, which is a Voice-Of-God-style non-linear resonant high-pass filter. Push up Boom to add new sub bass content. You can tune the Frequency of this filter with the knob.

[@astronaughty7805]

Not sure dropping hat knowledge

[@jmd76family]

Interesting. Saw them open for Ministry! Thanks for tutorial

[@ageshero]

love coming back to this

[@julianneder]

you can avoid THE BUG by using the pencil, so you draw a dot where you want to be 0 again, then draw another where you want to start the bend, and last the third dot to lift it up

[@GARDNSOUND]

THE BUG!!!!!!!!!!!!! thanks for the tip, bro.

[@ben_burnes]

Alternatively, you can also copy/paste a point in the automation where it's zero over to where you want it to be. That bug is hot garbage though and my main source of frustration working in Ableton

[@nurnachman]

6:55 the drum buss section to the right is handling the sub frequencies or the "boom" of the kick in most cases

[@citizenOnYoutube]

o boi here we go

[@MetalDoraemon6]

Great job. man When you try to decode the melody parts do you do it one note at a time by ear? Because emulating the fraction to midi (melody or harmony) majority of times i get 2 or 3 notes only XD

[@j.tahtstrauts3049]

Request. Squarepusher: Boneville Occident or Red Hot Car. You will definitely hit your quota that month.

[@luciddreams8393]

man I really enjoy watching you and the energy you put into this. it makes learning much more fun and is very inspiring.. could you show how to make a Charles the first beat man I cant findanything on youtube to help me out with that style and it's so unique I can't even put a genre to it. I'd really appreciate it man

[@Wizardatwill]

Since the new live came out you can group tracks, Grouping track is that the same as creating bus channels ? How did you set up the Parallel on the send? Thank you!

[@ben_burnes]

7:05 I _believe_, and I might be wrong, that this adds a subbass sine at that frequency in conjunction with any loud bass transients. More boom = more sine

[@GARDNSOUND]

U see pillow nick?

[@ben_burnes]

@@GARDNSOUND Hell yeah I did! I'm so glad you like him. I didn't know it was so big!

[@JavierGarcia-vf7xl]

I agree with your opinion on carpenter brut but when I was younger and really into heavier genres I loved it

[@TurboSosiska123]

What are the keys of snarly bass?

[@bongokamongo]

Maybe I am wrong, but I think the original is not 4 on the floor but bd/snare/bd/snare which makes the snare more stand off and kind of "heavier".

[@TheOfficialDjGorge]

the boom function in ableton drum buss adds a sine wave under the samples that it is triggering on the biggest mistake people make with it is they leave the decay at 100% with mudys up your mix fast if you get to complex with your drums

[@TheOfficialDjGorge]

oh yea and the freq knob sets the note of the sine wave

[@GARDNSOUND]

thank u pls.

[@lvnarya__]

We out here

[@forger7538]

Nice work man. Another great one. Can you please tell us how are you recording audio and the screen of your pc at the same time? Are you using voicemeter or something similar? I cannot figure out how to do it. I'll be forever grateful for this if you could answer back.

[@GARDNSOUND]

Yo, it's definitely voicemeter! Everything routes through it, and then OBS records it. 100% free.

[@GatisKaulinsh]

Where do you get those instruments? How do you choose em?

[@jpgenovese]

Hey man its the first time I'm watching your tutorials, nice video! Just one question, earlier in the video you said this type of music like CB has no dynamic range. Are you saying this because his tracks are heavily compressed?

[@GARDNSOUND]

Yes, sort of. I wouldn't say that compression is the culprit; more like he limits things and pushes enough gain into them that the sounds are all the same perceived volume. Make sense?

[@georgemckendrickbryce9863]

So after a few tries at following the settings you pumped into Massive for that EPIC bass sound, I started to notice the settings kept changing every time Massive came up on the video, and then it dawned on me you have multiple tracks lmao. Is there any way you'd be able to share how many tracks and what the specific Massive settings are for each man? I want to play with this sound so bad but I'm a complete noob at Massive ...I literally got it so I could follow your video!

[@ZacMuffin]

Y E S

[@noname-wt9ds]

Thanks for the Japanese subtitles!

[@pmigbarros]

i loved the video, but i didnt understand when you said that his music had no dynamic range, have you listened to disco zombi italia? even better sexkiller on the loose?, liked and subbed. I think i found the issue, youre using mp3 instead of flac or wav

[@sandernightingale]

There is no change in dynamic range between mp3 or lossless.....Get your facts right.

[@GARDNSOUND]

I think you're confusing stylistic range with dynamic range. Stylistically he's pretty varied! I like this guy's music, and I definitely see his compositional prowess on across multiple genres. Dynamic range is when someone's mix doesn't have a lot of headroom versus their softest peak. I.E. they use gain reduction to minimize the difference between their softest part and loudest, reducing the "range" of their "dynamics".

[@maxvandalism7538]

Great Tutorial! Yeah this automation thing is fucked up but if you draw the start and end point first it will stay on zero And i think the organ he uses is in kontakt as well. it's in the factory libary under orchestral -> keyboard instruments -> gr PRplenum Manuel :)

[@sethmathis250]

Carpetsound

[@GARDNSOUND]

This is the best comment.

[@johnmc9073]

Do you have a vid where you talk about the best free plugins you use?

[@GARDNSOUND]

No, but I definitely need to make one.

[@s.p.tucker1604]

So, out of curiosity, why do you just use the drum samples in raw audio tracks instead of making a drum rack and triggering them through MIDI? Using a drum rack still lets you tweak each sample individually with its own effects/EQ, it makes writing or replicating drum patterns *way* the hell easier, and it's not much more work.

[@megan8494]

Trying to support your Patreon, but it doesnt seem to be up and running? :/

[@GARDNSOUND]

Correct. I shut it down because I am taking a step back from KZbin.

[@megan8494]

@@GARDNSOUND gah, starting to dive deep in to the cyberpunk type of stuff and you were one of the few who were actually helpful :p hope all is well

[@shktech6026]

FM8 SQUAD

[@xancankerimov]

can you turn audio into midi in ableton like that or you did them? im confused

[@GARDNSOUND]

Yeah, there's a great tool in ableton called freeze and flatten that will allow any midi to be performed and converted into audio internally.

[@xancankerimov]

@@GARDNSOUND damn that sounds awesome. I tried it in Fl studio once but if there are too much sounds layered up it doesnt work well

[@nihuyevo_zhmihnulo]

How about Perturbator tutorial?

[@danielconway7190]

Thanks, now I can make music to fight God

[@Samsonsamurai]

1:32 oof I respect your opinion but it hurts to hear ;-; I love him so much

[@marcosvalium2712]

how can he not like it??????

[@psychronautron]

Because engineering technicality !== enjoyability? He's looking for clever construction, not fun composition. It's valid, but apples to oranges re: is this music enjoyable?

[@dnch]

where is the final result?

[@GARDNSOUND]

There's a linked unlisted vid in the description. I have to do it that way so I don't get copyright slammered.

[@dnch]

@@GARDNSOUND great sequencing, and you nailed couple of sounds, but the overall sound is thin

[@Ilsweet]

Please make Niky Nine "ROAD", so many would really see that! King of Retrowave

[@thegooddoctor5573]

Also, I tried to close the Serum window at 13:37.

[@ShouriSeifuku]

I throw a bunch of loops into FL, some tweaks here and there, and i can compose some awesome music. Art is amateur. Art is subjective. Put someone who spent thousands on gear, spent hundreds of hours vs a person who had a month of play, and put their tracks infront of me and most likely the difference will be subjective.

[@dksarj]

What i learned. Side Chain The Fuck Out Of It！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！！

[@TheNightquaker]

Automation curves in Ableton, ahhahh LMAO!

[@GARDNSOUND]

WHY ARE THEY SO BAD?

[@delicrux]

I honestly feel like this is way easier to make in fl studio

[@MrMockinByrde]

Gardener Brut, lel

[@astronaughty7805]

Do blackgummy plz

[@GARDNSOUND]

i wanna do rezz too

[@astronaughty7805]

@@GARDNSOUND wait.. what

[@klovvin]

Why do you have a Mark Zuckerberg shirt ?

[@violatorut2003]

Carpenter Brut’s music is much better when it’s the live version. I really don’t like the studio versions of his early music. Leather Teeth is great though.

[@C_CREATURE_]

1:30 Turbo Killer is one of the only songs of his that is bricked and has no dynamic range... so.. maybe listen to more of his music before saying all of his music is bricked

[@GARDNSOUND]

I did. It's all bricked. Get bricked, lmfao.

[@sirmarvwick5934]

Permission to use your beatboxing? 😂

[@chopracer]

Carpenter brut is a band not one person

[@ZackariWatt]

From Wiki: Franck Hueso, better known by his stage name Carpenter Brut, is a French synthwave artist from Poitiers, France. Little personal information is known about him aside from his French origin. His anonymity is a deliberate artistic choice in order to place more importance on the music itself rather than the identity of the musician behind it. Hueso started writing music as Carpenter Brut with the intention of mixing sounds from horror films, metal, rock, and electronic music.

[@TachyBunker]

Shut u dumbass he's one person producing those songs. He only performs with a band

[@TachyBunker]

Meh.