How to Process Drums for Synthwave [Ableton stock plugins only]

In this tutorial, I'm will show you how to make that iconic 80's retro drum sound using only the stock Ableton sounds and plugins.
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[@rayderrich]

This video was less organized but more educational than I expected. Thanks man!

[@Rocktofakie]

Had a great time going through this in Ableton. Made the stock LD kit sound amazing! Plus I learnt more about Gates, EQ, Unity Gain. Thanks!

[@langhorneman]

One of the best tutorials I've seen on KZbin so far, I really hope you make some more!

[@cooperbadger11]

Extremely helpful! Thank you so much!

[@ryansecor]

I found this super useful and hilariously entertaining. Awesome job!

[@jamessparrow]

The way you set up the effect send using the group and having both mapped to the same knob was pretty cool. Thanks for the vid.

[@randyjsloan]

One of the most informative videos I've found for learning Ableton! You are a great teacher. Thank you!!

[@hamleypaw]

Excellent video for a noob like me. Thanks

[@richie6905]

REALLY ENJOYED THIS DUDE. THANKS.

[@AutPen38]

I learned a few things from this and it was quite amusing in places too. Nice work!

[@moo_goo]

Ive watched a number of these kinds of tutorials. this one was the one that gave me that "aha!" response. thanks for taking the time to make this! subbed!

[@stuffisgd]

Very helpful. Thank you kind sir.

[@mattmorrell3]

This is so great, thank you!

[@unlimitedpower99]

Thanks! Been looking for these sounds all month

[@CoinedBeatz]

Thanks for the video, really insightful and can tell you have some mixing experience. Very informative!

[@GuitarsAndSynths]

Thank you for this helpful video! I use these techniques with hardware drum synths like my Elektron Rytm and make great sounds for backing tracks.

[@Vegan_Waterr]

Hey man thanx for the vid,it was really helpful been looking for it...keep up ✌️

[@spooqs]

Thanks, this was super informative. The part of your process of EQing out some of the harmonics on your snare was really eye opening. Awesome way of cleaning up such an important part of the mix.

[@spooqs]

Also - bass drum on mono. Hell yeah, man. I watch a lot of online tutorials for this sort of thing and neat, clean, one-sentence advice that makes that big a difference is rare. You deserve more subs.

[@papillonm9041]

Did this one again and got it right! I think the mistake I made was indeed in that Pre fx part. I learned a lot from this, thank you

[@TheIsaac246]

Great vid my guy

[@ha1lm4ry]

funny as hell with a lot of good info here, good stuff man

[@johannsonakerson3099]

thank you!

[@jackmcgrath7109]

Thanks legend!

[@gnova4916]

bro when you explained the stereo/mono thing I had to sub

[@DanieleIppolito]

awesooome! 😎

[@chronx2424]

Good stuff, man! Now if only I knew how to make those dirty retro toms 🤔

[@runspace]

Your resolution is crazy high! Maybe do a lower res when doing guides?? It's a little hard to see for us older folks;) Thanks

[@lorenarodriguez9191]

I really enjoyed this video! Thanks a lot! My only obs is that it was a little slow but nothing that cant be fixed ;) Cool!

[@bennyhilding2850]

Great video! I've learned a lot from you. Thank you

[@esser7678]

bro if you make a demonstration of the final product at the beginning of the video it might get people more engaged i always go to the end of the videos to see how reliable are the creators. idk if it's good advice but thanks for the video anyways cheers from Venezuela

[@thomaskueppersvideografie3813]

this is so usefull and gosh - i laugh a lot! :D many thanks DRUM Machine ;-p

[@Chris-be7hu]

Very good tutorial! What is the minimum version of Ableton (Intro, Standard, Suite) required to run the *.adg presets? I only have the Lite edition, but I'm thinking of upgrading. Thank you very much!

[@papillonm9041]

Hey thank you very much for this, but I'm a beginner and even tho I'm following your tutorial I'm having some problems with the reverb, I think the problem is within the gate and that Pre Fx. My snare sounds wet as the ocean

[@scottjacobmartens8852]

Hey thanks a lot for this tutorial. I'm using the Valhalla Vintage Verb instead of the Ableton stock reverb. At the last step where you are cutting the low end frequencies below 700Hz, do I just do the same within the Vintage verb interface for the bass and the snare? When I do that it seems to cut a significant amount of the low end from my bass drum. Also, what's the song clip that you kept playing? It sounds groovy Hahaha Much appreciated

[@FailMachine]

Vintage Verb is my favorite and my normal go-to for this stuff. I use the EQ section in Vintage Verb. If that's effecting your dry sound, you did something wrong. Make sure you have a dry path of the untouched sound and on the vintage verb send you have the wet at 100%... For the clip I keep playing, its Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls.

[@scubbaluban]

Hi thank you for this tutorial. i watched it all :) the only thing is ive downloaded the ableton racks etc and in ableton 10.0.1 it says "the preset cannot be loaded, its broken etc". Is this maybe because i have an earlier version of ableton? im not sure, but thanks anyway :)

[@gezbeats]

Thanks to your tips I improved my retro batteries! I invite you to see my last video and tell me what you think. Thanks a lot!

[@TriviaChallenge]

Next level shit.

[@marcinlinka9350]

Graate Job Thx for this tut. Hi all. I have question about copyright of the bought loop packs, sound banks etc. Can I use them for commercial purposes? How the law look like in the 🇬🇧.l? Thanks for info

[@AutPen38]

You can check the small print with the sample pack, but the most common licensig set-up is that you can use the samples in songs for commercial release and you don't have to pay royalties, but you cannot re-bundle the samples and sell them as part of a commercial sample pack.

[@marcinlinka9350]

@@AutPen38 Thank you for info

[@floydgondolli7321]

Do you still have to do the EQ's after you have downloaded the effect rack?

[@davidsuarez6718]

Prince haha!

[@GuitarsAndSynths]

So how do you split up the separate linndrum tracks in Ableton Live? I can only record one track for all the LD core kit.

[@monicasainz]

hahahahaha Prince xD

[@herbmcduffy7409]

Is anyone else having trouble loading the presets. I get an orange message at the bottom of the screen that says it’s broken or something

[@marcos.rodrigues]

I have the same problem... Still a beginner using Ableton :P

[@leblonde8055]

Prince😂

[@Alavux]

why for god sake you didnt use abbey road eq trick before reverb ? ... :D it's time saver :)

[@FailMachine]

You have a link on how to do the abbey road trick?

[@Alavux]

@@FailMachine kzbin.info/www/bejne/ap2xlJ6BbbNmqtE

[@FailMachine]

@@Alavux finally got around to watching that video.. the ableton stock reverb has the filters already onboard. and I am cutting the high by default. At 24:55 I was going to add the low cut filter which would effectively accomplish the same thing as the Abbey Road trick... at 25:00 I realize I don't need to add any additional plugins and I just used the onboard low filter as well. Also, the stock reverb plugin places the filtering before the reverb effect. Therefore.. I did do the abbey road reverb trick because the ableton reverb is filtering lows and highs off. ;)

[@thezooportugalbanda]

Amazing. Regards from Portugal. Just subscribe and Facebook to. Reverb snare Gate fantastic.

[@Gator732]

the rack download is mad sus. hypeddit app will "Follow and unfollow accounts for you" if you link via twitter lol. Good video though, I will just stick to following the steps.

[@jaystrata.]

twenty minutues of you fkn about with a snare.

[@dnouxboomicy7286]

Doesnt know

[@Cytowave]

Hi there, I think it's disingenuous of you to take people's email, then require a social media account to download the sample pack, especially without telling them. I don't have social media, and now you can send me marketing info without me getting my payment for that.....not cool.

[@almondjones5267]

You gotta slow down man...never used ableton and trying to figure this out but you went a bit fast for first time users

[@jaystrata.]

total waste of time this.