Excellent video! Bassist here, just starting to dig into adding synths to my band's music. Thanks for sharing these helpful tips!
@DrMikeMetal5 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for watching!
@dreamsofsolace5 ай бұрын
thanks for this 3 step break down. I never really knew how impactful doubling up synths with guitars can actually be. I'll definitely try it out in my next song. Plus they way it was presented was cool and helpful.
@DrMikeMetal5 ай бұрын
Thank you for checking it out!!
@tzhong8892 ай бұрын
this video was so helpful and crafted well. Also with the examples of bands. I really enjoyed it and was helpful please continue with these!!!
@DrMikeMetal2 ай бұрын
My absolute pleasure. Thank you so much for watching!!!
@tjwhibbs5535 ай бұрын
Seeing Invent Animate live this summer, cant fucking wait!
@DrMikeMetal5 ай бұрын
I saw them live here in Melbourne. Unforgettable
@TommyMerry4 ай бұрын
Great stuff as always brother! I’ve been using some of your ideas with Vital and loving the results. Years avd years ago, I was doing this in my home studio when the Ensoniq EPS first came out. I was friends with Joey Alves of Y&T, and I told him I was mixing in synth with guitar parts to make him sound heavier, and he was pretty disappointed in me lol. A lot of guitar players friends used to hate the idea that I was mixing in synth (way in the back) although they loved the results of the tone . I also did it with a lot of my leads to create a little bit more mid saturation as well, at those times I had a guitar synthesizer pickup that I was feeding into the Ensoniq to track along my leads in real time. I don’t wanna say that the future is synth guitars because that’s kind of been done and played out. However, clearly heavy electric guitar needs to be making some technological shift so we can get things sounding even heavier and sicker realtime on stage. Keep making great videos!!
@DrMikeMetal4 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for sharing!! That's so weird and I find this to be a close minded old school approach We're here to innovate and create cool music in any way we wish. No one should gatekeep based on our approaches. I guess, full replacement of guitars with synths or midi guitars leads to a completely different genre, however, augmentation is a terrific idea
@user-gp7kn1su1u2 ай бұрын
Brooo, you are such a gold mine! THANKS SO MUCH!!!!
@user-gp7kn1su1u2 ай бұрын
Also, the currents shirt is so sick!!!
@DrMikeMetal2 ай бұрын
Too kind of you Sir!!
@DrMikeMetal2 ай бұрын
Yeah they slay, saw them live here in Melbourne, rocking gig
@mistaraa_22 күн бұрын
Hey! at 7:51, was this Vore by Sleep Token? I'm currently trying to do a full production cover of that song, and I can't quite figure out just from listening to it what kinds of synths are used particularly in the opening part with the lofi guitar in it. There also seems to be some ambient pad sounds over the heavy verse parts, but I can't nail down the right synth sound for it. Could you point me in the right direction of what synth sounds to look for in this song?
@DrMikeMetal22 күн бұрын
that's right, just a short cover of Vore. these synths are quite intricate. I would say these could be sample-based, or Serum. in the intro, I hear an ambient pad and a bouncy reversed synth. in the verses, I hear a "fiery" synth. seems like a distorted ambient piano + a pad
@diode8617 күн бұрын
Hi. Been trying to make piano to sound something like that piano on 7:50. Any advice?
@DrMikeMetal13 күн бұрын
@@diode86 it's pretty straightforward. In Logic Pro X, there are some piano + pad presets. Essentially, it's a regular piano with a pad underneath. The piano leads the melody, and the pad gives the atmosphere. There are similar presets in some Kontakt libs as well
@diode8613 күн бұрын
@@DrMikeMetal Thanks for this :D
@sebasaggio6351Ай бұрын
There is any A.I. synth that follow my metal riffs. Like EZ keys but applied for metal/heavy rock?
@DrMikeMetalАй бұрын
@@sebasaggio6351 no free AI ones yet. Try Vital though
@shinx11025 ай бұрын
Excellent content! What you transmit is great! 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘 I'm working on getting the tone similar to the Sleepwalking Song by Bring Me The Horizon. Especially the Synth of the intro. Not only does it have distortion and reverb but it has something else that I can't decipher so that it has that effect when the notes sound and sound similar. You can help me with that?
@DrMikeMetal5 ай бұрын
Thanks so much for watching and engaging!! Yeah it sounds like a specific granular modulation of the wave table that leads to this bitcrushed effect. Which synth VSTs are you using? This is such a broad area, I remember getting similar tones by simply going through different wave tables and their modulations, can't remember the details
@shinx11025 ай бұрын
@@DrMikeMetal Thanks for your answer! I have tried it with Serum and Vital. In Serum the Fx used are Un Hyper/Dimension, Reverb, Compressor and Distortion. The wave table you use is a Square wave in Oscillator 1 and a Sine Wave in Oscillator 2.
@DrMikeMetal5 ай бұрын
@@shinx1102 yes, so this would be not coming from the FX section, rather than from the synthesis itself. I'll do some research and get back to you, but it does sound like a ring modulation (or something similar) of a certain waveform
@shinx11025 ай бұрын
@@DrMikeMetal Oh! Thank you so much! I appreciate your good will friend! I will be attentive to your news!
@larswillsen5 ай бұрын
When I started re-recording after 30+ years I was hit by a stroke (blood clot in my left brain) and though I still have my "melodic songs" ability its been hard to re-invent myself - I have tried, and since I'm a former synth pro musician in the 80s this is what I have done .. not like anyone really .. but be nice to me: kzbin.info/aero/PLhShxlp1ZAtIolbi_Ab0mzwevRXZpbcjV :-)
@DrMikeMetal5 ай бұрын
hey Lars! thank you for sharing. my condolences to your difficult journey. I had a listen to Konspirazy, really loving the classical synth lead at 1:50! Very nice synth pads and pulses in the chorus of Blood Path, too! keep up the great work, Sir
@larswillsen5 ай бұрын
@@DrMikeMetal Hi Mike, thanks - I really appreciate it. There's also "Crash", "Abysmara", "Backstage secret", "Synth Inferno" from that box .. and ofcourse I have a billion other stuff - Just trying to document a hole in history before I go 🙂
@Felix_Effex4 ай бұрын
I really like the ibformation, but your way of cut editing or what ever it's called makes you flash and I find it hard to stay concentrated. Thank you .. a synthesist.
@DrMikeMetal4 ай бұрын
Thank you for your feedback, duly noted!
@matiassanjines6955Ай бұрын
was that vore? lol
@DrMikeMetalАй бұрын
@@matiassanjines6955 mhm
@louistremblay1218Ай бұрын
kind of baffles me northlane wasn't included in this video, they one of the best, if not the best band to integrate synths/electronic elements in modern metal.
@DrMikeMetalАй бұрын
@@louistremblay1218 I agree. I guess that their style is so unique that it's hard to put Northlane in any box...
@jakelong213919 күн бұрын
Baffles you? Lol make your own video
@DrMikeMetal19 күн бұрын
@@jakelong2139 nah I agree with Louis, Northlane are huge in synths and I shouldn't have skipped
@louistremblay121819 күн бұрын
@@DrMikeMetalforgot to mention the video is great either way !