Make 90s Tech House Chord Stabs

[@PLASKmusic]

Great video on a very simple and effective technique. 👍 I remember I made a sweet stab out of recorded goats a few years back! The sky is limit when it comes to cycling through weird sound sources, then stacking them into chords with the right processing! 😂

[@Thought-Forms]

Thanks P-Lask! I'm onboard for some dubbed out goat stabs 😂Also appreciate you watching, glowed up off your tutorials on sonic academy what feels like ages ago. Always enjoyed your teaching style & music 💪

[@paullaski6081]

@@Thought-Forms Of course, and thanks for the kind words on the Sonic Academy stuff! Been loving your videos and your style as well. It's concise, to-the-point, and most importantly, authentic! I can tell these are techniques you have been using in your music, and that you are genuinely excited/passionate about sharing them. it's been inspiring to me over the last few years as I've started making more atmospheric DnB with my Man From Another Place project. Big ups to you, Groovin in G, Tim Cant, and a few other channels I've come across that are keeping these timeless genres and production techniques alive and well!

[@Bittamin]

You know I love stabs and pads baby

[@Thought-Forms]

Oh I know bittamin

[@CrystalFissure]

Terry Lee Brown Jr. What a producer.

[@Thought-Forms]

The GOAT

[@benjaming4336]

Plastic City / Driftwood releases were some of the first intros I had to “deep house” and are near and dear to my ears

[@Thought-Forms]

Best labels from that time period. Driftwood vinyl is WAY up there in price sadly - would really love to snag a few releases

[@benjaming4336]

@@Thought-Forms I only own one and it was a clebratory gift to myself after a big bonus at work lol. ridiculously priced, but still cool to own what I consider as a piece of history

[@dubstar1981]

Can’t believe this era gets suddenly some attention from a production point of view . Thanks a million!!!

[@Thought-Forms]

Hardly anything on KZbin about this genre/era from a production perspective, which blows my mind! one of my favorite eras of electronic music

[@jchief40]

I am a huge good looking records , bukem fan.. but I had no idea about Terry Lee Brown Jr .. I came across Driftwood Records and ... oh. my. god. that is to deepp/tech house as bukem is to dnb for me.. simply the best, timeless.. I'm glad you made this, now I'm going to be addicted to making the best stabs

[@Thought-Forms]

Well put my friend! If you enjoy the deeper side of DnB (Bukem, etc...) you will LOVE TLB/The Timewriter

[@Flux_One]

Try and find some old DJ mixes by Terry Francis. You're welcome in advance

[@aquanodemusic]

Very nice, really enjoyed your explanations of the filter types and modulation! I know it's about stabs but that rolling bassline is sublime too 😂 Also FM sounds are nice for stabs as well, as far as I know the DX100 was often used for them in dub techno 👍

[@Thought-Forms]

Thanks dude! 808's all day. FM is awesome for stabs, TX81Z too - incredible character

[@LifeOrbPlusle]

Korg should be paying you for all the promo you do 😂. I seriously bought the classic collection solely because of your vids and now its on every track I make, dnb, house stuff its everywhere and now i have another thing to try out. You are the best.

[@Thought-Forms]

The dream LOL Love that you're getting mileage out of the Korg stuff g. Thank you!

[@iamasynthesizer]

You’ve got my attention now

[@santhymx]

so good!

[@pbrninja19]

Thanks for this. Another quick win might be to use the multi-note's velocity spread feature. Just a little bit will cause the chords to vary a little. I like the effect of variation within the sameness.

[@Thought-Forms]

Cheers man! Great idea on the velocity spread 💪

[@DreamyDawnMusic]

G Pal also did more Progressive stuff back in 2001-2006 period :D That's a name i haven´t heard in a long time being said by others than me around my circle

[@Thought-Forms]

Man, Life is one of my favorite albums. G-Pal was a beast! Never looked at any of his stuff onwards from 2001, will have to check it out

[@QuerryXL]

@@Thought-Forms You will love his track Krevandance on bedrock. Probably my fav Gpal record to date

[@MrBlueHaze]

Cool techniques thank you TF God bless

[@Thought-Forms]

Thanks MrBlue 💪

[@mantax55]

Would love more videos from you about this era in tech house

[@Thought-Forms]

Roger 💪good to know folks are interested in this era

[@aqrs269]

Big love Plastic City!

[@d.p.l9623]

Terry Lee brown, Time Writer, Elias, Da kine, Drain Pipe, Jeremy are all the same person btw (Jean Frank Cochois). Just under different aliases. Nice video also mate 👌

[@Thought-Forms]

Thanks mate! Outside of TLB, those are all the same - unless I'm crazy. TLB and The Timewriter are the same person????

[@d.p.l9623]

@@Thought-Forms I believe so or at least that’s what I’ve found on Discogs and other articles I’ve read. It does get confusing as they are often mentioned as “Time writer vs Terry Lee Brown Jr” 😂

[@Fabermorrow]

Love terry lee brown jr!

[@Thought-Forms]

TLB is the man!

[@Fabermorrow]

@Thought-Forms thanks for the vids bro always killing it and giving me little simple ideas

[@jackwinkel550]

can you make a video about the drums in this video or drums in general and how to source/process them.

[@LukeBlunton]

Love the stabs, so simple yet effective! I gotta say I really love the simple bass here. Goes so well with the kick. What did you use for the bass?

[@Thought-Forms]

thanks luke! bass is just an 808 thrown into a sampler ala jungle/dnb style. a nice sine wave in a sampler would sound great too

[@Oncashy]

I love your channel

[@Thought-Forms]

i love u

[@BrawtherOFC]

Lets go Bobby!!

[@Thought-Forms]

Cheers Brawther! You do man

[@hwhcollective]

This is so cool, I love to see the different ideas you have to get these chord stabs. I have to admit that I’m new to the term tech house though I definitely remember hearing it. I want to try some of these ideas with the Wavestation vst as I don’t have the Triton. I suppose the Wavestation might have predated this style from the sound of it but …rules are made to be broken lol. Thanks again, I always dig your tutorials!

[@Thought-Forms]

Thanks mate! Check out Terrys Cafe 3 - fantastic compilation of tracks in the TLB style. You can absolutely do this with the Wavestation too, will be a bit more tedious to program but 100% doable - and to your point, you could probably come up with some really whacky stabs with the vector morphing. Actually that sounds awesome, I'm going to test it out tonight LOL

[@hwhcollective]

Thanks for the reply. Will definitely try this out with Wavestation and thanks for the Terrys Cafe rec as well. Will definitely check it out

[@nikitabarkhatov1408]

Nice video. Similar technique is used in modern deep/tech productions by guys like Janeret, Mike Sharon and many more. Pretty much figured this technique on my own but learned a few cool ideas from this video, thanks. A question: which sample pack have you used to make the drums? Sound pretty authentic to me.

[@andrescasillas4624]

Yes would love a second video on Terry Lee Brown Jr but in general showing a track with what kind of drums, bass, and pads he uses.

[@Thought-Forms]

Thanks man! Glad you were able to pull a few ideas out from here. All the drum sounds were from the Ueberschall "Jam Box" sample CD. TLB lifted a few samples off it in "The Music" (those vocoded vocals) - figured there was a high chance he pulled some drum shots from it as well

[@Thought-Forms]

@@andrescasillas4624 you got it!

[@papito2lindo]

B the click style tutorial…. I love it 🔥🙏

[@MXXKRXX]

theo parrish vid plssssssssssss

[@Flux_One]

Please do a follow on video for the drum section and bass 🙏

[@hugofahrenholz6225]

Does anyone know how to do this chord thing on FL Studio? I would really love to make stuff like this but I don’t know how to play on the piano😭😭

[@hugofahrenholz6225]

@ thank uu!🙏

[@jchief40]

Jean F. Cochois aka The Timewriter, Norman Feller aka Terry Lee Brown Jr to those in comments

[@flynn_22]

great vid could you maybe do a video on how to do dub techno chords like basic channel

[@Thought-Forms]

Yep! Love some Basic Channel

[@Joshua_Griffin]

Uwu