Mefjus - Particles Studio Insights: Amber with Skeptical

[@darklsn]

You are so damn good at explaining tracks. Very articulate, incredibly thorough, and very enthusiastic. Mefjus you are truly a treasure

[@phantom_him]

Learning so much from these videos, I'm so late. Would love to see how you're using all those reverb channels if you ever come back to this. Room, Real room... Three verbs on the drums? One is a convolution? So interesting. It's taken me a day, but I added everything you taught in your videos to my production bible. It's gold. Between you and Nik from Noisia, I've learnt more about DnB than every other video I've watched combined.

[@DoorskipDNB]

I love that you make everything. I can't be bothered to make drums lol So much respect, wow.

[@TMechMusic]

THANK YOU for doing this, it’s great to see behind the scenes!

[@Buunshin_]

Looks a whole lot better then having to show your gear with a lighter because its too dark 😘😘😘

[@Buunshin_]

Jokes aside great tutorial man :)

[@crifox16]

with success came proper studio lighting :v

[@figurehe4d]

throw back comment

[@visionrecordings]

🍯

[@dalienie]

Thanks for sharing the behind the scene job; very inspiring!

[@ItsVisceral]

Really appreciate this would love more of these especially the more technical sounding tracks like muskox

[@substance90]

I've learned more from these videos than from many full length paid courses.

[@d.m.e]

Thank you for sharing this project, it’s absolute 🔥

[@Artersa]

I love these videos! They show just how many subtleties go into just one song. Gives me a lot to think about when producing on my own and filling space.

[@nathannikoloff6530]

Really nice video. Thanks for uploading

[@HeberMN_]

thank you so much for doing these videos

[@K100music]

Never been so happy to see you upload a video like this! Keep them coming man!! 👍

[@TheFreakbreak]

Your music mixing/mastering is beyond human. What's on master, how do you compress saws/wobbles or eq, what plugins do u use? Thats what the most curious questions for me. Your music sometimes has just kick, snare and bass, nothing more, but it sounds so fat and complete, what is the secret? Compression? Drones? However, thank you so much for sharing your expirience with us! Hope to see more videos from you Martin. Can you give us a few free samples in Serum, or just "Mefjus tutorial on Serum"? ;)

[@hearmenow909]

You don't want much do you!

[@clarkflavor]

@@hearmenow909 😅

[@pavelvorobev8936]

TY BRO. Love

[@7age_official]

Really interesting! Thanks for sharing!👌

[@daanclaes3335]

very nice! cool track too

[@florilla409]

mefjus big ups for this video and the music you are creating!

[@Audiojunkk]

Thanks for doing this! Such a sick track. So interesting to see behind the curtain thank you for sharing your techniques so candidly’

[@cosmo3868]

Sick stuff

[@LawrenceAaronLuther]

1:04 that was some well done rhythmic throat clearing

[@etherealbonds]

It's in the track

[@erazemusic7262]

Hey, some legendary skills right there ! Very well explained, big up, respect !!

[@itsufo722]

oooooo!! yea!! thanks!! would love to see more! of these vids!!

[@bibop6011]

Best ! but How to create cymbal loop like on 5:01?

[@vincecrow4512]

What do you typically have on your master bus?

[@MAR2TV]

Sick, thanks for sharing 👌

[@flyingsquirrel3271]

Thank you so much for doing this! These videos are very helpful and inspiring :D I have one workflow tipp for you in return: You can trigger up to 5 instruments from one midi track (not from an instrument track!) in Cubase by using the "midi sends". That way you can layer sounds using up to 5 synths without copying midi events ;)

[@No.0.o.0]

How do you deal with the lack of phase reset on serum’s sub oscillator?

[@koffeetalk]

dope! we need more tutorials from you!

[@LBTV99]

I love how you almost have a british accent when saying 'shorter' at 2:06 and around 2:10 :D

[@user-yz9ld5ly4t]

Martin, do sound design tutorials pleaseee

[@Hopkins132]

Hey man I don't really understand at 3:25, you're showing OSC A and B in Serum which are both Sine waves but what's actually playing sounds layered with a real drum? Could you explain how you do your kicks there?

[@John-yv2xh]

The sine waves are being controlled by envelopes. One OSC has a fast envelope to make the transient, the other has a slower envelope to make the body of the kick. If you're interested, look up drum synthesis. The synthesized sound is layered with a sample to add a more natural sound. Hope this helps :)

[@Hopkins132]

@@John-yv2xh thanks but i dont think that's what it is though. I know pitching a sine wave down really fast makes a kick and you can mess with the envelope, pitch, adsr, etc., to make a different sounding kick. However it literally sounds like a real drum being layered. I think he didnt solo the serum in those parts because you cant get a sound like that with only a sine wave.

[@John-yv2xh]

@@Hopkins132 Yeah, he didn't solo the serum patch. He's layering it with a real kick to give the real kick more punch.

[@NikiGehrer]

Yesssssss

[@holdingboost2024]

'Could you record video of you creating a Single or EP from you studio. Possibly make a mini movie?

[@MakoMusicOfficial]

4:05 Bellends!

[@therub2191]

:D

[@МаксимПолищук-ж8м]

Thanks

[@FinalfixMusic]

Thanks dude

[@daviddenigma]

maybe Martin will give us a Drums in Serum tutorial for Christmas 🎅

[@renanakol7406]

How does Serum play here when both oscillators levels are turned off?

[@blackjo56]

he used the lfos routed to the levels so they can open a bit to let the sound go thru

[@bangerstudy]

I just now realized that Mefjus looks like Fitz

[@therub2191]

Bass sounds like a duck complaining about all the trolleys in the river, he's not happy about it!

[@UnfortunatelyTheHunger]

Your voice was WAY too loud in comparison to the track, and over-compressed at that. I could barely hear the track, and when I could, I was constantly distracted by your voice constantly hissing

[@Mefjus]

Thx for your comment! I have to add tho, that this studio insights are made under the assumption that the listener has checked out the music beforehand. Hence we made the conscious decision to not have the music in the foreground, but the voice over. If you want to listen to the track without me rambling on pls follow the links in the description. And a minor addition to your comment about the quality of the voice recording: Yes, the vocal is well over compressed. I was aiming for quite the presence - radio-esque-compression, again to make it quite understandable. I did check the quality of the vocal, with quite the focus on de-essing and EQing on my studio speakers, and a MacBook Pro, where it sounded nice. If you've listened to this on your phone maybe try and check it out on actual speakers. Some phones tend to be not quite beneficial to audio quality on high volumes :) Big up, Martin

[@wizzenberry]

Mefjus you still got the project file for distantia? You should do a walkthrough of that ;)