How to make ARGENT METAL (Writing music for DOOM: The Dark Ages)

[@nickbroomhallmusic]

Use code BROOMHALL10 for $10 off AXURE here: studysoundaudio.com/products/axure-guitar-midi-processor

[@AnarkhosOfficial]

Nick DoomThall

[@nickbroomhallmusic]

there it is

[@UndarZ]

Mick DoomThall ?

[@Descendants_Ov_1984]

​@@UndarZ He is about the name of the author of this channel

[@Robotic24]

@@Descendants_Ov_1984so is he, “Nick” “Mick”

[@BrandonHartOfficial]

Absolutely love your concept and approach to piecing this together. Replicating Mick's mix and consistency via dynamics is always a bit tough to capture at first. But sonically and melodically, I think you absolutely nailed it. Keep crushing it, Nick (Gordon).

[@nickbroomhallmusic]

Thanks so much dude! 🙏

[@studysoundaudio]

Glad Axure could come in handy while you were away from home! Sounds absolutely thick! 🔥

[@colinmitchell1287]

yoooo hell yeah dude. Us at the Argent Metal Forge community love your stuff. This was a great suprise to see!

[@SxccxbiStxnger]

Come into the forge. We need you; aspiring artists like you is exactly what we need.

[@SxccxbiStxnger]

I’ll drop a discord invite link for you if you would like to join us. Zuretti, Levy are in here as well.

[@nickbroomhallmusic]

What is this forge I keep hearing about?

[@AdamAldred]

Could I get an invite too?

[@camaw111]

the invite links sent in the replies keep getting deleted but anyone who wants to join can find a QR code in ​@@SxccxbiStxnger's shorts (or the link itself in the description of some videos)

[@SxccxbiStxnger]

@@AdamAldred Welcome to The Forge!

[@bobwarren4707]

Sounds amazing! Half the play count on the original video is probably me listening to it over and over and over. Thanks for sharing this. I'm sorry you had the Covid and I hope you feeling good again.

[@nickbroomhallmusic]

Thanks so much man, I appreciate the kind words! 🙏

[@rockethero1177]

So that’s just the name of the genre of the Doom soundtrack now? I dig it

[@thatlonzoguy]

you knocked this one out of the park... your vids keep getting better and better.

[@nickbroomhallmusic]

Thanks so much! 🙏

[@randylodder1265]

Yeah man....saw the video a couple days ago and it blew my sh*t away. One of your best!!!!

[@Danny_Posting]

Oh! Randy! Good to see you here haha (it's me Danny lol)

[@gorimor]

Man this is insane, such quality production 🔥

[@peterbatten596]

I didn’t even see the original, and with that being said, even as a musician/song writer/producer just SLAPPED me across the face. Love the creativity going on. The little subtleties make the LOUDEST of impact which I see you are doing a lot of the right way.

[@Chronic_meshuggah_face]

This sounds phenomenal - your level of production is top tier man

[@LJSheffRBLX]

Nick Broomhall, amazing content keep it up dude

[@noustan]

Love it!

[@aaronprevails]

This is awesome, great detail of your process!🤘💀🤘 Great work!

[@nickbroomhallmusic]

Thanks! 🤘

[@Morrizxn]

Love when you go through your mixing. :)

[@the1khronohs40]

DOOM be crazy! This track KILLS!!! 🤘💀

[@MFGH0ST]

This was extremely excellent. Thank you

[@ArunIyer]

What an informative video my guy ❤ mind = blown and mind = expanded. Killer track, and so beautifully detailed and intricate.

[@comorbiddisorder]

"A few things making up the riff part of that" Me remembering the video Mick posted on Twitter showing how just the guitar riff alone had 3 different sounds... Also, those drums are mouthwateringly good...

[@decase2101]

Really love your videos and I'm absolutely interested in seeing more "inside" argent metal videos🔥❤️

[@jdoxmgmt]

Seeing a plugin that Alan has poured his heart into over the past 12 months being use in a Nick Broomhall video is giving even me a sense of accomplishment! Congrats StudySoundAudio & Alan Rigdon!

[@TheKnottySinger]

♥️❤️‍🔥

[@thenewasuka]

Dude, the track turned out sounding really sick, you really nailed it and I like it A LOT better than the original. The riffs go unbelievably hard 🔥 Just a little feedback, I feel like the mix is a little too compressed overall, which is especially noticeable when the instruments kick in after the intro. I feel like the intro is louder than the band part and the low end feels kinda lacking, which takes away from the impacts of the key moments. The limiter really pushes everything down too much when the song's supposed to hit. If you kept it a little more dynamic overall (e.g. by going easier on the OTT and removing the Devil-Loc, noticeable at 28:34) it would've hit harder I think. You could've then compensated the lack of volume by raising the makeup gain on the FG-Grey. Aside from that, top notch work man!

[@kelly.householder]

Nick, we need the full perks edition of this one! Great but so much going on.

[@tsivilsඞ]

Incredibly helpful video! I'd love to see the whole process as well if one day you'd be up for doing a livestream/livestream vod of you making a track from start to finish so we could see your thought process and workflow in real time. just an idea

[@mrkrogking2664]

First we had mick now we have nick HELL YEAH

[@danpoolemusic]

Bloody heavy!! Love it man!!

[@codexstudios]

Seeing that drum buss processing genuinely fixed something I've been struggling with on my drums for a few days, thanks

[@nickbroomhallmusic]

Glad to hear it!!

[@apoplexiamusic]

This is awesome! I gotta say I prefer playing the guitar myself even if i’m no Fredrik Thordendal, but getting the bends right is easier than you might expect, you just need a guitar with an Evertune. 10:56 my approach to bass is usually a saturated sine wave sub (add a third harmonic, distort and low pass it) and some pretty aggressive distorted industrial synths, which are both playing in the same octave as the guitars. Depending on the track i also put in a bass guitar grit track, either in the same octave or one lower.

[@nickbroomhallmusic]

I think it's less about getting bends that are in tune and more about getting the curve exactly the same between several instruments and the easiest way to do that is to copy the pitch bend information to the other instruments (and having the bend range be the same between those instruments as well)

[@apoplexiamusic]

@@nickbroomhallmusic for sure! I just meant after all the MIDI is sorted, it’s really useful to have an Evertune guitar because it’s so much easier to track with one, since once you know how to bend for a specific part, you can replicate the performance more effectively

[@FyreGod]

Phenomenal as always my dude!!! Keep ‘em coming brother!!! (I also sent you a request on your website to do a live session!!)

[@DiegoGonzalez-vn3qx]

This is utterly amazing

[@jarfmusic]

Happy to see you taking a lot of the resampling approach. I think it's likely the fastest route to the original sound off DOOM Eternal. I'm working on a library for argent metal musicians right now which focuses on resampling. Also, I HAVE TO DISAGREE Mick Gordon played the guitars on DOOM Eternal. PLAY THE GUITARS ON YOUR TRACKS IT SOUNDS BETTER.

[@OooEeOooAhAh]

DISTANT : WRITE THAT DOWN!!

[@jackattack8044]

earned a "join" from me, thanks so much! this is awesome.

[@nickbroomhallmusic]

Appreciate it man!

[@satouanimation]

Me from argent metal forge literally impressed with this ngl ,keep making more bro :)

[@nickbroomhallmusic]

Thanks dude!

[@satouanimation]

@@nickbroomhallmusic keep it up man

[@HunterJKimmerly]

Woah that was fantastic! Really inspiring I wrote a song as soon as I heard it and it came out sick 🔥 goodshit man

[@itsbreadbin]

Thank you for this. This is so Thall.

[@domn9c]

amazing video nick, its amazing to see the stuff you can come up with and it inspires me as a noob guitarist. side note; SUPPORT ALAN RIGDON AND AXURE!!! Dude is one of the most overlooked pioneering metalcore guitarists and he made a dope library basically from scratch. Guy definitely does not get the attention he deserves for the ratio of contributions to the new sound of popular metal.

[@nickbroomhallmusic]

Happy to hear you're finding some inspiration in the content! And definitely shoutout to Alan 🙌 Bro is killing it!

[@deroside7035]

You are legendary mate😁

[@LJSheffRBLX]

Nick Broomhall, cool content keep it up dude

[@kylegrossi8175]

Great video!

[@MadazzaMusik]

Thanks for sharing rock dude that was awesome

[@TraxtasyMedia]

2:17 Trailer reveals Supershotgun 2:53 the Synthlead LOOKS like a shotgun 😮 There are no coincidences!

[@chupiconverge6034]

Very good Job 👌

[@nickbroomhallmusic]

Thanks!

[@kixa5543]

Thank you for this!

[@andonisudupe3446]

all day waiting for this😊😊😊😊😊

[@TomJennerMusic]

Great vid. Please film a tour of your new studio!

[@vitzzhimo6950]

yo you still sound sick brother. Hope you get better soon.

[@nolram2443]

good enough, welcome back thick riff thursday

[@kelly.householder]

haha.. Nick Doom Thall comment is a crack up.. Nick, way to kill this and good detail!

[@nickbroomhallmusic]

Thanks Kelly! Great to hear from you man!

[@kaboomproduct]

Me: "I'm so bad at making music I cant get this song to sound right" Also Me: "I ain't tryna deal with alla that synth stuff"

[@duncanwright301]

I don’t even play video games and this video made me want to get a system to play Doom on

[@nickbroomhallmusic]

10000% recommend

[@JordanFlayer]

14:54 bro sampled the st anger snare 😂

[@_rekak]

ardjent methall

[@micallbeard923]

Jessie, we need to cook some demons for methall, Jessie.

[@keircampbell443]

Can’t help but notice how much low end (and high end in some cases) information you’re leaving in, but it sounds soooo good. I do this too but get told off by everyone for it and it absolutely murders headroom, have you found a way around this or something because your mixes always sound so huge!

[@tangentdark]

Ah, another enjoyer of OTT on drums

[@MinecraftGamer-dq7fk]

Thick riffs are thick riffs and doom gots thickness

[@Justin-ax]

🔥

[@AundoMusic]

Sick breakdown! Have you tried Soothe 2 for your side chain?

[@nickbroomhallmusic]

I haven’t tried the soothe trick yet but I plan to check it out for sure! Just saw it on the Muri nail the mix and it sounds great

[@AundoMusic]

@@nickbroomhallmusic Dude you should totally try it out! I've been using that as my side chain for years and it makes a world of a difference. I used it for the DOOM track I made recently and with so much low end it just tightens everything up so much better than any side chain compressor.

[@JoeyWesterlundMusic]

A bit spendy but keepforest are the kings of libraries for this genre. Used it all over my argent metal album

[@ghfjfghjasdfasdf]

Very affordable when on 50% off.

[@AyJ-vk4tq]

I see ubisoft has found another person to treat like 💩 and not pay.

[@kevindavid37]

I‘m totally down to watch an overly detailed 2 hour version of this video. Just sayin‘. 😬

[@StringCypher]

This! I’d watch this 100% through as well

[@AdamAldred]

This is awesome to see. I know you programmed the guitars but have you tried playing it on guitar and more importantly have you got a tab for that riff 😊

[@dfgvjnkjdsnbkjsbdvjkhdsb]

*How to make ARGENT METAL (Writing music for BROOM: The Dark Ages)*

[@ZethKeeper]

I'm worried about all those guitar and bass necks just sitting next to what looks like a wooden window. Oof.

[@K_R_N.]

serum in thumbnail checks out (not watched the video yet)

[@jnbovee]

How in the hell did he know i just got into argent metal this week?

[@degstep9968]

COOOOOOOOOL 👍

[@OFFICIALAZURITEKING]

Excellent composition and mixing. You may have urself a thing for the Soundtrack. A plan of yours?

[@ChristopherOdd]

LFG

[@stiman1]

Where's the studio tour video my dude??

[@nickbroomhallmusic]

I promise it's coming!

[@mudusidic]

I like it....

[@an_eternal_hum4647]

oh shit!

[@nickbarrera5936]

awesome video!!! What tuning was this in btw?

[@nickbroomhallmusic]

No real tuning since all the instruments are programmed!

[@kukukabala]

What kind of a beast PC/MAC do you have to be able to handle this many plugins and effects? I have a pretty decent pc but still I get into problems when using a bunch of different plugins..

[@nickbroomhallmusic]

I'm using a Macbook Pro with the M3 pro chip and 36GB of RAM!

[@benstanfill363]

​@@nickbroomhallmusicholy shit that's a beast 😂

[@dtrmnts]

If you copy the left guitars midi to the right side is it still give you the double tracked effect? or will it center to mono? Or did you use something to keep it double tracked?

[@studysoundaudio]

@@dtrmnts Our library has two separate presets for guitar left and right with their own sample pool. We have an update coming shortly that will have a stereo guitar setting for anyone wanting to just put a stereo track of midi into their session!

[@TempleGuitars]

No thick riff Thursday this week?

[@nickbroomhallmusic]

Unfortunately I got really sick with Covid while out of town last week, so I couldn't film an episode 😷 We'll be back to regularly scheduled programming this week though!

[@TempleGuitars]

@@nickbroomhallmusic Cheers Nick, rest up.

[@MichaelDeane-i9n]

Dude awesome vid I love this channel haha. Any chance you'll be releasing the midi files?

[@nickbroomhallmusic]

Thanks dude! And I'm not sure, I hadn't really thought about it!

[@matthewhanson3204]

just subbed, nick is cool as fuck

[@martinezdecap]

Hello! At 9:04 I noticed you have the bass midi track and sending it to the Grit track and a Sub track. How can I accomplish this same routing set up in Ableton?

[@nickbroomhallmusic]

Not sure how to do it in Ableton but I accomplished that just by turning the output off on my djinnbass track and sending the audio to two different aux tracks!

[@benstanfill363]

​@@nickbroomhallmusicI stole this trick from you for my mixs and its been great

[@cherrysmoke33]

So you’re not gonna work with mick? 😔

[@Azulenrosa]

boss

[@bjthenvincible]

MAKE MORE VIDEOS. please:) AND BTW IT DJENTS

[@OneInTheQuiver]

Bro, your song is sooooo much heavier than the actual music for the game 🤣🤣🤘🤘

[@satouanimation]

Wiat the snyth soudn liek hardbssa dong

[@natanaelmaximilianoolsson9301]

ARGENTINIAN METAL? Ahre

[@endtimeguitarist]

I had an 8 string schecter blood moon 🩸 🌕 that was perfect for this music but I could NEVER get past the headstock. It was ugly and not compatible with the body or finish of the guitar. I sold it and it’s a shame schecter didn’t take a deeper consideration into the appearance of the guitar.

[@nickbroomhallmusic]

Omg I used to want one of those so bad!! I used to have a C-1 Plus and an Omen 8 and I loved them

[@sethhollinsworth6447]

Fuck I always wonder how all the down tuned shit I like sounds so good on 9 string guitars.....it's probably made like this 😢

[@nickbroomhallmusic]

You can still track super cleanly on very low tuned guitars! It just takes some time and patience!

[@benstanfill363]

If you're going to track real guitars, I'd recommend smashing the hell out of the DI before it hits the amp. I have Nolly X from Neural DSP and use the compressor and overdrive to smoosh that signal before the amp. It helps with consistency as you're essentially getting rid of the dynamics.

[@zaquemwhc]

YES.

[@PicsartDudes-qf9zh]

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[@OkayyyIGetIt]

It’s alright but not using real instruments just make it cheesy gen z crap.

[@Eric.mov_]

Dude was across the planet stuck there and sick with Covid and you’re like “no instruments bro. Fucking lame” Are you serious?

[@duncanwright301]

Grow up my man

[@benstanfill363]

I've never heard a more boomer take than this 😂

[@jarfmusic]

You are correct

[@jarfmusic]

@@benstanfill363 He's right, guitars are the most accessible instrument in the world. If you can play then don't use VSTs. Otherwise all your tracks are just glorified demos trying to mimic the real thing and you will hit a brick wall in production quality.

[@kevinhurd6756]

catches covid but feels good enough to work on Doom music....yeah stop testing yourselves for that bullshit. it's beyond over. bro had a cold

[@nickbroomhallmusic]

Disappointing take, dude! COVID is very real and is still impacting many. I had a pretty brutal week and still got lucky in comparison to my wife who ended up in the ER.

[@benstanfill363]

You're right, all the people who had health complications from it were just faking. I'm sure that's what it was...

[@mosquedadavid]

Axure sounding sick 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🔥🔥🔥🔥@studysoundaudio

[@Boildroid]

Best video in my birthday