Source Direct: Ninja Level Break Processing 2 (Pt.3)

Holy Smokes!
Another deep dive into break processing. As you can probably tell by now I'm kinda obsessed with drum breaks! Lots of cool techniques in here to really get your snares whacking!
Big love to all my Patreon subscribers and anyone who subs and shares my content on here! I really appreciate all the support :)
/ groovining
Samples & Presets - groovingbiz.co.uk
- - - Chapters - -
Intro: (00:00)
References & Comparisons: (00:22)
Break Processing Goals: (03:12)
Making the Breaks Loud & Fat: (03:51)
Individual Slices vs Single Audio Region: (04:56)
Logic X Processing & Layering: (06:08)
Parallel Bandpass Filters: (12:21)
Amen Break Comparison: (14:00)
Goals Revision: (14:22)
Renoise Processing Intro: (14:22)
Snare Processing: (15:07)
Renoise Processing Walkthrough: (16:18)
Using your Ears & Reference: (18:24)
Outro: (19:00)

[@Endle185]

I spend a lot of time in the studio with my daughter, she is in a band. Watching the drummer at different speeds teaches us a lot about how stick hit the skin

[@NateHook]

These videos have so much info and detail it’s crazy

[@groovining]

Cheers Nate - I've always tried to teach as much as I can about the whole process rather than just glancing over the bulletpoints of a topic etc. I guess I always wanted to know all this stuff when I was getting into production so I feel other people must like it too! :) ✌️

[@MrDenme0]

As always, excellent! Dunno if you are up to any suggestions, but....how about a dj crystl production breakdown?😉 anyways love these video’s man, well done!

[@groovining]

Thanks mr Denme0, really appreciate it mate! Dj Crystal would be wicked. Great break chopping & atmospheric vibes. I've got a huge list now that I let my patreons pick from for my future breakdowns! ✌️🥷

[@tovermoran4360]

That peak and RMS comparison was amazing.. I’ve never seen such a clear comparison.

[@groovining]

Thanks mate! Glad you found it useful. I put a lot of effort into visualizing these topics and I really think it helps everything make sense! ✌

[@tovermoran4360]

@@groovining Indeed it does!

[@Ezi83]

Another fire tutorial 🔥can’t wait for the next one. Easily some of the best jungle/dnb tutorials I’ve seen on KZbin period

[@groovining]

Thanks Ezi, really appreciate that mate! I'm trying my best to level up this channel as much as I can. Now i've just got to pump the subscribers!✌️🥷

[@ghal3on]

The hardware reverbs they used definately added to the vibe as well. Cheap and dirty!!!

[@groovining]

Alesis Quadraverb & Alesis Midiverb is what they were using from looking at their kit list :)

[@josephcreer883]

so much information and explanation in all of these. Incredible work

[@groovining]

Cheers Joseph. Break processing & layering can often be a very boring topic so I'm glad you've been enjoying this series so far! :)✌️

[@ryanm6558]

Another top tutorial mate... Thank you! They're definitely inspiring tuts with all of the various techniques you implement. Tonnes of useful info throughout. 👍

[@groovining]

Cheers Ryan! Really happy my vids are inspiring you mate. I've thrown a lots of ideas into these last two on break processing so everyone has loads of techniques bring into their own workflows. :)✌️

[@djsanils]

amazing buddy, love this

[@groovining]

Thanks djsanils! Glad you enjoyed this one mate :)✌️

[@oferoner321]

Legend brother. Loving these breakdowns

[@groovining]

Thanks bro! I love doing them also, so much to learn from these artists and picking apart their techniques.✌️ :)

[@QWLMusic]

More 🔥🔥🔥 Thanks for doing these!!

[@groovining]

Pleasure mate, thanks for the comments. Time to get stuck into the next part! :) ✌️

[@WaxerUK]

Another fantastic tutorial, thanks G!

[@groovining]

Cheers Steve! Good luck with all the work stuff mate. catch you soon✌️

[@abdulhamid9605]

On my watch later cause u know it's gonna be aa sick tutorial

[@groovining]

Hope you enjoyed friend! Now its time to get into some of the juicy stuff with break programming! ✌️ :)

[@cclark8088]

great tips! this gave me alot of ideas. cheers m8.

[@groovining]

Thanks wigglez :) I feel good I've covered a lots of ground in the last two on break processing. I especially like the parallel bandpass filters for snares! ✌️

[@Gosha1992]

Thanks again, respect

[@groovining]

All good Gosha, thanks for the comments. Big Ups!✌️

[@bubaondesign]

Your level is outstanding, mate! Big Hug!

[@groovining]

Thanks THFLW! Really appreciate your comments mate. These breakdowns are fun to go through. Really excited to get stuck into the next part! Keep well bro✌️🥷 :)

[@futureworldmachines4407]

Amen, Brother! 🤟

[@groovining]

Amen! Big ups Futureworld✌️🥷

[@Endle185]

Wow, amazing work

[@groovining]

Thanks mate, glad you enjoyed this one. Really tried to through all my knowledge of break processing into these two vids! ":)✌️

[@professorpancakes6545]

Mate your channel is sick! Glad I found it :D

[@groovining]

Welcome mate! Happy to have you hear. Lots of Jungle/90s/Tracker tips & tricks in here. Also have big plans for the future so stay tuned! ✌️

[@professorpancakes6545]

@@groovining Can you recommend any labels that are releasing new jungle that is still SD influenced? I love all the 90s classics but don’t really know much new stuff! I know metalheadz is still putting out good tunes but are there any more underground labels? Anyway keep up the good work man!!

[@groovining]

You know I don;t actually know that many besides the obovious. Seba & Paradox just released a new EP which is great kzbin.info/www/bejne/h2G8c6FvitGthdk. Fanu is another great artists to look out for under metalheadz. 4am breaks playlist on KZbin has loads of great atmospheric rolling jungle also :)

[@professorpancakes6545]

@@groovining Cheers for the suggestions and you're right about that seba & paradox ep!

[@Cybercowboy_69]

One of the best dnb production channels on yt

[@groovining]

Really appreciate that mate. Now I just need as many subs as Stranjah and I can do this forever! :)✌️

[@E-1K]

BOH, SELECTA! 🔥

[@groovining]

Big Ups! ✌️🥷

[@FaustinoSeven]

@groovining I need to have a proper forensic listen, but at first pass, it sounds like the break that Source Direct used on The Crane is the Amen from the track called 'Terrorist' by Renegade (Ray Keith) - also known as the Tramen. I have it on a sample pack and the content and timbre sound quite similar. Keep up the great work, love the content.

[@groovining]

Thanks Faustino, appreciate the comment mate! I went and had a look at my samples and your right, it does sound really similar! I have one called Thumbzo Terrorist Amen. Good ears my friend :)✌️

[@SazLowify]

yo thank you so so much for making these, it's helped get a large scale view of what makes those favourite tracks so good. what's the compression visualization at 3:55 from? looks super intuitive!

[@groovining]

Cheers mate - it's this which is super handy :) codepen.io/animalsnacks/full/VRweeb

[@zolyos]

❤

[@groovining]

Legend!! Thanks so much Zolyos. Really appreciate the support❤:)

[@GregDixson]

Man, I'm loving this series!..and all the amount of detail. Definitely I've lost the 'whack' before with over-compressing or not Eq'ing right, so this is all good info. Looking forward to the next part and sequencing. Actually, I keep flip-flopping between chopping breaks and arranging with audio versus MIDI piano roll sequencing (Bitwig). Probably I should just go back to Renoise haha. I guess SD would have been sequencing with an Atari w/ Cubase or something?

[@groovining]

Thanks so much Greg. I definitly do my best to go little deeper than most KZbin content out there. I'm also much the same, over saturating and compressing are very easy to do. It takes a long time before you start to find the sweet spot between all those factors. I love chopping Midi in Renoise, I always found it a lot more enjoyable but they both definitly have pros and cons. Yea from the clips i've seen etc. they were using Cubase 3, same as Photek. Which is basically just a midi sequencer. Even so, whatever works for you is always going to be the best workflow. I wouldn't stress to much about Renoise/Bitwig etc. Once you know the techniques you can implement them anywhere. :) 🥷✌️

[@GregDixson]

@@groovining thanks yea, I'll try not to sweat the techniques. Would just be nice to get a workflow down. Ah yea Cubase 3 takes me back.. I had that running on an Atari back in the day. I never had a sampler though, so was missing the component part for breaks and chopping back then. Learning it all these years later. Just seen part 4 has dropped 👍🏻

[@groovining]

@@GregDixson That's dope man. I really contemplated getting an Atari and Cubase 3 setup for this and the Photek series to really do it justice! I was only just born when all this stuff was happening but find it all fascinating. Ended up buying an Emu E5000 Ultra quite recently and absolutely love it. Those old samplers are much more affordable these days as well, even though the prices have risen since Covid.

[@GregDixson]

​@@groovining Would be cool I guess.. you've maybe seen Pete Cannon and some others do some stuff with the old gear. I still have my old Atari in a box somewhere, but the monitor got thrown out by mistake in a house move :-s I feel lucky to have been around back in the day. I was 16/17 in 1991 when I went to my first rave. Great times! :) A testament to the music, that it still has so much interest even now. I worked at a recording studio soon after and got some experience that way, they had a ton of gear and an akai sampler there, all running from an atari! Pre-internet though, I think a lot of these beat chopping methods were like word of mouth. At the time I didn't really know what the sampler could do and it seemed complicated. And yea gear cost a lot! Definitely a good thing now all this knowledge is out there, and with the help of good people like yourself and your channel. people can really learn their chops :)

[@groovining]

Yea, Pete Cannon is amazing with all that hardware banging out tracks. 1991 seemed like such a wicked time to be part of the scene with all the music & technology evolving so quickly. All that atmospheric jungle has this searching for new horizons feeling to it which I love. Yea definitely, a lot of those techniques were kept under wraps and have sort of been lost in some ways with all the modern gear, so I'm doing my best to unearth them all! Making a career out of music or even just releasing tracks has so many challenges these days with social media and endless options & plugins, I think it's almost harder in some ways. I'm always happy to help push people forwards in their own music! Big ups mate ✌️:)

[@edgarsrutkovskis1846]

I don't understand, but the guys didn't have all these virtual effects, how did they achieve such a strong amen break sound. did they really walk such a complicated path😌

[@groovining]

Whilst their process would definitely have been a lot simpler, they still had access to a lot of the same tools we have today. The Emu's are very powerful machines with fantastic sounding filters. They certainly also used compressors, Mackie Desk Dive & EQ as well as the Vintage Aural Exciter in the Emu. I could have gone for a more similar approach with my Emu e5000 but I wanted to show off all the tools you have at your disposal in a modern DAW. The modern workflow allows you to be incredibly detailed and complex but this is not always better. I find that I have to do a lot more work in the DAW to achieve a similar sound to running something through hardware.

[@ghal3on]

@@groovining yea exactly this. 100% they spent a lot of time in the EMU, it's almost all inside that box.

[@Endle185]

Some of the depth of the shuffles seem to be taken out by the eq