The Newbies Guide TO Phatter Drums

[@eArtrash]

4:36 I was getting hyped to hear how transient shapers work 🤣

[@cekirdekci32]

Thank you for re-uploading this dope tutorial, Zen World. This is one of the most needed drums tutorials ever. I really appreciate this and need to apply immediately.

[@musicbyarron]

Sometimes its good to have some reminders of the basics, even as someone this still helped a lot. Nice that you took a different approach as well. Cheers x

[@danielefoggiato9753]

totally on spot..loved the both the saturation and the leveling bit in span!and obviously funny as always, thank you gandalf

[@richardwilliams4669]

This one was much needed. Thank you. This was my biggest problem and it was so obvious.

[@DjPrimeberry]

That was worth my time ❤ shame I’m already subbed lol

[@J.T7]

thank you for explaining it to the newbies ;)

[@Peampiin]

Yo Zen, I'd like a take on how you use the Imager (I use a old Ozone9 ) on a drum group chain. Meaning I often like to put the Imager at the end of the drum chain(very last plugin before Utility) to add a little width. VS Would you put the Imager up front (left side of the chain) before all the EQs and Compression? "I use mY eArS "too but I often feel the Imager at the end sound the best. I happen to use the Return track for my parallel comp for the dry signal. Your always on it dude, good stuff.

[@ZenWorld]

I’ll be honest not sure. Had a mentor who had me do it first in the chain but I see people using at the end. For mastering I always use it first. Hopefully others chime in here. I say if it sounds good it’s fine.

[@Peampiin]

@@ZenWorld Good to know about it in Mastering. I appreciate it !

[@mamba4158]

ty gandalf

[@viktoronopko1853]

Just wondering if you use a transient shaper how fast does the one or other plugin react. These plugins do have some latency like every processing sound/volume shaping plugin. So knowing this, the question which should be asked is how accurate does a transient designer shape the peak in the beginning of the sound. Distortion plugins/exciter etc. do not really have any latency as I remember (correct me if I'm wrong).

[@ZenWorld]

You are good bro you are asking the wrong person on this one 🖐️ . I know high lookaheads would cause latency that’s about it. I’ve never looked through an oscilloscope how exact transient shapers are at shaping. I find the Kilohearts one is the most lethal of them all though.

[@JeremyDahl]

Yoooooo great vid

[@psybientdub]

Thanks for this, I recently purchased Ableton, and have been deep diving into Saturation and Glue knowledge. I use mostly Ableton stock plug-ins.. but I wont lie, I bought Friday deals lol... 1) Blackbox Saturator. 2) Kick2 drum synth. 3) Kickstart2 shaper. and these ones for Free... 4) UAD LA-2A tube compressor. 5) Flash transient shaper. 6) Fuse Audio Labs VPRE-72 (low CPU saturator). 7) Softube saturation knob. These are all I need, if I cant make great music with these, I should not be making music at all :-)

[@bryanromero7206]

Great info as always, thank you!

[@simenga4414]

"YOU SHALL PASS" -zenworld

[@colin-amicon]

"crest factor, you fools"

[@ayMillmusic]

This is all that you need!

[@atmodiver]

Transients at's all about articulation.Sorry for my bad eng)

[@LukeIcardMusic]

Hey zen. Im trying a trial version of the standard ableton 11. Im having lots of crashes. Is the trial of ableton 11 limited in performance? I had to bounce everything down to audio

[@jakebrown3697]

Love this.

[@Hightimesinalpine]

I feel like you made this video for me 🙃🙃🙃

[@kakapo_music]

Mate your a great teacher. Unblock that Gate brother... I have enjoyed the last two video's the most out of all I have seen so far

[@xXxArgMaggotxXx]

Can't you achieve the same by using the compressor?

[@C0NASUR]

🎉

[@sheharyartahir4670]

Zen master need some help. I want to make videos of my session but when I run OBS my pc load on Ableton jumps. Any way I can improve this. I’m using i5 32 gb ram

[@ZenWorld]

I’m not sure get better CPU. Lower the bitrate quality of the recording. Other than that 😅 idk 🤷‍♂️. I remember we had a CPU Accelerator that caused issues when I had an I7 might be the same issues. That’s all I can think of fam

[@wizzack75]

drums

[@buzzandjim4265]

Beep beep mfing hobbits.... gandalf here

[@buzzandjim4265]

Beepbeep mfs

[@MOSMASTERING]

What's with the constant Pepsi references? Brough to you by Carls Jr.

[@ZenWorld]

Making me feel OLD

[@djkaya9558]

Keep it up Master Zen !

[@Chehli]

awesome stuff... tried this with saturator on 14 db and CamelCrusher - more beef setting 👏so good

[@DookyShoesMusic]

you know what they say about big crest factors

[@sillsation4986]

how to feel about grouping all the drums together except the kick and glue compressor and saturated

[@ZenWorld]

Do this all the time, especially in our world of Dance Music.

[@alonsoteloo]

The rhino pills lmaooo

[@odin_music]

Lighting is literally LIT 🔥 Another awesome tutorial 🙌

[@robbesmetplopkoek8842]

helpful vid!

[@eazybreezy6129]

lesssgooooo hispanic gandalf

[@fndmntllysnd]

another heater

[@nuesmusic]

Sounds like the Clip to Zero method by Baphometrix. 100% worth a watch!