TOP 5 FREQUENCIES FOR THE AMEN BREAK | Memorize These

[@STRANJAH]

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[@tonytemple8195]

The Slicing pre, do you load your own breaks or does it have its own pre sliced?

[@STRANJAH]

@@tonytemple8195 Load your own breaks ;)

[@tonytemple8195]

@@STRANJAH cheers bro

[@kierancarnegie7133]

As a Jamaican-American, hearing my man say "dutty ", too goodlol . I love your content man tahnks for sharing alll of your knowledge. Nuff respekt.

[@KitKalvert]

I got bored of making house music and your channel is easing me back into the world of Drum & Bass. This is the only channel I need. Thank you for being so ****** awesome Stranjah!

[@basswitch525]

Stranjah please never stop making videos I love them like the world might be burning in the middle of a pandemic on the brink of war but there's still gonna be someone chilling out and giving people tips on how to eq the amen break and that's you my man

[@STRANJAH]

Glad to be of service!

[@lateralshiftmusic]

The compression there sounded so god, I'm gonna try that slower attack out, thanks for the tips!!

[@hdhshsgskssygs]

I don't think I will ever make electronic music because for me, a classical musician, everything seems so scary and I don't even have a computer to start doing something, but it won't stop me from watching your videos, they're so interesting

[@darinz7182]

The computer is a completely different instrument, no doubt.

[@apersononurphone920]

This hilarious to me bc even though I got into making music on a computer bc of rap and electronic… I’ve ended up composing classical pieces and use so much of what I’ve learned from classical composers. In the beginning it seemed so much for feasible than learning an instrument and even worse having to record live stuff. In other words if you find this interesting, you should definitely give it a try.

[@focusdecorating3637]

Been struggling to get my Amens to sound like this, turns out ive not been EQing them anything like what your doing here. Well watching this video has helped no end, honestly thank you so much man, this is a great tutorial, cheers !!!

[@andrewmckay8972]

Love this bro! StrA'MENjah

[@xCORRUPTAx]

Damn, high quality video dude. Bigup from Vancouver Island

[@waypoint4824]

such a helpful video! can't wait to test these tips

[@user-jt2bf6ym1o]

your channel is so sick!!! keep up the good work

[@thelaw1984]

I suppose when talking about frequency ranges to boost in order to bring out certain elements of the amen, it really varies depending on the pitch (speed) you're playing the amen. Really isnt a catch all. I've always found the amen difficult to mix properly because there's such a big freq range too it. Great video as ever man!

[@final_animal]

For sure, it's a useful guide though to demonstrate what this kind of EQ technique can do to a break in general. I didn't know I could/should EQ this many points on a drum break to get that kind of sound, so while it doesn't apply to other pitches, the technique is the helpful inspiration.

[@bladedmittens]

love your vids. really explained in depth

[@MF_Plissken]

excellent tut, great sound beef up

[@djbrotherelectric]

I do love jungle!

[@hellfeeder23]

Nice tutorial. Thank you.

[@atomaalatonal]

nice video. clear workflow for eq-ing based on the respective insturments. i like that.

[@tonytemple8195]

Big ups STRANJAH 🔥🔥🔥

[@AaronViz]

Your knowledge is a Gem 💎

[@jeremysharp4218]

Have you ever tried using reduction of the frequencies you want less of instead, in order to essentially achieve same eq shape? In school for audio engineering they always told us that removal of frequencies is better because it introduces less distortion, so I'm curious if you could get a desirable sound that way, or if the distortion is an important feature (as I suspect).

[@STRANJAH]

Interesting question and there is no black and white answer to it. To start, yes, cutting is always better than boosting, but sometimes you don't want to lose too much of another frequency range, just to have another sound louder. Do you really want zero bass, or hollow mids, just to get more sparkly and bright highs? I think like everything, it is all about finding a happy middle ground. Try cutting first, remove anything you know what you do away with, without detrimentally affected the sound, then boost moderately around that, to bring out anything you want more of, after you have already cut. Do both, not just a brute forcing of either cutting, or boosting only. As for distortion, yes, this is a very important part of the sound, but how you achieve distortion is also key. You don't want distortion added in a wrong way, because you did the wrong thing (like boosting too much, as you mentioned), but tastefully with a respected process like a soft clipper, or a dedicated saturation/distortion plugin, you can bring life, grit and bite to otherwise lifeless sounds.

[@jeremysharp4218]

@@STRANJAH Thank you for your thoughtful reply, DnB sensei! As a long time (hobby) Breaks producer who thinks Breaks should sound like DnB that was built for ~140bpm, I appreciate your videos and insight. Keep up the good work. ^_^

[@ana303_]

your videos are always on point and real easy to understand.

[@STRANJAH]

Thank you!

[@JoshWearsPrada5]

I use these settings on the SSL Native Channel Strip 2 on my drum bus with a saturator

[@riddimfernandez5139]

Great vid as always :)

[@benmochrie6520]

Good stuff Brother. I love my Jungle! 👊👊👊

[@tonkatim420]

Another great tut. Big up!

[@settledownliberace]

Thanks for another upload! You rock :)

[@obestuff1054]

great!!!!

[@heart_D]

Thank you, brother

[@0374studio]

...Then you can start to do the breaks through same way from different drum loops. Then combine it all, but don't forget to side chain everything on everything.

[@charliesmiler5618]

Hiya buddy, Your videos and advice have been a great help, I have upmost respect for you. There is a useful break / drumroll in the 1994 prodigy track 'Voodoo people' otherwise known as the 'voodoo break.' I will be using this in my new tracks. Any of your tips or advice on Arranging & EQing in a future video would be much appreciated.. Thanks ;)

[@MultiverseAliensandShizz]

Please do a video of this with EQ 8

[@Adam-g-uk]

You should try split eq plugin! Its a tonal and transient eq that that is amazing on breaks

[@Adam-g-uk]

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[@Adam-g-uk]

I think there's a demo bro, check it, new levels of cleaning a break and making it sound very modern, then I add some sample x and decapitator and then a stock eq at the end to clean up any added lows and highs ...

[@STRANJAH]

Will look into it thx!

[@DisparityOfBeliefAndTruth]

Amen, brother. Big up all junglists, worldwide.

[@thimovijfschaft3271]

Does the slicing preset work with Reaper?

[@chrisisinthehouse1]

Dropping knowledge per ush. A➕

[@driverkeido]

My G.

[@djkrptdnb]

Do you always EQ from top to bottom? Any reason why?

[@STRANJAH]

Force of habit. I want it to sound crisp immediately. I think it would be good practice to try it from the bottom up. Good on you for bringing that up!

[@1disturbedjunglist]

Love the variation tip at the end. Little bonus.

[@STRANJAH]

Bigup!

[@SteezyHop]

Big ups, been waiting for an eq video for a while. Can you do the same vid with bass?

[@kilohertzmusic2021]

This ☝️

[@benmochrie6520]

Looking forward to this one. 👊 Wish there was a freq analyser in the new MPC update! You got that MOC yet Stranjah?

[@STRANJAH]

What's the MOC?

[@benmochrie6520]

Meant MPC!

[@skymoov]

Can you make a tutorial to make dub techno, because there's almost nothing on internet about it 🤔

[@itsstrawman]

Good shit bruv

[@catlolis]

stranjah please leave ableton live

[@Charles-Matthews]

My dog was very curious about this video.

[@deejayspillz]

Hell yeah!!

[@stunts9197]

yeah

[@dpraubklqos]

What's the name of that headphones?

[@STRANJAH]

They’re the AIAIAI TMA-2 Wireless Studio Headphones. Love how they sound and they almost make me forget about my balding scalp and impending mid-life crisis. Almost.

[@xGimbal]

I'm wondering why there is no particular JUNGLE-ALBUM by STRANJAH out on Spotify yet?!? Or even an EP. I really love these oldschool-vibes combined with new production skills.

[@sockettgirl]

i swear to god spotify is paying ppl to beg for stuff to be on spotify, every single fcukin song theres one of you

[@lanmichaelmix2818]

Equalizer is not enough to help me to make the sound i like.

[@STRANJAH]

Compression and saturation next

[@adrouf1]

👍

[@Bcwilderness]

carefull with the 3 k 7 and 11 a sure way to ruin hearing at volume, hi hats and cymbals do better into soft tubes tape plugin with a bit more punch too, depends on the crossover on your monitors also

[@STRANJAH]

Nice advice. Will try

[@richardyoung8213]

Yes B please can you do another frequency video finding it very informative Talk dirty... Oscillators to me STRANJAH Thanks man

[@Year_Of_The_Cat]

What would you call this? Konichi-Sleep Choir I must admit I haven’t heard anything like this before. It’s like minimal industrial jump up. I know DJ Hazard played “Mongrel” by the same artist. I think Konichi has really carved him self his own sound.

[@STRANJAH]

It's jump up for sure - it's almost pre-Belgian jump up since it was made in 2012. Ahead of its time!

[@alexwild1435]

@@STRANJAH what’s pre Belgian?

[@Adam-g-uk]

@@alexwild1435 before the Belgium junp up sound was created (or popular)

[@alexwild1435]

@@Adam-g-uk oh right, I’ve never even heard of Belgian Jump up, could you recommend any artists to check out?

[@Adam-g-uk]

@@alexwild1435 its the squeaky high pitched stuff, will send some later..

[@vadimmartynyuk]

Next: how to EQ pink noise

[@claycowartisamazing]

I like your pepega head haircut xD

[@jmcframe]

I tried about 1000 times to recreate Paradox - Curse of Coincidence or Perhaps The Future by EQing the Amen - and I failed. Where is that damn snare frequency? How was it possible to make the Amens sound like THAT?

[@hearmenow909]

Paradox uses old gear like Akai samplers, mixing desks, mono drums.

[@STRANJAH]

I recreated that amen and gave it away when I hit 1000 subs. Check my community page.

[@jmcframe]

@@STRANJAH Really? Nice, I’ll check it out. Thanks! Just checked it: The Dropbox content was deleted 😢

[@STRANJAH]

@@jmcframe New link: deviantaudio.ck.page/7e0d4cb749

[@jmcframe]

@@STRANJAH Works like a charm! Thank you very much!

[@djkrptdnb]

There’s something missing from this video though... 🤔

[@STRANJAH]

What’s missing?

[@djkrptdnb]

@@STRANJAH head wear 😂

[@STRANJAH]

@@djkrptdnb hahaha you got me there!

[@disciple_zero]

great video, but I am so sorry for laughing when I saw your hair, it was truly unusual...

[@UK-nf3ui]

me too lol

[@STRANJAH]

No worries I know it was unexpected. I’m currently figuring out what to do with my hair it’s been a long time since I had longer hair. I want to do something cool with it 🤟

[@blookolla]

EQ that hairpiece young blood. On the real though, your channel all that.

[@xVILOx]

O.o

[@gumsunk9096]

eq your hairline

[@STRANJAH]

I know it’s terrible thankfully it’s been resolved like a bad mix!