Track Breakdown : dc11 - Loop1

Here's an often requested video about some of my common production techniques. I chose to breakdown my track Loop1 as an example. It came out on my Pulse Output ep back in May 2021. I go over the plug ins I use, my arrangement, etc etc, everything that turns the few sounds I've recorded on my modular & Alphabase into a track.
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0:00 - Intro
2:28 - Ableton Session
4:28 - Kick
6:12 - CLSD Hat
6:37 - OPEN Hat
7:20 - Toms
10:20 - X Sample
11:00 - Complex Oscillator
13:10 - Bark Filter Processor
15:40 - Return Tracks
18:35 - Arrangment and Outboard Resampling
22:14 - Outro

[@robert.melter]

You're a real gentleman Lucas! Thank you

[@hehmda678]

Nice. More production techniques and breakdowns please. Valuable info

[@LucasMarchal]

will do :)

[@MartinStuertzer]

Absolute bomb track and thanks for the detailed rundown!

[@LucasMarchal]

Thank you ! Glad you liked the track ;)

[@MordioMusic]

Thanks for sharing your workflow

[@WayneLansdowne]

Thank you! Enjoyed watching your process.

[@LucasMarchal]

Thanks ! Glad you enjoyed it

[@duartempalma]

Love this content and the effort you put into this video! Keep the track breakdowns coming :)

[@LucasMarchal]

Thank you ! Will do :)

[@archer8096]

An excellent video! Thank you for sharing your process and taking the time to walk through each section - lots of good stuff right there!

[@LucasMarchal]

Thank you ! Glad you liked the video :)

[@jonasiv3587]

Thanks so much for sharing your process. Big fan of your music and its very helpful for me being pretty new to eurorack and producing techno. I'm learning alot and getting great inspiration from your videos and music! 👍

[@LucasMarchal]

Thank you ! Glad it got you inspired, that's the idea :)

[@mathiasberthold1223]

Great work! Would love to see more of this kind of content. Music is also great.

[@LucasMarchal]

I'll probably do a few more like that :)

[@martin-xs5hb]

absolutely brilliant stuff.

[@LucasMarchal]

Thank you very much !

[@erikb7758]

Great overview, thanks for sharing.

[@LucasMarchal]

Thanks you !

[@Lordxfx]

Thanks for that! Those sounds are sweet!

[@LucasMarchal]

Thank you for watching !

[@noisevector]

Great stuff. I think on a musical level we share a lot of commonalities.

[@LucasMarchal]

Thank you !

[@antoineguilbeault8025]

Insightful thank you

[@LucasMarchal]

you're welcome :)

[@MarcDupuis50400]

Super cool

[@LucasMarchal]

Merci :)

[@mattster303]

Exquisite! 💚

[@LucasMarchal]

Thank you !

[@othk458]

and now we must to buy Bark Filter :D Thanks for videos !

[@LucasMarchal]

Amazing module :)

[@jaimemancha2505]

Amazing tutorial! More track breakdowns and if its possible one of your track brainfeeder! Thanks for that

[@LucasMarchal]

Ah yeah I was hesitating between the two... I can definitely do Brainfeeder next.

[@jaimemancha2505]

@@LucasMarchal Im waiting for it anxious, thanks for doing that

[@LucasMarchal]

@@jaimemancha2505 ahah don’t hold your breath though, won’t be before a couple of months I guess ;)

[@fynnhahn4437]

love your jacket.... and of course your music

[@LucasMarchal]

ahah thank you, great Christmas present :)

[@Lauli55]

Cool video, very nice to see it all come together in the end! Some thoughts occasionally on song structure "when what happens why" would've been cool - like in the last chapter where you can see when some instrument drops out

[@LucasMarchal]

Thank you ! About song structure I don't really have a reason behind every choice, it's all pretty intuitive especially since I usually record my tracks live, I cut/bring back the hats for example when it feels right; I'm not counting bars; never have probably never will.

[@Lauli55]

​@@LucasMarchal Ah yeah sure, counting bars is killjoy number 1 when doing sessions with the machines, hahaa. But still, I think there are some decisions happening regarding song structure; for example that reverb automation at 12:50. I'm sure there's more stuff like that happening. Looking forward to the next video!

[@alexmarkowski4893]

Interesting video Lucas! Thanks for sharing your workflow. You mentioned using the H9 on a return track in Ableton. What kind of effect were you using it for?

[@fosferus]

thanks lucas, that was very helpful. i think like most people i prefer to keep on with the creative process, rather than sitting down to learn the art of mixing/mastering. even though i don't have these programs or plugin, or even work in this genre, there were some useful tips! (and some motivation to dedicate more time to mixing apart from panning and gain staging.)

[@LucasMarchal]

In mixing more than anything I think that time & experience are really the most important ingredients... Nothing more to do that make tracks make tracks until it sounds remotely ok hehe.

[@onderstroom]

Thanks once again…clean explanation love the sounds!

[@LucasMarchal]

Glad you liked the video; cheers :)

[@draga1024]

dope! but please do recordong of the screen

[@indiqiqi8954]

Very insightful video, thank you ! Could you tell us a bit more about how you approach arrangement, since you record the tracks fully ? how much do you plan it ahead ?

[@LucasMarchal]

Thanks ! I don't really plan it ahead, it's mostly feeling. If you listen to techno regularly you'll get a feeling for the "song" "structure" after a while.

[@mteixido9]

Hi Lucas aways great when youtube notifies that you have posted something new! Amazing content. One thing I was wondering, I always think that those verbos modules have like a noisy character that other eurorack modules don't have. Like they sound so techno and raw. Do you feel the same? like other manufacturers sound more round and stuff,. Do you think there's a specific module giving this character? thank you in advance for your reply!

[@LucasMarchal]

Thanks ! Yeah I guess I agree about the Verbos modules. Both versions of the Amp and Tone give a lot of character to the sounds you put through, the V1 especially has a great "je ne sais quoi" mojo.

[@andreeeeeaaaas1563]

Hey Lucas love your work! Do you monitor in live on Ableton, or add fx and processing afterwords? Thanks!

[@LucasMarchal]

I do monitor in Ableton so I add FX as I go

[@lawrencepit8103]

Love the sounds! You briefly mentioned you have a clock track to clock your modular. So the modular follows the BPM set in Ableton? How do you get the clock to the modular and alpha base though? Through the Motu 16A?

[@LucasMarchal]

The motu 16a doesn't have midi outputs but it's DC coupled so the "clock track" is a cv tools track which sends a pulse to my modular (so it follows the BPM set in Ableton). If your interface isn't dc coupled no worries, a simple audio click track will work just as well. The Alphabase and Octatrack are clocked with midi via the midi out of my other interface (Fireface UC) which has a couple midi ins/outs. Seems complicated but it isn't really, and it works, so... Maybe at one point I'll get a E-RM Multiclock which would doo all that and more more accurately.

[@saren6538]

wonder how it compares to the fumana bark

[@lucianoferrer707]

I've never felt such urge to dive into outboard processing gear. Pray for me and my monies lol

[@LucasMarchal]

Ahah yeah it's a treacherous world but Really enjoyable to work with and with beautiful results. The Elysia 500 (or rack) line is somewhat "inexpensive" for studio gear and is really excellent. The X-Filter/Xpressor/Karacter trio is amazing.

[@lucianoferrer707]

@@LucasMarchal the 500 series looks very attractive! definitely would love to put together a small case for processing.

[@jla9096]

Thanks for the breakdown. I would love one for your track called "I/O2"! At 1:07 you mentioned not liking your tracks. It's an interesting topic and I'm curious as to why you don't particularly like some of your tracks. What about them don't you like?

[@LucasMarchal]

I have another one coming but not for this one :) Yeah it's a topic I often discuss with friends. It's not that I don't like my tracks... Some of them I still really like... I have a weird arc where I'm psyched on it, then before it comes out I think this is definitely not very good, but then reassure myself that if a label actually put the effort to put it out it must be somewhat ok, and then once it's out it's not really yours anymore. Even if I personally think the track isn't that great, it still makes me super happy to see them live on their own, be played by djs etc... Things can always be better, but also I try to not get too worked up on it. There's always the next track :)

[@jla9096]

@@LucasMarchal i see, that's interesting to hear and I've always wondered that about artists who put out tracks (whether they doubt them during the process of making/releasing). But to me they sound great! Haha anyways, looking forward to the next breakdown video

[@andreasdamberg359]

I noticed that your recorded kick is not on the ableton grid, is that something that you are correcting later on in the arrangement to get all tracks line up on the ableton grid or do u let all tracks be of grid? I have some problems to get my recorded tracks that I get from my tascam mixer to line up correct in ableton and it gets mi cracy =)

[@LucasMarchal]

Indeed ! That's the latency from my interface. So the kick is not on the grid but everything actually has the same latency so it doesn't matter. It would be annoying if I were to use VST instruments for sure. Still, I'm planning on getting a ERM multiclock at some point.

[@andreasdamberg359]

@@LucasMarchalokay i see, I mix my recordings upp with ableton instruments to so there I got the problem. Thanks for answer, ERM multicklock is a real life saver =) I own one.

[@hofmann_25]

why did you process the mono elements into stereo through the overstayer?

[@LucasMarchal]

No specific reason it's just that the overstayer is a stereo unit.