How To Make - Dark Room Techno with Kirk Degiorgio / 550

Incredibly strong tutorial! I’ve learned so much from it. Thank you for sharing this with us Kirk !

Hi! I don’t understand why my second sequencer doesn’t play when I did the same thing for the first sequencer. Do you know what I might have done wrong?

Made a great new track following this course and changing up the rhythms, melodies, and instrument choices. I used FabFilter Saturn for my kick sub distortion, although I A/B’d my results with a trial version of Ohmicide, as shown in the course; actually spent way too much time with Saturn to get something similar to the Ohmicide preset, but it was worth the effort I think. This was my first foray into tape mastering, I used the Kramer tape plugin from Waves and the results are so sweet; really looking forward to making a second master using the Studer A800, once I get myself into the UAD ecosystem. Thanks KDG for sharing your secrets *)

great course

Fantastic course! Thank you

Loved dat course and dat sound ! Thank you :slight_smile:

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I love the way you do arrangement!
Only thing I don’t understand is why you Normalize when exporting. Doesn’t that compress the tracks?

Awesome course! Very inspiring :wink: Merci

Fantastic course. Excellent track. Tremendous mixing techniques and great pointers in the right direction. Loved all of it!

I really learned a lot about mixing and getting all the sounds to fit properly within the mix. Kirk also provided great insight into plugins he uses and how to use them.

Hey @SETIfx

If you love Kirk Degiorgio courses, here is a link to all his tuts on S.A

Be sure to check the latest one from Kirk BTW, really worth it !!

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I do plan on taking the course you highlighted and the modular synthesis courses. Thx. I also just finished the Dark Techno by Christian Vance and liked it as well. Any possibilities of getting Chris Lieibing or Ritchie Hawtin to do a course?

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You should better submit a new topic in this category here on the forums

Or even better on the new FB Discussion Group you just joined, there’s a dedicated “Tutorial Request” topic too and it might have more impact there Sonic Academy - Music Production Discussion Public Group | Facebook

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Great course and I will be watching it again as there is a lot to digest - it’s really in depth and he shares a lot of great software which is a big help - and black Friday is coming up!

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good

Como se nota la profesionalidad de este gran Dj/Productor. He aprendido muchisimo con este tutorial.

Moderator Edit: ( English translation )

“As you can see the professionalism of this great Dj / Producer. I have learned a lot with this tutorial.”

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Great course. Does anyone have any tips for emulating that Studer tape plugin? What would be the nearest settings for something accessible to many, like Saturn, for instance.

I have the idea of a chain in Ableton being: VUMT -18db > Saturn > VUMT -0db to meter the amount of drive being adding by Saturn.

Also was there anything to gain by normalising the stems?

Yes, it’s possible to replicate the Studer tape saturation using plugins such as Fab Filter “Saturn” or Sound Toys “Decapitator” which is also well regarded to achieve this. Now to get proper tips about the settings to use, you have to either be able to A/B the 2 and tweak it for some time to get there or getting feedback & tips from someone who tried it.

Therefore, might be worth to post the question on the S.A Face Book Discussion Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/295362341294315/?ref=group_header you might have more chance to get some hints.

Now about normalizing the stems, to what I understood, that was done to have consistent levels for each track before reaching the API ( if I recall well ) channel strip in the next stage, but maybe @Kirk_Degiorgio could answer this better.

Cheers !