This week, we welcome back Sensho for a new ‘How To Make’ course where he’s diving into the heavily saturated genre known as Phonk!
With this style of music, you can push distortion and saturation levels on pretty much every element to get that gritty, growling edge. After listening to some reference tracks, we design our own 808 cowbell sound in ANA 2 as the main lead before discussing common scales used in this genre and laying down the drums, bass, and vocal elements.
The end result is a hard-hitting, epic, gritty track that defines Phonk in all its saturated glory!
This Phonk tutorial is excellent for learning the genre’s gritty, saturated sound. It explains not just how to design your 808 cowbell, drums, bass, and vocals, but also why each step works, which is key for creating authentic Phonk tracks. Great resource if you want to understand the style and apply it in your own projects.
Hi Sensho, love the tutorial (an absolute goldmine) and wish there were more tutorials on this genre from you . In Tutorial 2 - Template, you have skipped “E Short SC” return track and I have no idea what is there. I am sort of person that follows every single setting to a T. Is there any chance you could share a project file/template for this particular phonk project?
As I said, absolutely blown away with this tutorial, I never seen someone giving so much detail and explain everything so clearly like you do. I never been so happy after discovering a tutorial and I don’t want it to end. Looking forward to more tutorials from you. Big RESPECT!
Welcome aboard on the forums and thanks for your comments
Although there’s no Project file included with this course, if you work with Ableton Live, you can find the audio samples ( Vocals and Drums ) as well as the MIDI Clips and Ableton Live Racks that you can use to recreate the project.
Keep an eye on the upcoming Darkwave Takeover event as well, the Master Class for the track inspiring the Remix Competition will be done by Sensho as well
