This week, we’re proud to welcome new tutor and US-based producer, DJ and Emmy award winning audio engineer - Taylor Franklyn!
In this epic course suitable for all abilities, Taylor takes on a recreation of the awesome synthwave track ‘Nightcall’ by Kavinsky. Featured in the movie ‘Drive’, and becoming the most shazam’d track of all time following its appearance in the closing ceremony at the Paris Olympics, we dive into the production techniques and skills needed to capture that classic ‘Kavinsky’ sound.
With only a few elements and a simple arrangement, less is definitely more with this track, as it still packs a punch.
Over these 10 videos, you’ll learn the sound design and processing tips and tricks to get from a blank slate to a finished masterpiece.
Hey Sonic academy editor - the intro sonic academy sound is going to blast out my speakers though… intro is too loud compared to the rest of the tutorial XD
There’s a Project file included in the downloadable resources files if you want to go into details.
Also, in my humble opinion, the main goal with all courses is to get to see how a sound or full track was created and get a good sense of the type of sounds & instruments as well as the techniques used to make the end mix, the copy-cat approach and putting the exact same values on each knobs or settings is less important, you probably do not have the same listening environment as the original producer anyway, so it will always sound slightly different, grab the techniques & workflow first and then adjust to taste and use your ears, reference other tracks as well.
@tpfraz The audio samples are included in the resources downloads.
You won’t always have the same plugins or software as the tutor, that said most of the time there’s a way to adapt to your own DAW and tools at your disposal.
For the missing KICK 2 plugin ( assuming you’re using Ableton Live and can open the project ) you can delete the KICK 2 plugin and replace it with a Simpler/Sampler device and load the audio kick sample in it but keep any processing effects after the KICK 2 plugin.
For info, if you are interested in KICK 2, you can still purchase the plugin at the link below.
KICK 3 is now the latest plugin version for Sonic Academy kick plugin, existing KICK 2 License owners have an upgrade price equal to the full KICK 2 price when then decide to purchase a KICK 3 Upgrade.
So in a nutshell, you could get KICK 2 first and Upgrade to KICK 3 later fro the same price as just directly buying KICK 3.
But again, no need to purchase all missing plugins you do not own when following a tutorial unless you’re interested to get the plugin, there’s always a workaround to get the same or similar sound.
