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.
