How To Make - Uplifting Trance 2019 with James Dymond / 804

[Gomiun]

Thanks alot James, darkmemoria, producer1 ...Great Course, Thanks James & Sonic Academy for puttin' this up!

[QuantaDJ]

@Strigata ..... I agree with @chris_agnelli on this one. Even though I'm a Logic Pro X user, I can say that these days FL Studio is a top DAW that is on par with Logic, Cubase, Ableton.... Long gone are the days of "Fruity Loops" being an amateur DAW.

In fact a great thing on this iteration of @James_Dymond SA courses is that he finally upgraded to a more recent version of FL Studio, because as you may see on his previous courses he was still using FL Studio 9 (I think), which had many quirks that James was fully aware of, but he said that with his schedule he didn't had the time to upgrade and learn a new version. For this new course I think he finally upgrade to FL Studio 12 or 20, not sure which one as I'm not an FL user, but definitely he's not anymore on FL 9.

Glad to see @James_Dymond back on SA.

[Piter3219]

Excellent Tutorial!!! Thanks a lot James!!

[aalleexx5]

Please keep adding more FL Studio content. Thanks!

[James_Dymond]

@Kerris Which plugins do you not have? Maybe I can suggest cheaper or possibly free alternatives?

True, these plugins can be very expensive. However, I bought the majority of them on discount. Sign up to the Waves & Plugin Alliance newletters and they will let you know when they are discounted. They are expensive for a reason, but totally worth the investment I have found over the years!

Let me know which plugins you

[Kerris]

Hi James. Thanks for getting back to me. I subscribe to Slate Digital so have all their plugins and the FL Studio Producer ones. Is there a Slate Digital alternative to the Maag eq4? I was thinking of the Slate Digital Eiosis Air EQ.

Many Thanks

Kev

[James_Dymond]

@Kerris I don't have the full Slate Digital collection so I'm not sure about the Digital Elosis Air EQ.

But I've used the SD "Revival" plugin and it has a really nice top end boost (the "Shimmer" toggle at the top).

The Maag EQ is particularly special with it's Air Band EQ shelf, which is why it works so well.

[Tekalight]

@Kerris

Eiosis Air EQ is a great one & you can do similar things as the Maag EQ 4 but with more tweaks & settings, the joy of the Maag EQ is the predefined frequencies which makes it easy to dial in & get instant results. Alternatively & surprisingly there's a free plugin that emulates the Maag EQ an that have similar freq. & band choices. Just check it out, really incredible for a free plugin, it's called Luftikus ( Click on the name for Link ). You can check this comparison video between the 2 as well https://youtu.be/3B8g-pMrsxI

[SIXFOOT9]

Hi great tutorial. Im wondering why am i clipping on the master channel given that none of the busses or the faders are over -11.

[Tekalight]

@SIXFOOT9

First thing to keep in mind is that each individual tracks & busses outputs are summed to the master, so overall level just increase when you're adding tracks to the Mix, therefore it might just be that setting those faders at -11 is still too hot, give it a try at -14.

Another reason could be processing on your Master like Compressor or Limiter or even on individual tracks if you have some instruments or audio files creating short momentary peaks. That could be either right at the source ( i.e soft-synth output level ) or post effects ( after compression...etc ).

[markalav]

Great stuff James, really helped me simplify my tracks where I was definitely guilty of over-producing and the results are so much better, especially in terms of clarity. Many thanks!

[Strigata]

Re FL Studio being a top DAW, i stand corrected. Would still love to know how James made the mid bass sounds though

[johnbanny]

Great stuff James. Loving the simplicity of some of this

[Andymac]

fantastic course

[NikiSato]

Excellent course, James!

[derekfereal]

So amazing, thanks so much for taking the time to share your process and break this down thoroughly. Priceless information.

[Vladimir060792]

Very cool course, I on lesson with percussion understood that this the most the best option write music, sounds already on level-6 dB, before I could not achieve transparency and volume in his mix, thank you huge for done work

[amoebae]

Quite a good course, thanks!

[rabster]

Nice, a really great teaching style

[Trancit]

Hi James,

perhaps this helps you a bit to get best friends with Fruity Delay 3:

If you use the pan knob on Delay2 for making the sound wider in PingPong mode, you should really do the same in Delay3...
It´s a bit of nonsense to swap between the Stereo and PingPong mode on Delay3 in your mid bass tutorial with having the Pan centered and wondering why the sound doesn´t get any wider...