Masters at Work: James Wiltshire (Freemasons, Beyonce) Creating a Drum Track from Scratch - Pt1
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In part one of our brand new Masters at Work Series, James Wiltshire (Freemasons, Beyonce) shows you how to record Roland's classic 808, E-mu SP-1200 and the new Roland TR-8 as well as giving plenty of insight into how they work.
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This man is the Producer's producer. Man, this guy walked me through so damn cleanly, it's scary. A true master of the craft.
+ngomusicgroup Agreed!
Certainly not a house guy but I can appreciate this dude fully understands everything he has in front of him. Thanks for sharing the knowledge.
I'd like to learn from your comment, if you'd be so kind, can you tell me in your view why he's not a house guy?
I think they mean House music is not a genre they're into or at least not looking to produce
Lol I mean I'm not a house guy 👍🏻
After producing for almost 30 years professionally: This was refreshing! And fascinating!
Thanks, Master Wiltshire! Greetz from Germany.
James Wiltshire is the absolute BOSS! Always packs in extremely useful information and is most definitely a "Master at work".
+Audiotent We agree!
Pretty good info here. I love how he knows the hidden secrets of each piece of equipment. I own the SP 1200 though I rarely use it anymore. I just use Reason or FL Studio now... But if I want a dirty sample, I can chop in FL then sample it into the SP then spit it back out into Pro Tools.
best tutorial point blank has ever done!! a mix of analog devices and tricks to design and shape the sounds using Ableton, they only forgot the cabling process for all those hardwares into Ableton
He's got 'producers knock'
Fumbling about beneath the desk for cables he's bumped his head lol
Watching this part AGAIN since there are so much to learn from James. This is one of my favorite online tuts evah
+Sugar Puppies Woo!
I love watching people like this work, so genuine and talented.
So much fun watching this guy! He knows exactly where he wants to go. One day I hope to produce like that.
This guy is impressive.
+djvartan We agree!
He knows his technical stuff that's for sure and definitely impressive, though I'd like to see him create a more interesting and dynamic beat than the typical house beat we've all heard and made thousands of times
Addictive watching.
he don't pussyfoot.
@@simonyricools true!
You can get this lofi sound if you have Maschine. Just put it in SP 1200 mode in the engine and pitch the sample up or down by a few semitones. Then grab the audio from Maschine and put the sample in your DAW.
Try it. Your clean drum sounds will get fatter and they will have some texture overlaid into them. You also get the artefacts of ring modulation, noise etc, similar to what James is looking for in this video.
+Nadeem Inayat Definitely a great tip
+Point Blank Music School Thanks and to add. Once I have that sample from Machine, I put it into a Drum Rack in Ableton and then put a really small amount of pitch and filter modulation on it. This way I get the slightly different nuances to each drum hit in the arrangement which Is something James also mentioned.
Thanks for all your videos PointBlank. These ones and the ones by JC you do from time to time are invaluable resources for any budding producer. James is simply a legend.
Its been over two years and I still come back to this particular video from James for inspiration.
Brother James I am a sound engineer myself and a brother from Southwest Lodge 283 nice tutorial, keep it up!
caught up with this a long time after it was shown but really enjoyed it as an owner of a lot of older hardware it was great to see the old and new integrate with each other and explained well thanks
I’ve watched this over n over finally pulled the trigger on that lil ms1 sampler ..pretty dirty lil trick ..thanks
They're really cheap aren't they? What do you think of it? I've had SP-404s and wondered if the wet sound is similar to the lo-fi sampling mode on that.
love his 'bats & cats' metaphor
JAMES I get a kick at watching you in your studio around all that awesome gear...don't care if they all get used or not !!!
Personally, I always loved MIDI's off timing, it adds to the groove and the drift between the notes adds to the human feel. Never straight set bpm
my sentiments exactly
At half of the video I must say my eyes are wide open while watching this! Freemasons are one of my favorite remix duo producers.
Im so mind blown by all of his equipment, I have so much to learn!
Thanks for this series of videos - one of the most informative I have seen. James gives some wonderful insights into Ableton and music production. More from James please.
+Roger Hembrough Nice one Roger!
Back when I used Fasttracker to make beats I used to tune every clap slightly different to get that same effect.
Best video on all of youtube.
really really awesome vid - great too see this workflow and that even the pros get the MIDI jitter! I love how he just deals with it and moves on - cant tell you how much i loved this vid!
Damn. That 808 sounds fantastic.
Really enjoyed this. So much passion.
I'm in at @2:35 and I have to correct a tiny mistake - the difference in bits doesn't mean there's a difference in *samples*, it means there's a difference in *accuracy* in which *each sample* can be stored.
The amount of samples is determined by the sample frequency. The bit-depth tells us how many individual values each sample can have.
he gave us lot of tricks, dudes! what a man.
cheers
The Heston Blumenthal of music :)
Brilliant video. Great idea to resample the whole loop for transitions/breakdowns etc.
Great video ! It is funny that the buttons make so much noise when pressed .. Old school . Respect ..
The bit depth is not the "number of samples" (that would be the sample rate), it´s the number of "loudness steps" (which is the bit depth).
I wanted to comment the same thing until I realized that he said it correctly a few seconds earlier.
PURE BLOODY GOLD!
Because of Audiotool,, I have used the digital versions of the TR 808 and 909. I just wish I could hold and play one in my hands for real.
Is he a real master at work? More like a genius at work in the genre!
Wow shows us we are allot behind with our software applications, this is how music should be made. this are people that are behind all these Vengeance sound loops.
This is good stuff. I actually apply all these techniques using my MPC, Casio Keyboard and FL Studio.
He knows what he's doing, he has showed exactly what I wanted to see, not too extravagant but effective, using ableton's native plugins
I love and miss The Freemasons. James is awesome, thanks for the video!
this is great, I love the "cut in's". genius.
thanks Ive been a BIG fan of freemasons for many years and now you,,your a great teacher ... Muinto obrigado Peace
I love his tutorial. Always nice and easy with a great sense of humour.
His productions are fabulous.
god, this guy sounds like he knows his shit.
+Matthew Nash That's cause he does ;-)
yet he can't explain why the SP1200 give a specific harmonic character to drums.
So what. The guy is an expert at using that machine to create. He's not the engineer who built it. There's plenty so called experts online who intellectually understand everything about certain production gear or software, but whose songs sound like poo. I'm not saying you are, but if you'd expect a guy like that to explain why the SP1200 gives a specific harmonic character to drums, you might be focussing on the wrong thing.
Its easy to sound like you know your shit. Sounding like he knows his shit, and making some standard junk, while getting folks to think he's amazing, is a whole other level of genius.
I certainly can - Its a whole lot of little things adding up - The 12 bit DA converter was fairly ropey by todays standards and suffered heavily from Jitter thanks to the basic internal digital clocking .. the Filter chips used inside the SP1200 are close to the holy grail of filter ICs from around that time ( filters were used to stop the digital aliasing of low rate sample playback - see here for more info : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliasing) . The 12 bit sampling resolution ( actually 14 bit companded to 12 I believe ) , low sample rate and filters necessary to remove the artefacts mixed with the VCAs employed gives this early digital devices enough analogue soul to make it remind many users of worn vinyl ... Top end disappears from vinyl reproduction the further into the recorded side you go - as the SP1200 had a fixed sampling rate of 26.04 kHz its probably able to reproduce as much top end as halfway through a 33rpm 25 minute album side - James Wiltshire - F9 Audio
Brilliant. TY PB and the very generous Mr Wiltshire X
+John Mclennan Glad you enjoyed it!
+Point Blank Music School Gunna watch it again and again. Hopefully my gear lust won't kill me first though :)
so professional, wow
You're background is beautiful. As an electronics engineer who wishes to go musical at one point, thank you for sharing.
ah so glad i discovered this gold nugget
Best holiday special ever.
CZcams needs a love button
Very humbling to watch someone so competent.
OMG!
This is one great Tutorial. Loved the way this has been put together !
Literally watching a Master At Work!!
@DeeJay1210 They used to be great producers , today not so much.
19:38 WTF
Exactly my thought...
you build some awesome almost like real looking midi controlelrs. love it.
This is a superb video, explains the fundamentals so well
damn how this dude keeps time with his left hand, that's legit.
Love the Freemasons sound
Great video. I achieve the same thing with much less work. Using NI battery I simple select vintage on the sample and choose SP 1200 then tune it. The Neve and SSL comp and eq I use plugins after.
This sold me for Point Blank Music School.
gr8 video full of handy hints, even for seasoned professionals
Grammy Nominated...How many producers can say that?
finally someone with a pair of opals!
Exceptionally well explained, thx for sharing!
i love this guy
This lad has the 3rd Eye. Very knowledgeable
Absolutely brilliant so interesting thanks for the upload
Spot on! Is he so fast or is the video playing in fast forward!!! Amazing guy!!! :-)
some parts (fx/mixing/etc) are actually left out and some sounds are selected earlier. So it's a bit in fast forward.
Alex Popp umm no...thats house music..its always around 130 BPM
One complaint its hard to hear when you hit the button, your finger makes more sound than the sample
Your gear is worth more than I will earn in my whole life lol
Some pretty high peaks of ear satisfaction.
Great vid, cool to see you work James
does anybody know how he patches his hardware into the AD ? synth A into pre B into compressor C into AD? I don't see a patchbay...
great job james
30:02 and this is masterpiece, nigaz!
Great video production editing by the way :wink:
toronto loves u bro
inspiring..especially in buying SSL components and the sampler MS1
Impressive to a point. But it must take forever and a day to complete a track/song etc..
Perfectionism to the extreme.
Still great in 2023
This is all amazing, I think I learned at least a handful of new things just based off of his off-handed comments. The thing that videos will never be able to teach you though are abilities that producers take for granted or don't realize should be taught. At 22:38, for instance, he decides that the setting of "8" sounds like too much swing and "5" sounds about right without even listening to the 808 playing along with his house beat. How the hell could he tell that without listening to the 808 in context with the other drums? I'm guessing it is his years of experience, but is there a rule he follows? Or something specific he listens for?
Living metronome maybe?
great point! i love playing around with the swing knob in a DAW, and i totally agree with his decision (and your point) about the setting. 8 sounded a bit too cramped for the beat.
What I wouldn't do to have all that gear!
+K100
ikr
www.amazon.co.uk/ROLAND-TR-8-Players-Groove-stations/dp/B00IGM6D14/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1450966563&sr=8-1&keywords=roland+tr+8
but I'm too broke :(
*****
on second thoughts...
maybe not
I'd like to have it but I'd probably keep 75% unplugged. Just more nonsense to fiddle with needlessly instead of killing tunes. So many excellent producers make great tracks with stock plugins and effects. Until you're able to do that, I think you'd be doing yourself a disservice by having all that gear.
+Tyler Cole I agree plus a lot of vintage gear is over used. Like for instance why use 808 and 909 drums when there are hundreds of drum samples out there that are more original. I think people are hungry for more creative original sounds.
+Tyler Cole +1
The Freemasons?
No relation.
House music gods though: czcams.com/video/4dn58UW97Qw/video.html
Thats what they want you to think...
Who cares if he is a Freemason ?
Eye eye.
Stefan Gustafsson Thanks for that link! I googled some of their tracks to see if I do remember them, but none of them was nearly as good as that one ♥
4:57 : no, i don't hear the extra harmonics on youtube. But the button have a nice sound :p
I could easily hear them. What were you listening through?
Focal Alpha 65
I could hear them too
ur great ...bless to have sp 1200 & the 808 wow
19:38 wtfffff 26:43
to be highly recommended. Cheers
Impressive. Love the equipment :)
This guy is the Gordon Ramsay of music production.
So good! Thanks guys!!
why am i enjoying this?
Amazing bloke, top advice. OT - Shorts in December? I'm a Penguin and that makes me feel cold.
thank you thank you thank you!!!!!!!!!!! Love your Channel
Living Legend
Thanks James x
I can't wait to hear, 20 years from now, how the Super Nintendo sound system really has something special. ha ha.....I worked in many of the best studios in the world and did so during the analog to digital revolution. It was around 1993 or so. Place was Caribou Ranch. We had the first R.A.D.A.R system and we did so many A/B tests. In the end, who cares. Today's audiophile has a pair of 100 dollars earbuds and listens to music on spotify!
He has 16,777,215 but I thought it was 16,777,216.
Great stuff!!!
Nice work James, I'm enjoying your tutorials! Is that room you're in the former home of Massive Masters on Middle Street? Looks familiar.
Just checked German Ebay prices for the Roland MS 1 Sampler. Well.... seems it's not "dead cheap" anymore^^