Creating Vintage Sounds in Ableton

A few techniques how to make your music sound like you just found it on 2" tape in your grandma's attic.

Check my blog at www.rm-sounds.com for more tutorials and music.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• ableton
• vintage
• tutorial
• boards of canada
• synthesizer
• music
• production
• piano
• how-to

[TravJacobs]

Hey, could you tell me what you used to make the unaltered recording? Some analogue synth?

[ryandmca]

@TravJacobs Sure thing. It's actually just a piano loop I recorded using NI Alicia's Keys. Then I ran the loop through Metasynth. Metasynth has a bunch of extremely high quality effects that you can draw in really crazy modulations for. I can't remember exactly what I did but it sounds like I used some near audio rate random amplitude modulation (kinda like FM but modulating Amplitude instead of Freq, like a fast tremolo). The random volume jumps degrade the audio for that effect.

[liljimi321]

can u do any thing like this on audacity? i want make like a modern song sound like it was recorded in the 40's

[ryandmca]

@liljimi321 if audacity supports plugins you could throw in your eq to take out the highs and lows, you could set it to mono, but automating the delay could be tricky...

[ryandmca]

@bathinthefountain show me which song it's from. i appreciate you checking out my vid but please do not accuse me of plagiarism if you have nothing to back it up.

[ryandmca]

@BourgeoisMachinery well you see the reason is i'm a legit canadian, and i'm often quite bored. so naturally it would make sense that i would be the BOCest of the BOCs.

[vanvalldrey]

cool thing with the "repitch" option on the simple delay! thanks a lot!

[nmh2112]

awesome video man



[joshspoon]

@BourgeoisMachinery I love your response. @ryandmca, nice piano

[wesiso]

Excellent video! I've been wondering how to get a virtual style delay similar to my memory man w/hazarai. this just helped me in so many ways. love your workflow and how you chain things together, very cool indeed. thanks again!