Off the Wall - Season 4, Episode 21: Jabun on Creating Songs

SYNOPSIS: @Jabun talks about being a musician. Helping with music and audio for movies, Importance of organization; file structure, color coding tracks. Reflection on the expressive nature of art, followed by the impact of habits on his creative progress.

Music by @Animattronic: https://animattronic.ca

TOPICS

“I mainly use hardware instruments and effects/amps as a guitarist/synth/organ player. My mixing and production is (mostly) in the computer though so here's a list of my most commonly used and worthy of note things (in most or a significant amount of projects).

Software:

• DAW: Ableton Live 8 (with the Sampler instrument add-on)
• Dynamusic Toscanalyser (Offline Metering)

VST Instruments / samples:

• Native Instruments Kontakt Session Horns
• Project SAM Orchestral Ensemble Essentials Ableton add-on
• TAL-U-NO-62
• Elektrostudio Moog Prodigy
• TS-808 (TR-808 Emulator)
• Beat Basics Skate Punk & Grunge Drum Samples

VST Effects:

• AmpliTube 3 (Sort of... and mainly for the Cabinet Emulations)
• AmplifikationCM
• TDR Nova
• ThrillseekerLA
• T-RackS CS (Mainly the Black 76, Opto Comp, Classic Clipper)
• WAVES H-Comp
• TesslaPROmkII
• FerricTDS
• AradazMaximizer5
• Steinberg Stereo-Expander
• Ozone9 Elements and Imager
• Limiter6 (The free grey one)
• TAL-CHORUS-LX
• NastyDLAMkII
• Dasample Glassverb
• Arturia Rev PLATE-140
• Devilspring
• reafir_standalone (Noise Reduction)
• Acon Digital Audio restoration suite (Demo)
• Sonalksis FreeG Stereo
• StereoToolV3 (For Metering)
• G-Tune (For Metering / tuning up)
• MLoudnessAnalyzer (For Metering)
• TT Dynamic Range Meter

Previously used a lot:

• ComboF (Farfisa Emulation)
• Kontakt Jazz Organ Preset
• Lounge Lizard Session
• GSnap (Tuning Correction)

+ Occasionally some other samples/stuff

In terms of resources, I think YouTube is a huge source of inspiration and information (Music, gear, techniques, etc...). There is a lot of misinformation and half-truths there though so best to take with a pinch of salt. There are also some great websites with lots of free VST as well. Most of my stuff comes from there. A quick Google gives some good results :)” ― @Jabun

- Getting started in making music and audio production

- Helping with music and audio for movies

• The first project, Jabun helped on "Dinosaur Alphabet"

• Making lifelong friends through collaborations

- You can do anything with animation

- Junji Ito Collection

- The Best Pokemon!

- @Hikarian, Tales of Zale

• If you don't ask, the answer is always no

- File structure

• If you don't organize your files you will lose the project you're working on
• Color code your tracks in your digital audio workstation
• Mark the different parts of the song; verse, chorus, bridge, etc...

- How @Jabun met @Cyberdevil

- Better Than The Book! A musical project by Nick Standing AKA Jabun

• Leaving Home [Single]

• Better Than The Book & Jabun - 1314

- Making music for @Mantis1, Games

• Brutal Bunnyhop (ac_car)

• Heaven (Originally released as "Ballet of Pain")

- June22 [Full EP]

- Ripples of Time (Reduce)

- The story behind the Sir Pigeon icon

- What makes Jabun happy?

- Handling stress

- Cooking

- Influences and inspirations and what Jabun's listening to right now (At this point in time)

• Steve Vai
• Ellegarden
• Babymetal
• Kishida Kyoudan & The Akeboshi Rockets
• Blink-182
• Goldfinger
• Zebrahead
• Less Than Jake
• We are the Union
• Machine Gun Kelly
• Gorillaz
• Pink Floyd
• Suzanne Ciani
• Brian Eno
• Iron Maiden
• Polyphia
• Ichika Nito
• Jennifer Batten
• T-Pain, album; "On Top Of The Covers"
• Nita Strauss
• Killswitch Engage
• Linkin Park
• Limp Bizkit
• Nickelback, Feed the Machine album
• Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath, Zakk Wylde
• T-cophony

- Art is an expression

- Going for walks

- Behavior and habits; that will set you back creatively

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