How to Chop Breaks like the Crane - Source Direct

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Published 2023-09-15
This vid kind of came out of nowhere after one of my students asked me about recreating the breaks from this classic track.🥷

Really happy with the result and think I got really close to the original! Enjoy :)

Thanks to everyone for sticking with me so far & especially to my Patreon subscribers! I love making these videos and I'm desperate to do this full time so I really appreciate it.✌️& ❤️

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Intro: (00:00)
Truncate The Break: (00:21)
Mono The Break: (00:44)
Warp The Break: (01:15)
Slicing & Sampler Settings: (01:41)
Crane Dropping at Rupture 2013: (02:25)
Programming The First 4 Bars: (02:50)
Programming The Second 4 Bars: (04:20)
Full Drum Pattern Demo: (05:36)
Emulating the Signal Path: (05:54)
Channel Strip EQ: (06:10)
Pro Q for Resonance Boost: (07:25)
RX950: (08:24)
Townhouse Buss Compressor: (09:28)
Outro: (10:14)
My Version vs Source Direct: (10:36

All Comments (21)
  • @PersephoneSkye_
    Source Direct is one of my biggest inspirations and The Crane is a MONSTER tune!
  • @droidattack3092
    Love seeing all the Source Direct tutorials, great work Sir
  • Wicked! Thank you for sharing these methods, these are really helpful.
  • @ferguson8462
    Great video dude! Keeping me inspired! Jim and Phil were musical geniuses, especially at their young age.
  • @baraghy3627
    quality through the ffucking roof m8 biggg up!
  • @crashdnb
    DOPE AND VERY HELPFULL VIDEO AGAIN!!👍
  • @ferguson8462
    I have the same Mackie 8bus 32.8 mixer they had - the 'upper' mid control has a bandwidth octave parameter knob. This definitely can help give more control in those upper frequencies and give some unique results.
  • @bryanl1524
    Great Videos! The left and right signal swap is one of my first steps for any stereo recorded acoustic sample... Most of the time it's choosing between snap/pop and ambience/room when deciding on the left or rightl. Even if the summed stereo sample sounds good I'll still check left and right just to see if one or the other fits a little better in the track.
  • @Artersa
    Big up on showcasing the processing. I forget to my process my drums when I get so focused on arranging and making cool little patterns 😝
  • @bigjerkface78
    Fire vid bro as usual… try dynamic eq for those resonances. I find it gives a better punch and provides a cleaner break. Keep up the excellent work!
  • @farben_
    This track in particular has a ton of effects and filtering on the breaks, my favorite part is that section where they triggered the same sample doubled, except one of them was moved forward or backwards to give that flanged effect, sounds simple but it was programmed very intricately.
  • @Cybercowboy_69
    great video. maybe the timbre difference in their break is also coming from them selecting a brighter version of the amen in the first place. loving the new visual style btw. cheers
  • @use0fweapons
    Seen a fair amount of videos about chopping the amen, first video I've seen that mentions the differences in the left and right channels!