When kicks and bass are added at the video’s end, we think you’ll agree that’s a remarkably fast-produced banger. Most important are the tenets of layering properly to add space and power, and the marriage of the right sound with the right melody. Working with an ease and speed that affirm his 11 years in the game, Stonebank reveals plenty of tips as part of his writing process. The example is a three-part layered lead, with a track for character, another as a filler and a third with some chords which act a base for the rest of the lead to sit on. He has since done away with the different alias per genre approach and now it’s anyone’s guess what his next release may sound like.įor this masterclass, he ostensibly works within hardcore (where his heart truly lies, apparently) but these sounds could be used across EDM, trance, US-style dubstep and hardcore variants. Stonebank has been producing for over a decade, and in that time he has released a number of tracks across a myriad of genres under his own surname (Stonebank) as well as Modulate and Rocket Pimp.
If you’d like to learn more about production or sound design, check out our courses online or at our London school. Watch the video below to find out how, and make sure you keep watching to the very end for a bonus piece of advice.
Here, he describes how to make a lead synth using the Sylenth1 plugin in his favoured hardcore style. Following on from our recent session with Gammer, we’ve hit up another Monstercat artist in Stonebank, who covers pretty much all angles of the label’s output with Happy Hardcore, Electro and Dubstep all likely to emerge from the lab.
Welcome back to another of our guest masterclasses.
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