Why I modeled guitar pedals in Serum 2’s fx rack (and how I did it) YouTube video by Noise Dept.

New video about turning my guitar pedals into FX racks inside Serum 2. Spoiler: it was hard to do but the end result is something I'll use for years 💪
youtu.be/QSenkZicqK0?...

Day 4 of trying to put all of my guitar pedals into Serum 2's FX rack - it's the legendary Swedish chainsaw this time. Serum did not want this one to happen but we discussed it and came to an agreement.

(25% of this video is a demo of how DC Offset/biasing works)

Day 3 of trying to put all of my guitar pedals into Serum 2's FX rack - this time it's the legendary ProCo RAT (I'm working with the JHS PackRat but it's the same circuit)

Oblivion Engine presets demo by Geoffrey Day of Noise Dept. YouTube video by Kilohearts

Here's my walkthrough of all the categories in the content bank youtu.be/NzAFLaYxTn8?...

Oblivion Engine – a Kilohearts Content Bank by Noise Dept. YouTube video by Kilohearts

It's N7 day and we dropped a big robots dark cinematic preset bank for Phase Plant right on time. Really proud of this one! youtu.be/AOcCMAQ_7vg?...

Nothing longer on YouTube yet, but def keep an eye on TheNoiseDepartment on there cause I'll be starting up the long form thing sooner rather than later!

Day 2 of trying to put all of my guitar pedals into Serum 2's FX rack - tackling a fuzz sound this time with the EHX Big Muff Pi OpAmp

Day 1 of trying to put all of my guitar pedals into Serum 2's FX rack - starting with the tube screamer

All eyes, no ears Why virality is not building fandom Over the last five years, labels and artists have invested in social media, betting that a steady stream of artist content and influencer campaigns will engineer virality. The theory is simple: virali...

Shoutout to MIDiA research just casually dropping an incredibly valuable study on how people consume music on social media today 🤳 www.midiaresearch.com/reports/all-...

Sweet! I get a lot of DMs elsewhere so ideally I'd like to keep bluesky closed. You don't have any public portfolio anywhere?

Hello hello! Thanks for the reply! Before doing any mockups, do you have a link to a portfolio site I might look at which shows some of your previous work? Ideally anything in the general realm of UI or interface design. Seems like you have a broad skill set!

Shoot me your portfolio if interested! Check out the Noise Dept site for the Serum 1 skin design if curious about the direction. (See first post for images of that)

Keep in mind that custom skins arent officially supported yet, so the dynamic parts of Serum 2 can't change. That stuff is locked behind a json file that isn't exposed to developers yet. But that's the easy part. The hard part is putting a new spin on the PNG graphics.

Anyone in #designsky or #producersky have recommendations for a talented GUI designer who wants to take on a reskin of Serum 2?

A truly tedious project (so much so that someone already bailed) but it's in demand. I get asked about a Noise Dept style skin a lot since we did S1.

And we have budget!

When I first started covering songs in the "argent metal" style I knew something about it was different then every other metal music I had heard before but I didnt know what it was. Today, I think the answer is about what those soundtracks were trying to accomplish - we just came along for the ride.

Correction - I didn't make up that term, it was someone in my YouTube comments. I just platformed it and it took hold as a memorable phrase over time. I even see companies using it in their ads which is wild.

There's a fine line between "hybrid" music and argent metal - I made up a term relating to @mick-gordon.com figuring out where synths and recorded metal overlap so that people who enjoy it have a term to hold onto. But sometimes I wonder if being eternally stuck to doom was the wrong call.

Argent metal is electronic music and FX mastery disguised as metal. That's why it's so hard for everyone to nail it. (I'm still trying)

New freebie patches for Serum 2 - a collection of 7 super powerful "glitch sound" generators complete with source audio. Use it for the built-in sounds or use it as a template for your own unique source material! (Demo video coming to Instagram tomorrow)

thenoisedept.com/pages/free

#producersky

Really liking this new freebie synth library full of source recordings of Deckard's Dream - Jason Graves and team knocked it out of the park sulcatasound.com/sounds/p/rep...

Almost done with a new serum preset pack for Noise Dept. This has nothing to do with it but it was a fun mistake.

Don't Pay The Boatman - DOOM The Dark Ages Inspired Song (Argent Metal) YouTube video by GeoffPlaysGuitar

I made a song inspired by my favorite sequence in #doomthedarkages #musicsky #producersky

More synth drum tests 👇

Testing out the early stages of drum kit pieces that I synthesized from scratch 👇

Some adventures from this week: ableton Tension into a guitar pedal 👇

(Poster) Original Campaign Soundtrack. Veil of the Eternal Night - Music by Geoffrey Day. Additional music by Si Rutherford. QuasiReal Publishing.

Out now on all platforms 🦇
Veil of the Eternal Night Original Campaign Soundtrack - a collection of orchestral and metal themes inspired by Castlevania and written for the MythCraft TTRPG experience.

geoffplaysguitar.bandcamp.com/album/veil-o...

#ttrpgsky #vgmsky #musicsky

I've got a bunch of new fantasy & metal music on the way - see ya on Thursday #musicsky #musiciansky #producersky #ttrpgsky

Another cpu-melting patch from today

23 effects total - distortion stacks doing the heavy lifting

Built this MG style patch using #serum2 - getting pumped for the new doom game