Product Description

Learn Trance Music Production 10X Faster with ‘Adam Ellis 26 Hour Trance Production Tutorial‘, a brand new tutorial by 7x Beatport Number 1 Producer Adam Ellis. In this unique offering, Adam gives you a 26-hour trance production session in video, showing you a multitude of advanced production tricks.

In the 26+ hour-long studio session video, you will be able to watch Adam Ellis work on his remix of ‘Armin Van Buuren – Sound Of Goodbye‘. You will see plenty of tricks about all aspects of trance music production, from arrangement to sound selection to mixing, automation, and workflow improvement. The tutorial is divided into 14 sections (each one between 1 and 3 hours long).

IMPORTANT: Please note this tutorial doesn’t start at the beginning of the production process. The track is already started, and Adam Ellis builds on the existing base in the videos to end up with the finished remix.

IMPORTANT: Please note the audio demo doesn’t contain the original vocal for copyright purposes.

Who is the Adam Ellis 26 Hour Trance Production Tutorial for?

This tutorial is for artists who want to work faster and improve their sound at the same time. It’s aimed at Logic Pro X users, but the tricks you will learn can also be applied in other DAWs. This tutorial will cover every step of music production and will develop your skills when applied correctly.

Video Tutorial Contents

In each of the 14 parts of the tutorial, Adam works on various aspects of the remix and improves upon the previous parts. That being said, each part focuses on a specific area of the production process, as described below:

• Part 1 : Starting with an existing base and improving the structure (2 hours 12 minutes). IMPORTANT: Please note this tutorial doesn’t start at the beginning of the production process. The track is already started, and Adam Ellis builds on the existing base in the videos to end up with the finished remix.
• Part 2 : Basslines & Atmospheres (3 hours 23 minutes)
• Part 3 : Drop & Intro (2 hours 10 minutes)
• Part 4 : Transitions & Automation (1 hour 58 minutes)
• Part 5 : Acids & Vocal Chops (2 hours 07 minutes)
• Part 6 : Vocals, Plucks & Pads (2 hours)
• Part 7 : Leads (1 hour 32 minutes)
• Part 8 : Leads (2 hours)
• Part 9 : Sub Bass (2 hours 2 minutes)
• Part 10 : Finishing up the arrangement (1 hour 58 minutes)
• Part 11 : Mixdown (1 hour 59 minutes)
• Part 12 : Mixdown (1 hour 1 minute)
• Part 13 : Mixdown (1 hour 35 minutes)
• Part 14 : Finishing the mixdown (1 hour 6 minutes)

What You Will Learn

In this 26+ hours long video masterclass, Adam will show how he builds a remix starting from an existing base, improving it step by step, and ending up with a finished remix. The videos will effectively cover many different topics :

• How to improve the structure of your arrangement
• How to create layers for your sounds, select sounds & process layers
• Building counter melodies to complete your melodic section
• How to manage frequency conflicts between several layers or elements (drones & sub bass for instance)
• How to use the stereo field and panning effectively
• How to adjust the bus and channel levels when layering
• How to deal with automation on your layers
• How to create the structure of your remix easily and not get stuck
• How to make your bassline consistent with existing melodies
• How to select FX sounds & improve your transitions
• Adam’s favorite VST instruments & Effect plug-ins
• How to choose good core sounds for your leads, pads, plucks, etc.
• Using Reverb, compression, EQ, delay, distorsion etc. effectively
• How to set your track levels to improve your mix
• In which order to mix your elements together to be most effective
• Positioning vocals in the arrangement
• various tricks to work better with vocals
• Learn how to build a full pro sounding bassline for uplifting trance / driving trance
• EQing each part of your bassline separately (low pass, hi pass, surgical EQ settings)
• Using specific patterns for various parts of the bass
• Using side-chaining to clean up the mix & give a pumping effect to the bass section
• Giving each bass layer its own space in the mix
• Automating bassline parts (filters, etc.) to transition between track sections
• Learn how to increase the tension in your buildup and throughout your track
• How to make your transitions sound smoother
• How to combine different FX sounds to increase fullness
• Finding the right volume settings for your FX
• Varying FX sounds and combinations throughout the arrangement
• Processing the FX (delay, reverb, EQ, …) to make them fit in the mixdown
• Using delay and EQ automation on your FX during transitions
• Processing individual atmospheres (EQ, compression, delay)
• How to put together a complete solid trance groove
• Making correct use of claps, closed & open hats, rides, shakers, percussion & hits in your track
• Basic EQ and rules and settings for groove elements
• Chopping up percussion & vocals using audio
• Cleaning up your mix by cutting any unwanted frequencies
• Filtering in / out percussion elements to build the arrangement
• Understanding different elements & instruments of the track and when they should play
• How to create transitions with the kick (patterns, kick rolls & filter changes)
• Introducing the different elements : percussion elements / loops, bassline parts, atmospheres, FX
• Getting the sounds working together (in order to save time for the mixing stage)
• Bringing elements in smoothly (drums, basslines) with filter / EQ automations
• Making elements more interesting with panning automation & reverb automation
• Adding background atmospheres (that respond to each other) to give ambience & depth to your track

I’m using another DAW, not Logic Pro X. Can I still benefit from buying this tutorial?

Yes, you can still learn the concepts and techniques that Adam uses in his productions, and apply them in your own DAW.

About Adam Ellis

Powerful, euphoric melodies and relentless energy are only some of the illuminative qualities that Adam Ellis contains within his own special blend of euphoric Trance, and his rising reputation has become synonymous with the elite, international Trance fraternity within the last two years. Born and bred in Sheffield, England, (where the first, legendary Superclub, Gatecrasher One, was born), his humble upbringing has culminated into the quintessential underdog story where hard work and driven ambitions has ultimately brought about huge successes within his short career.

Harboring a fierce passion for music, Adam dedicated many years to music production before making his first major impact with a fantastic remix to the seminal Planet Perfecto classic, ‘Bullet In The Gun’. Adam graciously reworked the iconic hit into a modern, peak time floorfiller, and reaped huge support by the main man himself, Paul Oakenfold. Additionally, this breakthrough remix was personally selected as an exclusive addition to ‘Perfecto Records Collected – Volume Three’ mix compilation.

In the way of original productions, Adam delivered a fierce opening act with his debut single of ‘Napalm Poet’ on Kearnage Recordings in the Summer of 2013, and it quickly became a feature track in the sets of many leading artists including John O Callaghan, Bryan Kearney, Aly & Fila, Simon Patterson & Armin van Buuren, (to name a few). This was Adam’s first number 1 track on Beatport and was one of the highlights in the finale of the ASOT 600 celebrations at the Who’s Afraid Of 138?! Stage. Even today, many diehard Trance fans consider this single to be one of, (if not the best), Uplifting productions of 2013.

What followed after his success with his 2013 single debut was his Subculture premiere entitled ‘Mandarine’, which also topped the Beatport Trance Top 100 charts and was supported by Manuel Le Saux, Richard Durand, Indecent Noise and many more. Adam then went on to produce two more Top 10 singles in 2014 including his astonishing follow up from ‘Napalm Poet’ of ‘Agent Orange’, and has had nearly every single of his career played on ASOT. As far as collaborations go, Adam has worked with 2 of the leading names in the Trance scene today with Bryan Kearney & Menno De Jong and their combined might has brought about the classic remix of Conductor & The Cowboy’s ‘Feeling This Way’ and the wondrous collaborative single, ‘Solicitude’, (respectively).

He is also well known for his stellar remixes of John O Callaghan’s ‘Big Sky’, Menno De Jong’s ‘Creatures Of The Night’, and these reworks strive to further showcase his signature, Uplifting sound. Lately, his remixes to Mark Sherry’s A Star With A Star and Jordan Suckley’s Contaminated have been fantastic additions to his growing discography, and his reworks of Liam Wilson’s Kiss and Lange & Susana’s Risk Worth Taking were featured on Solarstone’s Pure Trance Vol. 3 and Lange’s We Are Happy People remixes album.

As a DJ, Adam intense vigor for the vintage sounds of Uplifting and Tech Trance has culminated into a stunning array of music that extends from iconic classics from artists such as Giuseppe Ottaviani and Aly & Fila to the latest in cutting edge Trance sounds. Fueled with fire and power, his relentless display of mighty melodies and spellbinding breakdowns have brought about amazing reception for his fans, and has allotted him certain opportunities to play at some of the world’s biggest clubs, including his recent debut at Cream, Amnesia in Ibiza, which is considered one of the biggest arenas for Trance in the world.

As one of the rare breed of producers who writes 100% of their own material without the help of engineers or ghost writers, Adam has many more projects in the works to be released on Kearnage Recordings, AVA, Damaged, Outburst, Pure Trance, Blackhole Recordings and much more. With the future looking exceptionally bright for this young underdog, the start of 2015 is only going to add fuel to the growing movement behind his music and unite them within his revitalised golden age of Trance.