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Bleass Shimmer! Detailed Tutorial. Winners: gsm909 and Albert Kinkujin
This video is a detailed tutorial / walkthrough of Bleass’s Shimmer, a beautiful shimmer reverb.
There are a couple of free codes available to win. Details on the youtube page
I really enjoyed making this tutorial and think it shows just how much can be done with this effect. It covers A LOT in 25 minutes. I think it is one of my best videos yet.
In the video, I look at how this sounds on vocals, guitar, percussion and piano.
On the vocals, we look at how to create massive ambient choral sounds. On percussion we look at how to use the ducking section.
On piano we look at how to create interesting arpeggiation by staggering the delay times, and also give crucial advice on how to actually get nice harmonies from the effect!
Towards the end I look at how this can be applied in real time to a longer piece of music to create beautiful harmonic effects. The guitar stem I work on in this section of the video was recorded specially for this tutorial by my friend Daniele, an Italian guitarist and guitar teacher based in China, who I have performed live with many times.
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@Gavinski Nothing about codes on the YT page other than saying they’re available...
Is this out? Scratch that. Just saw other thread.
Yup!
It is there. See the first comment, pinned to the top. Basically, you have to like, comment and subscribe, and the winners will be chosen at random 2 days from now.
Thanks! No idea why I couldn’t see that before...
Maybe I had forgotten to pin it！😋
Cool stuff - and thanks for doing this. It's much deeper than I had imagined. I learned from it and I do appreciate that.
Sweet, I didn't know about this one. I love shimmery things
@kinkujin thank you so much. A lot of time and love went into this tutorial.
@tehskwrl me too!
uuh missed your demo gone to chk now
edit; sounds lot like FAC sonically but the tweaking is more accessible it seems... and the pitchshift would be good if not quanted.. as you pointed out..
Yes Noob, this is more straightforward to dial in, I think. FAC is massive, it sounds great, but overall I prefer the Bleass so far and it has a ton of great presets whereas the FAC one only has a few.
Will definitely be interested though to hear from other people on how they rate the various Shimmers. This, Alteza and the 4Pockets one would be the main candidates.
Would you be up for doing one of your great tutorials on FAC Alteza?
That one is the most baffling of the Shimmers for me.
I think it is the unfamiliar parameter names, possibly.
I'm actually playing around with it right now, I might end up doing a comparison between those reverbs but I really don't know if I'll have time. Have you read the documentation on his site? 😝
If you don't have time for a comparison, I'd still be interested in your thoughts about the two! I was just about to climb down the fence for Alteza until this BLEASS was released today. Choosing apps never gets any easier
Sure thing. I'll need a bit of time to compare them more. I'm sure in the meantime there are hopefully others who can give an opinion. You like deep stuff, I imagine you would enjoy Alteza a lot. You'd like the complexity of it, I'd say.
I guess always thought shimmer would be too 'big' of an effect to be useful, so I never really used it much before. But the track at the end of your tutorial put it in good context, that it can be dialed back and still leave space for other instruments.
Also, I'm a bit embarrassed to say I don't have any FAC apps yet! I'm eyeing 4 of them incredibly closely, but I've heard nothing but praise for Frederic.
Yeah, I have.
But still it is a strange one, compared to the other relatively straightforward shimmerers.
If you ain’t up to it, no problem. 😛
the things alteza can do are unworldly and very complex , id say you can master it within an hour of just strait messing around and reading the manual..it seems harder than it is when you look over it but really its just ways to creating shimmering soundscapes with a few knobs
Sounds good to me.
I will give it another go.
🤙🏻
def do i may try to drop a little video if i get a little time but im def no video maker haha so it’ll be unedited sloppery 🤣
@reasOne please do 😝. And yes, I totally agree, a quick read of the manual, which isn't long, and a bit of experimentation and you're good to go with Alteza. There are a lot of rewards to be hard playing with the feedback and diffusion knobs, also the all pass filter numbers (which people wouldn't even notice, perhaps, can be adjusted, if they haven't read the manual).
One big advantage of the Bleass one is that the ducker just works right out of the box. It doesn't require any setup as the Alteza one does.
Just on sound quality alone, Alteza is probably the winner among the three main shimmer apps.
i do want to get bleass shimmer but my so back log is long right now haha. hopefully in a few weeks i’ll grab it! your video makes it hard to resist
Thank you! @reasOne
Yeah, if you have Alteza and are used to dialing it in, I'm sure you can pass, at least until that fateful day, probably just round the corner, when that 'I need a new app to play with' itch strikes hard
haha man it is always lurking right there ready to strike 🤣 i have a long list going.
i have every bleass app tho other than shimmer cuz they are a top development team and alpha is one of my absolute favorite synths.
I got Alpha recently too, enjoying a lot.
Continuing to experiment with the differences between Alteza and the Bleass Shimmer. Have to say that I find the knobs on Alteza very very fiddly to work with. It is quite hard to dial in the pitch I want without a lot of faffing about.
+1 was trying to talk myself out of Bleass but the sounds that I've heard from it make it worth getting. Going to fiddle with alteza some today and see if I can find something musical and not soundscapey out of it.
Gsm909 won the code (not sure if they are a member here or not, this info is also posted on the youtube page), Congrats!
And also: Albert Kinkujin
Hey now, I'm a winner! I'm gonna tell my kids that staying in school paid off. Thanks Gavinski!