I Tested Viral TikTok Producer Hacks

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MY FAVORITE PLUGINS

CHAPTERS
0:00 - hack #1: Radioooooooo
01:05 - hack #2: Cup Slide
01:44 - hack #3: Guitar Bell
02:23 - hack #4: Homemade Sitar
03:22 - hack #5: Guitar Synth
03:59 - hack #6: Choir Secret
05:01 - hack #7: Talkbox Phone
06:03 - hack #8: 10ms
07:00 - hack #9: Numbers Hack
07:33 - hack #10: Piano Hack
08:16 - hack #11: Mouth Harmonica

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[insidemk]

This guy can make a whole song out of a single note !

[diegoespinal]

Ed I wanted to take this time to thank you for the amazing RIP Speakers sound packs I love them!!!

[YartSound]

Those guitar slides with the cup really carry heavy SpongeBob SquarePants vibes 🤣🤣💯

[mofriday]

This dude always makes me laugh. So entertaining and freakishly good at coming up with song ideas. I feel his positive attitude just helps him flow with ideas so easily. Keep it up Ed!

[shehriyarlaghari]

PLEASE CONTINUE THIS SERIES, ITS SO FUNNY AND ENTERTAINING. We also learn a shit ton along the way!

[SamFocused]

To see a new upload of you makes me always happy. And with the outro you always remind me to leave the negative self talk/thoughts behind. Thank you for that. Another Great video 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[hannanathan]

2:56 that don’t sound like a sitar at all, sounds like plucks on a violin. Which is still a cool little hack! Lol. Nice video.

[TheWaddlingdead]

This dude literally makes the most fire beats I’ve ever heard in every genre and acts like it’s nothing 😂

[Costavka]

"Voice is the most powerful instrument, you can comunicate with it, it's very portable, and if you lose it... you just drink tea"
-TF2 Medic

[Bterrill]

The hack #5 beat was an absolute vibe!!!!

[ISHII]

Are you actually that excited, I can’t fathom that you are really like this irl. Your energy is seriously overwhelming.

[aaron.l.chazama]

i watch your videos on breaks from fl to motivate myself to continue. thank you ed. looking forward to eventually working with u

[delsings]

On hack 3, the first time you made the sound my brain followed with "IT'S BEEN A HARD DAYS NIGHT" 🤣🎶

[ethanrocha]

“this sounds like shit, i need so much more reverb” real

[daveninava]

3.55

That Hack Part You Made That Hack into A Trap Song

I Think That Trap Song Was Fire Man

I Love To See A Full Version Of That

And It Sound Like New Jazz To Me

[Giammitsu]

The first track is called Follia and it was recently released again in an LP called Napoli Segreta Vol.1

[penultimo]

la cosa più sconcertante di questo video è trovare un italiano che parli così bene inglese!!!! great job DUDE!!! wanna macca fukka wakka!! 😂❤

[jimwoodard]

Hack #2: My father taught me that trick with a beer bottle in 1971. A video on my channel with nearly 1/2 million views begins with the lead guitarist in my band using a still cold, wet beer bottle that someone finished off so he could play the intro to "Freebird" because he'd forgotten his slide at home and someone kept requesting the dang song in earnest. I said, "just get a beer bottle!" and we shouted out and the dude in front of us downed his fresh beer and handed it over. Didn't do bad for on the spot.

Hack #3: That's also an old trick. Nothing new under the sun. It reminds me of the pro player who says, "When playing live, you should put your guitar cable through your strap so it won't pull out." I thought, "How long have you been a pro, that's the first thing I learned when playing in a bar band in 1978!"

Hack #4: A sitar is microtonal, that's total BS.

Hack #5: Yeah, sound takes longer to reach the mic as you back up. Physics anyone? This is a producer hack for doubling and capturing room ambience for guitar parts and vocals by using 2 mics, one close and one far since forever!

Hack #6: it turns the phone into a kazoo. Again, nothing new under the sun.

Last hack: yeah, they make a wearable device already to do this properly (e.g. Bob Dylan), and you better stay on one chord if you use the hack, because it plays all of the notes at once. Garbage.

[Sleepy_zero]

That dance in at 0:28 giving my Austin power vibes 🤣

[antjamnow]

PRO TIP - CHURCH BELL:

1. Find the twelfth fret
2. Carefully cross desired strings (G and B preferred) over each other near the 12th fret
3. Using a free finger on the fretting hand, clamp pressure over the newly crossed strings - leaving around a quarter-inch gap between the overlapped strings at the 12th fret.
4. Your fretted hand now holds the starting point of the overlapping part of the strings. There's one more:
5. Lastly, visually locate where the strings create an elongated X-shape in their path-crossing.
6. With your other hand, pick or finger exactly over the X-shaped area where the strings cross.

The result is a chimey, bell-like tone with a unique over-tonal character.

BONUS. If you want to make your guitar sound like a Clarinet, simply play your fretted notes exactly 12 Frets (an octave) above your passage for each individual note. The result is a nasally, lower-mid bodied tone with a pseudo-airy quality - also like a sine wave depending on your touch and instrument.