Oak Felder

Used for frequency specific sidechaining, as demonstrated with Demi Lovato's "Sorry Not Sorry" in this Splice feature at 1:20.

So, 808 and kick together. Here's the thing about that, though. 808 and your kick are gonna have a lot of frequencies that are like, sort of jamming with each other. The way that I combat that is that I use this plugin called Surfer EQ. And basically you're telling the 808 to duck the right frequencies of the 808 out when the kick is occurring. Now with a regular sidechain, you're ducking the whole signal, the whole 808 is gone. But you don't want that because while the kick is there, you just want to eliminate the frequencies that are problematic.

In a video by Sound On Sound magazine, Oak Felder discusses using Native Instruments Guitar Rig 6 while recording Demi Lovato's "Sorry Not Sorry."

The 808 was used for Demi Lovato's "Sorry Not Sorry", as stated at 1:16 of this Splice feature.

Now this particular 808 came from the Lex Luger kit in Splice.

Earlier in the video, Felder describes how the 808 got the song started.

I sat down and I pulled up this really, like, flowery pretty-ass piano, then started playing this gospel progression and I'm not getting any type of response from her. She's just like... [imitates disinterested expression] Lookin' at her phone. [laughs] I'm like, alright, uh... Try something else. So I pulled up an 808 that I got off of the Splice website. I just started playing the chord progression that I had initially started playing, but the root note of that chord progression with that 808. And the moment I did that, it's like, y'know, everybody's eyes sorta lit up, it's like "Yeah, yeah! Like that! Exactly!" And... it was literally that and a snap from... also from Splice, from the IQ kit. But ultimately, that 808 and that snap is what started that production and, honestly that's what most of that song was written to."

It is worth noting that this video preceded Splice's Lex Luger: The Sequel by two weeks.

In a video by Sound On Sound magazine titled "Oak Felder - Recording Demi Lovato's 'Sorry Not Sorry'," Oak Felder discusses using Spectrasonics Keyscape during the recording process.

In a video by Sound On Sound magazine, Oak Felder discusses using the Slate Digital Virtual Mix Rack 2.0 Channel Strip Plugin while recording Demi Lovato's "Sorry Not Sorry."

In a video interview with Sound On Sound magazine, Oak Felder discusses using the Waves C4 Multiband Compressor while recording Demi Lovato's "Sorry Not Sorry."

https://youtu.be/Kre17S89-j8

In a video by Sound On Sound magazine, Oak Felder discusses using Splice Sounds while recording Demi Lovato's "Sorry Not Sorry."

In a Splice video titled "How Demi Lovato & Oak Felder made 'Sorry Not Sorry' from royalty-free samples," Oak Felder discusses using Spectrasonics Omnisphere 2.8 in the production process.

In a YouTube video by Splice titled "How Demi Lovato & Oak Felder made 'Sorry Not Sorry' from royalty-free samples," Oak Felder is seen using the Xfer Serum Advanced Wavetable Synthesizer during the production process.

In a YouTube video by Splice, Oak Felder discusses using the Slate Digital Virtual Console Collection (VCC) while producing Demi Lovato's "Sorry Not Sorry."

In a YouTube video by Splice, Oak Felder discusses using the Sonnox Oxford TransMod plugin while producing Demi Lovato's track "Sorry Not Sorry" from royalty-free samples.

In a YouTube video by Splice titled "How Demi Lovato & Oak Felder made 'Sorry Not Sorry' from royalty-free samples," Oak Felder is shown using Native Instruments Battery 4.

In a video by Sound On Sound magazine titled "Oak Felder - Recording Demi Lovato's 'Sorry Not Sorry,'" producer Oak Felder discusses using the Antares Auto-Tune Evo Pitch Correcting Plugin in the recording process.

In a video by Sound On Sound magazine titled "Oak Felder - Recording Demi Lovato's 'Sorry Not Sorry'," Oak Felder is shown using the Waves C1 Compressor/Gate plugin.

In a video by Sound On Sound magazine, Oak Felder discusses using the Eiosis Air EQ while recording Demi Lovato's "Sorry Not Sorry."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD1tIcDlunE

In a video by Sound On Sound magazine titled "Oak Felder - Recording Demi Lovato's 'Sorry Not Sorry'," Oak Felder is shown using the Xfer Records LFOTool plugin.

In a YouTube video by Sound On Sound magazine titled "Oak Felder - Recording Demi Lovato's 'Sorry Not Sorry'," Oak Felder discusses using the Dada Life Sausage Fattener Plugin in his production process.

Oak Felder is confirmed to use the Waves IDX Intelligent Dynamics plugin, as demonstrated in a video released by Waves Audio, which showcases this new plugin being used by various producers and audio engineers.

In the video by Sound On Sound magazine titled "Oak Felder - Recording Demi Lovato's 'Sorry Not Sorry'," Oak Felder is observed using Antares Auto-Tune Pro at the 28:59 mark, as he demonstrates its application in his track.

In the video titled "Oak Felder - Recording Demi Lovato's 'Sorry Not Sorry'" produced by Sound On Sound magazine, Warren "Oak" Felder is shown using the Apple Logic Compressor plug-in at 0:25 during his music production process, and he further utilizes it again at 38:14. He states:

This is my salt and pepper. I use it on each and very single track. It's super transparent.