Kings Way music library created by Grammy Award winner Frank Dukes one of the most recognized music libraries when it comes to sampling creating hits like Drake 0 to 100 to Kendrick Lamar's levitate in today's video I'm going to show you the correct way to make Kings Way quality samples just like Frank Dukes Frank has mentioned many times that he was inspired by the analog sounds of the' 60s and the 70s he even said he based it on this era but like to give it a modern twist so how does he achieve his sound I notice a few things with Frank samples he keeps things simple and doesn't over complicate it he mixes his sounds in all different types of reverbs and he puts a majority of his sounds in mono so that brings me on to the guitar layers Frank has mentioned he owns many guitars from Fender to Gibson to Hoffner and he runs his guitars into this recording chain he uses a town and sphere microphone so I found one similar use this DN 57 that I noticed in this picture and he runs it through the API 512 preamp and the closest I had was the 560 from waves and he mentions the j37 is his favorite tape saturation we emulated the 60s and 70s very well let's listen to the sounds that I ran through this chain without any effects [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] on I started by laying two fender Stratosphere guitars as Frank uses in this picture so use his Strat aaster [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] which I ran through this Fender Twin Reverb amp which was really common in the 60s and 70s and I run it through tube compression just to make it leveled out and then some EQ just to get rid of the harsh frequencies then I layered this with the second Stratosphere guitar but a lower octave and I run this for the Stark amp to give it a different density for the room size and the decay of the Reverb then I eqed out a lot of highs and lows so it was squashed in and as you can see I left these guitars pretty much mono just like Frank does in this photo you can see Frank owns a lespol guitar which was heavily used in the 60s so he used his ample lesp guitar and just played a single note [Music] [Applause] [Music] I noticed Frank likes to make his sounds glitching unique so I ran it through this stock amp again with guitar pedals to get this unique sound I use this heavy vibr delay and chorus and you can see I've boxed it in a small room so it's in a different position of the mix so together they now sound like this [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] next was Defender jazz bass guitar this was used a lot by George Harrison in the 70s and you can even see in this video Frank fingerpicking this guitar so I found this ample Bas J and you can see here I've set it the finger [Music] picking believe the base was fine out it was so I just took out some highs and I noticed a lot in the bases of Frank samples it had and some noise so on this j37 just brought the noise level up as Frank States and seen in this photo uses his Hammond Organ with a Leslie speaker so I use this B fre organ from analog lab and you can see here I've set the fast on the rotary speaker and that just gives it that nice swirling effect and then I've added a subtle spring reverb just to bring it to [Music] [Music] life so again I ran it through this j37 just to bring it live tape saturate it next is the drums and I know Frank likes to use live drum sounds from his drum kit he has stated that he records a kick snares high hats through all different microphones but I noticed in his samples he doesn't really have drums so I use his Fairfax drum kit from Addictive Drums and as I said he doesn't really use these in the foreground so I've eqed out so it's a more texture and then I've just made the drums Tighter by using this compression lastly the vocals I noticed Frank uses his own voice to make harmonies throughout his samples so I layered two vocals on top of each [Music] other he mentions again that he uses for his vocal chain towns in microphones so again I've used that and then all I've done is just eqed out some highs and lows and as you can see here for the two separate vocals I have one that's boxed in and one that's spatial so it's just filling it in and again as Frank does likes to make it monor so now let's take a listen to the full sample [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] so we learned a lot from Frank he likes to keep it simple and play sounds in the right sections so yeah I hope you enjoyed this video people my multi kit is coming real soon so yeah I'll see you in the next one