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1. 1:04 - No gain staging 2. 7:15 - Sending too hot of a signal to the mix bus 3. 9:40 - Mixing at super high sample rates

@stephenward2743

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers, had this video on 2x haha

@LandoniusX

5 жыл бұрын

You are a beautiful person.

@joelonsdale

5 жыл бұрын

Brilliant. That'll do. No need to watch now.

@andypaterson1639

5 жыл бұрын

Perfect. Should be in the description 😉

@4partmedia

5 жыл бұрын

@@joelonsdale first time ever seeing someone put in timestamps, eh? 🤦🏽‍♂️

Another HUGE mistake many make. Don't keep adding treble to everything to clarify it. Remove the mud around 400-600 hz and you'll be surprised how that clears it up and does not wind up so brittle sounding in your mix. Often times what you remove is more important than what you add, not to mention, a lot of energy is in that region which leaves more overall headroom when you are gain staging. But most important of all, Listen! Removing TOO much is not good either because you will lose warmth. It is indeed a balancing act. Again, pay attention to what you are hearing.

@GreatBurningNullifier

5 жыл бұрын

@Aiden Macleod What a stupid thing to say, boosting has it's place you just have to know what you're doing and what you're going for.

@GreatBurningNullifier

5 жыл бұрын

@Aiden Macleod Big words coming from the guy that says to never boost with EQ. The way how you contradict yourself is incredible and unbearable.

@RobKMusic

5 жыл бұрын

EQ is everything. Get a GREAT sounding mix in mono using EQ before spacializing or adding anything else... your mixes will KILL.

@GreatBurningNullifier

5 жыл бұрын

​@Aiden Macleod Right back at you dude, don't give up, keep pushing, you can get that worthless degree; in the mean time, keep believing internet myths like never boosting and such. The only douche bag here is you coming here with your nonsense and myths like if you are some kind of George Martin. Don't spread your bullshit pseudo-knowledge.

@tihomir7

5 жыл бұрын

All you smart engineers technicians etc. Man said don't keep adding treble to EVERYTHING to clarify mix!!! Sometimes its beter to remove mud which is somewhere between 400 and 600 Hz. Even lower. It brings more dynamic to mix. And you have to decide what freqs to add to what and what to remove to what. If you have "boxy" vocal, you won't save it by adding trebble freqs. You have to find that "boxy " freqs to make vocal clearer. And so on for acoustic guitar and other instruments. Then you'll get mor headroom for mastering and finally get master much louder without loosing dynamics... When you stink you Won't get rid of it with perfume. You have to wash yourself and then put the perfume on

i think these excessive gain issues are from the conditioning that many of us received from recording on tape, where you actually benefitted from as hot a signal as you could get before clipping. The beauty of digital is; you can get away with much lower volumes and still retain the quality of a hot recording, thus leaving you plenty of headroom for signal processing....thanks again man, great stuff!

THANK YOU for talking about gain staging. So much nonsense going around that it's not important. Thank you for another great video :)

@bobbyhamiltoniii4578

5 жыл бұрын

Hey i love you videos too

@chromaticsamples7788

5 жыл бұрын

yes very much

@abaddon416

5 жыл бұрын

I don’t even have FL Studio but I love Michael’s content and explanation to recording which you don’t need FL to implement. Thank you for your contribution as well Michael! 👍

@xaosnox

5 жыл бұрын

Who says it's not important? It's a must! You literally can't play a song through a DAW if things aren't gain staged. It will stop playback if there is to much sound pressure. Purestgain from Airwidows goes on every track, buss, folder, VCA and Master buss in every project. I rarely even use the track sliders in the DAW any more. I just put the Purestgain controls on the track and use those unless I'm lazy. The sound difference vs. a standard gain plugin is noticable after about 20 tracks.

@user-gg1vf8ko9s

5 жыл бұрын

Aiden Macleod disagree, you also need a bulk of rockwool in your room for good mix))

I’ve been following you for little while, but I just want to say I really love your videos. You go into so much depth without getting off topic and rambling. Thanks for all the info you share

Happy Christmas!! Thanks Graham for posting this and encouraging so many people to record and make music!

@tendegrees8835

5 жыл бұрын

You just gotta love these guys. :)

@Producelikeapro

5 жыл бұрын

He's a great guy! Really helps so many people!

@tendegrees8835

5 жыл бұрын

@@ProducelikeaproYou guys both are! I have incorporated so many of your techniques in my album recordings.

@Producelikeapro

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Ten Degrees that’s wonderful to hear my friend!! You Rock! Happy New Year!!

@thedevilsadvocate5210

4 жыл бұрын

Then you can take your music and let spotify steal it from you

I recently started applying steps 1 and 2 when I found out what they were. Never had a problem with 3. Thanks Graham.

Happy Holidays, and as always so much great information in your tutorials, and it's those little things. Never too late to develop better skills, Thanks Graham! Never stop making the world better through music! Stay Groovy1

great advise! I've been doing this for a very long time but your simple advice still ring as a gold standard. It gave me a confirmation of what I suspected all these time. Keep doing the good things!

Great video as always Graham! Keep up the good work.

Thanks Graham, I'm glad you covered this topic. You've really helped me put some clarity and a better understanding in my mixes.

Thanks for this, particularly the first two. I deal with audio from multiple sources often and struggle with levels all the time. So, hearing you state the obvious gave me some guidelines. Cheers.

The way he says 'hey friend' at the start makes me know I'm in the right place.

@xavierbucknor5117

5 жыл бұрын

Adriano Murgia so true my friend

@Hxtspot

5 жыл бұрын

Facts

@MartianMoon

5 жыл бұрын

lol when he said “hope you’re having a musical week” I was like oh wow I’ve never heard anybody say that, thank you Hahahaha

@RecordedByKyle

5 жыл бұрын

Bob ross kinda vibe lmao

Thank you Graham! Just applied those basic rules to my latest project and it sounded infinitely better! Never really took the time to understand it all before. Great video, clear and straight to the point.

I can't thank you enough for your excellent information I have in fact made all of these mistakes and wonder why all my mixes sound terrible thank you so much keep up the good work you're awesome

THanks a lot! Immediately remixed my most recent project with these tips and it fixed all the problems I was banging my head off the wall for!

You've made it clear talking about mixing in 44.1 kHz. Such a great point!

This is GREAT!! Recently got back into music/production, these are things I didn't know that save time instead of a lot of trial and error. I was working to hard on the end process trying to get the "right sound", when I could have corrected it at the beginning. Good to know. I knew nothing about gain staging before today!!

Hey Graham thank you for sharing these great tips! I know I have made these mistakes many of times!!! Definitely changing how I record and how I mix thanks so much man!!!

Hey Graham! Thanks for all the tips! I really appreciate how you just cut thru all the finicky things that don’t make a huge difference, that most of the online arguments are around. Lol. Amazing, practical stuff, and have been following for a long time. Cheers!

The sample rate tip was huge to me, I never knew that before. Keep up the great tips I always refer back to you every mix!👍

This was SO helpful.. Excellent advice.. 👍

Great points and thanks for making them.

Thank you so much for this incredibly helpful video! I've been playing music for many years and have recorded mic'd with all analog gear in the past but I'm really new to recording through a DAW and was struggling with some of the issues you've addressed here. So thank you very much!

Great video, thanks for this information! It's funny how the same information, provided at just the right time, makes all the difference to how you understand a task.

Thank’s for your GREAT videos! 🌞👍🎶💥

went back to my first real practice mix (I'm a noob, learning by fucking up to be honest!) and went through EVERYTHING to gain stage properly. one track, one plugin at a time... what a world of difference, really brought out a lot more clarity from everything. I was able to knock a lot of the different points of compression down a bit because of it, and really opened up the sound of the song. Thanks for this!

Thanks for this one. Gain staging is not a step I was aware of until now. I did a quick hunt on how to do it in my DAW and think this will make a massive difference. Much appreciated

Love your videos! Thanks for sharing this.

Cool, thanx graham. I know this but i'm gonna go back today as i start recording my latest and be diligent. Good reminder

Thank you so much for a great video! I will take this tips to my Sunday session in my new studio :)

Graham, thanks a lot for another awesomely useful video.

I'm a beginner, but having this knowledge up front will help me to avoid mistakes going forward. Thanks for putting out these videos, subbed. I call myself a beginner because even though I started many years ago with Sonar 8.5 studio, then upgraded to Sonar X3 studio, I never put in the time and effort to really learn the software. I'd bring it up and basically fly in the dark, just figuring out the very basics of laying down a few midi tracks and vocals with some reverb. I recently downloaded Cakewalk by Bandlab and now I'm making a concerted effort to learn it. I had given it up for years because obviously if I didn't know what I was doing, the creative process would drag to a crawl. Instead of making music, I was struggling with the software to the point where it wasn't fun anymore. It's a ton to learn but I'm being patient and not trying to learn it all overnight. But every day I try to learn something new and build my knowledge base.

i haven't made music in years...finally have enough to buy a new imac...I've spent the last 6-12 months watching videos like this to figure out what I was doing wrong years before, so when I finally can start, I'll have more knowledge right away.. Thanks for making this video....

This is the first time I've posted here, but I've been watching your videos for several years now. This is one of the top sources for very concise instruction for mixers, whether they are experienced or just learning the skill. I consider myself closer to the latter. I would like to address the last issue, Sample rate. In my limited experience (I mean that sincerely), I have the understanding that sample rate is like pixels in digital photograph. So the more 'pictures' that you take of one second of music, the more accurate the digital representation of the analogue source. For mixing, 44.1k is plenty and you will probably never hear (some say that they can) a difference. But... One of the issues that comes up in my little recording world is dealing with some singers who don't sing accurately; so pitch correction is needed. This, I believe, is where 'more samples' benefit. If you have a higher sample rate, you can more accurately correct pitches. This could also apply to alignment. And a big one is creating harmonies from a melody vocal. I do this a lot. I use Cubase (newest full version), which has an amazing pitch correction feature. But for building harmonies, I always use Melodyne Studio. I find when using higher sample rates, there are less artifacts; there's almost never none; but for harmony, they aren't noticeable. So, I'm of the mind that one of the purposes for higher sample rates are for things like this. The actual mixing doesn't require the higher sample rate, but the editing beforehand does. So recording in a higher sample rate is, for me, to allow for more accurate editing. We don't all have singers that can do the job, especially if they are going to home studios owned by newbies like me. So everything is recorded, edited, mixed and mastered in the high sample rate and only after mastering is it re-sampled that dithered. Right now, I have been recording at 88.2k and have been for over ten years, but my reason had more to do with the computer's math co-processors only having to divide by two to lessen the load on the cpu. I don't know anything about this stuff, but it sounded logical. But those days are long gone; computer power and OS,s are a none issue now, at least for audio recording. We now have super fast computers and inexpensive large storage. I'm going to move up to 96k in the new year if only to be able to cut it in half for video tracks, which are, as mentioned in the comments, the sample rate for video. All of this is just my accumulation of knowledge put into my recording practices. If I have misunderstood any of this, please let me know and I look forward to hearing about it. So Merry Christmas to you and yours, since it's been a year since you posted this and it's that time again. Holiday wishes to all.

It would be impossible to stress enough how important gain staging is. I used to make that mistake constantly. I get people to ask me to help them fix a mix who have a bunch of fuzzy black rectangles for files a ton. Their eyes invariably light up when they see how much that one tiny step did to improve the ability of a track to breathe properly.

Thank you, this was really useful for me. Love your videos

I agree - just like a good song, I haven't heard a mix musical enough in years to warrant a high sample rate. Thanks for the tips!

nice presentation. love the optics.. super job!

Excellent! Thank you.

Bro. I learned so much by this one video. I had no choice but to subscribe. Thanks for the info.

Yep, I agree. Great advice. I have definitely been recording too hot. I felt in my gut that I could record lower but I had this stigma of recording with headroom but just barely. New sub sir.

Great video again. Thanks Graham!

good information. Thanks for sharing.

It's useful to hear what you say about the sample rate when mixing, for just getting on with arranging and mixing, as well as clarifying points on track levels. Nice one.

You’re a good man. Thanks for sharing this

Very helpful, concise tutorial, great work, helped me indeed.

Thanks for this and seasons greetings to you and yours also my friend.

Love your stuff brother 🤩🤩

Great video! thanks for the knowledge

Great Video Thanks For The Tip

very helpful. thank you! I have been making mistakes 1 & 2.. NO MORE! :) cheers!

Wow, this was just what I needed! I'm a new engineer and this was extremely beneficial!

I agree with everything regarding the Sample Rate with keeping in mind that most people are doing their stuff in a homestudio environment or just working at a small professional level. If I'd go in a bigger studio with a major project I'd want at least the 96khz Sample Rate. There is a (small) audiophile market that wants to be served, too. Personally I work with 48 khz and I'm totally fine with that. I'm even considering getting back to 44.1 khz just for the performance gain.

Perfect video and perfect tips

Higher sample rates don't mean "smoother" audio representation! This is a common misunderstanding of digital audio which isn't always that intuitive. Sample rate dictates the highest frequency you can record. Humans can hear up to 20 kHz at best so we don't need to record frequencies higher than that. Sample rate must be at least twice as large and that's why 44.1 kHz is enough for human ears. Higher sample rates do not increase fidelity. The sampling theorem says you can reproduce the signal 100 % as long as the sampling rate is at least twice the highest frequency in your signal. DACs create "smooth" analog signal from the sample points regardless of the sample rate. Higher sample rate means redundance in this sense. 88.2 kHz sample rate is not 2 times "smoother" than 44.1 kHz, it is the same fidelity defined twice. Somebody telling you twice you won the lottery for $5 million doesn't mean you won $10 million! 44.1 kHz sampling rate already defines the sounds we humans can hear with 100 % accuracy. That's the power of digital audio and something a lot of people do not understand well because it goes against our intuition. Similarly bit depth doesn't define fidelity in the way many think. When dithering is used correctly, bit depth defines only the level of the noise floor. For every additional bit, the noise floor drops 6.0206 dB so that theoretically 24 bit allows about 48 dB lower noise floor compared to 16 bit. However, 16 bit already allows over 90 dB of dynamic range and when shaped dither is used, well over 100 dB of perceptual dynamic range. In consumer music no more than about 80 dB of dynamic range is need. This means 16 bit digital audio already gives more dynamic range than we need. In music listening 24 bit is total overkill, but very useful in music production because audio levels aren't optimized. So, 24 bits when producing music, and 16 bits when listening to it. So why does your DAC sound different with different sampling rates? The most important reason is expectation bias. You expect higher sample rate to sound better so that's how you hear it. Simple placebo effect. It's amazing how much our expectations affect how we hear things. Careful blind test removes this aspect. Differences in audio tend to disappear in blind listening tests. Another reason is that your DAC really creates different analog sound from different sample rates. The difference is real, but it doesn't mean the higher sample rate version has more fidelity. It means there is a difference, two interpretations of the signal. There are perhaps slight differencies in high frequency phase response, but that doesn't mean difference in fidelity. Your DAC giving the best sound at 192 kHz is not because 192 kHz has more fidelity than lower sample rates. It's because your DAC has the most pleasing imperfections to your ears at that sample rate, who knows maybe because of expectation bias? Summary: - digital audio allows 100 % fidelity within the frequency and dynamic range limits. - sample rate defines the highest frequency we can have in the recording. - bit depth defines the level of the noise floor (dynamic range). - 44.1 kHz sampling rate is enough for humans. Do you hear above 16 kHz? - 16 bits is more than enough in music listening. - 24 bits is beneficial in music production because levels aren't optimized. - be aware of expectation bias.

@lucas82396

5 жыл бұрын

In regards to sample rate. I was always taught that you should be recording at 96kHz (or better if you choose to do so). The reasoning behind this is while working with outboard equipment (consoles, comps, eqs, etc.) you are not recieving a max frequency of 20khz. You are recieving whatever frequency that specific gear is outputting which is not a perfect sine wave. Just because you can't hear it does not mean it is not there. Recording at a higher sample rate creates redundancy (as I believe you stated, on mobile. Difficult to check lol) to help ensure you don't have any aliasing. For anyone who reads this and doesn't know, aliasing is when a recorded sound has a higher frequency than the sample rate can properly capture (divide the chosen sample rate by 2. This gives the highest possible frequency you can record with little to no problems). The effects are frequencies that playback incorrectly like a constant hum that is not there and not caused by your equipment rather caused because there happened to be a frequency higher then the sample rate can handle. IMO if you exclusively operate within your DAW I do find it a bit useless to record above 44.1k or 48 since you won't be using any outboard gear, or very minimal if you do. Aliasing is also another reason why many monitors say they can playback sound at much higher frequencies then you can hear.

@aceyage

5 жыл бұрын

Some plugins don't oversample. And that can be obvious. Not just very subtle, but very audible. So you need to test them on your low sampling rate and your high sample rate to make sure there isn't any difference.

@keensoundguy6637

5 жыл бұрын

"The sampling theorem says you can reproduce the signal 100 %...." -- Nyquist was speaking in the mathematical realm. At some point we must deal with a host of problems in different disciplines when entering the realm of physical implementation.

@moe47988

5 жыл бұрын

@Joseph Winett That dude uses strawman arguments and sine waves in his examples. Sine waves don't have harmonics, audio is more complicated than his tests.

@Yingwe

5 жыл бұрын

Radio Sound is the best source for human hearing tho , try to listen ( flac ) has higher mb compared to mp3 ( smaller file ) has less quality sound compared to wav ( so obvious)

Great video.....I've been guilty of all those things....sheesh! Thanks for sharing this.

Thanks for making knowledgeable the difference between (in gain) and (out fader) I got this knob on my DAW never figured out the purpose of this feature unless your video make it clear in one click. Thanks. Now new frontier is open..yeah just simple as that. I struggled with that problem and never had a clue to solve it.

Great Video!...Thanks Graham.

Thanks Graham! Love from Italy

Thanks,This was very helpful.

good tips. I do my own gain staging from the sound design, I always stay in the green on the mixdown and give 8 db headroom for the master, and I do use 48k/24 bit when exporting.

When it matters, many good plug-ins offer an option called 'oversampling' which effectively lets you work in a 44k session, but flip a switch when it's time to export/bounce/render the audio, which tells it to basically calculate at 96k under the hood when oversampling is on. This rarely matters unless you have a specific problem that you are trying to solve. For what it is worth, to my ears the best sounding guitar effects processor I have ever owned (Digidesign Eleven Rack) sounds like a buzzsaw at any setting other than 96k!

Makes sense to leave headroom for mastering. I'm going to try that. I always went for maximum volume before mastering. Although mastering didn't make it clip, it did limit how much mastering I could add to it.

Thankyou sir this tutorial is very helpful... God bless...

Great video. Thank you. Simple, to the point. Newer people like me need videos like this. Just a simple concept like "headroom" was not clear to me until I saw this. :-)

For about 10 years I didn´t take care of gainstageing at all and always had critiques like " I hear a hiss on the vocals", " Something is causing distortion" etc.. These days, and in particular after joining Graham´s Mixing University, my mixes get a proper gainstageing and...BOOM... they sound better!!!

@recordingrevolution

5 жыл бұрын

Pumped to have you as a student!

@thedevilsadvocate5210

5 жыл бұрын

Maybe you just got better at recording after ten years some people do

@HenryMittnacht

5 жыл бұрын

@@thedevilsadvocate5210 Yes, hopefully for sure! But some things I always just did wrong I now do right ;-)

@xaosnox

5 жыл бұрын

How could you not gain stage? Most of the stems I get will keep a DAW from playing them back for more than a few seconds before they stop playback to avoid overloading the system.

Nice track.. really loved it.. i am sure will be a hit once out..

Merry Christmas friend!

I finally understand gain staging. Thank you! 👍

Wow I just learned something huge. I have been gain staging all of my tracks on the mixer. Never knew that that was after the plugins...wow! Thanks Graham!

@omarrandall6477

4 жыл бұрын

Me too

Hi Graham. Quick pointer on the the Waves SSL Channelstrip. The fader is output not the input. The switch is only for the metering. Also the input knob adds saturation to the sound (not a drastic amount but still) So I tend to use clip again for the input, the input knob if the compressor doesn't have much to grab on to, and the output fader to balance out the processing. Essentially what you said, but the fader thing I had to point out just in case.

@recordingrevolution

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for pointing that out!

@RoseGoldSound

5 жыл бұрын

@@recordingrevolution You're welcome. Thank you for all the great content you put out over the years !

@xaosnox

5 жыл бұрын

The saturation is WHY people use an emulation of a channel strip like the SSL, though UAD's is the only emulation that sounds like the real thing. The Waves emulation just makes noise, and the Slate Digital is only slightly better. Still, they do as a touch of analog feel, but not the warm richness and truly harmonic analog distortion that the real hardware or the UAD adds. If you're not wanting the saturation, you're much better using FabFilter EQ and compression. Even if you do want the analog feel, many would argue you're better off using the FF plugins with the opto compression in Pro-Q2 and Saturn for saturation. In any case, there is no point in using an SSL emulation if you're avoiding the manufacturer"s attempt to sound like the real strip AFAICT. Especially the Waves version. We ought to all be boycotting Waves anyway, as they are an Israeli company who steals technology, often markets snake oil plugins with trendy names endorsing them just to grab a few bucks from naive young audio engineers who want a magic button, and support the racist, apartheid Israeli regime that commits more war crimes against humanity and war crimes in a week than any other country"s government's commit during the entirety of their existence. Also, their plugins rightly belong to the American tax payer, side they pay for whatever R&D they don't steal with billions in foreign aid that never gets repaid. We ought to not just be boycotting them, but freely distributing their entire library to the American tax payers to whom they belong.

@thedevilsadvocate5210

4 жыл бұрын

@@xaosnox Just say you don't like a plugin. Nevermind the anti semitic rant

Great advice/pointers fellow human ! I appreciated especially your "controversial" thought about sample rates ... some of the best records in history were made on analogue machines that dont come close to as intricate and multifaceted as we have with our DAWS and amazing array of 21st century recording tools/options ... like good coaches in Basketball keep saying 'keep it simple' ... simplicity executed with great merit always goes further than gimmicks and shortcuts/complications.

Very helpful!!! Thank you!!!

Many thanks. Very helpful.

Really helpful information. Greeting from Norway

@recordingrevolution, you have a very good point at 10:00 and I go beyond that: the same applies for bitrate! If you let your whole project in 16 bits, the plugins still providing 24, 32 and even 64 bits in their outputs. I agree that in mixing phase you will be listening at 16bits, but when you generate a mixdown file, you probably will have the option to set to 96KHz and 24bits for mastering! (at least, Sonar has) That way you still having as 24bits "like" files. That's why I still recording in 44.1KHz/16bits (as you said, the "wins" are too low), but I can count on "upsample" and "upbit" from plugins.

I argue about all 3 of these all the time. Some people just think louder is better and higher numbers are cooler. It is what it is. Great video as always!!

Thanks 🙏🏽 I never realized I never gain staged properly! All these years I thought you wanted sounds right before the clip! 😂

Very informative, thanks!

"The higher the sample rate the smoother the signal will be" This is a bit of a misconception! Based on the Nyquist-Shannon Theorem, when your Digital-Analog Converter (DAC) 'interpolates' or connects-the-dots between the samples being fed to it, it does so in a way that would be equivalent to the continuous, real-world electrical signal that existed below half the sample rate (bar aliasing, which is combated with the reconstruction filter being set a bit below half SR). The content below 22050 hz in a 44.1khz sample will be *identical* to the content below 22050 hz in a 192khz sample. One might go as high as 48khz to give the anti-aliasing/interpolation filter room to breathe and appease those who claim to have super-human hearing extending above 20khz, but going beyond that wastes processing power & storage space for no additional benefit to you or the listener. It can even be detrimental when accounting for factors like jitter. As you said, super high sample rates are unnecessary!

@aceyage

5 жыл бұрын

Tristana Wild Correct, unless your plugins don't oversample.

@tristanawild380

5 жыл бұрын

aceyage oversampling is useful for some specific DSP mathematics, especially frequency domain stuff, but it’s not going to add to the fidelity of your signal below the nyquist frequency of your overall project. It’s not particularly relevant to the issue at hand.

@aceyage

5 жыл бұрын

Tristana Wild There is some really audible aliasing wiith some, usually older, plugins or those that don't oversample. That’s where higher sample rate can help as those mirroring frequencies are now out of the hearing range. I won’t use plugins that don’t sound exactly the same at 48k or 96k. Working at 96k is just unnecessary CPU wastiing otherwise, agreed.

thank u sir, for sharing your knowledge

Great tips, thanks! :)

Awesome Tips 🔥🙌🏾 Give Thanks 😎💫

Thank you!

Great tips

Thanks for the tips 👍

This video is pretty spot on based on many home recording projects I've heard as well. Understanding dynamic range and gain structure are basics anyone getting into recording should understand if they want their recordings to sound good. I went from analog to digital when DAW's were first being offered around 1990. I had Turtle Beach 56K and Cakewalk by Twelve Tone. There was no forgiving if you tried to record too hot of a digital signal; it just overloaded and broke apart. Most don't seem to have a grasp of EQ or the fact they compress the hell out of the signal as well these days. Most music being recorded not just in home studios but commercial ones lack range and nuance and most performances are mediocre relying on studio magic. Don't get me going!! Good video for beginners though.

@thedevilsadvocate5210

4 жыл бұрын

Doesn't it start with the shitty song?

Greetings Gram, yeah thanks bro praise GOD on your videos! I record 44.1 as well and I received lots of confirmation from you and also I've learned from you.. Thanks

Not sure if anyone's mentioned this yet, but you can also get your level by CMD+clicking in the volume section of the track to toggle through to see peak level (you'll toggle past delay compensation value to see this), which some might find useful. Cheers.

I make the first mistake sometimes. I think that Trimming some of my hotter recorded signals would be beneficial. I should use the output knob on my avalon more because there is a very clear sweet spot on the gain. Thanks for this clip!

Nice song!

This is great

Aside from the arguable benefits that you mentioned of higher sample rates (not opening that can of worms here, but for what it's worth I track @96/32float and have 60/70 tracks on a 4 core i7 imac and I haven't maxed it out yet.) I do believe many synth plugins actually sound noticably better at higher sample rates, and I've also heard some performance related issues reported because sometimes the synth plugs will be processed internally @96k, with the DAW @41/48k. While I imagine quality and updated plugins will make this a less frequent issue, it is something to consider.

@vooshmoozik6185

5 жыл бұрын

as in, the daw sampling it down live?

@DMarlow83

5 жыл бұрын

@@vooshmoozik6185 I'll see if I can find a link to the performance issue in that regard but here's one angle of the conversation. www.keyboardmag.com/lessons/should-you-record-at-96khz

Great lesson, and cool song!

@JeremydePrisco

5 жыл бұрын

Oh, and write a better song... love that! Agree!

Just a correction regarding the sample rate. It is not like higher resolution in a photograph. That's a big misconception. Whatever sample rate you are using to record, it is always 2 samples per frequency. So, 96k doesn't provide more accurate sampling, but rather expands the frequency sampling range to 48KHz, which is way beyond human hearing. There are other things that go into play when recording at higher sample rates, but that's another discussion. I agree with you regarding the benefit/ drawback of higher sample rates. And you should always mix in 32bit floating point environment at least, never 16bit.

Thanks Graham.

Thanks for yhe clarity on Gain staging I do it on the Clips but didnt know that the faders only effect after you clip gain

Great gain-staging points btw. Anyone using Ableton Live, if you want to Gain-Stage, you can use the "Utility" plugin. Don't use the "Limiter", it colors the sound a tiny bit. But the Utility is equivalent to lowering clip level, 100% transparent.