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I'm so glad I discovered this channel. Excellent cinematography as well. Great work!

@creativesoundlab

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for saying that!

@andiirejino1210

7 жыл бұрын

Creative Sound Lab one thing I really curious about is gain staging, since I'm kinda new to recording. do you have any videos on this?

@Seriouslycantplayguitar

4 жыл бұрын

I second this. Love it. Reminds me of a classic PBS show. Recording Engineer Bob Ross. Thank you!

Another one bites the dust. Great video. You get into so much detail compared to the usual KZread stuff, it's welcome.

is he really good at writing backwards? or does he just flip the video?

@creativesoundlab

8 жыл бұрын

+Lee Thomas I flip the video

@Amigaudio

4 жыл бұрын

He is really good at fliping the video

@chuckandkonnie2415

4 жыл бұрын

Lee Thomas I thought it was a mirror

@ElectricMahatama

4 жыл бұрын

@@Amigaudio its rude to flip .

OK, so the shot of the handle vibrating was AWESOME!!

Thank you for this video. It was nice to hear the Warm Audio in action. You have that release and attack set pretty well for the riff

I love this channel and the content you provide. Excellent educational content. I'm glad you are doing this. Cheers

Love what youre doing man, right down to the video production style! So well done,Thanks!

@creativesoundlab

8 жыл бұрын

+Eric Davidson Thank you, I work hard at these videos. Thanks for the kind words!

Your videos are very instructive and your gear is mouth wattering : )

I love this channel man! keep it up!

Dude!!!! Great channel! I am impressed!

This is a really great video. Best I have seen on the subject. Thanks for the great content! keep it up.

@creativesoundlab

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks Edgar!

interesting idea about patching the DI signal into the compressor before the amp. I'm confused on how that works however, because I have no way to return signal from my compressor to the amp without cracking open the patch bay. Maybe I'll hook up a misc 1/4" out

I really love your Videos. Very inspiring. I failed to do a good git-recording so i need to reamp. realy wanna get it done this time

i totally love that falling in on itself tone

@creativesoundlab

8 жыл бұрын

+MikleShnikle I really dig it too.

GREAT VIDS DUDE! MUCH APPRECIATED!

@creativesoundlab

8 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Some of the most fun I've had is recording my guitar and vocals live on one of those crappy casette recorders, right in my home office. I'm a "less is more" kind of a guy. lol

@creativesoundlab

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, totally. The largest sounds can be the most simple.

@benasanceris4299

5 жыл бұрын

+raleighman3000 What model is that cassette recorder? I need to get one.

@Amarilliobrillo

5 жыл бұрын

Same! I record my entire band with an eight channel mixer and a cassette recorder I got at goodwill for 35 dollars. You can actually get some incredible sounds on it

Awesome... Thanks!

I watched this video about a year ago and came back to it again. I’d really like to see how you would achieve a classic punk rock and/or hardcore punk guitar tone. That sort of close mic’d single track sound. What guitars, amps, mic, etc.? That is a video I can’t seem to find on KZread. You say old punk and you get dudes playing mid nineties pop punk stuff. Lol

What if most of these sound really bad to my ear? Is that really how the guitar sounds before mixing with other instruments?

Do you ever mic the amp in such a way to get more of the cabinet resonance or does that usually come through pretty well already with the close mic?

nice trick with the comp pre amp - does that mess with the impedance load though?? kinda sounds like it... but I like how the drive never changes

my gosh you are a freaking genius teacher, I'm new 2 guitar but 30 years teaching, you freaking rule Sir!!!!!

I have a jet city 20hv which it's arbitrary gain numbers seem to be 2 is full volume clean, 3 is slight compression maybe a little grit, and 6 is overdrive limit before everything is cooking at all times, but I find I can set the eq all the way down and pick one band I want to overdrive and set that band all the way up and dial the preamp gain so that freq is doing what I want, then add in the other bands and keep them under the overdrive point. So if I wanted a crunchy mid range without the bass overdrivig it might get set at say 4 on the preamp, 3 on the bass, 9(highest number) on the mods and somewhere between 3-6 if I want some sizzle. And I should add, I'll usually set a rough volume I'm after first with the preamp at 2 and dial the power amp to the volume I want, then set drive and compression that way from there. Sorry didn't explain that very well

@Scion4600

5 жыл бұрын

I just picked up a 20h, and this is exactly the kind of info I've been looking for! Thanks for sharing your process.

Really good video

SUBSCRIBED! All the infos are spot on! Personally, I wouldn't describe this as minimalist; standard, more like, or at least the place to start. Multi-miking and phase manipulation is for when the regular thing ain't workin'.Only quibble, one thing shown, I no longer do; miking the dustcap. If I'm in that close with a dynamic, I'm usually off axis. Most speakers in most cabs are a little brighter toward the edge of the cone. If I can get the amp to sound great in the room, I'm usually not that close and I'll usually mike the room, as well.

that gresch is a beautiful amp \m/

@creativesoundlab

8 жыл бұрын

+Kayla “Kurisu” Deards Thanks!

Great stuff dude, and great setup. Would you upload a studio tour? It looks great!

Great video! Whats the music going on at the soundtrack?

i subscribed after the teaser and I'm a tough audience props!!!

Cool vids, dude... Thanks!

@creativesoundlab

8 жыл бұрын

+JulianFernandez Thanks, glad they were a help!

Great video, great calidad!.

@creativesoundlab

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

I would say the gain/tone variation is logarithmic, not at all lineal

Live the videos. Thanks for all your info. So with the signal chain, are you plugging the guitar directly to the compressor first? Almost like a pedal?

@creativesoundlab

8 жыл бұрын

Well, I would have to convert it to balanced and line level first. So all you need is a DI box and a preamp. The DI box will convert it to balanced (3 wires instead of just the 2 of a guitar cable), and the preamp will boost it to a level that the compressor is expecting to see. From there you are good to go.

Makes video called “minimalist approach” Proceeds to start graphing guitar tones

Great videos! Could you please tell what monitors do you mainly use?

So you had to write backward on the plexi in order for us to see it normal lol ? great clip, great channel, lot to learn !!

@creativesoundlab

7 жыл бұрын

Horizontal Flip, or AKA mirror image.

I stumbled onto your channel looking for tips on live recording of drums and guitar amps. All of the videos I've watched have been awesome! Do you have any suggestions on good avenues of information about live sound specifically? I love your teaching style and appreciate how well you communicate things that have generally mystified me. Thanks!!!

@creativesoundlab

8 жыл бұрын

Live sound....yes. Dave Rat. Best stuff I've heard.

Did you use re-amping to make these tests? Nice video! Subscribed

So would the signal path for re-amping be 1176 - re amp box - mic/amp - pre amp - daw?

@creativesoundlab

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah anything line level is before the ramp box, then the guitar signal stuff, then the mic and into a preamp, then interface, then DAW.

awesome

@creativesoundlab

8 жыл бұрын

+MikleShnikle Thanks!

whoa! Sweet desk. What is that? Keep on killing it w/the videos. Huge help. When a week comes w/o out, it's sad times.

@creativesoundlab

8 жыл бұрын

+thecrashharder01 Thanks for such a nice complement. Yeah, it's a desk my dad built. He's a woodworker in his spare time.

Great video and technique. But now I have one more mic to buy. Loved that SM7B.

@creativesoundlab

8 жыл бұрын

+um gajo perdido Yeah, I was a late comer to the SM7b but I really have been pleased with it.

what app your are using for recording?

Would you be able to do a video in the mixing room and show us some pre and post vst's or even pre and post pre amps or rack mount effects? Or something to that effect?

@creativesoundlab

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I've done stuff similar to that. I can do more.

@rickenbacker40011

7 жыл бұрын

that would be so cool! I love hearing that side of the mixing experience, there's so much opportunity to learn :D thanks for the reply!

Man, could you please do a vid on finding unity gain on the 1176 by warm, how you use both knobs to find it, what -7 from unity translates into in your daw/dbfs with some tips on why unity is important etc. That would be a good one. I bet a lot of folks out there have the wa 1176 and need this info. I have been fiddiling with it recently and ...... could use a video

@creativesoundlab

8 жыл бұрын

Yeah, reaching 0 on the +4 output setting should give you about -18 on your input. Keep in mind the meter on the WA76 may not be able to show the peaks because it's slower than a DAW meter. I think I noticed this happening yesterday on the TB12 meter when at unity and thought it was cool to see.

What mic do you think will give me the best possible sound for mic ing a Marshall DSL. Right now I'm using a 57, do you think there's any ribbons with a high spl that'd sound better?

@larrytate1657

8 жыл бұрын

Also how do the sm7b compare to a 57? Thanks in advance.

@creativesoundlab

8 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I think a lot of ribbons will sound better than the 57. Just keep them back a little and point them down. The R121 by Royer is a popular one, but I've used my R88 a lot of loud stuff and it takes it fine. The Rode NTR will need to be padded.

@creativesoundlab

8 жыл бұрын

the sm7b is just better in a lot of ways. It's like the mic that the 57 wanted to be. An older, and wiser self.

@larrytate1657

8 жыл бұрын

Cool, maybe I'll make the sm7b my next step up as its more affordable than ribbons. Thanks.

Interesting to me that you say the 20:1 guitar comp is before the signal hits the amp - I would think the compression would be of the mic'd signal?? That would be two completely different sounds. Your chain here is guitar into Tone Beast - Tone Beast into WA76 - out to amp? I have been going guitar straight into amp and compressing the mic's signal before it hits the recorder.Thanks for your great vids by the way.

@creativesoundlab

8 жыл бұрын

+Promot Ed Great question. Close...My signal chain is exactly as I have it listed...it's WA76 before the amp, just like the Cali76 pedals that guitarist would have in a pedal board for compressing. Yep, it would give a different sound, as I can control how the amp breaks up and it let's me fine tune the sound. You can still do what you described, which is compress after the mic pre. If you think about it, most guitarist have a comp pedal in their chain, so this sort of thing happens all the time where the guitar is compressed before the amp, and after the mic pre....usually the before-amp compression is just not in rack mount form.

@MadJack122

8 жыл бұрын

+creativesoundlab Is the chain this: Guitar > DI Box > WA76 > ReAmp Box > Amp?

@creativesoundlab

8 жыл бұрын

+MadJack122 Yes. I'm sure you knew there was a preamp and a DAW in there too. So it would be Guitar > DI Box > Preamp > Digital Interface > DAW. Then for playback it goes DAW > Digital Interface Line out > WA76 > Reamp Box > Guitar pedals and amp.

@creativesoundlab

8 жыл бұрын

+BorisDono Yes for the input chain. (Guitar > DI Box > Preamp > Digital Interface > DAW) No reamp box needed as you said. On playback/reamp I'm sneaking the compressor in just before the reamp box, so it's DAW > Digital Interface Line out > WA76 > Reamp Box > Guitar pedals and amp

@creativesoundlab

8 жыл бұрын

+BorisDono Yeah, no worries. I had to read it a couple times to figure out what you both were saying

I agree with every part. I always run a DI (extra) from guitar to get a dry signal that can be fucked with at will.

didnt know you could use a sm7b to mic an amp , sweet :) im a new sub , great vids man

one solution to the issue you mentioned of having to re-track guitars because of poor tone is to di and then re-amp. this way if you need to redo something you can use the original di take to save time

@creativesoundlab

8 жыл бұрын

+SamBrev Yes, a large portion of the guitar related videos are about reamping. Reamping is great.

@SamBrev

8 жыл бұрын

creativesoundlab yes, it was only after typing that that i realised you had done a few videos on it... in fact, ironically enough, it may have been you that i learned the technique from in the first place a long(-ish) time ago

@melissaraul

7 жыл бұрын

is a reamp box ( e.g. radial reamp ) critical to do this

THANKS!!!

@creativesoundlab

8 жыл бұрын

+Wyatt Matta Right on man!

@burntreynolds5701

8 жыл бұрын

Got my amp sittin off the floor now. That's awesome that you're teaching people what you know for nothing. I'm like that too for the most part. There's a couple thing I've stumbled on to that most people would probably have to go to college to learn MIDI Time synchronization or something that took me decades to figure out. I live in Niotaze Kansas. We don't have much of a thriving music scene or even other people who take any music other than country covers seriously. I like Depeche Mode Pink Floyd NIN Ministry Metallica THE BEATLES!!!! I don't fit in which means I'm right where I belong in the Information Age. Progress a.k.a. ROCK & ROLL must infiltrate & Illuminate The Darkness. I gotta watch all your videos a few more times each before I can do all that though.

@burntreynolds5701

8 жыл бұрын

Oh shit!]=? I'm on G+ not You Tube!]=? Maybe I should erase that but why? I know people talk sheet on me unless what they say is true in which case it's not sheet is it!(=? So who cares!(=?

@burntreynolds5701

8 жыл бұрын

U ever been to Burning Man? The Burning Man seems to be the state the art festival. I gotta go someday. Sorry you don't gotta reply I just like to ramble. Every word you say I'm gonna probably reply with 500 so.....,THINK before you speak!(=?

@creativesoundlab

8 жыл бұрын

+Wyatt Matta Nope never been.

I suscribe this channel :)

@creativesoundlab

7 жыл бұрын

Hey man thanks! Glad you are here!

@vac8846

5 жыл бұрын

Creative Sound Lab I subbed too, you're alright man ;) your videos are super informative and helping me out big time. thanks a whole lot!

Im impressed he can write everything backwards without even thinking

@creativesoundlab

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

you can just re-amp to switch settings while mixing.. problem solved...

fuck yeah music man amp

reminds me of calculus

Spider ?!

You can always add more distortion afterwards. Always. But you can not make a clean tone out of a distorted one

@creativesoundlab

7 жыл бұрын

I usually find that committing to sounds makes better music and better engineers. I usually don't go either way with it, because if it's too clean, how would I add in what I didn't set at the amp during tracking? Would love to hear other ideas.

@rockboy360

6 жыл бұрын

Andrew Lawson that's why it's always good to record a backup D.I. for reamping.

@Jeremy-hx7zj

6 жыл бұрын

i'm confused, arent you reamping it for this video? seems like a solution right there.

@AidenBradley95

6 жыл бұрын

One trick I've used, while I wouldn't recommend it really, is using a multiband saturator vst. I've used the Exciter in Izotope's Ozone 7 to add just a tiny bit more grit via tape saturation simulation, and if you add just a tiny amount toward the upper mids, it can be pretty believable.

@gravyblue

6 жыл бұрын

Always take a DI. You can always erase it.

Drawing in the dark... Hmm. Helpful.

everything on 10..make those tubes bleed, baby..

love the presentation stuff (the style of shooting etc) but that graph business was a bit of a waste - all you were saying was 'louder= better' ... there are quicker ways to say that ...

@yerfaceful

6 жыл бұрын

antigen4 that's not at all what he was saying. Different amounts of gain have different tones, not "better". It depends on what you want

Hashtag Reamping

Those numbers aren’t arbitrary if your talking about a Marshall

i just heard a lot of bs

@creativesoundlab

8 жыл бұрын

+RorysIrishTour This is my technique. And it works for me. Who's to say otherwise?

@RorysIrishTour

8 жыл бұрын

no one, its just a statement. a lot of people get their work done with false premises.

@creativesoundlab

8 жыл бұрын

+RorysIrishTour This is why I demo everything to prove or disprove the concept. It's a lab.

@larrytate1657

8 жыл бұрын

Stuff is genius. Negativity is bs.

@serfasleep

6 жыл бұрын

Don't feed the trolls, man.