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Hey man, I just wanna say I've learned a lot from you over the years and I really appreciate your content. Cheers from Brazil!

@rawkinj6609

3 ай бұрын

AGREED!!!

It took me almost as long to test the best speaker/mic/mic position combination for our guitars as the recording session itself. We had 5 different condenser microphones and one SM57 that was set. But to check the right speaker in the cab and which position of the two mics we used was imho worth it. Without any eq/comp or anything else, right out of the box the guitars are sounding imho really fat. And for the drums I built a sample library of our drummers kit, so I could use the drums with SL‘s Trigger to replace some hits here and there. That was also worth the effort.

@timinglismusic6707

5 ай бұрын

Using the drummers kit to create samples is a great idea and something I will do with every session from here on in. When we tracked drums for my new album there was the odd snare pop that didn't fit with the rest of the song. I was able to fix them, but it would have been so much easier to replace with Slate Trigger.

@Al69BfR

5 ай бұрын

@@timinglismusic6707 The only downside is, that you have to do it every time after you put the microphones in place or again after change their position or after you went with the kit to another room to make the sampled sound fit with the recorded kit. But you can of course use the old samples to support the new recordings and add them to any mix.

to me Writing/Composing is perhaps the most important part when it comes to music production, but i think it's also part of "Pre-Production.

I really love how you're always blasting for release!

Thank you for this! As someone who has been doing this for a couple of years now but still struggles this really puts things into perspective.

Awesome

Very helpful.

I really need to get my head around automation. I've always had trouble understanding it and how to implement it properly, but I'm going to have to learn.

I love that shirt! That's my 2nd favorite FT13th movie.

I feel like i used to be that "i want it to feel natural" guy. It was and still is a genuine want but i found that not editing made my mixes muddy. It was only when i got sent some really bad tracks i had to learn to edit. After that i started doing more and more editing. Then all of a sudden i did notice my music missing something. I learnt then that id gone yo far... Now i still edit but ill normally just find the sweetspot. The guitars and bass have to hit with the drums. The drums cannot be too out of whack. They can slide around the grid a little but they have to do it together!

Kinda hit the nail on the head :D

Im trying to understand the routing for a mix to the end reverb delay ect do have a template or something to help the new guys out here thanks so much your videos rock

The most popular snare I personally hear requested, is the St. Anger snare from Metallica. It’s become a modern classic.

Great Vid! You hit the nail right on the head with your points. 🙂👍 SUGGESTION/QUESTION - I just watched one of your videos about Midi Drums, but it's 9 months old, so I thought I'd comment here instead. In the video, you mention overheads and room mic tracks. I have to assume EZ Drummer provides them, but a lot of Drum software doesn't, I use MT Power Drums, and blend in Labs Percussion, so my question or suggestion is, how about a video on how to create them yourself? I've heard of people basically miking up their desk and monitors as if it were a kit, and then playing the drum track and recording it through overheads and room mics, but can we create them solely 'in the box'? Have you done this yourself? If so, it might make for an interesting video. Cheers mate! 🤘🙂👍

@seitani68986

5 ай бұрын

Parallel compression and an FX channel with some sort of reverb to emulate room sound. Group those two and send the drums to each channel to taste. And as Bobby here mentions, automations.

I want the st anger snare... can you help me?... no?

Here a thing about editing. Back in the day you didn't need to edit as much.... Because everyone you hear recorded were top notch players. That were heavily practiced. Either as a band or as session players. And besides the fact. They didn't need to play to the grid. They just needed good timing and caputing a good performance. I do a lot of editing because i have a job and don't practice as much nor do I play live. And though i play a verity of instruments im not pro level on them. So to make up for it I need to edit.

Quick question. You say you almost always tune vocals but I don't think I have seen one instance of Melodyne/Autotune/Reatune on your tracks. Do you edit, tune, bake it in the track then remove the plugin? Thanks

@connordolence520

5 ай бұрын

He’s said before that he tunes them and then commits the tracks to save cpu space

@matthewchavezm.b.s5503

5 ай бұрын

Baking in the processing becomes the only way to go. Getting a visual representation of what the plugins are doing to the sound is super helpful as well. You will also find after recoding a sound that usually the ends have to be cleaned up with fades or quick editing. You wont notice this unless you record the processing. Plus you can max out your cpu with plugins on one sound since its going to be recorded and the plugins will be removed. The only thing is to keep a copy of the previous sound for reference. Sometimes the processing makes things worse and you want to be able to go back to a previous version of the sound if you are baking them in just in case. Happens all the time.

@pierre-claudemeriot6562

5 ай бұрын

​@@connordolence520thanks I missed that part. I watch all of his videos, he talks a lot about editing and tuning but I did miss the part where he says this.

@FrightboxRecording

5 ай бұрын

I always commit the Melodyne once I'm done tuning, it just streamlines the workflow.

I prefer to retrack than to edit but that’s really only with my own performances Bc I’m not ok with tricking the listener into thinking I’m better than I am. I realize that’s way more work but that’s how I don’t make myself feel like an imposter. I know this is “technically” wrong but I didn’t practice guitar for years just to fake being super tight. I’ll sit there all day if I have to because I don’t have a budget to worry about. Also some metal shouldn’t be time aligned. There’s a video of time aligning Van Halen and it shows that you can kill the vibe the song was going for. I personally like a hybrid sound for modern metal that sounds like it was tracked live in a room like the black album was.

Definitely been guilty of these in the past

Hey can you recommend me a free mix ready ir for modern metal/deathcore? I always have to tweak my irs a lot and cant find a good one that is not eather too spiky or too muddy

@Durkhead

5 ай бұрын

Ola englunds the the one ir sounds awesome I use it on bass and guitar

@jorrickthole6505

5 ай бұрын

Get Mikkos ML demo cab sim. It is by far the best and realistic cabsim Ive found. And Im a 'real amp-real mic- high volume' guy. If its too bright just move it a bit outward. Too boomy set it farther away from the speaker. It is simple, fast, and good.

@pywidem5823

5 ай бұрын

He has some to download but generally the IRs from Neural dsp or nolly gedgood are great. Also, IRs are not for a genre per se, bad tone is probably another thing going on than IRs. If you want, you can send me your DI and I‘ll re-amp them. :) I work in Deathcore most of the time

@Durkhead

5 ай бұрын

@@pywidem5823 you got any music?

I can see you adopted the holding the mic meta

@Durkhead

5 ай бұрын

Yeah and it needs a pop filter it's popping like crazy

@FrightboxRecording

5 ай бұрын

There was a drummer bashing on his kit down the hall, so I had to improvise and ditch the lav mic for this vid.

In the context of home recording, how different is editing to the recording process? I mean, every take that's not perfect, shouldn't you re-record a little bit and add some level of editing?

@slevengrungus

4 ай бұрын

For me, writing, pre-recording, recording and editing are all one big step. Recording is the only way I know to write music. The biggest exception would be the bass guitar, I can spend several days to weeks trying to write something. By that time my bass strings would be sounding dead, and I will have some parts of the track that have a bright bass DI, and some that just sound like I put nylon strings on my bass. So I usually rerecord my own bass with new strings right before mixing

I kinda wonder how automation worked in the analog world.

@TheNeatwork

5 ай бұрын

IIRC they would essentially bounce the full mix to a new track/tape, and would physically "ride the sliders" with their fingers while it was recording

Thanks and hail from Ukraine!