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I just heard an old Neil Diamond song and almost forgot how good music use to be. No computers, drum machines, auto-tune, melodyne or crazy vocal effects, just superb raw talent all in the studio together. You were hearing the finish record over the monitors while they were tracking.
Double tracking is hard if your timing sucks LOL. I am trying to improve. However I have just done a song with electric panned 100% left and right, and then I double track acoustic on top panned 75% left and right, and that sound pretty cool.
Well done, a simple easy to understand video. The voice leading explanation was so clear and liner. Also very nice writing as well...Nice to find you... Bravo
Click tracks? They have nothing to do with 'recording' and everything to do with musicianship. Need a click? Go ahead and get auto-tune while your at it. You need it.
This is really helpful, especially as I'm an NT1a owner. To me this still sounds boomy though. In my case I end up too near to a corner of the room by the time the mic is set up which is another problem. I'm tempted to next try 2 feet away and pointed at the 10th fret and hope thats an improvement. One of my favourite acoustic sounds is on Neil Finn / Crowded House records and its a very hard sound to reproduce or even describe.
Inears sound soo much worse. I will take the clunky monitors until I die. Ive used both a ton, but I just hate the in ear sound. So squished. I have some fancy inears too. I was all into it at one point, but it never sounds nearly as nice as the open sound from standard monitors.
Mark produced and mixed and engineered my first album in LA in 1999-2000. He is a super nice guy and he has an inhuman work ethic! He wore us out and then after the band left for the day he’d stay and work! I still love mark and I’m very proud of the album we made!
What if the raw tracks sound like shit, and yiu have too process individual tracks Get it right at the source Not applicable here So I’ll try again I get it But not always possible I think this might help but I have to start again I want your process to work
if you are young and new to mixing....you are missing all that hiss we used to get with tape...having to record at super high levels to keep the noise floor...on the floor...using all that dolby/dbx stuff still didnt get rid of it or it altered your sound dramatically....it was a nightmare...but old tape gave you a fat bottom punch and sizzling tops in the recordings...tape emulation is to recreate what the old timers were used to listening to....but if your music sounds good already....then dressing it up with tints of tube and tape compression makes it more ear friendly....to a fruit bat
I like to track the DI along with the mic. That way, I can use the DI to support the mic track, if needed. It’s better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.
2:35 ofc its gonna be terrible, its sopposed to be slid only a bit, not as much as you did here. Personally, whille i dont find it that pleasent, i dont dislike it that much
I think a bit of both helps - and it really does go back to the days of printing to tape…noise floor, tape ‘hiss’ etc but you can’t go past a fader/pan mix as if the ‘band’ was playing live IMHO JPMusic
Gain staging is so your audio is prepped for upcoming edits, such as soft compression, EQ, hard compression etc, when the audio is at its correct levels it hits them plugins in its best possible format
Please help me with Studio One Prime... I can't upload plugins. Maybe it's the Prime version.. For me it's difficult coming from Protools... I just want to add my plugins without all the extra set up... I just want to add simple instruments and effects.. It sucks that I have to find and install plugins but I could be wrong..
Hey Chris! I was going down a rabbit hole looking for videos on the best headphones when tracking vocals and stumbled on your video. Like a lot of vocalists, I tend to wear only one side when tracking vocals so I can hear the room better. Most videos give terrible reviews of the AKG 240’s, but I took a leap of faith and picked them up. GAME-CHANGER! I can’t believe the difference it made in not only my comfort, but my performance. Thank you for making this video man, I’m forever grateful 🙌🏻
To me gain staging is merely optimising the level for the next processor in the chain. Therefore, putting a level adjustment device (such as a utility plugin in ableton, if your working ITB) achieves this. Personally I think the concept of gain staging has become overly complex when speaking to a largely digital audience.
