Welcome! This channel is dedicated to my obsession for Studio One while helping you produce better music at home. Check out my main channel: @forestwhitehead
Love your content Forest, and excited for this new channel as I am a Studio One novice. The thing I struggle with the most is plug-in chains, what order things should go in, what should be sends, mastering plug-in order. Etc I would love to see a video dedicated to this in the future. Thank you!
This has motivated me so much to get back to recording. I was getting really down on myself because I always feel I sound boring but now I’m gonna let loose and use this vid to make my vocals excellent
I’m coming back! My son is in hospital at Vanderbilt right now awaiting heart surgery. When you ask where did I go, I would answer with taking care of my family with no free time to make videos at the moment. Will be back as soon as I can.
Just subscribed i am so excited to learn new stuff from you sir ...im so blessed that i never tought that i can afford free lesson from a biggest heart in whole world..i dont have a good room but walking on your steps putting a cheap headphone and do what i learn from you...god bless you sir.
Excited for new content. Heavy Logic user her (15 years), just started with S1 subscription. Many advantages over Logic: Melodyne integration, consolidated plugin window, bouncing out stems/tracks. Bouncing out 50 + stems with Logic has always been time consuming and not always flawless. Thanks for great content, Alex
Helpful video Forest ! I follow your main channel too and i am also obsessed with studio one. Feels great to see you maaking content specifically for studio one. Lots of love and best wishes !
0:38 - 0:40 Yes, a good singer, no question. But those thin lines on the waveform on the vocal track indicates, that this is already "melodyned" 🙂so no autotune is needed. 😀 Good tips anyway! Thumbs up
Great example, most tutorials they don't mix it very well, but in this case this is truly a high pro level mixed vocal. One little thing that can be unbeneficial to a begineer : when you say "always have a low cut" actually there nothing that have to be always say, and maybe the low cut has already been applied, maybe the vocal sit nicely with the phase and when put a low cut the phase shift make the whole mix less good, just a small thing to know most of the time theyll be good with a low cut but don't use it just "you have to" (talking to the beginners).
Great video, we've followed your other channel for a while and it's always been super inspiring and useful. In your opinion, what level should you aim for as an average when tracking vocals? I always see varying advice but the vocals you record always sound so good
We do many things in a similar way. I do like to boost high frequencies ahead of de essing, for a more consistent HF sound, I also use parallel multi band limiting with a Waves L316-a 16 band limiter which automatically tames frequencies that pop out of your vocal and adds more fatness. Can be done with a multi band compressor with a high ratio too. This kind of compression/limiting adds body rather than tickling the tops of the waveform. Especially useful if the singer has variable timber throughout their vocal range. In this type of parallel compression 20:1 fast attack 8ms, fast release 30ms, 10-12 db reduction per band. Transients still present in the non parallel channel. Saves a ton of time on eq moves.
