Made in Ableton Live: Reid Stefan on recording, mixing and mastering EDM vocals with stock plugins 

It was an honor writing & singing the song for this tutorial 💫🙏🏻

With any luck, these tutorials will give Ableton the hint that we need a stock pitch correction plugin like most other DAWs have

The headbanging at the end was the real icing on the cake 😂

Love that Karra has a puppet now too!! 😂 Honestly, what a great vocalist. slayed as always

Most polished vocals I’ve heard with stock plugins. 😮

4 years into using Ableton and I never knew that you could do parallel effects using the effects rack without creating a wall of sends and returns. Thanks Reid - just one of the many gems in this tutorial.

This is so helpful! Thanks a lot! I love the detailed explanations and the stock plugins.

I’ve been watching you both for years - I love you both 💙 you both so talented!! Thank you for sharing your wisdom it’s an honour to watch your content 👊👊

Reid just show a lot of us why we wasted thousands of dollars on stuff we didn't need. ❤ 💯

I appreciate this video. It's always good to see brother Reid do his thing!

Fireeee!!! Great collaboration!

This is so helpful. Thank you ableton 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

really useful tut, mates. Keep on keeping on!

Man you are elite!🔥..Thanks for sharing!🙏🏾

This is gold🔥🔥🔥

The final part ist the best one! :)))

Great video!! And tutorial! Im motivated and inspired to utilize more of the stock plugins

great to see Reid on the ableton channelled 💯

Love this ❤ you guys are the best realist puppets ever

j'adore cette video tellement précise dans le vocal lead

Great job!

So good!!!!!

This is fire !! Eyyy

well done! karra going ham at the end there lol

best tut ever

Ableton for life😘😘😘❤️❤️❤️

bro casually slips past the SLAP he added in the parallel chain....lol thank you so much for this Reid ! you rock! love from Tennessee

I’m not doing EDM probably but this is super helpful for trying to learn the program. Good stuff!

wow this was terrific teaching! more ableton teaching videos please!

ableton stays slaying as per usual

Thank you!

BEST TUTO EVER

Incredible master class!!!

This is fire 🔥!!!

It will take me a year to understand what you guys have done in this video!

Very good video, I should start using parallel comp too.

Wow I'm so excited to see Reid on the Ableton channel!! 🤩❤️

He really is the best puppet in the game… Such a goldmine of a tutorial !

UFFFFFFFF😜 what a video🤘🏽👌🏽

Gr8!

I love these guys so much 💝 why is the ableton's icon purple?

Thank you so much

Realest in the game.

About time Ableton releases their own auto tune ;)

Could you make a tutorial about Pre Recording vocal chain? without analog gear, i really need that sound, because as you pressed record, the quality of vocals already was very clean, i would be very greatfull!!! Love your videos!

OMG! This is the realest puppet in the game❤

37:08 yesssss

Hello all... Am I the first to ask about the new look of the stock Ableton Reverb at 4:59 ? Mine doesn't look like this, and I've got the 11.1.6 version. Is this what it's going to look like in the next update?

To be honest, I can't get used to the puppet, even tho I know why it's there. Apart from that I really love your voice and your explanations style. You make great videos. Thank you!

Hey Ableton why does Ableton mess up the rhythm on everything when you switch buffer settings? I have to constantly switch buffer settings during a session but anytime I switch it makes everything off Beat. Is there a way to avoid this?

Did you use any slate virtual mics ( mic emulations ) with the slate ml-1 on this recording ? Or just used the mic “raw” ?

I love this! Why not set the make up gain on parallel compression to the amount of average attenuation?

If you hold shift when pulling your automation dot up or down it will move a lot slower!

Review on the 251 please😇

How do I only monitor in headphones? It always plays through the monitor too, so I pickup the click track in my mic.

Hey, ummm, what's that reverb you got going on there? My live reverb looks different.... and I believe I'm running the latest version.

OTT's blue bars do upwards compression (it turns up the quiet stuff) by default, not expansion, which is the opposite (turning down the quiet stuff).

Reid the realest puppet in the gameeeee!!!!!

Fantastic tutorial! :) BTW, 'c' toggles arming record on the currently selected track.

What is the difference between creating a parallel chain (with reverb, for example) and simply using the wet/dry mix?

Great bid will.learn a lot from this

let gooo

Are you re-recording a 2nd take for a left and right? What is the purpose of that?

7:50 - warped and unwarped null if same tempo and no pitch change. The Fourier transform on complex and complex Pro imposes a slight phase shift so those won't null but beats most certainly does. I'm wondering then, why are you unwarping saying that it makes an audio quality difference? I have noticed some slight oddities with warped clips cross fading and no tempo or pitch variation and in one of the non-spectral warping modes. Haven't seen this to be repeatable though and it was mostly related to timing as I recall. Is this why you have unwarped them ?

Ableton is the company. Live is their product.

I also thought about doing this because I am ugly

Is there any hardware in this vocal chain? It sounds great

Notice the constant swapping to tracks to adjust plugins Cos ableton doesn't have a console view/system yet Like after how many years?

Shout out to the Ableton live lite users who can’t do this yet 🎉

🙏🏻

Tip #1 have a dope ass singer like Karra

MAKE A.R.A IN ABLETON PLEASE!!!!!!

Why didn’t y’all use that telefunken ela m 251 mic over that slate !? I clicked on here to hear that hhahaa

14:37

one more proof that all u need is Ableton

RECORDING AND MIXING THE VOCALS ARE THE BEST YOU CAN DO!!! Reid Stefan is a better known person for its own crimson tide?!?!?!?!?! At this time we need a music producer!!!!

Forget them other puppets, This is the realist one in the game!

TLDR: Live doesn't have a pitch correction effect.

Wait wait wait did anyone catch the new reverb look in that rack?

梦幻联动

I need to create a shortcut for the like button...

These 2 are so cute and hilarious 😍

Wait what?

i really beliebe that puppet wasnt really singing in real time mmm

MESSI, REID & ABLETON

15:25 that is not expansion. That is upward compression. A similar process goes on if you throw in drum buss and then turn the transients knob to the right. You're holding up the reverb tails, releases, noise floor etc. If you were doing downward expansion it would be a similar process to turning the transients knob in drum bus to the left. Additionally, if you were expanding multiband across all those bands that heavily you would evaporate everything quiet in your signal. It would be similar to doing a nonlinear phase crossover across three bands and then throwing a gate on each one with about a -40 dB threshold given the settings you're playing with here. The whole point of OTT is to flatten out the spectrum. This is done by simultaneous multiband downward and upward compression per band, heavily. That said, use Duda's. It's free, and has better crossovers.

EN Français cela aurait mieux parce que on comprend rien

Uh oh, looks like Karra is lip-syncing….

"stock plugins"

Don't mix vocals with a stereo mix .

Reid is so unbelievably corny bro 🥲🥲

9:13 - Ableton please, I hope you understand this. Nobody wants to use the sh*tty colors. Idk how Nuendo, Cubase, FL Studio, Studio One, etc. gets this right and you guys don't 😭😭😭

"EDM" make me shudder

Fera

4 mins in and everything but Ableton stock plugins being used - UAD interface and UAD plugins on the input and Antares Autotune - not much really just another $1500 of gear you may not have. The title of the video is a bit disingenuous in that regard. Anyone with this kind of setup probably already know how to record a few vocals - so who is this video for?

Great tutorial, minus the music. Has no soul. The girl needs to find another producer, great vocals