Making an Ambient Indie Song (Bon Iver, Novo Amor, Phoebe Bridgers) 

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First, holy smokes I'm fangirling so hard that you commented on my channel. Second, of course, Yvette is a legend!

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Thank you for the sub! To be 100% honest with you, it was nothing fancy or complicated. It was done mainly with the Slate Virtual Mix rack, if my memory serves me correctly, all that is on them is a small amount of preamp push, slight compression, and some low/mid eq cleanup. That's pretty much it. The magic comes from sending the vocals to a big, drenched reverb, and compressing the reverb bus fairly hard. I think a lot of people forget to process bus effects, so removing low end from the reverb, adding some mid presence, and compressing it a fair bit goes a LONG way. Hope this helps!

@@TrevBarnes thanks so much for taking the time to reply, I appreciate that. I’ll give this a shot!

For sure! Let me know how it goes

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He sure did! Ran them through a $60 Avid MBox on a student version of ProTools. Incredible.

SM57 is a great all around mic for instruments and vocals. has a little more meat to it than the beta 57 on vocals, partly due to the beta's noise rejection response.

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Thank you! I’ve been wanting to do a bleachers style vid, great suggestion!

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Thank you so much! Its Baby Audio's new ATOMS synth. They sent it to me to try out and I legit use it with most projects now, there's alot of weird stuff in there

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Thank you! The kit is a collection of samples from Logic

Which is so bizarre considering how great it sounds on instruments

right!? sound is so cool. @@TrevBarnes

Thank you! Yeah, after listening to the final I may have gone a little overboard with the reverb. For the guitar I’m using a mix of logic’s stock plugins and slates VMR

Ive never seen it, i should check it out!

@@TrevBarnes do see it. The music and the story is very inspiring.

I’d have to check it out!

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A regret is only a regret when the time of opportunity has passed, and there is no such thing as missing your chance to work on something. You can do it.

@@TrevBarnes thanks dude! People keep telling me that but I feel too old. lol. Especially after wasting my teens, 20s, and early 30s doing drugs and sort of wasting away.

I believe the tail is 1.9 seconds, size was around 110% with a 70% mix

You’re hopes are my commands haha

If I remember correctly I think I used the space designer from Logic with pretty minimal tweaking