Making Records with Eric Valentine - Locking Loops to Live Drums 

Haha!! Yeah I popped a button on that shirt while I was setting up for the episode. I think I'll stick to T-shirts :)

@@mrwev Yeah, right! Next time, don't you forget the shark tooth! :D

Agreed!!

@FresnoCAPunkrockMetalHardcore OldFigGang Untill u started watching mixers(pensado etc.) my beats were on point, leveled and clear, mixing was just something i was doing along the way...but...when i started exportimg stems, doing the "mixers" job i was failing so hard and i kept doing it until i learned that i do that already while making a beat, and my master buss got 4-5 plugins, there no way to make it batter later trying to "master" it... Wierd and heavy learning curve that bumped me a bit backward, it took me few months to get back to basics, when i heard Mike Dean talking how he mix when he produce and how he never sidechain it felt like home. But this brings my respect for mixers who can do that afterwards, maybe i could do it, but not for my beats. Had to put it out. Cheers

chris young it is a pro tools plugin called “time adjuster”. There are some 3rd party versions that might work with reaper. The best of which is definitely precision time align from Eventide. Best of luck with it!

If you change the tempo map it will throw off everything after, a little work around is make a cut in grid mode right on the first beat of the measure (after the area you are changing the tempo). Make the tempo changes, then in grid mode select from the cut you made to the end of the song, and move that to where the first beat of the measure is now. Hope that helps!

Yes! that is basically it. Track drums and then, the best bits together, do the tempo map then chop up the loop and quatize it to the comp'd/map'd drums. It is better to never track instruments to un-comp'd drums. You will just be creating more work for yourself later.

MAKING RECORDS with ERIC VALENTINE how do you feel about tracking drums last for certain genres?

Linus OM oh shit!!! IMDOWNLOADINGITIMMEDIATELY!!! Thank you!!

@@mrwev you can also try this... AudioSuite>Pitch Shift>TimeShift>Mode:Varispeed

First thing could be headphones...or whatever listening environment you have. If it isn't good at reproducing accurate low-end, then it will be really hard to hear the differences in the low-end that happen from Eric's moves. Same deal with the top end, although average headphones usually do an okay job of reproducing high end. If it's a noisy headphone jack though, or you're in a louder environment, you may not be able to hear it. Finally, yes, sometimes it takes a more obvious 'Ah ha!' example to help your mind categorize what you heard. It's kind of like not being able to taste all the ingredients in a soup until someone has you taste all of them individually, then, the next time you take a sip, you can start to pin point the individual spices and stuff. I could hear all but one of the things Eric was doing in this video (one of the low end moves with time aligning wasn't super obvious to me), but I'm just listening on my regular headphone jack. I might be able to hear it on my nearfields in my studio. Then again, maybe not. Eric is kind of in a different league :-) (Which is why we're watching his videos).

I'm going to try and do that. It may take a little while for me to get it together but I'll get it up here at some point. Thanks for your patience!!

@@mrwev That would be awesome! Thanks in advance & you are the best recording & mixing related channel on youtube..

I haven't had a chance to try Logic's version of beat detective recently so I can't say but it would be REALLY great if Logic was as good or better on that front. I might even switch back after 25 years haha!

A bit late reaction but I suspect he checks it to all the drum mics as a whole so everything sounds as much in phase as possible.

Good Question! Yes I have had to Frankenstein a loop into playing a part that I wanted and then lock that to the live performance. You can get away with a lot when recreating a drum pattern if you have sections in the loop where where you can grab background ambience to fill in gaps of shorter hits that are getting moved. It's always a fun little puzzle trying to pull it off :)

Typically I will use whatever mics are closest to the drums... kick, snare, tom mics or will often have this mic I call the K/S mic that pics up both the kick and snare close up. Close mics are really the best choice for beat detecting.

Good Question!! I like to leave the crossfades off until just before I mix. If I need to change anything it is much easier without a bunch fades all over everything. I turn on the preference for a global 1ms fade in/out so I dont hear clicks and pops while working on tracking and editing.

Pssst... its Bill Withers - Kissing My Love.

@@mrwev Thanks Eric! You're the man! Appreciate you teaching us all.

Yeah I am going to do that soon. I am going through the process of archiving everything now.

@@mrwev i appreciate the reply, looking forward to it!

At barefoot I use 1 Avid HDX converter and 3 Lynx Auroras (older style). In Topanga, I use an Antelope Orion and 1 Lynx Aurora (n). I dont actually use the Apollo as a converter in Topanga, I only use the DSP.

@@mrwev thanks man. i've been looking at the antelope stuff. i used mostly radar converters...but on one of my rigs i had auroras and some old apogee ad8000's clocked by an antelope clock. my last rig i was making records on was a protools mix system..haha. i'm looking to setup a mix and small tracking setup at home...might check out the orion. thanks for doing these videos. always been a fan of your stuff since the t ride days.

@@mrwev thanks man. i've been looking at the antelope stuff. i used mostly radar converters...but on one of my rigs i had auroras and some old apogee ad8000's clocked by an antelope clock. my last rig i was making records on was a protools mix system..haha. i'm looking to setup a mix and small tracking setup at home...might check out the orion. thanks for doing these videos. always been a fan of your stuff since the t ride days.

@@mrwev ps, hope you can do a behind the song on some nickle creek stuff. i love love love that album. cheers dude.

Haha! yeah that shirt doesnt belong to me and I popped a button off of it while I was setting up for this episode. I think I'll stick to t-shirts from now on :)