Being new to home recording - thanks lockdown!- I have gone cross-eyed watching Studio1 tutorials, (I upgraded to Studio1 5 Pro) and in several tutorials -18dB was mentioned but with no explanation, please explain! I find your tutorials some of the most informative and easiest to follow, many thanks for that. Please explain the -18dB!!
Hi Nigel. Well there is more than one dB scale. Just like temperature can be expressed in Celsius or Fahrenheit. In modern DAWs the dBFS scale is used. But on old analogue gear, dBVU was used. -18 dBFS is equal to 0 dBVU. On that old analogue gear things used to distort at around 0 dBVU, but in a nice way :) So in trying to mimic that old gear, plugin makers will often have that nice colouring introduced at the same point. However with the metering used in DAWs, that sweet spot converts to -18 dBFS. Probably the error that myself and other make, is lazily saying 'dB' rather than dBFS :)
@@CreativeSauce I see, that's probably why my bass tracks sound like Concorde taking off! And another thing, thanks to todays vid I have found the gain control at the top of the channel strip. Another day, another lesson.
Mike. I hope one day to be at least half as learned as you. Thank you. I follow every video you put out. After much studying your videos over and over after months, (not your fault) I still feel like a beginner. Stupid is as stupid does. Of course, I am 76 years old.
In Studio One I put tracks of the same type in a folder. By coloring the folder all tracks in it get the same color. And you can turn that folder into a bus as well. You can also cascade folders into folders. That might not be done as well in other DAWs, but as you showed the process in S1 I thought that might help some people here :-)
Probably doesn't mean much I might be the first person in my country to use cakewalk 🇿🇼 thank you... You've been suvh great help since I started a month ago
Another great video Mike! By the way I managed to swap my CPU fan over ok - I had to buy a whole new replacement heat sink & fan as I couldn't get the fan separately but it made swapping the fan over a doddle and no need to go anywhere near the CPU :-)
Would you recommend doing that static mix in mono? I've been doing that and it often leads to a more balanced stereo mix, even with everything centered.
Cool vids, can you do a video on or do you have one on how to use plugins on events. If I just want a plug in only to have it’s effect say in the short bridge of the song only. I’m not sure how to do it yet. Thanks
Sub mixes and instrument busses are great and very convenient, but how do you normally deal with post-fader sends so that adjustments to the busses do not mess up the balance between the dry and the wet signal for effects like reverbs and delays? For this reason I normally tend to use VCAs for adjusting the volumes of instrument groups and leave the fader of the instrument busses alone. But that is just my preference. :) Great channel and lots of useful content here, thanks a lot!
First, Thanks for amazing videos! I have one question to you... How to route sound from virtual instrument into the VST synth to create effect or new sound based on the particular instrument in the Cakewalk by Bandlab? Would be interesting to see this kind of tutorial! Thanks
Another great video Mike! Since I don’t do much live recording (orchestral pieces using plug-ins exclusively), I’m wondering how much applies to what I do. Opinions anyone? Thanks for any thoughts...
The first few sentences speak to me lol. When I was younger releasing songs id finish them, not even save projects as I didnt know 🤣 then that was it. It was out. The definition of commitment. While the mixes were 1000% trash, I didnt spend months on a mix and start focusing/picking out every tiny flaw then getting fatigue and hating it. Then leave it alone for a year and love it again, only to feel the same way after 15 min lol. Its terrible. I gotta start to just do a quick mix and put it out. Average listener doesnt give a shit anyway.
I get very confused with gain staging. I understand that the fader and the gain are two separate adjustments, though they work together. I started gain staging after adding the effects, but before recording the tracks. My question is, why play with the volume of a track once the fader is at zero, and the gain is at the correct level?
The free Spitfish de-esser VST plugin by Digital Fish Phones is an easy to use de-esser effect, aimed mainly at vocal tracks (mono or stereo). Just like the classic analog hardware de-essers, the Spitfish de-esser dynamically filters out harsh, annoying s-like sounds that would otherwise 'spit' in your face.
Keep in mind that a De-Esser is simply a multiband compressor focused on the sibilance area, which is around 5-10k. Lisp is pretty good. Spitfish is a nice simpler solution if you think Lisp is too complex for you.
Too much tweaking!!!!!! You lose the soul of the song by tweaking every fkn aspect of every instrument possible. That’s why music now days have no feeling, soulless
