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If any one song has motivated me to workout more often it's definitely this one.
The Rocky montages are always a way to get motivated to workout or go to the gym, and this one is the pinnacle of the series. Creed 2 is out next week for us (it's already out in America) but I can't wait to see how Rocky IV - Part 2 pans out with Creed with fighting Drago.
I struggled a lot with my tones this week. Batman Beyond sounded great in my opinion so I used the lead tone from that but in a full song like this that has an actual melody, the tone just sounded terrible and tinny, I spent ages trying to get it to sound right and I never managed to. So just out of curiosity I switched over to Bias FX for my lead tones (I've owned it for about 6 months but never used it) and that seemed to give a warmer tone straight away, I tinkered a little to fine tune it but this was just one of the stock presets. I've always struggled with my tone so it's one thing I definitely want to work on.
I also got a new phone this week (the OnePlus 6 for anybody interested) and I use my phone as a way to check how my mix sounds on phone speakers. The OnePlus speakers are pretty bad so it highlighted a lot of bad things about my mixing process. After that I decided to see what other RU-vid guitarists mixes sound like, I wanted to see how my stuff compared. So I was listening through some recent stuff from RichaadEB and FamilyJules, and their mixes blow mine out of the water. I always knew I wasn't as good at mixing but just to hear the comparison was a bit shocking at how bad mine are. So over the Christmas I'll be heading home to spend time with family and I won't be bringing all of my guitars and camera equipment so I'll just be spending time on getting better at mixing and making better tones, and hopefully when I come back in January it'll sound much better.
If any of you guys have any tutorials or books or guides that might help me improve my mixing or tones then let me know, I'm always willing to improve!
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Guitars:
- Ibanez RG421 MOL (Wood)
- Baby Taylor (3/4 Steel)
- Yamaha Pacifica PAC112J (Red)
- Acoustic Solutions (Black)
- Tanglewood TW55 (Steel)
- Valencia CG150k (Nylon)
Recording Interface: Line 6 Pod UX1
Recording Software: Mixcraft 8 Pro Studio
Editing Software: Adobe Premiere Pro
Camera: Fujifilm X-A2
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16 сен 2024
