Toontrack EZ Mix Challenge! | Pete Cottrell
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- Опубликовано: 29 авг 2024
- Grab a coffee, sit back and let's make some Metal with EZ Miz 2!
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Toontrack Products Used:
Superior Drummer 2: goo.gl/XtWXy2
The Metal Foundry SDX: goo.gl/Ha8Jfz
EZ Miz 2: goo.gl/rd8BlJ
Mark Lewis Metal Tones: goo.gl/xCeD3A
Bass Beasts: goo.gl/DEGrHC
Metal Guitar Gods 1: goo.gl/08qgIX
Ambient: goo.gl/95VtLf
Mastering II: goo.gl/wlxZ1D
Metal Machine MIDI: goo.gl/P8rAFu
Library Of The Extreme 1-3: goo.gl/AkJuFW
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Signal Chain/Get the Gear:
Chapman Guitars ML7S
Focusrite Scarlet 2i4 2nd Gen: amzn.to/2bQMjSP
Cubase: amzn.to/1PNb3mx
Toontrack Superior 2 amzn.to/1nJfLfn
Toontrack The Metal Foundry SDX: amzn.to/1nJfQQ0
Toontrack EZ Mix 2: amzn.to/1nJ8cFk
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Dude EZMix 2 is literally a life saver. I use it on everything I make in some way or the other
The thrash is strong with this one
Sounds like Kreator
Pete is just a dork that got bored then got really good at guitar. It's awesome.
Outstanding riffage!
Thanks! :)
Yas, Riffmaster Pete is back!
I've been gone a month which is far too long, more videos soon! :)
Pete Cottrell ..hope so
Agufish heyyy its agufish!
ayyyyy it's Emir!
He sounds like Sylosis, and he sounds awesome!
wow, that's one MONSTER of a song!
Thanks! :)
Pete Cottrell would you make it a full length song oh my riff god? *.*
I am one of those guys that have been playing guitar for over 25 years, and have some seriously serious lack of knowledge when it comes to EQ and things like that. EZMix2 has completely fixed that for me! If you have Zero knowhow abot EQ, mixing and mastering, I can't recommend this enough!
I am waiting so hard for an album of yours! you are a gift to us!!!
Grab a coffee, sit back and let's make some Metal with EZ Mix 2! \m/
My first thing I've done was coffee as usual! :D
Great video anyways, I'd appreciate a unique video of your basic setup in cubase!
Keep it up!
That riff at 0:39 just KILLS! I love it!
EZ Miz 2
Pete Cottrell good shit as always my man. just wanted to let you know you mispelled ez mix in the description box. you may not care but ...
Pete Cottrell nice job I want to start recording and do music like this so could you or someone help me iam not Shure where to start I know I need a d.a. box to plug in to my computer but I don't know what I should get and I was wondering how much is track toons
That bass track is EPIC! Brilliant work as always Pete!
Thanks! :)
Love the way you explain things. Straight to the point with no unnecessary bullshit. Keep rockin' Pete!
Thanks for watching! :)
Finally. It's been forever since you last uploaded
I know, planned video fell through so had to change my plans. Thanks for watching! :)
it's ok. Congrats on 100k, btw
Thanks \m/
Man,you are a riff god! I was always wondering why do you post a video once a week and not do it more often,but now I see how much hard work you put in this videos.I've been watching you since you had about 25000 subs.You deserve much more subs for sure.Keep up the great work! \m/
Thanks, yeah I've been running behind for a few weeks and this took ages to put together. But next video won't be a Month away like this one was :)
It's great to get some good tips to help with mixing. It's something I'm starting to look in to at the grand age of 42! Thanks Pete!
Genial!
fascinating
Pete, thank you so much! Love all you do man. Truly inspiring my friend. I'm so close to recording my first project. it's taken me many years to get to this point. I hope I can figure out all the technical stuff with help from guys like you, Leo and Fluff I feel like I have a fighting chance.
This was really great. I have EZ Drummer 2 and EZ Mix 2. I haven't really experimented with EZ Mix 2 but now I think I'll give it a shot.
Great video, really inspirational! Going to play guitar, click drums and drink coffee for the rest of the afternoon.
Awesome! Thanks for watching :)
Kinda sounds like some Sylosis, decent stuff
Love Sylosis! :)
Fusion of metalcore and mainstream thrash.
These type of vids are so fucking amazing!! Thanks a bunch for sharing and for the amazing tones as always!
Thanks for watching! :)
I'm a fan of all ToonTrack Products.. I have ezdrummer, superior drummer, ezmix.. only thing missing is EzKeys.
Another nice video. a pleasure to watch .. keep em commin
Amazing Riff! Great video! I just started a riff section as well, I'm not that good though haha, thanks for the mixing tips!
Awesome!
Great as always🤘
Thanks! :)
Sounds fucking incredible!
This is definitely tempting me to get some more EZ Mix plugins... Great job!
Scratch that, I'm getting the Ambient EZmix Pack for sure.
Awesome! Tell them I sent you! :)
Will do! And thanks so much for this video dude! It takes a lot of guts to strip down a personal creation like that and show everyone in detail exactly how you've done it. I've learned so much from watching this video so, once again, thank you! :)
your bass sounds sooo good
Thanks! :)
Yo Pete!!!! Great video, I've been subbed for awhile. Keep up the awesome videos!! Cheers!
Thanks for watching and the Sub! :)
I've seen a lot of engineers saying bad things about EZ Mix in forums. I have EZ Mix and Superior Drummer 2 and love them both. If you don't know anything about mixing and expect some products to do it for you, don't expect a good result. If you know what you're doing, EZ Mix can be a great tool. A lot of the metal tones are a little too harsh on the high end for my taste, but a small EQ dip can easily fix it. The packs I have are Alt Rock, Ambient, Amps, Bass Toolbox, Drum Toolbox, the original EZ Mix 1 and 2 packs, Lead Vocals, Mastering 2, Metal Guitar Gods 3, Rock, Rooms & Verbs, and Vocal Toolbox. Sweetwater was having a sale where you could get 6 packs for $120. Usually, a 6 pack is $149. I also got SD2 for $99. That's currently the price to upgrade from SD1 to SD2. I never had SD1 and I only paid the upgrade price for SD2. Sweetwater doesn't disappoint.
I'm not a member of any forums, but if anyone else is, this mix ought to shut up the haters.
Finally uploaded!:3 when I listen to this it makes me feel like im in a scary haunted house :D nice riff!
21:12 sounds like some background music from Quake II.
Thanks for showing the way master Pete! :D Love your vids, such good riffs, many tips&tricks
I'm gonna Patreon you tomorrow, you got me a job to do with my mixes :D
Keep this awesomeness up!
what a sick room \m/
Getting some very Sound of Perseverance-era Death vibes from that track. Nice job as always, Pete!
Thanks! Love Chuck's music :)
Great work! Riffs are AWESOME!
Great work sounds awesome!
Thanks! :)
Pete Cottrell I've had to turn this up so that my neighbors could hear it. Keep up the good work.
Always rocking it Pete...cheers M8 🤘
Thanks for watching! :)
Man my biggest gripe with Superior Drummer is that snare volume. Gotta pull like 6 db out of it from the construct if you're gonna run it at %100 velocity
Wow, Awesome vid.....
This is awesome Pete! Talented man!
Amazing as always! Unfortunately I've already had a coffee and I can't sit here for the next 20 mins, but I find it interesting that your show us how you edit and mix your stuff
Watch it on x1.25 speed and save some time! Thanks for watching :)
Ha thanks for the tip! You sound a bit anxious on 1.25 speed, now you're the one who drank too much coffee, aren't you? :)
Ha ha :)
Great Skills!!!
Pete ''The Bottomless Pete (Pit) of Amazing Riffage'' Cottrell.
Absolutely amazing as always! \m/
I absolutely love when you're doing this mixing/mastering/recording type of the videos, wish there could be more of these in the future ^^ highly informative and entertaining!
Great DIY session, Pete, thx. I've sworn by Cubase for years, just started on it by reckoning the ProTools market leader was subject to every differing mfg'r DAW 'sonic signature'.
So to be different.
I also like mids better as they go in Cubase.
God damn u can write some killer riffs, great channel man!
Damn this one is sick ! Nice work :)
Thanks! :)
thanks for the Vid! Very interesting!
This is Golden. Beginning to end. metaaaaaal \mm/
Really nice.
Thanks! :)
Fucking incredible playing mate really creative and love how informative and helpful it is
Awesome, thanks for watching! :)
I love the gallop riff 😍😍
+Drum_Instinct Thanks! :)
considering i've had your channel running on a loop the whole day, this is the perfect way to end this pretty boring work day :) whoop, thank you !
Thanks for watching! :)
The lead at 1:10 is very Nobuo Uematsu. Sick as always Pete!
Sounds huge dude, awesome video as always. My only critique: I would have liked to hear you on/off the effects a bit more so I could hear the differences.
good stuff!
That song sounds like it came off Chimaira - Resurrection, nicely done man!
That lead he plays in the beginning... sounds like something Synyster Gates would play! 😁
Sick track man
Thanks! :)
Thanks for the review!! It sounds awesome!!! No sleep for the neighborhood everynight for sure!! =D Liked and subscribed to you bro!! Keep rockin, and do keep more comin''!
Awesome job! 🤘
Too drunk to watch all of it.. Maybe tomorrow..
He said drink some COFFEE... Make it Irish.
Man, that is really cool!
Would love to watch (and hear, my god those individual channels rock just separately) some mixing. Music listeners maybe does'nt like it that much, but the guitar playing fanatics like I am would like it a lot.
I actually really dont understand the levels of effecting that one channel goes throu in your setup, tho I am watching your videos for a while, and I am crawling towards an engineering degree. :D
It has an As I Lay Dying kick, different in a way, but still good.
Good sounding, ive use th-u for guitars, but this mix sounds good too in my opinion, great video 👍
Pete, I'd love to see what some of your pre-playing warm ups are. Do you stretch? Besides playing do you warm your muscles up in anyway?
Love the content!
I do lots of Legato and Alt Picking exercises around the G Major Scale in 3 note per string configuration. Thanks for watching! :)
Thx Jesus I got a new pair of Focal Studio Monitors to put them right next to my ears to fucking smash my brain with this great music !!! sounds totally awesome
Nice content! Keep it up!
Thanks for watching! :)
Sounds rad, man. Reminded me of Sylosis, you should check them out
I'm very familiar with them, Josh and Bailey are awesome! :)
That's exactly what I thought. Just needed the obligatory sweep arpeggios to complete the sound.
0:20 sounded very Blotted Science, not the harmonies and polymetres, but the tones and the octaved lead
I see you like the Battlecross presets. those are from my friends Band . Battlecross from Michigan.
Sweet! :)
im a simple man.... i see pete, i press like
Sounds like Exodus, I like it!
There's almost no point in forming a new metal band with pete constantly spitting out new riffage
I may have asked this question before, Pete, but is the Chapman 7-string currently your favorite guitar you own? Awesome work as always. Keep rocking and riffing!
I don't like EZMix2 using it 'cause it generates a LOT of noise.
Some could call me a noob or whatever, but I prefer Amplitube 4. And with the drums, I prefer Addictive Drums 2.
Sowy but no sowy.
Great video btw
EZMIX 2 is legit but the prices are quite high in the scheme of things, I bought a 5 packs and haven't been able to bring myself to buy more. Competition is fierce these days! Especially when iOS comes into the calculation. EzDrummer 2 is the same way....
Nice song. Sounds much like trivium and sylosis.
sick riff. reminds me of sylosis a lot lol
bad ass
great video!
Thanks for watching! :)
I dunno how you learnt how to riff like this but I envy it aha, keep going man you're doing some awesome work, like really, I don't often comment but you motivate me to create and play music! so I just wanted to show some support :)
Happy to help with that music motivation! :)
the drum edit roll in cubase is so much better then the piano roll for wiriting and editing midi FYI
For me the old piano roll is just way faster. The Ctrl + D shortcut doesn't work as well in the drum editor so I open that up for editing the velocity of the hits. Thanks for watching! :)
Nice! Would have been sweet if Toontrack provided you with a coupon/promo code for some of the products used in this video.
Thanks! Maybe next time, there's a sale on lots of the EZ Mix and Superior Line right now though :)
The black metal intro 👌🏻
these riffs remind me of Sylosis. I'll take it!
Good stuff, Pete! Why the jump to Cubase, though? If I remember correctly, you were a Reaper guy!
+Aman Bhargava I've been Cubase almost from day one, started with Sonar but moved over years ago. Thanks for watching! :)
Omg :D Awesome song
Thanks! :)
You would a piece of onion Sound good! Instant like
SYLOSIS guitar riff and rythm ??
Good :)
Thanks for the video, I've been using EzMix for a few months and always had a problem with the fact that in order to have a certain attack, I would use a TSE preamp sim in front of ezmix on Keith-Conquering tone, which led to noise problems and me being forced to use a gate and cut off most of my beloved sustain. What you have shown is absolutely magic. Did you use any additional noise suppressors? I wouldn't have known about the Mark Lewis pack without this video as I never check Toontrack news. Cheers mate :D
it says EZ Miz 2! in the description...might wanna change that :p
Love your videos man! I was wondering if ezmix was worth getting. Glad you made this video. Just one question. What are you using to get your distortion? Was that a part of ezmix or did you use your default distortion through ezmix on your guitar bus?
Thanks! They're all presets in EZ Mix 2 or the Mark Lewis Metal Tones Expansion :)
Pete Cottrell So that expansion is for ezmix?
Yep, you need the base EZ Mix 2 Plugin and then the expansion packs work within that. Kinda like adding patches to a Kemper, Axe FX or Line 6 POD :)
Pete Cottrell Too awesome man! Thank you for your time. Liked the vid already and subed a long time ago. ;) Peace man!
Ever consider trying Get Good Drums? Loving the riffage my dude!
Awesome job Pete ! did you put the both basses on center, or L and R ?
+devilsplotz Thanks! Yep, both tracks are in the Center and the Bass Buss is Mono :)
Will you make any lessons on writing riffs? i would totally buy that stuff, along with many other people i suppose.
+CarnivorousRoach Probably not, I'm never happy with the riffs I write. I honestly don't know how to explain to someone how to write riffs or songs, but the best advice I can think of is to listen to the music you love, identify the song structures and what you like about their music and incorporate it into your own songs. Thanks for watching! :)
Похоже на группу Sylosis, местами.. В общем круто звучит, в миксе просто зашибись, из этих рифов можно собрать хороший, полноценный трек.. ))
If only I knew how to fiddle around with the EQ and the levels.
+Yvan Tadle Boost the EQ band you have selected and sweep across the spectrum from low to high and back again, it'll help you pick out problem frequencies. You can then cut them once you've found them. Thanks for watching! :)
+Pere Cotrell Protips. Cool! Time to start recording I guess~
I love EZDrummer, (never tried Superior), but nobody can top BIAS for amp modeling in my opinion. The tone in this is a bit harsh on the ears. Great demo though :]
Nobody can top a real drummer.
Yes, 110% agree. But EzDrummer has been a great tool for me as someone who doesn't know a drummer in my tiny town, but still wanting to write music :b
I can't get bias to work in my daw. But yeah, it does sound amazing.
Yeaup :D Also, it's noise suppression pedal is incredible. You'd swear it was hardware, and not just a simple software gate. Does wonders for sure
And that's exactly why the competition needs to be encouraged to get better tones.
This doesn't sound half bad though - question is how it reacts to dynamics, but we usually won't be able to tell anyway.
Not sure what I'm doing wrong. I have my guitar running threw a focusrite interface set on inst to my desktop that has Cubase and Easymix 2. I've added Metal Gods 3 pack. My guitar sound is not even close to yours. Is it because I'm using headphones? Or maybe my stock BC RICH villian 8 string pick ups really suck? The tone seems sorta weak and dull. I have my gaming headset plugged into the front monitor headset output. Or is it because I running it direct and your using a mic on a amp?
Pete sorry but i need something to ask you
how you record your Screen and the sound appear too??
since i usually record everything when doing mixing,etc and never getting sound appear when record screen /sob
I have a problem which is kind of frustrating. I just bought ez mix with 6 packages. I did everything like you did, same presets. But my guitar tone sounds like crap. Muffled and very unpleasant to the ear. It also happened with neural dsp, bias fix. My gear is:
Cubase elements
Universal audio arrow
Mac mini
Ibanez prestige 7 string with dimarzio titan pickups.
Ibanez premium with dimarzio evolution
I’m running out of options literally. The only thing I didn’t change was the guitar cable... it would be stupid that my crappy tone would be the result of a cable... got any ideas on this issue? Btw, like your videos and subscribed.