FINISHING THE SONG | Recording Guitars & Bass
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- Опубликовано: 2 авг 2024
- Finishing up all the guitars, bass and layering for the new song ‘While We Wait’ that myself and Ben Minal wrote and recorded at my studio.
Happy to say the song is finished, mixed and mastered now! So it’ll be coming out real soon!
Stoked!
00:00 -Previously
00:30 - The Plan Today
03:39 - Wall Of Sound Start
04:43 - Saving CPU
06:47 - Next Section
10:14 - Heavy Section
11:07 - Pushed Cleans
11:44 - Bass
13:30 - Day 2 Starting Layers
17:35 - Background Layers
19:48 - Coming Soon
Video edited by John Hollingworth
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I LOOVE those behind the scenes videos. It's both entertaining and super useful to see all this insight on how it's all done
Great point around 5:50 on committing to the sound. I'll just add, once you've chosen the sound, your performance is always in the context of THAT sound. So you can try to reamp a DI but down to the pick attack, everything on that DI centers around how that rigs responds to your performance. If you DESPERATELY need to change the sound you got afterwards, that's what EQ and compression and saturation are for. Committing your amp sounds is just good sense really.
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I've been watching you for years now, maybe 10, I'm really proud of your progress, just wanted to comment to show my appreciation for your music.
same here, watching about 10 years
hell ya! so cool to see all your insight and how its all done! you guys are awesome🤘🤘
I really love seeing this side of your creative process. Thanks so much for sharing.
It's epic! Sounds great and the vibe is goosebumping.
Thanks for letting us in for this Bea. It can get a bit demoralising seeing all these perfect guitar players online, seeing a player of your calibre make mistakes and punch in to tidy up takes makes me feel better about doing it myself.
You’re a beast mate, these tones are unreal and filthy.
Everybody does it man! That’s a fact! So Don’t feel bad!
It’s so awesome seeing your process to create such bangers all the time ! Very interesting, you’re a huge inspiration for me 🤘
Keep coming back to this, its such a unique and helpful insight into your approach to writing and the track sounds HUUUUGE can't wait!
Such a great series, I always enjoy your work!
I am so hyped to finally hear it! And Bea, you can absolutely mention the Plugin as much as you want and need, because in my opinion, it is one of the most creative and professional tool out there. The best thing i have bought in the past years. Thank you Bea
I learned quite a lot from this video. Definitely applying some of these production tips to a song I’m working on this week. Now really excited for part 3!
It’s so great seeing all of the different sections being put into place a layer at the time, but first and foremost I’ve got to say how fucking monstrously thick and epic this track sounds. Absolutely cannot wait to hear it in full! The music you’re involved with is some of the most exciting, creative and detailed stuff I’ve come across in modern rock/metal for a long time, keep it coming!
Yes! finally we get to see the mighty thumb 5 NT! Can't wait to hear the full track, that small glimps of mastered track at the end sounded awesome!
Wow! Rabea, great vid. A sneak peak into your thinking behind building these sounds and production. It has given me so many ideas just form watching. Very inspiring. A big thankyou!
Hi Rabea really enjoyed watching this, thanks for sharing some of your process. One of the best things about the internet is content like this.
absolute riff machine, love seeing behind the curtain for this stuff
very excited!
I especially loved the part at 13:05. I know that feeling. Nothing better when you're tracking finally starts coming together. You can see your face start filling with pure joy.
super keen to hear this
Love these little behind the scenes/how I do it kind of vids. I'm just a hobbyist at best when it comes to music making/sound engineering. I'm no where near making stuff this layered and complex (yet). Great inspiration and motivation though. Thanks for helping teach an old dog new stuff.
Literally bought one of those Gretsch’s this week and I adore it. Huge tones.
Glad to see I'm not alone in recording the sound instead of DI.. I route it differently in logic tho, since I dont use UAD stuff.. I set a bus on logic. Put the input of the bus to be the input of my audio interface. Then set the output to a bus. And then I create a track and instead of making that tracks input to be the auido interface, I instead put the bus as the input. Sounds complicated but it's really simple actually.
I'm going to try this.
Sounds incredible mate.
This is going to be so sick!! 🤘
Can't wait til you get the song finished, sounds killer.
So rad
man it sounds amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great video dude \m/
These song vids have been brilliant - So cool to peek behind the curtain and see your process man.
Love the four to the floor woodblock running throughout this track too. ;)
Massive tones! I think it is time to finally spend the coin on your plugin after doing the trial twice! Can't wait to hear the full song!
Beautiful, just chuggin' beautiful
The bit on CPU usage and committing to the sound is actually very helpful for me right now. Killer tips as always Bea.
Oh my... Finally got here. Great hardware. I wish I had that kind of. Maybe one day... Regards from Poland ;)
These types of videos are my favourite.
Thanks 🤘 also for giving the trouble bits of writing too. Reliefs the “the fuck I’m doin here” stress on my side immensely.😅😅
10:50 LOOOOL, I had to watch that numerous times 😂
man has some killer riffs
Love you Chapman guitars
Making tons of involuntary gurn faces throughout this!! Massive
Do impressive that you're doing that, while thinking about how to present how you're doing it and recording a video at the same time.
I do the standalone plugin into DAW thing. I did the DI thing for a while, but always found it frustrating to work with, so I prefer to commit to a sound early. Especially since that's the root of the inspiration to bring Ruth.
Hey could you explain how to do the plugin into the DAW? I would really appreciate directions if you know of them. Thank you!
Love your style RM, also the clinic in Epsom the other day was a nice break from reality - I learnt a lot from you - I never got into Dorje , I think if you did it again or continued writing I’d 💯 get behind it
15:39 wait are you telling me you're left handed?! But play right? You learn something new every day
13:09 that riff is going carry armies to war. Heavy as F**K.
Learned a lot from watching this video. Thanks!
Very cool video, hope you do more like this!
Pro tip I learned from legendary guitarist and producer Dan Huff (Giant, Micheal Jackson, White snake and many more) back in the 90s and it still holds true to this day. When you're doing heavy rock and metal of all of genre's where you're distorting a guitar, always record a single clean guitar track and pan it to dead center, no efx at all and you set it way back in the mix so that it's basically inaudible, you can kind of play with the level up or down to your liking but it's not meant to be heard really, it blends and becomes part of the background scenery . The point to doing it that way is the clarity and definition that track gives to the distorted guitar tracks. It's a pretty sweet layering trick, go on! Give it a go!!!🤘😎🤘
Maaaan i'm so jealous of the Thumb. Very exited to hear the full track
This track sounds so good!
@RabeaMassad haha! ok Rabea ill get right on that!
@RabeaMassad stop trolling a go fraud someone else i was clearly joking, you've been reported
Stank face is the correct face for that heavy section 😂
A few years ago I obsessed over setting up the perfect re-amping recording environment in my home studio... and then ended up not really using it that much. So cool hearing from a master player that he feels much the same. Dial in a cool tone, commit to it, and then get the best out of it when mixing. Worst case - redo the take...
Man I hope you come to the USA again I wanna meet you so bad
Great video! I enjoyed seeing the process. Would you be able to explain how you record the sound of your plugin without recording the DI? I like the idea of committing to a sound like the old days.
The Standalone thing instead of using tons of Guitar Sim Plugins is awesome! I've never thought about that. Now I need to figure out, how to do that on a windows machine without UAD Hardware:D Maybe ASIO Link or something? That could be a life saver!
Awesome! Between this and Jens Bogren’s how its done my behind the scenes audio recording bug is satisfied! Just curious, you still rocking your custom flow picks of late?
heavy section sound like old Arhcitects song)) nice sound, you the best
Who else be rocking their heads w/Rabea during the bass tracking ? ✋
Definitely me dude! The bass tone he dialed in sounds massive. Tone reminds me of Mastodon in way
Hey man great video! I like that you commit to the sound. Do you commit to reverb and delay also?
the rhythm of the heavy section sounds like absolute stinky massive chuggy hammer chugchug (sorry,, I lost it..)!! EPIC!
LOATHE AS ONE
6:10 You know it's heavy when it makes rabea's hair drop😂
5:06 would love a little tutorial on how to do this
Do you incidentally have content diving into how you dial in fuzz tone for recording (in the box)? Your fuzz tone is jaw dropping
When Bea left Chapman Guitars and joined EBMM, they had to have known that he wanted at least three guitars: Strat-style triple single coils for his signature SSS pickup set (Cutlass), dual humbucker heavy-tone six string for his HH signature pickup set (Sabre), and a baritone to replace his Chapman Baritone (?). Keep your eyes peeled, folks ...
awesome video, what's the strandberg you have in the back? I have never see you play one before, love the part explaining the production details of your workflow
Bea you can always freeze the Guitar tracks, and quickly unfreeze if you need to access. Freezing them treats them like it's a pure audio track anyway, but the DI is one unfreeze-click away
I'm sure he knows this.
I can only speak for myself, but I like to print it as well, exactly so that I *can’t* go back and fiddle endlessly with amp settings and IRs. Commit and move on is one of the most important mindsets I've picked up.
You are my guitar hero. When will this song be released?
I think the term you were looking for at the end was "letting things breathe".
You ever try the PRS se mushock baritone?? WONDERFULL guitar. Tracks amazingly.
Any way we could get a tutorial on how you're routing the standalone into your DAW? I can't seem to figure it out and it would massively help with saving CPU. (Plus pro tools kills the quality of my Neural plug-ins for some reason.)
Personally I love to change IRs when I’m mixing to find the ones that fit the final mix the best. Just my opinion.
I like the idea of using the plugin in its standalone version then routing that to the DAW and just tracking the sound as is and not having the DI sound. How would i set this up?
Yeah, I know what you mean.
Already sounds fantastic, question: if you're double tracking (one guitar for each side) why are you tracking stereo guitars per side? Keep it up Bea!
I'm not sure I completely understand your question. But I think he double tracks the heavy rhythm parts (so one mono guitar left, one right) and has single guitar tracks (lead and ambient etc.) as stereo tracks with effects etc.
I'm not Rabea lol but maybe this helped. Cheers man.
Curious as to how you’re routing the audio from the standalone? Have you had to install separate software to do so?
Like the Gretsch Rebea
What does that mean
@RabeaMassad what does that mean
I have the same Gretsch, I love it too, but it destroys my fingers everytime I put it out :)
Does anyone know what happened to this song? It doesn't seem to have been released yet, and it sounds killer!
When's this coming out!
what tension strings you use? in drop B ?
Y'all know what this means, dont you?
This is a call to arms for us to inundate Ernie Ball with Rabea's request.
GET ON IT! :P
I might just frame your face from 10:53 and look it up every time I make a gnarly riff 🤣
would love you to collab with Devin Townsend to make some slow prog
whens the song coming?
Do you trigger the drums for projects like this? And did you do the same for Dorje and Toska?
No these drums were recorded at my studio live.
Is this out yet?
Why not just run the plugin on the DAW input channel? Then, if you route the same input to another channel and track you can still record dry while printing the plugin. CPU saved, options to change sound later if you need when low latency is not required. At least, that's what I have been doing in Nuendo/Cubase for 20 years or so.
DO you use reverb or delay on your rhythm sections?
Yes sometimes :)
Rabea you're a fucking handsome dude. That needed to be said. Cheers
Which plugin you use on the bass ?
I use my QC - made a couple presets I keep coming back to
Dave
maybe freezing the tracks you're finished with could also reduce the workload of your cpu enough...
Wait, am I trippin' ? this song didn't came out right? Bea said it's finished.
Well, that was shit. *ONWAAAARD!* 😆
Whilst we wait.....for what? Intrigued....
A MusicMan baritone I guess.....
You can't use those riffs. They are too filthy.
The heavy section, I literally had the EXACT reaction. That is NASTY