What do we learn from this video? In a dance/indie-rock track you want to control your low-lows and you want to have your guitars a little more on-on. Yes, those are the professional terms. Great job Warren, really cool to see how you mixed this. I like this track a lot.
Warren, If you are conserned with, say, snare bleed on the kick producing unwanted reverb, I have had some luck with an alternate method. It is to use strip silence remove snare bleed from the kick mic (and vice versa for the snare mic). It can remove as many snare hits as possible before it starts to remove the weaker kick hits. The few snare hits left can be edited out. Then consolidate the entire kick track before any clip gets accidently moved. This can help preserve the dynamics of the kick performance.
Hi John D thanks for that tip! I usually leave it in, I enjoy it, however I have mixed songs where the snare is far too compressed and the kick is bleeding in so I think this could be a good trick for that! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
This is a fantastic video, Warren; just wonderful. Thanks for sharing your knowledge, experience, and talents. I'm spreading the word of your PLAP series.
+Produce Like A Pro Great video and song. There are somethings i didnt quite understand though. In this example, why go to the lenght of panning the verb for each L-R guitar when you put a reverb one on each in the end? Wouldnt that be equal to just putting a stereo reverb across a sub guitar channel? I assume the reverbs on each channel are mono?
Truly wonderful run through of the mix, really concise and inspiring.. please more of these if you can ! Many many thanks Warren, you're a true Maestro and gentleman..
Hi hazybrain7 wonderful, so glad to be able to help!! Thanks very much for your kind words I really appreciate it! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Hi Warren, I'm an 80's teen so I'm old! After the small little section you are calling a hook, I'm waiting for the lead singer from 38 special to start singing Caught up in You. Lol. Great video!!!
Another great video/tutorial Warren. Every move you make here is very logical and easy to understand how and why. You'd make an excellent teacher. And the track sounds spot on as always..loved the idea of the blended synth kick on this.
Little trick I use on side-chaining a compressor. Instead of tying it to a bass kick, I'll use a short muted wood click, that way I find it a little easier to control the "pump" with the compressor.
Hi Howard Hedger yes indeed! That is a great way to do it, I usually print a kick with a lot of attack, whatever sounds great is always best! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
:) These video's make the nerd inside of me very happy! These video's remind of when I got the game genie for Nintendo. It just made video game life cooler and easyer! Thank you for these amazing videos!!!
Grooving song, Warren. Really cool sounding compressor on the guitars. Thx again, always things to learn w/every vid. You're cranking them out quicker than I can keep up w/them, LOL.
"...I use Logic a lot for keys.. It's dumb and easy to use..." LOL! Never heard it called dumb before. Mixed my first album entirely ITB in Logic. That probably explains a lot then :) Loving some of your little tricks like the synth drops and explosions. I'll definitely be nicking some of those ideas. Similar to your tape distortion on vox the trick I've used to add some trashy excitement is to send a copy of the vox through an amp sim mixed in below the lead. Keep them coming, and thanks!
Hi Mark Green haha! What I mean by dumb is I can just open it up and the sounds are there ready to go! No need to search, great sounds straight away! Steal away on my ideas and please share any you may have! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Hi Warren ! Thank you so much for this video. Very informative as always :) Would be glad if you could share the Hi Hat used , as well as the microphone used on the Hats. Cheers, Lionel
Hi Lionel Crasta Thanks very much for the great question I really appreciate it! ! I use Zildjian New Beat Hats and mic with a Lewitt LCT140. Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Hi warren, I was wondering if you can create a video on production, specifically on the creation of a song from start to finish; chord changes or melody changes in each section of an "Intro," "Verses," "Pre Chorus," "B-Section/Bridge," "Breakdowns," "Outros," etc. I want to see how you create a song from the beginning till the end of a session.
Hi TGR Music Group thanks for the great question! Yes indeed I will definitely do a full Production from start to to finish video! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Great video I like the walk through and in depth look at your techniques. I often hear about mixing in mono, is that a technique or application you use in your process? As always thanks so much for you time and inspiration.
Hi Pickngrass thanks for the great comment! I will check my mixes in Mono from time to time, especially if I am concerned with phasing/polarity issues. Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Hi Warren. Finally got to watch this video today. Very interesting stuff going on there. Love the chorus in this tune, great hook! I don't think I've heard anyone use "Get your Rocks Off" before lol. Love it! I must ask though, how long from start to finish would a song like this take you? I can tell you're very proficient with your DAW and the tools you use, however, after you have the raw tracks recorded, and you start with all your Melodyne stuff, and those little reverse items etc, how much time would you normally spend on that sort of stuff (in general of course, using this song as a reference) I use a Focusrite Sapphire Pro 40, with an additional 8 channel ADAT which gives me 16 full I/O. Nice piece of gear! I'm looking later (once I get my new room finished) at perhaps adding another Sapphire Pro 40 (you can chain two together to behave like one interface in your DAW) and could have a total of 32 I/O with another ADAT expansion. I want to add a reasonable price console at that stage, but might hit you up for some wiring ideas to get it from the DAW to the mixer and back to the DAW. Thanks again Warren, keep up the great work! PS: How do you find the time to work on mixing while answering these posts! Cheers! Danny.
Hi Danny MacNevin thanks for the great question! I wrote this song with the singer, so including the writing, recording and mixing it was probably around 2 days work total. Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
13.25 .. when you say that you add the reverb to the sample snare channel only to avoid bleed into the reverb form the main snare mice ... would another technique be to gate the first half second or so of the real snare into a reverb channel? That way you'd get the dynamics of the real drum too.
Hi +Terry Doyle Definitely! That would work as well! Personally I still like the cleaner sample feeding the snare, but I will also send from the live snare at times. For instance I'm mixing Ace Frehley's new album at the moment and I'm sending a little verb from the love snare as we aren't using any samples on the drums at all! Happy New Year! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
As usual a marvellous video! Very useful in this evergoing process in learning to record and mix. I do have a little suggestion in a coming video: I would be super interested in hearing you talk about the room, damping etc.. I work in a proper rehearsal room, not so much damping and I don´t have a control room either.. So it would be lovely indeed to get your thoughts and experience in for example what you can do to make the recording room better for recording. You know I love mixing and useing plug-ins, but I think that a as good as it get´s kind of room will make the mixing part a bit easier. Or am I totally wrong here? :) Hope you doing marvellously well Warren, and again thanks for a lovely video! All the best from Sweden. / JP
Hi Johan Persson in Sweden! Thanks for the great question! I would have to know more abut your room. If it's really just a square box then putting furniture in and breaking up standing waves would be the first thing I'd do. Bass traps in the corners would be next for me. Let me know a little more! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Hi Warren! Thanks for your answer, l really appreciate it! I didn't mean my own room, more in general.. But ok, It's a pretty much standard room, 15-18 m2. Built in an old factory building. Very light with dampening, so l'll never have to use reverb on my recordings.. it sounds like a small church acctually! :) I'm thinking of that l might build some movable walls to place around the drumkit, but l don't know if It's worth it really.. Hope you'll have a marvellous day and thanks ever so much for taken your time and read and reply to my comment! Cheers W! /JP
Hi Warren! hope you had a nice weekend! I just noticed that on the L2 on your Drum Bus you kept the IDR section on. Is there a specific reason why? I always switch it of whenever I'm not mastering or even so if I have some analog simulation on my master bus... could you expand on that pleas! Thank you so much for taking the time to discuss all this, I've learned a lot from you
Hi +Luis G. San Jose Caballero I really like the L2 to control errant transients, it just tucks in some of them and makes for a great slamming sound! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
+Produce Like A Pro Hi I have another question regarding your "drum sub". Im not that familiar with pro tools, but I assume this "channel" is whats called a group channel in logic, so its not an aux, right where you are bussing the drums to, as you would reverb for instance? was just a bit confused watching it because you were talking about the MV2 as a parallel compressor, but usually a parallel compressor is inserted on an aux unless you just double the track and slam it on there as an insert of course. So just wanted to double check. Also the L2 that comes after slams it pretty hard, and so it seems like its being used instead of an SSL G compressor to glue it together, correct? Thanks Warren!!!
Thanks Warren, another great video! You really do not use lots of plugins, and the mix sounds great! What is you opinion about console emulation plugins? Do you think they help mixing ITB, or just over process the sound? Thanks!
Hi Gustavo Justus do Amarante Thanks very much for your kind words I really appreciate it! I like some of the console emulation stuff, it seems that if the audio was recorded very think sounding then they probably really help a lot! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
I love your videos, I'm picking up a ton of useful tools! Quick question you may have addressed somewhere: Do you always layer sampled drums on live kits, or just once in a while?
Hi Unearthlybrutal great question! I just mixed Black Veil Brides Live DVD/BluRay 'Alive and Burning' and I gained down the bleed between the toms. I find that gates can sometimes work really well, but other times can miss subtle tom hits, so now I gain down the bleed. Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Hi Warren. Please keep 'em coming. learning some cool tricks and ideas. i have a question about the MV2. this plugin automatically adds dither. are you concerned about that at all? if you use it multiple times and with compression, its possible to build up low level noise.
Hi Simon Jameson thanks for the great comment! I am only concerned when I hear issues arise, agreed if multiple channels build up problems then I would address them. However I haven't had that issue as yet. Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Hi Warren, why is it that you use the Waves plugins, over the stock ones? Seems like you always use them, when it seems that the stock ones can do the same job? Is it the sound of them, or just out of habit? Thanks! :)
Hi llJaack thanks for the great question! I use stock plug ins a lot, the Avid Reverb is great for plate reverb, the delays I use a lot as well. My other favourites are McDSP plugins, their Analog Channel sounds wonderful! The Waves plugins are great for more surgical EQs and the MV2 is the best all in one parallel compressor, however I love the McDSP EQs for broad strokes. I hope that helps! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
I have to say this video has so many great little tips it gets a "10." Question for you Capt marvellous. At about 24:00-24:10 of this video you touch (again) on trimming the level between plugins. I believe you had two compressors inserted and then trimmed the output slightly. Couldn't you do that with the output/makeup gain of the plugins? Or would that affect the sound of the plugins? (Not very familiar with those specifically yet.) Gain staging and level management at various points is something I have been studying closely lately and would like to hear more from you on this.
Hi +Mark Bliss Great question! Definitely whatever works works! There are multiple ways to trim your gain, inside of most DAWs these days they give us a huge amount of headroom! But yes great headroom is important! Happy New Year! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Hi, Warren. Your video is really helpful and interesting. May I know what Mac book you are using for this mixing with such lot of tracks & plug-ins running at the same times. How fast is the CPU, ram, & hard disk needed? Thanks a lot. Cheers.
Hi +Tony Mui I'm not in front of it at the moment, but it's really old by modern stands, I think I got it in 2008? Thanks very much I really appreciate it! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Hey Warren.. great stuff. Question: are you concerned about any "activity below your V shape stereo image" or otherwise known as the "anti-phase", when using so many channels hard-panned LF and RT and all the other 'phase shifting' effects you show on this video, etc..? I always have a PAZ Stereo FEQ Analyzer on my Master bus.. that allows me to pay attention to not only the frequencies but also the stereo image.. And I always get concerned when I see activity down there (anti-phase activity, that is).. Should I be concerned as much about that? Also, on that realm of things, is it OK to hard-pan LF and RT your drums OH's? or am I better off to go light on the left and right panning on those? .. Thanks again! Cheers
Hi +david diaz Great question!! I use this effect extremely low and definitely pay close attention to how it sounds, that's really my main concern! Use very low to widen, but make to check how it sounds, not how it looks! I know there are a lot of videos with visual help placed above how things actually sound. But I believe if you use this very highly you will get a great benefit from it! Thanks very much I really appreciate it! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Very wise reply.. Enlightening as always. Thanks very much Warren. I don't know how you manage to find time to reply to us all. You are amazing. Cheers
Hi +david diaz Thanks very much! I just try and take 20 mins break every now and then and answer all of the questions I can! I;m not a Professional Teacher, so maybe they don;t bother answering the questions because it doesn't make financial sense? But to me I want this to be a great community where we all learn from each other!! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Great song and video Warren ! I noticed something funny, the first part of your glockenspiel gimmick at 30:37 sounds very close to the one I created in the bridge section of my mix for the PLAP Warm song contest (check Tom Scott Mix at 2:22 and let me know !!!)... ;-) As a matter of fact I think it's in the same key !! :)) As for the MV2 plugin, I always found it makes things sound harsh a bit or is it just me ? And as for the Addictive snares, I find there is a lack of round robin from the software but again it's maybe just me ! :) Anyway thank you for this video again, loved it ! :) I love how you process your drums too !! Very smart !! :) Cheers ! Tom ---
Hi Inverted Poles thanks for very much for watching! Yes I wrote and Produced this song a while ago, I love Glockenspiels! I use them in a lot of songs, sometimes I overdrive them as well, sounds like a cool distorted guitar! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Just wondering how you got the stereo effect with one guitar right and the reverb on the left, and the other vice versa. Specifically, how you got just the reverberation from each one on its own and panned it differently if that makes sense. Can you do this with pretty much any reverb plugin? Sorry if it's a dumb question, I'm still fairly new to this haha
Hi James Fearon Thanks very much for your great comment I really appreciate it! One guitar is panned left and it's corresponding reverb is panned right, the other guitar is panned right and it's corresponding reverb is panned left. Does that make sense? Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Regarding the snare sample used to trigger the reverb, is the raw sample turned down so only the reverb is heard? Also, what's your process for writing vocal melodies? Do you just sing them or do you play them on an instrument to convey idea to the singer? Thanks so much!!
Hi Tim McEneany thanks for the fantastic questions! I do both with the snare that I use to trigger the verb. I have occasionally created a snare just for verb! If I wanted a huge ambient snare and just wanted to hear the verb I would do that. But usually the snare sample is part of the drum sound and I use it to trigger the verb as well. I always sing the vocal melodies to the artist when writing, but occasionally I will play a line for them to follow. Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Hi Warren hope your doing marvoulously well? Just wondering do you use pro tools HD ? Or just the regular, I currently use Logic Pro x, and have been for several years , but I am thinking of maybe having a look at pro tools for mixing etc, but not sure which version would suit my needs and pocket best, regards Steve
Hi Steve Henderson Thanks very much for your great comment I really appreciate it! I use both, I have an HD rig that goes through my console and I have Native on my lap top, I mix on both and record on both. You can make great music using either! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Thank's Warren! Just wonder...Macbooks tends to have wrong balance in the stereo field. Right channel have more gain. It's, from what I've read, a design fault. I can hear it on all 3 macbooks I've owned the last 6 years. Did you notice this as well and if so did do any balance to compensate? Thank's!
Hi Peter Martinsson thanks for the comment! Yes there is a design flaw with the internal speakers balance. However I don't use the Macbook Pro's speakers that often, I might use them for a short while to double check my mix, but I don't mix through them. I am normally monitoring through headphones or small powered speakers from the IO. Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Hi Peter Martinsson I understand! It's a great point you're making and I do reference on them at times, but it's mainly for balance issues on frequencies to see how it sounds on different playback mediums. Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Another great video! I have a question regarding your laptop. I am ready to replace my pc laptop and migrate to Mac . I've been looking at the MacBook Pro 15. Do you use the upgraded graphics card in your Mac or just the standard ? I plan on maxing the ram to 16g, and going with the 2.5ghz cpu. I do plan on using plugins and some midi instruments in my workflow.
Hi +30yrpro Great question! My Lap Top is completely standard! I hope that helps? It sounds like yours will be amazingly powerful! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
+30yrpro Avid say's to use a 2.7GHz processor but I'm using a 2.5Ghz processor w/8 G of RAM on a Mac w/PT 12.4 so far so good. I haven't mixed a big mix w/lot's of plugs, but I did mix a Counting Crows song w/this system.
Hey there I got a question with all of those backing vox you're compressing them on their individual channel right? But are you also sending them to an aux to eq and process them or not? And what is your fader volume you're sending to an aux if you're sending them to an aux?
Hi Nathan Brown thanks for the great question! Yes I may individually compress things then group compress and/eq them, it would depend on how much I want to contain them. I don't do things the same way each time.
Hi Jacob Longoria go to:- ruclips.net/video/IwIZ35CAA5Y/видео.html this will explain my vocal thickening trick! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
It's good songs throughout, often with a grit and a drive and the kick sounds fine for that. You use Melodyne too, that is my speciality. I know it back to front and do a lot that Celemony isn't aware of is possible. I've used Studio and Editor for a good 6 years. Any problems, hit me with the file. Ex. putting a female stem a fifth under the lead has to be done a certain way since it will need a natural gender-bender and the formant tool doesn't really cope with that but it can be done. Good track and interesting video.
Hi +rawstarmusic Thanks very much for your great comment I really appreciate it! Great stuff, I use Autotune for vocal tuning, but building harmonies in Melodyne is fantastic!! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
+Produce Like A Pro Would love to see a tutorial on this. I have build harmonies before, but i dont know, most of the times, its like i cant pitch the notes very high or low, apart from a few notes up or down it will sound like digital artifacts crap. What am i doing wrong?
great video/ just a few questions On the lead vocal.. i noticed you still were using the detuned tracks along with the lead during the verse ... do you keep those the same levels with the verse and chorus or did you make those detuned vocals more prominent in the chorus...so with the stereo width trick with the synth... What i have done before to kinda push it down in the middle is to run it in M/S which I have used the Puig Fairchild 670 from waves and compressed the mids down more to kind of sit it behind the center tracks. Would that be an ok thing to do also or would a stereo width plugin work better? thanks again... i love these types of videos where it shows everything working together... thanks again...
Hi Tim Adams great question! I push up the vocal thickening tracks during the choruses and bring it down when the music is less dense. I'm hit and miss with M/S personally messing with the Polarity makes me dizzy! haha. Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
i see your tracking drums in a simple home set up here. excellent. now would you stay away from electronic drum kits ? im guessing yes ! but thought id ask.
Hi +kingdizzyworld Thanks very much for your great comment I really appreciate it! I'm not a big fan of electronic drums, however it's a fantastic way to trigger great sounds!! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
also when i pan something should i make sure there's no super low frequencies in it? I heard before that generally you want sub frequencies or anything below 80 roughly to be mono down the center. any truth to it?
Hi Mellowtree great comment! Must be a regional thing! This wouldn’t get on Pop Radio in the US unless it had already charted on all the alternative Radio formats first. Have a marvellous New Year!!
Thanks for all for videos. I have a questiin if I have a vocalvthat is really thin how can I make it warmer and thicker and maybe have a rich resonance ? Nit so much room resonance but more resonance in the voice.
Hi +Jeff Smith That's a fantastic question! When I worked with Don Smith he would have the snare tuned to the key of the song! It was fantastic! However when Tom Lord Alge mixed it he put on his snare sample so we didn't hear the tuning! So with that experience in mind I now tune the drums when I know that it's going to make a difference with the song! When it's something very organic!
Hi Warren, What do you think of the Waves "plugins? I've noticed a price disparity between the Native and Powercore plug-in offerings from Waves Plug In Native versions are much cheaper than the Powercore versions, but do they differ in quality?
Hi +Davide thesea Great question! The main difference is the stress it puts on the cpu, some are card based on the HDX system and the native run on the cpu, both sound great!! Have a marvellous time recording and mixing, many thanks Warren
Hi +Bold Beagle Yes agreed! Great tones make me happy!! Glad you enjoyed the vocal! Great singer helps too! Happy New Year! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
one question. I heared the final version on your offer, where you can buy the course - is this only the mastered track or is there more to it, that you've done(because it sounds diffrent, an seems to havemore drive somehow).
Hi dc dcd, I did a full mix breakdown over several hours! I go into every detail of the process! Have a marvellous time recording and mixing, many thanks Warren
Hi +Elvin Lewis No! Tell me more!! Thanks very much for your great comment I really appreciate it! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
As if a portal opened up, and exposed an entire universe of music. Let me put it this way, you can put together an entire orchestral arrangement, and it sounds 100% real. No, I'm not exaggerating. You can find several examples here on You Tube. It blew my mind. www.soundsonline.com/composercloud
just a quick question. shouldn't we EQ the snare top and bottom together? doesn't it give better results because it prevents phasing? that's what i've heard in a few lessons.
Hi Kshitij Bhargava thanks for the great comment! I would strongly suggest doing what sounds the best, always best to do that! Music does many things to the listener, it can be an amazing emotional journey, it can inspire, we are truly blessed to be able to make it! As my old friend Jack Douglas says be wary of experts, the best music has always been made by amateurs! There's always a 'right way' to do it and then there's what sounds best! I would always go with what sounds the best! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Produce Like A Pro thanks for a quick reply. really appreciate that. although i did expect you'd reply with something like that (seeing your other videos). i completely agree with you and share the exact same ideology. it's just that i've just started getting into mixing. so i just wanna make sure i'm getting the best possible outcome from whatever i have recorded.
Hi Kshitij Bhargava thanks very much! I'm just like you, I'm still learning, I will always be learning, so happy to share what I know and learn from everyone here! Yes I'm quite wary of the experts, haha, the guys that rant away and who know best! Music is such a wonderful thing to do, we are truly blessed! We can easily get caught up in what things look like on a screen, but fortunately people listen to music they don't look at it! Thanks very much for your great comment I really appreciate it! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Produce Like A Pro and I'm glad and excited to know good people like you are out there making music. you must be a great mentor. please keep sharing your knowledge and experience with us. thanks for the reply.
Great song made better by your creative producitorian (I made that word up) ideas. That guitar part at 34:38ish of the video is so 38 Special (I want to say "Hold On Loosely"). Great video, Warren. Much appreciated. I'm going to have to see if I can find a Varifi-type plug-in for Cubase 8 Pro. I like that technique / effect. #ProduceLikeaPro #RUclipsMixTeacher
Hi Jed Wunderli Haha Im English I'm not sure who 38 Special are! haha Thanks very much for your kind words I really appreciate it! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Hi +dehamellin Look in Audiosuite and you'll see the reverse function. You select the audio you want to reverse then process it! Have a marvellous time recording and mixing, many thanks Warren
Hi Tom Vom Ton I love Tambourine! Great idea! Thanks very much for your great comment I really appreciate it! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
What do we learn from this video? In a dance/indie-rock track you want to control your low-lows and you want to have your guitars a little more on-on. Yes, those are the professional terms.
Great job Warren, really cool to see how you mixed this. I like this track a lot.
Hi +Lennart G Thanks very much for your great comment I really appreciate it! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
powerful, punchy, straight to the point and energetic! love it! warren the chorus is stuck in my head now thank you. love your videos keep it up.
Hi mohamed safwat thanks very much for the kind words!! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Warren,
If you are conserned with, say, snare bleed on the kick producing unwanted reverb, I have had some luck with an alternate method. It is to use strip silence remove snare bleed from the kick mic (and vice versa for the snare mic). It can remove as many snare hits as possible before it starts to remove the weaker kick hits. The few snare hits left can be edited out. Then consolidate the entire kick track before any clip gets accidently moved. This can help preserve the dynamics of the kick performance.
Hi John D thanks for that tip! I usually leave it in, I enjoy it, however I have mixed songs where the snare is far too compressed and the kick is bleeding in so I think this could be a good trick for that! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
This is a fantastic video, Warren; just wonderful. Thanks for sharing your knowledge, experience, and talents. I'm spreading the word of your PLAP series.
Hi Harold LaRue thanks ever so much! I really appreciate your kind words and support! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
love it love it love it!! very inspirational
Thank you!
Hi +Shai Sircovici Thanks very much! You're too kind! Have a marvellous time recording and mixing, many thanks Warren
Gate was solution to my problem! Nice technique. Also like reverb panning. Thanks for shearing it.
Hi +ProTipsTV Fantastic!! Glad to be able to help! Have a marvellous time recoding and mixing, many thanks Warren
Thank you :)
+Produce Like A Pro Great video and song. There are somethings i didnt quite understand though. In this example, why go to the lenght of panning the verb for each L-R guitar when you put a reverb one on each in the end? Wouldnt that be equal to just putting a stereo reverb across a sub guitar channel? I assume the reverbs on each channel are mono?
Truly wonderful run through of the mix, really concise and inspiring.. please more of these if you can ! Many many thanks Warren, you're a true Maestro and gentleman..
Hi hazybrain7 wonderful, so glad to be able to help!! Thanks very much for your kind words I really appreciate it! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Hi Warren, I'm an 80's teen so I'm old! After the small little section you are calling a hook, I'm waiting for the lead singer from 38 special to start singing Caught up in You. Lol. Great video!!!
Oh boy! you just give me a new vision on how to approach to mixing! thanks a lot! you are the best!
Hi Alejandro Torrez Thanks very much for your great comment I really appreciate it! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Another great video/tutorial Warren. Every move you make here is very logical and easy to understand how and why. You'd make an excellent teacher.
And the track sounds spot on as always..loved the idea of the blended synth kick on this.
Hi ***** wow! Thanks very much for your kind words I really appreciate it! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Little trick I use on side-chaining a compressor. Instead of tying it to a bass kick, I'll use a short muted wood click, that way I find it a little easier to control the "pump" with the compressor.
Using a trigger with instant attack and no decay is what I'm getting at.
Hi Howard Hedger yes indeed! That is a great way to do it, I usually print a kick with a lot of attack, whatever sounds great is always best! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Produce Like A Pro totally agree!
Hi Howard Hedger yes! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
:) These video's make the nerd inside of me very happy! These video's remind of when I got the game genie for Nintendo. It just made video game life cooler and easyer! Thank you for these amazing videos!!!
Hi +Jesse Weiman Aw shucks! Thanks very much for your kind words I really appreciate it! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Lots of good trix in here. Coming from dance music, learning a lot about guitar & live drum mixing. Cheers!
Hi +Yobats Great!! Thanks very much! Have a marvellous time recording and mixing, many thanks Warren
Great tutorial, Warren. I really enjoyed that.
Hi Tim Ball thanks very much! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
thanks so much Warren, Thumbs up for this one . Those Mixing tricks... i waited years, and i knew that they are there! Thanks alot man.
Hi dc dcd, so glad to be able to help my friend! Have a marvellous time recording and mixing, many thanks Warren
Have you done any tutorials mixing for pop music that have synths and such?
Grooving song, Warren.
Really cool sounding compressor on the guitars. Thx again, always things to learn w/every vid.
You're cranking them out quicker than I can keep up w/them, LOL.
Hi +SLAMSTERDAMN Haha I'm so glad to be able to help! Happy New Year! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Excellent video. Thanks
Hi andy mae thanks very much! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
NICE!!! More of these mr Huart. Marveously good...
Hi +Lennyrapid Aw shucks! Thanks very much for your kind words I really appreciate it! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
"...I use Logic a lot for keys.. It's dumb and easy to use..." LOL! Never heard it called dumb before. Mixed my first album entirely ITB in Logic. That probably explains a lot then :) Loving some of your little tricks like the synth drops and explosions. I'll definitely be nicking some of those ideas. Similar to your tape distortion on vox the trick I've used to add some trashy excitement is to send a copy of the vox through an amp sim mixed in below the lead. Keep them coming, and thanks!
Hi Mark Green haha! What I mean by dumb is I can just open it up and the sounds are there ready to go! No need to search, great sounds straight away! Steal away on my ideas and please share any you may have! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
thank you thank you was extremely useful
Thanks ever so much Jamie!
awesome just awesome
Thanks very much Robert! Have a marvellous time!
Hi Warren ! Thank you so much for this video. Very informative as always :) Would be glad if you could share the Hi Hat used , as well as the microphone used on the Hats.
Cheers,
Lionel
Hi Lionel Crasta Thanks very much for the great question I really appreciate it! ! I use Zildjian New Beat Hats and mic with a Lewitt LCT140. Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Hi warren, I was wondering if you can create a video on production, specifically on the creation of a song from start to finish; chord changes or melody changes in each section of an "Intro," "Verses," "Pre Chorus," "B-Section/Bridge," "Breakdowns," "Outros," etc. I want to see how you create a song from the beginning till the end of a session.
Hi TGR Music Group thanks for the great question! Yes indeed I will definitely do a full Production from start to to finish video! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Great video I like the walk through and in depth look at your techniques. I often hear about mixing in mono, is that a technique or application you use in your process? As always thanks so much for you time and inspiration.
Hi Pickngrass thanks for the great comment! I will check my mixes in Mono from time to time, especially if I am concerned with phasing/polarity issues. Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Hi Warren. Finally got to watch this video today. Very interesting stuff going on there. Love the chorus in this tune, great hook! I don't think I've heard anyone use "Get your Rocks Off" before lol. Love it!
I must ask though, how long from start to finish would a song like this take you? I can tell you're very proficient with your DAW and the tools you use, however, after you have the raw tracks recorded, and you start with all your Melodyne stuff, and those little reverse items etc, how much time would you normally spend on that sort of stuff (in general of course, using this song as a reference)
I use a Focusrite Sapphire Pro 40, with an additional 8 channel ADAT which gives me 16 full I/O. Nice piece of gear! I'm looking later (once I get my new room finished) at perhaps adding another Sapphire Pro 40 (you can chain two together to behave like one interface in your DAW) and could have a total of 32 I/O with another ADAT expansion. I want to add a reasonable price console at that stage, but might hit you up for some wiring ideas to get it from the DAW to the mixer and back to the DAW.
Thanks again Warren, keep up the great work! PS: How do you find the time to work on mixing while answering these posts! Cheers! Danny.
Hi Danny MacNevin thanks for the great question! I wrote this song with the singer, so including the writing, recording and mixing it was probably around 2 days work total. Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
13.25 .. when you say that you add the reverb to the sample snare channel only to avoid bleed into the reverb form the main snare mice ... would another technique be to gate the first half second or so of the real snare into a reverb channel? That way you'd get the dynamics of the real drum too.
Hi +Terry Doyle Definitely! That would work as well! Personally I still like the cleaner sample feeding the snare, but I will also send from the live snare at times. For instance I'm mixing Ace Frehley's new album at the moment and I'm sending a little verb from the love snare as we aren't using any samples on the drums at all! Happy New Year! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
As usual a marvellous video! Very useful in this evergoing process in learning to record and mix. I do have a little suggestion in a coming video: I would be super interested in hearing you talk about the room, damping etc.. I work in a proper rehearsal room, not so much damping and I don´t have a control room either.. So it would be lovely indeed to get your thoughts and experience in for example what you can do to make the recording room better for recording. You know I love mixing and useing plug-ins, but I think that a as good as it get´s kind of room will make the mixing part a bit easier. Or am I totally wrong here? :)
Hope you doing marvellously well Warren, and again thanks for a lovely video! All the best from Sweden. / JP
Hi Johan Persson in Sweden! Thanks for the great question! I would have to know more abut your room. If it's really just a square box then putting furniture in and breaking up standing waves would be the first thing I'd do. Bass traps in the corners would be next for me. Let me know a little more! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Hi Warren! Thanks for your answer, l really appreciate it! I didn't mean my own room, more in general.. But ok, It's a pretty much standard room, 15-18 m2. Built in an old factory building. Very light with dampening, so l'll never have to use reverb on my recordings.. it sounds like a small church acctually! :)
I'm thinking of that l might build some movable walls to place around the drumkit, but l don't know if It's worth it really.. Hope you'll have a marvellous day and thanks ever so much for taken your time and read and reply to my comment! Cheers W!
/JP
Hi Johan Persson best of luck with everything! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Hi Warren, could you do a quick tutorial some time on your keys and synth sounds in Logic? The sounds in this track are really cool!
Hi +Adam Kelly Aw shucks!! Thanks very much!! That's a fantastic idea!! Have a marvellous time reaching and mixing, many thanks Warren
Hi Warren! hope you had a nice weekend! I just noticed that on the L2 on your Drum Bus you kept the IDR section on. Is there a specific reason why? I always switch it of whenever I'm not mastering or even so if I have some analog simulation on my master bus... could you expand on that pleas! Thank you so much for taking the time to discuss all this, I've learned a lot from you
Hi +Luis G. San Jose Caballero I really like the L2 to control errant transients, it just tucks in some of them and makes for a great slamming sound! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
+Produce Like A Pro Hi I have another question regarding your "drum sub". Im not that familiar with pro tools, but I assume this "channel" is whats called a group channel in logic, so its not an aux, right where you are bussing the drums to, as you would reverb for instance? was just a bit confused watching it because you were talking about the MV2 as a parallel compressor, but usually a parallel compressor is inserted on an aux unless you just double the track and slam it on there as an insert of course. So just wanted to double check. Also the L2 that comes after slams it pretty hard, and so it seems like its being used instead of an SSL G compressor to glue it together, correct? Thanks Warren!!!
Thanks Warren, another great video! You really do not use lots of plugins, and the mix sounds great! What is you opinion about console emulation plugins? Do you think they help mixing ITB, or just over process the sound? Thanks!
Hi Gustavo Justus do Amarante Thanks very much for your kind words I really appreciate it! I like some of the console emulation stuff, it seems that if the audio was recorded very think sounding then they probably really help a lot! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
I love your videos, I'm picking up a ton of useful tools! Quick question you may have addressed somewhere: Do you always layer sampled drums on live kits, or just once in a while?
Marvellous question! It varies from song to song!
What's your opinion on gating toms when recording/mixing metal music (death metal, melodic, etc,..)?
Great video, as always! =)
Hi Unearthlybrutal great question! I just mixed Black Veil Brides Live DVD/BluRay 'Alive and Burning' and I gained down the bleed between the toms. I find that gates can sometimes work really well, but other times can miss subtle tom hits, so now I gain down the bleed. Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Hi Warren. Please keep 'em coming. learning some cool tricks and ideas. i have a question about the MV2. this plugin automatically adds dither. are you concerned about that at all? if you use it multiple times and with compression, its possible to build up low level noise.
Hi Simon Jameson thanks for the great comment! I am only concerned when I hear issues arise, agreed if multiple channels build up problems then I would address them. However I haven't had that issue as yet. Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Hi Warren, why is it that you use the Waves plugins, over the stock ones? Seems like you always use them, when it seems that the stock ones can do the same job? Is it the sound of them, or just out of habit?
Thanks! :)
Hi llJaack thanks for the great question! I use stock plug ins a lot, the Avid Reverb is great for plate reverb, the delays I use a lot as well. My other favourites are McDSP plugins, their Analog Channel sounds wonderful! The Waves plugins are great for more surgical EQs and the MV2 is the best all in one parallel compressor, however I love the McDSP EQs for broad strokes. I hope that helps! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
I have to say this video has so many great little tips it gets a "10."
Question for you Capt marvellous.
At about 24:00-24:10 of this video you touch (again) on trimming the level between plugins. I believe you had two compressors inserted and then trimmed the output slightly.
Couldn't you do that with the output/makeup gain of the plugins? Or would that affect the sound of the plugins? (Not very familiar with those specifically yet.)
Gain staging and level management at various points is something I have been studying closely lately and would like to hear more from you on this.
Hi +Mark Bliss Great question! Definitely whatever works works! There are multiple ways to trim your gain, inside of most DAWs these days they give us a huge amount of headroom! But yes great headroom is important! Happy New Year! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
+Produce Like A Pro Thanks for the reply Warren, your tips are much appreciated!
Hi +Mark Bliss You're welcome! Happy New Year! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Hi, Warren. Your video is really helpful and interesting. May I know what Mac book you are using for this mixing with such lot of tracks & plug-ins running at the same times. How fast is the CPU, ram, & hard disk needed? Thanks a lot. Cheers.
Hi +Tony Mui I'm not in front of it at the moment, but it's really old by modern stands, I think I got it in 2008? Thanks very much I really appreciate it! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Hey Warren.. great stuff. Question: are you concerned about any "activity below your V shape stereo image" or otherwise known as the "anti-phase", when using so many channels hard-panned LF and RT and all the other 'phase shifting' effects you show on this video, etc..? I always have a PAZ Stereo FEQ Analyzer on my Master bus.. that allows me to pay attention to not only the frequencies but also the stereo image.. And I always get concerned when I see activity down there (anti-phase activity, that is).. Should I be concerned as much about that? Also, on that realm of things, is it OK to hard-pan LF and RT your drums OH's? or am I better off to go light on the left and right panning on those? .. Thanks again! Cheers
Hi +david diaz Great question!! I use this effect extremely low and definitely pay close attention to how it sounds, that's really my main concern! Use very low to widen, but make to check how it sounds, not how it looks! I know there are a lot of videos with visual help placed above how things actually sound. But I believe if you use this very highly you will get a great benefit from it! Thanks very much I really appreciate it! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Very wise reply.. Enlightening as always. Thanks very much Warren. I don't know how you manage to find time to reply to us all. You are amazing. Cheers
Hi +david diaz Thanks very much! I just try and take 20 mins break every now and then and answer all of the questions I can! I;m not a Professional Teacher, so maybe they don;t bother answering the questions because it doesn't make financial sense? But to me I want this to be a great community where we all learn from each other!! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Great song and video Warren ! I noticed something funny, the first part of your glockenspiel gimmick at 30:37 sounds very close to the one I created in the bridge section of my mix for the PLAP Warm song contest (check Tom Scott Mix at 2:22 and let me know !!!)... ;-) As a matter of fact I think it's in the same key !! :)) As for the MV2 plugin, I always found it makes things sound harsh a bit or is it just me ? And as for the Addictive snares, I find there is a lack of round robin from the software but again it's maybe just me ! :) Anyway thank you for this video again, loved it ! :) I love how you process your drums too !! Very smart !! :) Cheers !
Tom
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Hi Inverted Poles thanks for very much for watching! Yes I wrote and Produced this song a while ago, I love Glockenspiels! I use them in a lot of songs, sometimes I overdrive them as well, sounds like a cool distorted guitar! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Produce Like A Pro Thanks a lot ! Learning a lot from you every day ! :)
Hi Inverted Poles thanks very much! I really appreciate it! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Just wondering how you got the stereo effect with one guitar right and the reverb on the left, and the other vice versa. Specifically, how you got just the reverberation from each one on its own and panned it differently if that makes sense. Can you do this with pretty much any reverb plugin? Sorry if it's a dumb question, I'm still fairly new to this haha
Hi James Fearon Thanks very much for your great comment I really appreciate it! One guitar is panned left and it's corresponding reverb is panned right, the other guitar is panned right and it's corresponding reverb is panned left. Does that make sense? Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Regarding the snare sample used to trigger the reverb, is the raw sample turned down so only the reverb is heard? Also, what's your process for writing vocal melodies? Do you just sing them or do you play them on an instrument to convey idea to the singer? Thanks so much!!
Hi Tim McEneany thanks for the fantastic questions! I do both with the snare that I use to trigger the verb. I have occasionally created a snare just for verb! If I wanted a huge ambient snare and just wanted to hear the verb I would do that. But usually the snare sample is part of the drum sound and I use it to trigger the verb as well. I always sing the vocal melodies to the artist when writing, but occasionally I will play a line for them to follow. Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Hi Warren hope your doing marvoulously well? Just wondering do you use pro tools HD ? Or just the regular, I currently use Logic Pro x, and have been for several years , but I am thinking of maybe having a look at pro tools for mixing etc, but not sure which version would suit my needs and pocket best, regards Steve
Hi Steve Henderson Thanks very much for your great comment I really appreciate it! I use both, I have an HD rig that goes through my console and I have Native on my lap top, I mix on both and record on both. You can make great music using either! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Another brilliant video! Any recommendations for must have VSTs and Plugins, Warren? I'm still using just stock Cubase ones.
Hi Howard Hedger thanks for the great question! Yes I am doing a video on them very soon! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Hi ***** I'll take a look! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Hi ***** Thanks very much for your your really helpful, great comment I really appreciate it! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Hi ***** fantastic! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Thank's Warren! Just wonder...Macbooks tends to have wrong balance in the stereo field. Right channel have more gain. It's, from what I've read, a design fault. I can hear it on all 3 macbooks I've owned the last 6 years. Did you notice this as well and if so did do any balance to compensate? Thank's!
Hi Peter Martinsson thanks for the comment! Yes there is a design flaw with the internal speakers balance. However I don't use the Macbook Pro's speakers that often, I might use them for a short while to double check my mix, but I don't mix through them. I am normally monitoring through headphones or small powered speakers from the IO. Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Produce Like A Pro Ok, got the impression you mixed through the internals also. Got it.
Hi Peter Martinsson I understand! It's a great point you're making and I do reference on them at times, but it's mainly for balance issues on frequencies to see how it sounds on different playback mediums. Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Another great video! I have a question regarding your laptop. I am ready to replace my pc laptop and migrate to Mac . I've been looking at the MacBook Pro 15. Do you use the upgraded graphics card in your Mac or just the standard ? I plan on maxing the ram to 16g, and going with the 2.5ghz cpu. I do plan on using plugins and some midi instruments in my workflow.
Hi +30yrpro Great question! My Lap Top is completely standard! I hope that helps? It sounds like yours will be amazingly powerful! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
+30yrpro Avid say's to use a 2.7GHz processor but I'm using a 2.5Ghz processor w/8 G of RAM on a Mac w/PT 12.4 so far so good. I haven't mixed a big mix w/lot's of plugs, but I did mix a Counting Crows song w/this system.
WARREN - MIXGURU!
Aw shucks thanks Rafal Konikowski! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
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Hey there I got a question with all of those backing vox you're compressing them on their individual channel right? But are you also sending them to an aux to eq and process them or not? And what is your fader volume you're sending to an aux if you're sending them to an aux?
Hi Nathan Brown thanks for the great question! Yes I may individually compress things then group compress and/eq them, it would depend on how much I want to contain them. I don't do things the same way each time.
Great Video! Where can I find out more about your H3000 Vox trick? Thanks!
Hi Jacob Longoria go to:- ruclips.net/video/IwIZ35CAA5Y/видео.html this will explain my vocal thickening trick! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Hi nowhere.to.shower thanks for posting!! I really appreciate it! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
It's good songs throughout, often with a grit and a drive and the kick sounds fine for that. You use Melodyne too, that is my speciality. I know it back to front and do a lot that Celemony isn't aware of is possible. I've used Studio and Editor for a good 6 years. Any problems, hit me with the file. Ex. putting a female stem a fifth under the lead has to be done a certain way since it will need a natural gender-bender and the formant tool doesn't really cope with that but it can be done. Good track and interesting video.
Hi +rawstarmusic Thanks very much for your great comment I really appreciate it! Great stuff, I use Autotune for vocal tuning, but building harmonies in Melodyne is fantastic!! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
+Produce Like A Pro Would love to see a tutorial on this. I have build harmonies before, but i dont know, most of the times, its like i cant pitch the notes very high or low, apart from a few notes up or down it will sound like digital artifacts crap. What am i doing wrong?
great video/ just a few questions On the lead vocal.. i noticed you still were using the detuned tracks along with the lead during the verse ... do you keep those the same levels with the verse and chorus or did you make those detuned vocals more prominent in the chorus...so with the stereo width trick with the synth... What i have done before to kinda push it down in the middle is to run it in M/S which I have used the Puig Fairchild 670 from waves and compressed the mids down more to kind of sit it behind the center tracks. Would that be an ok thing to do also or would a stereo width plugin work better? thanks again... i love these types of videos where it shows everything working together... thanks again...
Hi Tim Adams great question! I push up the vocal thickening tracks during the choruses and bring it down when the music is less dense. I'm hit and miss with M/S personally messing with the Polarity makes me dizzy! haha. Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Produce Like A Pro ok greats thanks so much
Hi Tim Adams you're welcome! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
i see your tracking drums in a simple home set up here. excellent. now would you stay away from electronic drum kits ? im guessing yes ! but thought id ask.
Hi +kingdizzyworld Thanks very much for your great comment I really appreciate it! I'm not a big fan of electronic drums, however it's a fantastic way to trigger great sounds!! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Invaluable warren. So with the opposite reverbs trick for the guitars, are each reverb mono and panned hard left and right?
also when i pan something should i make sure there's no super low frequencies in it? I heard before that generally you want sub frequencies or anything below 80 roughly to be mono down the center. any truth to it?
funny how some call "indie rock" what others call "mainstream pop" :D really eye opening video though!
Hi Mellowtree great comment! Must be a regional thing! This wouldn’t get on Pop Radio in the US unless it had already charted on all the alternative Radio formats first. Have a marvellous New Year!!
Thanks for all for videos. I have a questiin if I have a vocalvthat is really thin how can I make it warmer and thicker and maybe have a rich resonance ? Nit so much room resonance but more resonance in the voice.
Warren, is it important to "tune" your drums to the key of the song? And if so do you have any videos on that?
Hi +Jeff Smith That's a fantastic question! When I worked with Don Smith he would have the snare tuned to the key of the song! It was fantastic! However when Tom Lord Alge mixed it he put on his snare sample so we didn't hear the tuning! So with that experience in mind I now tune the drums when I know that it's going to make a difference with the song! When it's something very organic!
Hi Warren, What do you think of the Waves "plugins?
I've noticed a price disparity between the Native and Powercore plug-in offerings from Waves Plug In Native versions are much cheaper than the Powercore versions, but do they differ in quality?
Hi +Davide thesea Great question! The main difference is the stress it puts on the cpu, some are card based on the HDX system and the native run on the cpu, both sound great!! Have a marvellous time recording and mixing, many thanks Warren
What are the specs of the laptop that you used for this? I’m interested in knowing how powerful of a laptop is necessary to do what you did.
Hi Steve, marvellous question it was OLD, I don;t use it anymore but it was as it came from Apple Mac Book Pro from 10 years ago!
Hey Warren, I noticed on your drum bus the L2 has dither on (?). Is that the setting you have when you bounce? Just curious. Thanks
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Yes, that's a good question! There's a lot of discussion about Dither!
Are the multi tracks for this tune available ?
Don't you get the chilly-willies when you manage to capture a guitar tone that doesn't need mixing? I get a little too happy... it worries my wife :P
BTW... vocal sound is amazing. Really aggressive and in-your-face, trashy and gross in all the right ways. Great stuff, man.
Hi +Bold Beagle Yes agreed! Great tones make me happy!! Glad you enjoyed the vocal! Great singer helps too! Happy New Year! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
one question. I heared the final version on your offer, where you can buy the course - is this only the mastered track or is there more to it, that you've done(because it sounds diffrent, an seems to havemore drive somehow).
Hi dc dcd, I did a full mix breakdown over several hours! I go into every detail of the process! Have a marvellous time recording and mixing, many thanks Warren
Your thoughts on East/West composer cloud?
Hi +Elvin Lewis No! Tell me more!! Thanks very much for your great comment I really appreciate it! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
As if a portal opened up, and exposed an entire universe of music. Let me put it this way, you can put together an entire orchestral arrangement, and it sounds 100% real. No, I'm not exaggerating. You can find several examples here on You Tube. It blew my mind. www.soundsonline.com/composercloud
Hi +Elvin Lewis Wow!! Great stuff!! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
just a quick question. shouldn't we EQ the snare top and bottom together? doesn't it give better results because it prevents phasing? that's what i've heard in a few lessons.
Hi Kshitij Bhargava thanks for the great comment! I would strongly suggest doing what sounds the best, always best to do that! Music does many things to the listener, it can be an amazing emotional journey, it can inspire, we are truly blessed to be able to make it! As my old friend Jack Douglas says be wary of experts, the best music has always been made by amateurs! There's always a 'right way' to do it and then there's what sounds best! I would always go with what sounds the best! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Produce Like A Pro thanks for a quick reply. really appreciate that. although i did expect you'd reply with something like that (seeing your other videos). i completely agree with you and share the exact same ideology. it's just that i've just started getting into mixing. so i just wanna make sure i'm getting the best possible outcome from whatever i have recorded.
Hi Kshitij Bhargava thanks very much! I'm just like you, I'm still learning, I will always be learning, so happy to share what I know and learn from everyone here! Yes I'm quite wary of the experts, haha, the guys that rant away and who know best! Music is such a wonderful thing to do, we are truly blessed! We can easily get caught up in what things look like on a screen, but fortunately people listen to music they don't look at it! Thanks very much for your great comment I really appreciate it! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Produce Like A Pro and I'm glad and excited to know good people like you are out there making music. you must be a great mentor. please keep sharing your knowledge and experience with us. thanks for the reply.
Hi Kshitij Bhargava Wow Thanks very much for your kind words I really appreciate it!!! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Great song made better by your creative producitorian (I made that word up) ideas. That guitar part at 34:38ish of the video is so 38 Special (I want to say "Hold On Loosely"). Great video, Warren. Much appreciated. I'm going to have to see if I can find a Varifi-type plug-in for Cubase 8 Pro. I like that technique / effect. #ProduceLikeaPro #RUclipsMixTeacher
Hi Jed Wunderli Haha Im English I'm not sure who 38 Special are! haha Thanks very much for your kind words I really appreciate it! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
.38 Special is a southern rock band - they were big in the 80s. I always wondered if you were English. Haha.
Hi Jed Wunderli Haha cool! I don't know them, I'll check it out! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
Produce Like A Pro .36 Special was formed by Donnie Van Zandt, Ronnie Van Zandt's brother from Lynyrd Skynyrd. Awesome 80's southern rock group!
Nice !RM International I'll check them out! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
how do you reverse the audio to make those effects (cymbals)? I know how to do it in ableton but no in pro tools
Hi +dehamellin Look in Audiosuite and you'll see the reverse function. You select the audio you want to reverse then process it! Have a marvellous time recording and mixing, many thanks Warren
name of program
Nice Song, but i missed a off beat tamburin in the chorus.....
Hi Tom Vom Ton I love Tambourine! Great idea! Thanks very much for your great comment I really appreciate it! Have a marvellous time recording, many thanks Warren
20:25 DP_SASHA_EXPLOSION lol
Haha yes Andre!! Explosion time! Have a marvellous time recording and mixing, many thanks Warren