1.) Guitar strings Gauge and intonation matters 2.) Tune your guitar after every take 3.) Quantize actually helps tighten your mix 4.) Ezdrummer, ezbass, nueral dsp doesn't need alot of mixing just try doing a small amount of EQ 5.) put a glue compressor on your master bus fastest release .10 atk 4:1 ratio maybe 1-3db reduction when beginning mixing it saves time 6.) Try using delay on your guitars and vocals over reverb 7.) Try using a clipper before your limiter when mastering 8.) Save yourself a ridiculous amount of time and set up a default template so every time you open you DAW it has everything loaded up so you don't waste time setting up plug ins and routing
I can't thank you enough for the many hours you put in to all this. Your high pass instructions cleaned all the mud and grumble out of every track we did.
Every advice from your videos are little nuggets of knowledge that turn a mix to gold, I can't thank you enough for the progress I made with everything you put out. Big up !
Thank you for your emphasis on editing. That's been happening for so long that our paradigm on what's "natural" is a fallacy. Hard fact, your favorite album, your holy grail recording from which you set your standard, is edited. Keep speaking the facts, my friend!
Im a metal head but I do my own hip hop production. Sm57 into Antelope discreet 4 into logic pro and a well treated bedroom and the results are pro!... Basic gear, just know how to use it👌
i mean i was stuck in a hole for over 2 years, just to figure out, editing (timestretching) to a grid was what did the trick for me, it wasnt a secret setting on a compressor or anything, those things were dialled pretty good. But now it actually sounds like a modern metal record, so in essence: my playing was too bad, not my mixing :D as the saying goes, cant polish a turd to make it look like gold :S :D
I'm wondering if post production would be a valid extra step in the process ( before mixing?), or would it fit into something there already? For example if I wanted to have a grainy, old tape like effect on part of a track or other fx and things that add to the atmosphere rather than be an instrument or something directly? Or I guess that could be under pre-production, not sure. It doesn't seem important to add things like that at that stage.
Oh yeah! Stack up can be an issue in the realm of automotive engineering as well. I think my 20 years in quality and layout really makes me appreciate your approach to everything.
Last one though: you can make it sound amazing via mastering but it's a bloody bloodbath rarely worth doing. I normally love to record in a way so that I barely have to edit and recording is my main edit - good in = better out...
Timing, string attack, downstroke most stuff if possible for note clarity. If you don't really dig into those strings you won't bring the nice harmonics of the gain that make the guitar cut through. Playing sloppy and low energy will be muddy and will sound much worse even if trying to fix it with more gain , harmonic exciters ,etc.
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1.) Guitar strings Gauge and intonation matters
2.) Tune your guitar after every take
3.) Quantize actually helps tighten your mix
4.) Ezdrummer, ezbass, nueral dsp doesn't need alot of mixing just try doing a small amount of EQ
5.) put a glue compressor on your master bus fastest release .10 atk 4:1 ratio maybe 1-3db reduction when beginning mixing it saves time
6.) Try using delay on your guitars and vocals over reverb
7.) Try using a clipper before your limiter when mastering
8.) Save yourself a ridiculous amount of time and set up a default template so every time you open you DAW it has everything loaded up so you don't waste time setting up plug ins and routing
Tell me you follow Jordan from HCMS without telling me you follow Jordan from HCMS 🙃
I can't thank you enough for the many hours you put in to all this. Your high pass instructions cleaned all the mud and grumble out of every track we did.
Between this dude, hardcore music studio, and udemy choruses I made massive progress in my mixing and mastering skills
Every advice from your videos are little nuggets of knowledge that turn a mix to gold, I can't thank you enough for the progress I made with everything you put out. Big up !
Thank you for your emphasis on editing. That's been happening for so long that our paradigm on what's "natural" is a fallacy. Hard fact, your favorite album, your holy grail recording from which you set your standard, is edited. Keep speaking the facts, my friend!
Im a metal head but I do my own hip hop production. Sm57 into Antelope discreet 4 into logic pro and a well treated bedroom and the results are pro!... Basic gear, just know how to use it👌
i mean i was stuck in a hole for over 2 years, just to figure out, editing (timestretching) to a grid was what did the trick for me, it wasnt a secret setting on a compressor or anything, those things were dialled pretty good. But now it actually sounds like a modern metal record, so in essence: my playing was too bad, not my mixing :D as the saying goes, cant polish a turd to make it look like gold :S :D
I'm wondering if post production would be a valid extra step in the process ( before mixing?), or would it fit into something there already? For example if I wanted to have a grainy, old tape like effect on part of a track or other fx and things that add to the atmosphere rather than be an instrument or something directly? Or I guess that could be under pre-production, not sure. It doesn't seem important to add things like that at that stage.
Great video Bobby, I think point #1 is where most people I see fail but it's all valuable.
Oh yeah! Stack up can be an issue in the realm of automotive engineering as well. I think my 20 years in quality and layout really makes me appreciate your approach to everything.
Having good songs, guitars being in tune and singing with good pitch is 90% of a good sounding recording.
I used to use sleep over mastering until I found out that Iron Maiden skips the mastering stage altogether
Last one though: you can make it sound amazing via mastering but it's a bloody bloodbath rarely worth doing. I normally love to record in a way so that I barely have to edit and recording is my main edit - good in = better out...
You can make it slightly better, but never great. It's best to just get it right in the first place...it ends up taking less time in the long run.
ohh yes First baby!!
SECOND BABY!!! 😂
I got kicked out of a production discord server for saying that better timing will improve your guitar tone
Timing, string attack, downstroke most stuff if possible for note clarity. If you don't really dig into those strings you won't bring the nice harmonics of the gain that make the guitar cut through. Playing sloppy and low energy will be muddy and will sound much worse even if trying to fix it with more gain , harmonic exciters ,etc.
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@@carlosamado7606 You're 100% correct!
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