If you read this Graham, thank you. I began watching you when I was around 16 (I'm 29 now!). You inspired me and gave me the confidence to begin recording my own music. I read your blog and watched your videos religiously. You were literally my go-to source. It even got me into music college with the skills I had built from learning with you. But most importantly, I'm still making, recording and mixing music 13 years later. Just thank you for everything.
Fun technique I discovered for tenor voices and lower; double the main vocal track with a version pitched up an octave, set low in the mix. It helps that vocal cut through the mix.
I'm glad your mentioning this for beginners, Its that Magical Sound/"Chorus" you get ( without using Plug-In ). Absolutley correct on "YOU CAN OVER DO IT" not for every Instrument :) George
LOL Yes, sir! Doubling vocals can get tricky if you have extra spice to it. I love panning. I remember doing it for the first time....wow it was AMAZING! I'm not this sounds professional! LOL I double and pan mostly everything.Thanks for sharing. You have a beautiful speaking voice great for radio. I enjoyed your vocals too. I'm about to older a basic starter acoustic guitar. ttyl
What I can hear is it sounds good for guitars because you pan them left and right, but the vocal has a chorus effect on it because both are panned center. How do you manage that? Can that chorus effect be lessen? Do you just use the second take from time to time and mix it to taste? How do you work with that? Thanks!
As others have mentioned, it looks like this channel has died. 9 months since last video I love Joe!! But I already listen to him over at his channel. Graham was who made this channel great and it looks like he is not interested in continuing the channel anymore. It’s sad, because this was one of the greatest channels of it’s kind and Graham was such a great teacher.
Was at an open jam and sitting next to this old guy. hey tells me that "anytime you see two guitar players playing the exact same thing, that's one too many." People will often argue and tell me the old guy didn't know what hoe was talking about it. But I realized that the Funk Brothers at Motown, The Swampers at Muscle Shoals, The Stones, and even the Beatles rarely played the exact same thing. Now I still double a lot of things but I also keep this in mind when arranging guitar parts.
Yes, and my rule for a gigging bunch of musicians in a band is; don't play all over the top of the vocals, and give room to let the music breathe, for god's sake - all the top bands do this, naturally. 2 x guitar players? I hope at least one of 'em knows how to play with restraint when the other fool's playing for himself? I read Glenn Frey and the point that always stuck out was when he said; 'I always subordinated myself at the gig' - can you imagine Glenn Frey having to do that? Yeah, well that's probably the primary reason why Eagles were successful - consistently. And subordinating myself is exactly what I've been doing most of my pro and semi-pro career whenever I got into a band with another gtr player or a busy Steel player or a selfish pianist; not everyone thinks of the music, I personally *always* think of the music. My approach meant that all of the multi-instrument bands I played with got the gig. I'm 66, still gigging, and I've had a long career in this business with that outlook. My advice; play with restraint, and when it's your turn to solo, fly, play like hell. Great video, Joe, always.
It's so sad to see it go down like this... It was the very first channel on home recording I discovered and I owe so much to Graham but I guess when he started "collaborating" with all these producers last year was the beginning of the end. 😢
The issue to me, is that when Graham was the only one talking, it was consistent, because he had planned a method. Now it gets confusing because they have different ways of explaining things that he already told us in the past. At least the singer gave us the same vibe, but this guy gives (good) advice in a way that might sound dubious, and reading the comments for the recent videos, I know it does.
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If you read this Graham, thank you.
I began watching you when I was around 16 (I'm 29 now!).
You inspired me and gave me the confidence to begin recording my own music. I read your blog and watched your videos religiously. You were literally my go-to source.
It even got me into music college with the skills I had built from learning with you.
But most importantly, I'm still making, recording and mixing music 13 years later.
Just thank you for everything.
Same story here friend.
Farewell Graham my friend.
Fun technique I discovered for tenor voices and lower; double the main vocal track with a version pitched up an octave, set low in the mix. It helps that vocal cut through the mix.
"Let's just dive in, shall we? Anyway, here's Wonderwall" 😂
Cracked me up as well
I was seven when this song came out. Loved it then and still sounds like gold
I'm glad your mentioning this for beginners, Its that Magical Sound/"Chorus" you get ( without using Plug-In ). Absolutley correct on "YOU CAN OVER DO IT" not for every Instrument :) George
My favorite production trick is reverse reverb.
LOL Yes, sir! Doubling vocals can get tricky if you have extra spice to it. I love panning. I remember doing it for the first time....wow it was AMAZING! I'm not this sounds professional! LOL I double and pan mostly everything.Thanks for sharing. You have a beautiful speaking voice great for radio. I enjoyed your vocals too. I'm about to older a basic starter acoustic guitar. ttyl
Liked your voice on that!
Hi could you do a video on how to record guitar vocal and harmonica at the same time
I feel like i just got Rick rolled but worse lol. Good video though haha.
You gave me an idea for an invention. A neck strap, like for a harmonica, but for a pop filter instead. I'll make millions!
Emailed you about coming onto the podcast!
What I can hear is it sounds good for guitars because you pan them left and right, but the vocal has a chorus effect on it because both are panned center. How do you manage that? Can that chorus effect be lessen? Do you just use the second take from time to time and mix it to taste? How do you work with that? Thanks!
Yeah, I heard that too. It didn't sound great.
As others have mentioned, it looks like this channel has died. 9 months since last video
I love Joe!! But I already listen to him over at his channel.
Graham was who made this channel great and it looks like he is not interested in continuing the channel anymore.
It’s sad, because this was one of the greatest channels of it’s kind and Graham was such a great teacher.
Is it true that sealed monitors are more forgiving of improperly treated rooms than ported monitors?
Was at an open jam and sitting next to this old guy. hey tells me that "anytime you see two guitar players playing the exact same thing, that's one too many." People will often argue and tell me the old guy didn't know what hoe was talking about it. But I realized that the Funk Brothers at Motown, The Swampers at Muscle Shoals, The Stones, and even the Beatles rarely played the exact same thing. Now I still double a lot of things but I also keep this in mind when arranging guitar parts.
Yes, and my rule for a gigging bunch of musicians in a band is; don't play all over the top of the vocals, and give room to let the music breathe, for god's sake - all the top bands do this, naturally.
2 x guitar players? I hope at least one of 'em knows how to play with restraint when the other fool's playing for himself? I read Glenn Frey and the point that always stuck out was when he said; 'I always subordinated myself at the gig' - can you imagine Glenn Frey having to do that? Yeah, well that's probably the primary reason why Eagles were successful - consistently. And subordinating myself is exactly what I've been doing most of my pro and semi-pro career whenever I got into a band with another gtr player or a busy Steel player or a selfish pianist; not everyone thinks of the music, I personally *always* think of the music. My approach meant that all of the multi-instrument bands I played with got the gig. I'm 66, still gigging, and I've had a long career in this business with that outlook.
My advice; play with restraint, and when it's your turn to solo, fly, play like hell.
Great video, Joe, always.
I should do this more often. It was easy. After I did it about 10 times...
Thx man.
This channel was one of the best channels on the Internet for a long time. It’s just died.
It's so sad to see it go down like this... It was the very first channel on home recording I discovered and I owe so much to Graham but I guess when he started "collaborating" with all these producers last year was the beginning of the end. 😢
The issue to me, is that when Graham was the only one talking, it was consistent, because he had planned a method. Now it gets confusing because they have different ways of explaining things that he already told us in the past. At least the singer gave us the same vibe, but this guy gives (good) advice in a way that might sound dubious, and reading the comments for the recent videos, I know it does.
He just wants to be an author. I think he’s missing something, but well, it’s his life, not mine.
Agreed!
So, are you hard panning the vocals? 🤔
“Go listen to your favorite album and you’ll notice doubling” literally the entirety of Train in Vain by The Clash lol
A month since the last video. I'm guessing Joe has bailed and this channel is stagnant once again. I'll check him out at Home Studio Corner.
I’d say Graham bailed, but yeah. That‘s gonna be it.
I just found he has another RUclips channel . It’s under or using just his name (Graham Cochrane) looks like it’s more business focused
Anyways brother here's Wonderwall
But I'm not trying this song 😅