Man, I'm planning to record a type of music that is way different from this and still, your tips really help. Thanks a lot man, tons of power from Colombia.
Man, your drums sound so good on those tracks! I learned a lot! Please make more videos. BFD 2 is my choice of drums, and while I love the sound, the drums don't complement my songs and actually take away from the feel. I'm a guitarist, so programming the right drum pattern can be a task in itself. With a lot of persistence and help from this your video, I WILL overcome my VSTi/midi pattern drum demons. Thanks mate :-)
Excellent video. You've exposed techniques which are simple yet rich in content that so many people have always asked about. Love the fact that you're sharing all of this in such a relaxed and inviting atmosphere. Awesome job and you sir are a djentleman!
The general idea of "Keep in mind how the drummer handles things and what he can and can not physically play" is such a good concept in this. I've heard lots of cool ideas come out of people programming drums that are IMPOSSIBLE to play even for the best drummers and it's like "really?" Love these vids!
This is absolutely fantastic Misha. Thank you for taking the time to put together this series. I would love to see a video on creating tones (shaping, amp/cab selection, reference to the mix, et cetera). Keep up the great work.
Digital bath from deaftones is such a killer song! Misha has a very good understanding of how drums work. All these little details and stuff, he got spot on. :)
Absolutely great! Thanks for the tip with the randomizer in Cubase, I searched for a solution for that 'machine sound problem' and now I found it. Would be great to see lot more of your tips!
Dude, just mentioning how drummers don't really play the snare and kick at the same time just flipped a switch in my head. Don't know why I never realized that. Thank you!
Love the videos! Very informational and beneficial to us home studio recording artists haha. It would be awesome if you could do a short video that just goes over the software and the setup you use to get the layout of your software to program your drums and record guitars because your setup seems a lot simpler and easier to use than the current setup I struggle with. It would be greatly appreciated!
This is a very good video. The biggest problem with drum machines is that you need a drummer to program one properly. You've made the point in one hit.
man, I don't even like periphery, but much respect to you, not only for doing what you do but for sharing this information. No matter what your genre of choice is, this shit is fucking indispensable.
Hey Misha! These videos are a great help, thank you so much for making them. I'd love to see a tutorial on how you go about producing synths. That's the one area I (myself) could really use some help with. Cheers!
As a drummer myself, I personally see accents and ghost notes,and basically all complex ideas of how drum writing is structured as segments, checkpoints if you will. For example, if i was doing a simple snare on 2 and 4, and kick on 1 and 3, i would just do 8th notes on the hi hat with the first hit being accented, and the 2nd being a ghost. (essentially the moeller technique) while doing that, i would fill in the off beats with all 8th note ghosts, but if i was doing straight quarters, I COULD still fill in the gaps with 8th note ghost notes, but it would feel a bit different, slightly more separation and independance is needed to do the ghost notes without the feel of a "support" beam, which in this example would be every upbeat between the accented hi hat strokes. It takes a bit of time to do stuff like this without the Moeller method being used, but taking the time to do the usual without any sort of crutch will develop you as a drummer, and be more comfortable exploring around with other sounds.
Great video! Nice trick with the randomize function. I am usind the MIDI-parameter options, where you can randomize timing and velocity simultaenously, which adds another flavour of "humainzation". I'd be highly interested to hear about how you work with drum samples, e.g. which software, what samples (though i guess you use custom ones?), etc.
Hey Misha! Thanks for the programming lessons. How about giving us a rundown on your gear and a more in depth tutorial on how you EQ or set up your gear to your mac for the best tone!
section off your midi tracks and basically highlight all midi notes per each drum and enlarge the magnification and unclick the snap to grid. Now drag to the right a bit (in small....VEry small increments) and i bet it will sound even more natural as guitars and such arent usually so "Quantized". I love using this in hip hop and house shit cuz it works great with samples that have been played live. love your skills man keep shreddin!! Cubase love!!!
hey Misha, just starting to get into recording music at home, still in the research phase. Is Cubase a good daw to start out on and learn on? I've been in a studio and have had my guitars tracked, but I've never done it myself. I just showed up and played my parts when it was time. lol so this is all new stuff to me.
Misha: - Traditional Blasts (kick and snare alternating) - Bomb Blasts (Snare on every 16th note with double bass playing 32nds) - Hammer Blasts (Kick and snare hitting at same time)
The video is superb but i think most of us also want to know how to get that epic wide drum sound. please thumbs up my comment so bulb might see this, thanks!
Next video, how you make your drum sounds, mixing etc. At least a quick overview. What's your philosophy for the place kick snare should have in the mix, etc.
Awesome vid! I've been a logic guy for a while, haven't tried Cubase since SX3 or something, didn't know about the drum editor! Way nicer than piano roll... Also, tell us what that thing you always like to do was again?
Hi Misha, real nice to see your video and how you do your progr, of the drums what kind of drum editor are you using. your program is cubase I have reaper and I was a drummer for a long time in my live, keep on like this sounds good gr Adrian
@Misha- Are you willing to share how you setup SD? can you share the template? I know you are using the Metal Foundry SDX....but which combo of drums in that pack? The drums SOUND so sick! It would also be nice to know how you compress and bus the kit (routings)...and that reverb is butter! Now THAT would some top secret sauce!
Hey Misha ! How do you get the ghost notes to sound so good ? I see you have a seperate snare for ghost notes, would be really helpfull If you could explain how that works ! Thanks !
The ghost notes are from the same snare, the second snare is layered on top of the first one, albeit quietly, just to add more body, but it's not THAT necessary.
Probably not, I don't have an approach that can really be taught because I don't do things by the book. My way is inefficient and would probably anger a lot of people who know what they are doing. You would be better off learning from them.
Most songs you'll hear have 3 or 4 guitars going. Rhythm doubled and a lead track. If bands do harmonies you have a harmony track over the lead. That's over simplification but you get the idea right?
PLEASE keep these videos coming, they're really informative and easy to access even for beginners. Props dude.
7 years later
Man you really know how to teach, you do it naturally. I hope you keep releasing new videos, it helps a lot. Bruno from Brazil.
That 12:03 - "I could totally play that... (looks at the camera) I can't play that"
hahaha. awesome vid! 2019!
I'm learning so much right now...
Man, I'm planning to record a type of music that is way different from this and still, your tips really help. Thanks a lot man, tons of power from Colombia.
That riff with the blast beat sounds so good and heavy.
Man, your drums sound so good on those tracks! I learned a lot! Please make more videos. BFD 2 is my choice of drums, and while I love the sound, the drums don't complement my songs and actually take away from the feel. I'm a guitarist, so programming the right drum pattern can be a task in itself. With a lot of persistence and help from this your video, I WILL overcome my VSTi/midi pattern drum demons. Thanks mate :-)
Those ghost note doubles around 7:00 sounded so sick that I had to immediately stop the video and go play it! Awesome!
Excellent video. You've exposed techniques which are simple yet rich in content that so many people have always asked about. Love the fact that you're sharing all of this in such a relaxed and inviting atmosphere. Awesome job and you sir are a djentleman!
Two things:
(1) I love his drum sound
(2) I love that desk
Yo!
you are a hero
The general idea of "Keep in mind how the drummer handles things and what he can and can not physically play" is such a good concept in this. I've heard lots of cool ideas come out of people programming drums that are IMPOSSIBLE to play even for the best drummers and it's like "really?" Love these vids!
This is absolutely fantastic Misha. Thank you for taking the time to put together this series. I would love to see a video on creating tones (shaping, amp/cab selection, reference to the mix, et cetera). Keep up the great work.
Thanks for taking the time to post these vids, Misha! Very helpful!
Digital bath from deaftones is such a killer song!
Misha has a very good understanding of how drums work. All these little details and stuff, he got spot on. :)
Absolutely great! Thanks for the tip with the randomizer in Cubase, I searched for a solution for that 'machine sound problem' and now I found it. Would be great to see lot more of your tips!
7:13 is like every beat Halpern plays. Love it.
These videos have been so helpful! Do one on your equipment, like why you have two sets of monitors and whatnot.
Dude, just mentioning how drummers don't really play the snare and kick at the same time just flipped a switch in my head. Don't know why I never realized that. Thank you!
Love the videos! Very informational and beneficial to us home studio recording artists haha. It would be awesome if you could do a short video that just goes over the software and the setup you use to get the layout of your software to program your drums and record guitars because your setup seems a lot simpler and easier to use than the current setup I struggle with. It would be greatly appreciated!
great tutorial, best one ive seen so far, thanx
Great tips misha.. thanks.. it makes me producing some ideas..
Thanks Misha and Jeff. You're both legendary.
Whoever disliked this isnt a nice person. Nice Job Misha!
Good player, good song writer and good teacher.
Dude, These videos are so great! Keep it up dude! I have learned so much!
This is a very good video. The biggest problem with drum machines is that you need a drummer to program one properly. You've made the point in one hit.
man, I don't even like periphery, but much respect to you, not only for doing what you do but for sharing this information. No matter what your genre of choice is, this shit is fucking indispensable.
Hey Misha! These videos are a great help, thank you so much for making them.
I'd love to see a tutorial on how you go about producing synths. That's the one area I (myself) could really use some help with.
Cheers!
Now this is the kind of information I needed. Thanks Misha!
Great video Misha! But I think you should do a in-depth video of how you work in the SD-mixer. Thanks for all the useful tips, you´re awesome!
Thanks very much mate, your music sound great
I love how Misha's pre-recorded things he just does for his tutorials are still fucking beast!
Constantly seeing Matt grooving these grooves behind his kit in my mind.
awesome! love this series, keep the tips coming!
Thanks for the awesome video Misha!
As a drummer myself, I personally see accents and ghost notes,and basically all complex ideas of how drum writing is structured as segments, checkpoints if you will. For example, if i was doing a simple snare on 2 and 4, and kick on 1 and 3, i would just do 8th notes on the hi hat with the first hit being accented, and the 2nd being a ghost. (essentially the moeller technique) while doing that, i would fill in the off beats with all 8th note ghosts, but if i was doing straight quarters, I COULD still fill in the gaps with 8th note ghost notes, but it would feel a bit different, slightly more separation and independance is needed to do the ghost notes without the feel of a "support" beam, which in this example would be every upbeat between the accented hi hat strokes. It takes a bit of time to do stuff like this without the Moeller method being used, but taking the time to do the usual without any sort of crutch will develop you as a drummer, and be more comfortable exploring around with other sounds.
You're a bona fide badass, Misha. Thanks for sharing!
Fantastic explained! Thanks a lot mate!!!
Super useful videos, I was hoping you would show how you would start to demo from writing a riff to building the initial drum track.
what a great 2 part tutorial. thanks for sharing and guide us. will you also make some tutorials for eq,compr,reverb ( mastering) for drums as well?
Great video! Nice trick with the randomize function. I am usind the MIDI-parameter options, where you can randomize timing and velocity simultaenously, which adds another flavour of "humainzation".
I'd be highly interested to hear about how you work with drum samples, e.g. which software, what samples (though i guess you use custom ones?), etc.
The nicest man. Thank you, now lets see if I've learned anything and if I can do it Abelton!
I hope to use these tips someday. Thanks Misha!
Very useful tips, thanks Misha and Top Secret Audio.
This drum sound is awesome!! You'd be my hero for life time if you'd share the secrets behind this massive metal sound!
Hey Misha! Thanks for the programming lessons. How about giving us a rundown on your gear and a more in depth tutorial on how you EQ or set up your gear to your mac for the best tone!
Keep doing these videos! Great tips! Thank you!
section off your midi tracks and basically highlight all midi notes per each drum and enlarge the magnification and unclick the snap to grid. Now drag to the right a bit (in small....VEry small increments) and i bet it will sound even more natural as guitars and such arent usually so "Quantized". I love using this in hip hop and house shit cuz it works great with samples that have been played live.
love your skills man keep shreddin!! Cubase love!!!
hey Misha, just starting to get into recording music at home, still in the research phase. Is Cubase a good daw to start out on and learn on? I've been in a studio and have had my guitars tracked, but I've never done it myself. I just showed up and played my parts when it was time. lol so this is all new stuff to me.
Misha:
- Traditional Blasts (kick and snare alternating)
- Bomb Blasts (Snare on every 16th note with double bass playing 32nds)
- Hammer Blasts (Kick and snare hitting at same time)
What blast name that plays with bell?. :/
@@GamersHiro the double ride I think??? The Reverend from Avenged Sevenfold used that technique when he was alive.
The video is superb but i think most of us also want to know how to get that epic wide drum sound.
please thumbs up my comment so bulb might see this, thanks!
Add a fx buss with reverb (fully wet room) and mix the drums into that on it's own fader.
That was an awesome video Misha! Any chance for a video on dialing in guitar tones? :D
I'm loving these top secret audio videos. Keep em coming. Get Nolly in a video. :P
awesome man this helped out a lot, i actually understood this tutorial!!!! thanks
Thanks Misha. Very helpful.
I'm in love with your snare tone jeeebuss
Next video, how you make your drum sounds, mixing etc. At least a quick overview. What's your philosophy for the place kick snare should have in the mix, etc.
So many thanks for this channel!
great tips!! That riff isn't really my favorite, but the video was still great!
Awesome vid! I've been a logic guy for a while, haven't tried Cubase since SX3 or something, didn't know about the drum editor! Way nicer than piano roll...
Also, tell us what that thing you always like to do was again?
Misha will you be posting more vids for this channel? Extremely helpful so I really hope so!
Hi Misha, real nice to see your video and how you do your progr, of the drums what kind of drum editor are you using. your program is cubase I have reaper and I was a drummer for a long time in my live, keep on like this sounds good gr Adrian
thanks for the help Misha!
Please post more on the fills at the end of the section?
@Misha- Are you willing to share how you setup SD? can you share the template? I know you are using the Metal Foundry SDX....but which combo of drums in that pack? The drums SOUND so sick! It would also be nice to know how you compress and bus the kit (routings)...and that reverb is butter! Now THAT would some top secret sauce!
I am actually using Metal Machine, and all the mixing is being done in Cubase, so the template is pretty much stock.
Thank you very much Misha ! 💖
Thanks fellas, some good inspiration right here.
Great series
Hey Misha, do you think that you could do a video explain how you set up all your backing tracks when playing live?
Thanks Misha, I didn't know how to do this.
i would pay for that superior drummer preset
I think you can lol.
Wyatt Schutt
hahahahaha
Wyatt Schutt
You can't jut pay for it, you have to earn it!
a short take on how to create drum maps like yours would be awesome!
These videos are awesome.
Imagine being Matt. And being as good of a drummer as Matt. Dude's insane.
verry usefull misha! thanks a lot :)
Hey misha would you ever do a video on songwriting? perhaps some tips and stuff, I'd love to see more videos, all this stuff is the shit ✌
for the love of god make more of these vids and never stop xD
i could listen this stuff all day.. i keep replaying the parts where he plays the recorded stuff
This is a great video. Thanks !!
this is very helpful i actually picked up cubase for the way the drum programing is cause in logic and even pro tools it sux a phat dick imo
thank you so much! helped me a lot for my song i just made yesterday!
Loving this!
2:50 is from Zero on their Clear EP!!
Amazing, very educational!
16:15 those triplet kicks remind me of Dethklok.. just a little.
Wow, how did he get that snare sound ? love the reverb
I love the Deftones
Now this is fucking awesome
Great video. And of course any video is improved by a mention of Deftones.
in an upcoming video you should go through your studio setup, your gear is rather interesting.
Misha! What about the drums at the outro of All New Materials? Tutorial please.
Great! Please, post more videos!!!
Thanks for your vids! You are awesome dude! :)
the term your looking for at around @8:16 is "2 step"
You should do a video on vocal production or bass next!
Hey Misha !
How do you get the ghost notes to sound so good ? I see you have a seperate snare for ghost notes, would be really helpfull If you could explain how that works !
Thanks !
The ghost notes are from the same snare, the second snare is layered on top of the first one, albeit quietly, just to add more body, but it's not THAT necessary.
This is a bit of a learning curve gotta say for newbies, but damn worth it, as you get better you can do some interesting riffs
Just start simple, don't give up if things sound corny at first, keep the patience pants on it pays off quite well
Nice video.
You should make tuttoreal how to make guitar sound without all gear you have, it will be the best one !
Will you be making videos on mixing and mastering?
Probably not, I don't have an approach that can really be taught because I don't do things by the book. My way is inefficient and would probably anger a lot of people who know what they are doing. You would be better off learning from them.
Misha Mansoor smart and fair response)
Do you always use at least two sample layers for guitars? Sorry im a bit of a newb and was just curious
its industry standard to double track. Otherwise it doesnt sound as powerful.
Most songs you'll hear have 3 or 4 guitars going. Rhythm doubled and a lead track. If bands do harmonies you have a harmony track over the lead. That's over simplification but you get the idea right?