Lessons
Intro to Bootcamp
13:45 2Purpose of Pre-Production
15:55 3Technical Side of Preproduction
11:33 4Pre-Production: Setting Up the Tempo Map
12:05 5Pre-Production: Importing Stems
10:11 6Pre-Production: Click Track
15:27 7Creating Tracking Templates
17:04 8Intro and the Tone Pie
04:52Drums - Lay of the Land
10:45 10Bearing Edges
03:10 11Wood Types
10:37 12Depths and Sizes
04:00 13Hoops
02:39 14Sticks and Beaters
07:39 15Drum Heads
07:31 16Drum Tuning
1:03:55 17Drum Mic Placement Intro
10:38 18Basic Drum Mic Setup
53:37 19Cymbal Mic Setup
35:25 20Touch Up Tuning
46:56 21Microphone Choice and Placement
40:34 22Drum Tracking Intro
01:01 23Getting Tones and Final Placement
34:52 24Primary Tracking
31:54 25Punching In and Comping Takes
20:11 26Guitar Setup and Rhythm Tone Tracking
01:59 27Amplifiers - Lay of the Land
10:01 28Amplifiers & Cab Shoot Out
27:13 29Guitar Cab Mic Choice and Placement
03:56 30Guitar Tracking and Signal Chain
29:08 31Finalizing Amplifier Tone
51:24 32Guitar Mic Shootout Round Robin
05:22 33Intro to Rhythm Tracking
07:46 34Setting Up Guitars
15:02 35Working with a Guitarist
05:05 36Final Guitar Tone and Recap
04:11 37Guitar Tracking with John
15:19 38Guitar Tracking with Ollie
32:03 39Final Tracking
22:08 40Tracking Quads
33:44 41Intro to Bass Tone
01:26 42Bass Tone Setup
07:36 43Bass Tone Mic Placement
16:42 44Bass Tracking
45:09 45Intro to Clean and Lead Tones
02:15 46Clean Guitar Tones
34:05 47Lead Tones
10:58 48Vocal Setup for Tracking
11:27 49Vocal Mic Selection and Setup
02:39 50Vocal Mic Shootout
09:14 51Lead Vocal Tracking
38:09 52Writing Harmonies
07:44 53Harmony Vocal Tracking
23:25 54Vocal Warm Ups
11:40 55Scream Vocal Tracking
18:57 56Vocal Tuning and Editing Introduction
01:35 57Vocal Tuning and Editing
29:26 58Routing and Bussing
25:16 59Color Coding, Labeling and Arranging Channels
17:54 60Setting Up Parallel Compression
30:51 61Setting Up Drum Triggers
10:41 62Gain Staging and Trim
1:00:54 63Drum Mixing - Subtractive EQ
25:39 64Drum Mixing - Snare
23:01 65Drum Mixing - Kick
11:39 66Drum Mixing - Toms
24:47 67Drum Mixing - Cymbals and Rooms
17:24 68Drum Mixing Recap
08:58 69Mixing Bass Guitar
16:27 70Mixing Rhythm Guitars
1:16:08 71Basic Vocal Mix
1:08:59 72Mixing Clean and Lead Guitars
58:55 73Mixing - Automation
43:36 74Mastering - Interview with Joel Wanasek
31:02Lesson Info
Setting Up Drum Triggers
I'm gonna set two things up, just to have. Gonna set up an instance of my Drumforge on the kick and on the snare, but I'm gonna have it muted. This is gonna be just in case I need to use it, I can access it quickly. It's an instrument track, so I'll just treat it like it's an actual audio track. Okay, so. You know what, maybe... Maybe during the break I'll reboot and it'll work just fine. So anyways, I was setting up a contact right there, to be routed to kick. Come on, where is it? There it is. Okay, and I just go ahead and turn the audio volume all the way down and then I'm going to go to the MIDI, this is the kick MIDI. But yeah. I have to have Drumforge actually instantiated for it to, for it to see it. So contact 1, alright, and I'm gonna put one right under the snare as well. Gonna make an instrument track. Okay. And then this goes to snare, which I will find, there we go. Turn the volume all the way down, the audio volume, and assign the MIDI, right here to contact 2. (click) (b...
urst of fast music) I know that the session sounds all kinds of crazy right now, as it should, because all the routing is insane, but... (heavy rock music) But I am seeing that I'm not getting vocals to my vocal aux, so that's good. As in, not good, as in I should fix this. Voc FX should be going to my vocal aux. Look at this, voc screens, none of these were going to my vocal aux. What a horrible reality. So I'm just gonna scan through here and see if anything is going to the mix master bus and not to the stuff that I've created and assigned it to. Alright, all looking pretty normal. (heavy rock music and vocals) No bass, probably because I turned it all down. Yeah. (music) Anyways, this sounds crazy and out of whack 'cause it's absolutely not mixed, but... (music) See how easy this is gonna be now? Get the, whatever fine moves I need to do down there, out of the way, but then when it comes down to the big moves, I just have to be within this screen and I'm pretty much good. Get a little smaller, fit the drums and... (heavy rock music with drums) It's all there. (drum solo) Some people have asked me what the Pro Tools version would be of the way that my business partner, Joe Sturgess, does the mixing with faders at zero in Cubase, with the input knob at the top of the track. Well, this is a really good example right here. So in Pro Tools we have the trim control, and so with faders at zero, and the busses are at zero as well, I believe, I'm gonna turn down the level of the bass to not overtake the drums. (bass and drums) You know, and then that just opens you up to be able to do whatever you've gotta do. (bass and drums) (guitar riff joins) So I'm starting each one of these with a trim plugin. (music) Okay, whatever. Now I actually have to mix this. I hope that this all makes sense to you guys. This is all routed now, there might be a few things that come up while I'm mixing, and I'll deal with them as they come up, but as of now, this is ready to mix. Again, like I said, at the risk of getting redundant there will be things that come up and I might need to rearrange a couple things, but, you know. As far as I know we're good to go, and I mean, just check it out. We've got the whole band. (burst of music) I mean, a little loud, and I will turn them down. (rock music and vocals) Whatever, not even gonna get into that now. But as you can see, all the instruments are coming through. So good to go, I hope you guys learned something from this. Oh, lastly, the plugins that are on here are the plugins that were on during the tracking session. Because we liked what was going on in that room, we felt like we got some good sounds. But all in all, I might just start from scratch. Just remains to be seen, but this is where it kinda left off after tracking. We did feel like got some good stuff so why reinvent the wheel. But I'm gonna actually find out now if it's worth scrapping or keeping. So with that, peace out.
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Ratings and Reviews
Ron
I'm on lesson 19! Already worth every dollar!!! Priceless insight! I have already incorporated some of the ideas (preproduction common sense stuff that I never thought of, but damn). VERY HAPPY with this course! ALWAYS LEARNING and looking forward to the next 50 (or whatever) lessons!!! Excellent course! GREAT PRODUCER/ENGINEER, GREAT DRUM TECH, and GREAT BAND!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!
ceeleeme
I'm just part way though and I'm blown away by the quality approach Eyal takes to getting the best out of the sessions. I love how well everything is explained and Eyals calm manner is just awesome it really makes you want to listen to the gems of wisdom he offers.
user-eb82bd
Amazing knowledge is being presented here. If you want to start out recording, this should be your first step, it'll save you lots of time and get you awesome results. Highly recommended class.
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