Lesson Info
1. Class Introduction
Summary (Generated from Transcript)
The topic of this lesson is an introduction to the course "Studio Pass with Periphery" where the instructors, Adam "Nolly" Getgood and Matt Halpern from the band Periphery, will be focusing on drums and discussing topics such as source tones, tuning, drum selection, and cymbals. They will also be taking questions from viewers throughout the course to make it more interactive and cover relevant topics that the viewers want to know about.
Q&A:
- What is the big picture of this course? The big picture is to emphasize the importance of source tones and how with certain skills, one can consistently get a good result in an unfamiliar situation.
- What will be the focus of this course? The focus will be on drums, particularly in tracking drums for the song "Alpha" from the album "Juggernaut Alpha" by Periphery.
- What topics will be discussed in this course? Topics that will be discussed include tuning, drum selection, cymbals, and the overall approach to getting good drum tones.
- Will questions from viewers be addressed in this course? Yes, the instructors welcome questions from viewers and will answer them throughout the course.
Lessons
Class Introduction
02:08 2Learning Drum Tone
08:10 3Drum Head and Shell Selection
10:07 4Matt's Signature Snare
04:37 5Tuning a Snare Drum
31:44 6Tuning Toms
18:56 7Tuning Drums Q&A
13:00 8Drum Feel and Cymbal Selection
06:58Micing intro & Kick Mic Techniques
11:58 10Snare Micing Techniques
07:10 11Shell Micing Q&A
09:43 12Tom Micing Techniques
07:51 13Microphone Placement - Overheads and Room Mics
19:55 14Soundchecking the Drum Tones
33:45 15Drum Micing Q&A
11:55 16Working With Tempo
17:42 17How Drum Parts Evolve
09:48 18Preparing for Recording as a Drummer
12:49 19Writing Drum Parts
17:02 20Recording Drum Samples
13:53 21Tracking Drum Takes
19:31 22Comping Takes and Q&A
16:37 23Mix Session Intro
06:56 24Mix Session Organization
06:35 25Top Down Mixing Approach
28:51 26Mix Bus Compression & Saturation
21:11 27Mix Bus Q&A
14:32 28Mixing Drums Intro
06:59 29Mixing Kick Drum
35:00 30Mixing Snare Drum
20:53 31Mixing Toms
09:14 32Mixing Cymbal & Overhead Mics
15:39 33Mixing Room Mics
25:22 34Mixing Bass Guitar
35:57 35Mixing Rhythm Guitars
13:33 36Mixing Lead Guitars
22:57 37Mixing Synths, Pads & Samples
06:30 38Mixing Vocals
31:56 39Wrap Up Q&A & Final Thoughts
10:13 40BONUS VIDEO: Micing Guitar Cab
06:20Lesson Info
Class Introduction
Well hey everybody! Welcome to CreativeLive here on the Music and Audio Channel. I'm your host Drew Konzelman and today's course is Studio Pass with Periphery. He wave Matt Halper in here and Nolly from the band Periphery. We're super, super excited to have these guys in the studio. We're shooting on location and we're going to be talking about a whole bunch of different stuff. I want to start off with my question. What is the big picture? What are we going to come away with, this course from? I think really the big picture we're going to try and emphasize is the importance of source tones and just how with a certain set of skills you can walk into an unfamiliar situation and consistently get a really good result. Really you're going to focus on getting-- The drums, particularly. Sounding great. Fantastic. And that's where we're starting, right? Is with drums. Alright, well take it away guys. Thanks Drew. Alright. Hello everybody. We hope you're doing well. Thank you Dr...
ew. It's good to see you again. It's good to be back here. Yeah man. This is kind of cool. It's a much different situation than last time I was here with CreativeLive. It was in a different kind of studio. This is really on-location. We have full drumset behind us. We have a full set-up here, so it's pretty cool. So as Drew mentioned, we are going to be really focused on drums throughout this whole segment and the end result is going to be that we're going to track drums for the song "Alpha," which is off of our new albums Juggernaut Alpha, Juggernaut Omega. It comes off of the first one, Alpha. We're going to be tracking that song, playing the drums, getting really good tones, Nolly's going to focus on tuning. We're going to talk about the actual drum selection, the cymbals that we're using, kind of the approach, a lot of things. And throughout this process we're also really down to take questions as we go so if there's things that you want to ask that are pertinent to what we're discussing please feel free to send in a question and we will get to them as soon as we can. I'd actually really like that, I think if it's a little bit interactive that's good. We want to cover stuff that you guys really want to know. Yeah, for sure.
Class Materials
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Ratings and Reviews
Connor Smith
I haven't even finished the course and already my mixes have improved dramatically. Night and day difference. I haven't watched the portions with Matt as I'm using drum samples (GGD specifically), but I have no doubt it's great. Matt is always incredibly helpful and is a brilliant drummer. I thoroughly enjoy listening to Nolly, he's very articulate and his approach to audio engineering is flat out brilliant. I'm so happy I purchased this course. Before my mixes were good (balance and things of that nature) but lacked life and energy. I just wasn't getting the professional level sound I was searching for. Now, I am proud of my mixes and actually think they're getting to the point where they sound professional and don't sound like they were produced by a dude in his bedroom with about half of year of recording and audio engineering experience. The metal genre is difficult to mix as there's a lot going on and the "current metal sound" is very crisp and clear while still being very heavy and punchy. It isn't 80s dad metal where guitars are hissy and flubby. lol I am a huge Periphery fan and it's a privilege to watch Nolly share his knowledge. I really enjoy his approach as its very simple but very effective. He doesn't have insane mixing strategies, he just does what works and it's applicable to any DAW and is helpful for almost any genre of music. Brilliant course!
a Creativelive Student
This was an amazing course! I loved hearing from both Matt and Nolly on their thought process behind drums in general. I love the point they drove home about getting a great source tone. That seems to be forgotten in a lot of recordings and they try to fix it in the mix. Jolly did a fantastic job of making it look "easy" to take already great sounding source tones and making them really shine! Cant wait to put these concepts into practice in my own projects. What a great source of knowledge here. Thanks for this great class!
Adrian Gougov
Best course and overall learning experience I've had in a long long while. Nolly and Matt are superb. Nolly is an astonishing mixing and recording engineer and a great teacher. Not only does he explains his methods carefully and in detail, but also lays down key concepts in an understandable language. Definitely worth the investment if you wanna learn how to mix modern heavy music. Definitely worth the investment if you wanna learn how to track drums properly. Definitely worth the investment if you wanna see one of modern metal's best drummers track a whole song from start to finish. Props to Creative Live for bringing this material to us.