Producing a song start to finish
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 เม.ย. 2024
- I recorded and mixed a song start to finish, sharing my production process with 3 students. Here's how it all went down.
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Featured in this video:
Music: Deja Vu by If I'm Lucky open.spotify.com/track/49o5jP...
Studio: Starke Lake Studios, Ocoee, FL
Music I’ve Worked On: open.spotify.com/playlist/6I7...
Website: hardcoremusicstudio.com
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MY FAVORITE GEAR:
Computer / Interface:
Mac M1 Studio Max sweetwater.sjv.io/anOMOo
Avid Carbon sweetwater.sjv.io/ZQ6M6g
Apogee Duet 3 sweetwater.sjv.io/y2qXqb
Monitors / Headphones:
Avantone CLA-10a sweetwater.sjv.io/WqyMyZ
Audio Technica ATH-M50 sweetwater.sjv.io/PyOMON
Microphones:
Shure SM57 sweetwater.sjv.io/daOMy7
AKG D112 sweetwater.sjv.io/Kj0MBy
Sennheiser e604 sweetwater.sjv.io/DKyvWa
Shure SM7b sweetwater.sjv.io/5g5vk3
AKG C451b sweetwater.sjv.io/jre9Rv
Shure SM81 sweetwater.sjv.io/eK1LnD
Audio Technica AT4050 sweetwater.sjv.io/JzKMqr
Preamps/Outboard:
API 3124 sweetwater.sjv.io/eK1LRD
EL8 Distressor sweetwater.sjv.io/XYmMd4
Favorite Plugins:
BSA Clipper blacksaltaudio.com/clipper
Escalator blacksaltaudio.com/escalator
Low Control blacksaltaudio.com/low-control
Silencer blacksaltaudio.com/silencer
DSR blacksaltaudio.com/dsr
Waves SSL Bundle waves.alzt.net/dMd4q
Waves CLA Compressors waves.alzt.net/0va0P
Waves Platinum waves.alzt.net/jxz2M
Slate Trigger 2 sweetwater.sjv.io/MmAM53
SoundToys Rack sweetwater.sjv.io/xkLgyd
Auto-tune Pro sweetwater.sjv.io/OreMYr
Vocalign Project sweetwater.sjv.io/xkLgyA
Cranesong Phoenix II sweetwater.sjv.io/PyOMrz
Instruments / Amps:
Ludwig Black Beauty Snare sweetwater.sjv.io/1r9vDR
Gibson Les Paul sweetwater.sjv.io/B0nvz1
Evertune Guitars sweetwater.sjv.io/WqyM6P
Fender Jazz Bass sweetwater.sjv.io/nLX5R6
Sansamp Bass Driver DI sweetwater.sjv.io/OreM9Q
EVH 5150 sweetwater.sjv.io/4PGvr9
Mesa 2x12 cab sweetwater.sjv.io/75avGA - เพลง
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this was an absolute joy to be a part of and i couldn’t be more thankful to you guys to leave that session a better drummer than when i entered it. thanks for helping us make a banger 🫶🏻
one time you let my drummer borrow a hi hat stand at uncle lous. great playing!
It was awesome to meet and work with you all!
This needs to be turned into a new weekly or monthly series called "Making the Record"
That would be awesome :D
watch sonic boom from rob scallon
Such a wonderful experience to be a part of my recordings and mixes are already miles better...
Definitely an amazing time.
I hope I did your mix justice with my master! Was really exciting to have you recording my friends, the song came out great!
Thanks Matt, perfect to have another HCMS member do the master on this!
I've mixed this band live in Orlando before! Super nice people and great performers.
dude thanks for this! we love our orlando fam and we’re so grateful to work with awesome people like yourself 🙏
Band name?
@@Oscar-RacsoIf I’m Lucky
Oh so they were a real band. It all seemed like channeling everything down a pre used sound for everything that i thought it was just for the student to learn. There seem very little performance in the performances .
One thing comes to mind here...."The proof is in the pudding"... This formula works on every genre of band folks. Great video HCMS! I think this is the ultimate climax that can and should happen with an online teacher who has been teaching and promoting their techniques. If you have the cash and can get the full stack producer, it's going to fill in the blanks, and be worth every penny if you apply yourself to it. This was a pleasure to watch.
This was a great experience to be a part of❤ thank you all who made it possible. Roeloff and Jordan rock so hard dudeeee
It was a lot of fun!
@@OmniFace Hey Joel!!
@@JulesO Hi!!!
Late to the party but figured I’d make an appearance. lol
10 days late for a reply... but we all had an absolute blast and learned a lot sitting in with Jordan! If I'm Lucky was also a great band to work with, and all the guys were super friendly.
Why does it feel like I’ve heard this song before? If only there were a name for this feeling. Haha! Great work by everyone here!
Now THAT would be amazing.
I'm sure it's a lot to produce, but I would watch this every week in a series. It's nice wish fulfillment for those of us who aren't recording in a studio, but wish we were.
I realize we're only seeing a small snapshot, and I'm glad you didn't just show the easy parts, but I'm curious what you do to make the band members feel comfortable when they're performing under the microscope. I think you can hear that comfort level in a performance.
Sick video! More of these! Great to see the process
WOW please more videos like this
Amazing work here all around! Very cool!
Really enjoyed this video. Seemed like a really fun time. Thanks for sharing.
It is really amazing to see this channel come from the beginning to now, where the hard work and the vision has come to reality. Its a beautiful synthesis of hard work, planning, dedication and vision. Really inspiring. Thanks for all your hard work.
So much fun to see!
This was so great! So much value packed into this mini doc; loved it!
Wow the result is just amazing 👏 These guys are so lucky to learn from one of the best mixers out there.
umm amazing job on the mix Jordan, this made me have flash backs from my studio days. Love this content, would have liked to heard or seen the bands response to the finished mix. That was always my favorite part getting to make the band happy with the results. Excellent Job!!!
Awesome to see Montana represented!!!!
More of these!
Great vid. Thanks.
Great result, would have been a blast to be there and see it all over the 3 days!
Great watch!
This is so good Jordan, thank you for putting this up! Why am I only seeing this just now?! Amazing stuff wish it was an hour long
sweet i love it
Fantastic video man, thanks so much. Love this stuff, learning tips along the way!
Great video. Thanks
reminds me when i first got the bug to mix/record when my band from 2012 went to the studio and i just couldnt stop asking questions. im glad i did
Sounds really good guys! Congrats!
nice video jordan! very inspired
Yeah this was a really cool video definitely different from what you normally release really enjoyed this and the song and mix where dope as well
Great vid!
Well done. I was a HCMS member for a bit but couldn't afford the switch. I love the drums and that bass tone
Love that mayday parade song on the piano!!!
lovely job
Really fantastic dealing with singers on the scary side of the glass. That is half the battle.
LIKE YOUR SIMPLICITY..❤
that drummer was pretty, pretty, pretty good.
Hope I was there! That was awesome!!!
Nice job
Very cool video.....the highlight for me is the drum sound. Tight as hell but huge.
Yeah, loved it all ....but those drums ...........daaaang.
The raw drum tracks sounded amazing out of the gate!
I used to freelance at Starke Lake Studios in the early 2000's.
Blink 183
Cool video! Thanks to all that participated. Looks like Jordan is a fun person to work with in the studio. I sometimes struggle to toe the line between ‘chill’ and giving enough encouragement to get the best performances out of people. The vibe in the recording session matters!
Jordan was definitely friendly, positive, and professional throughout. We really enjoyed sitting in with him and If I'm Lucky!
Fantastic. Would like to see a more in detail video of the whole process.
Que importante es el trabajo del productor cuando la banda le hace caso , todo funciona perfecto! Es como cuando se contrata al arquitecto para el diseño de la casa soñada!
This isn't a thing you go to school for. YOU LIVE IT!!
More vids like this lol wish I could've been there
Haha first comment ... Had a similar experience with a producer from my country I learnt a lot
Awesome!! How the heck can I be a part of something like that!?!?
Beautiful! Will this song be included for members to mix?
It's awesome to see this in action!! Reinforcing everything I've seen in PPS. Were you guys using that mig 50 for guitar tones?
We tried it out but ultimately didn’t use it on this track (it’s mine)
@@metaldeadman2441 Right on man. Killer job and killer track man!!
The rhythm guitars were tracked through the Orange cab (V30's I think?) and a micro amp on the pedal board. The Lead guitars went through Neural DSP. The 5150 I think? And yeah, like @metaldeadman2441 said, the Mig didn't make the cut. It was too clean if I recall correctly, and we couldn't get enough gain out of it on it's own.
@hardcoremusicstudio Unrelated to this excellent video. I have built and equipped well, a small project studio principally for mixing and singer/songwriter type tracking. In the beginning do I give work away to build a catalog of demonstrable capability. Record and feature my own music. What’s the ground zero approach to getting work?
Thoughts on Buster Odeholm?
How can i get the song ???
So you DiI’d the Bass & Guitars in the Control Room. As a small studio owner that’s how I work, but interesting to see you do that even in a Studio that has a Live room separate from the Control room.
A DI was captured in the control room but we also ran a speaker cable out to the cab in the live room. I can’t recall which made it on to the final track.
we ended up using the mic’d cab on the final track - jordan tweaked the analog sound to get close to the plug in we liked, but at the end of the day the warmth and natural sound from the cab was preferred
@@metaldeadman2441 Thanks
@@benjaminneilmusic Thanks
@@metaldeadman2441 A bit of both. Rhythm guitars used the Orange cab and the lead used the DI>Neural DSP. Bass was just the Sansamp if I recall correctly.
In an awesome, big studio and the band didn’t play once all together?
Was that the LockOn tuner that you had up while recording?
Hey Jordan, when you mentioned using a plugin when recording guitars to get in the ballpark... what plugin do you typically use or would recommend?
iirc he used Archetype Plini. (I’m the bassist and vocalist in this video)
Archetype Nolly!
Long hair dude looks super familiar.
a sovtek? Interesting :)
Was it a plugin or an amp in the final mix ??
Both. Rhythms used the Orange can and an Orange pedal board amp (Orange Terror Stamp I think?) and leads used the Neural DSP with the 5150 model I believe.
There's just nothing like tracking in a real studio... oh man
I realize this is like a highlights reel of a few days - but I'm curious, on average, how many takes these guys were taking ..? At one point the guitarist plays a higher arpeggio-type riff and breathes out like it took a lot of work, but it looked like he just aced one take .. Asking as I've done production work for a long time, but in a smaller community so "preparedness" always comes into question and I'm curious about normal expectations
we went through a lot of different iterations on how we wanted that lead played, so there were a lot of takes just figuring out things like which notes should be palm muted, are we pedaling the root note between arpegiations, stuff like that.
Once that was decided, it was a few takes to get clean. It’s not a super difficult lead, but it’s not a lead that’s easily broken down into smaller chunks so he had to get the whole part in one clean take so it did take a little bit.
This session followed the same schedule I’ve used for many years - for each song, it’s 2 days for tracking + 1 day for mixing
I could tell when Jordan was watching the drummer he was like 🤨. He's a cymbal basher and gona need some editing. Lol.
he’s very self taught & getting better all the time 😂
check out those fills - that’s one or two takes each and some pretty impeccable timing. whoever their drummer is must be really good (and handsome too)
As one of the students, I don't believe Jordan ever voicing that opinion, and we were honest with each other-so I don't think your assessment is correct. :)
Editing was pretty minimal actually - because Jordan had him play the parts repeatedly until he squeezed the best out of Daxon.
Is it normal that the mixing engineer is having an impact on the songwriting?
Looks like there was an agreement with the band for Jordan to also help with production during the recording, which includes helping fine-tune the songwriting process. So during the recording process, Jordan was being a producer, throwing out ideas to improve the song. Then he mixed it. Pretty normal.
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Jordan was playing "Producer" in this case. So, he was the recording engineer, mixing engineer, and producer-helping refine the song.
Recording and mixing is not 'producing'. misleading title.
With Jordan’s help we redid parts of the arrangement, rewrote almost all of the guitar leads, changed drum parts, lyrics, and ad libs.
He didn’t just record and mix.
@@metaldeadman2441Great, but that's not what this video is about.
It literally is, it’s just a highlight reel from the 3 days we spent with him. I’m the original producer, we handed it off to him and he took over for those 3 days, filling what would typically be my role; changing parts, picking source tones, deciding what can be done to level up the song.
This is a 20min snapshot of a 36hr process. They filmed quite literally all of it, I’m sure there will be more detailed videos to come.
Cool. Love it
It's weird to watch guys on their 50s singing like girls and making gay teenage music like pop punk
I’m 29, making the music I grew up on
- the guy singing like a girl in the video
lol - 'gay teenage music' chill dude. let people do what they want. you know the biggest power buyers in the states are kids. if they are trying to make pop music, it's supposed to be popular. pay more attention to the techniques and the ways in which they are constructing things. doesn't matter what music they're making. there is quality production, and there is amateur production. what kind of music do you have to share? I can share some with you and we can exchange constructive notes if you'd like to add something constructive to the conversation?
I'm over 50s and I still love "gay teenage pop punk" tunes... alongside kickass metalcore, death metal, trash metal, Black metal, Viking metal... and the most agressive songs you would ever think of. Curious to listen to the stuff you're producing man. Sad comment my friend. Next time keep it for yourself.
I wasn't aware there are age limits on musical styles and taste. Hmmm
I personally don't mind pop punk and these guys seem alright but this comment made me laugh.
i really love your channel, i learned a lot here, pleases sir @Harcore Music Studio pleases 😅😊 there was no hihats included in eq cheatsheet