Stanislav Zalevskyi wow, those are some inspiring words my friend, thank you 🙏 ;-) These sessions are a a blast, and I look forward to sharing more on signal flow and routing...for sure!!! Just last week I discovered something that had been a mystery...for 4 years lmao 😳 Note to self...read the manual haha!!! Thanks again Stanislav, I hope you have a great week! -hw
Pete_Logic YESSSS!!! I’ve always loved the energy of Friday’s, absolutely my favourite day of the week my friend!!! Thank you, I hope your Sunday is AWESOME too ;-) Be safe, -hw
siriusisastar thank you! What a legend...Butch Vig’s credit list is epic!!! I wonder how many DM remixes are out there?!? Love that band. Thanks for sharing, I hope you have an awesome week ;-) -hw
thanks, Ken! another session of focused, concentrated learning- broken down for easy understanding. the surface of my work desk is a pad of large, tear-away paper. these papers allow me to map out, in boxy flow charts, sources and destinations for my signal. it's a test-bed, really- signal path combinations are nearly infinite with outboard effects, split-signal looping, parallel mixing, etc. the signal paths that i keep get copied into a notebook 'roadmap' for future reference. i learned early that i'm a visual learner, and if i want to retain something, it's best for me to actually 'see' a signal path in order to test and / or implement it. not going to lie, half of the fun for me is grabbing a bunch of cabling and adapters -and just seeing how much trouble i can get my signal into. the gating!! i am so incredibly excited to begin using these methods! so many thanks, Ken! oh, and by the way, your track sounds super awesome. so creative!
JammyPants wow, I LOVE your desktop of paper idea...and the fact you can simply tear away and start a new session, that’s brilliant!!! I hear you on notebooks too...it was Rave that inspired me to keep notebooks early in my career, and I still keep them today! THANK YOU for such inspiring words JammyPants, and for sharing part of your process! Ideas like your tear-away session, or project sheets can be a game changer for someone in our community, and your willingness to share here is priceless. Can’t thank you enough for engaging, and always having such an awesome attitude 😊 Cheers, and be safe!!! -hw
@@hiwattmarshall I did! I can't put 'em back like I used to so I drink good craft beers to make each one count. btw thanks for addressing the noise question I asked earlier. I was experimenting with a gated reverb on a snare when I realized it basically sounds like pink noise. Pshhhh.
CRIS SABATER That’s music to my ears my friend, thanks for sharing ;-) Externally keying noise gates can result in some of the most inspiring musical ideas, even when you’re not using conventional sounds...a simple drum beat can turn into an orchestra with the right combination of gated sources into effects!!! Haha, I’m getting excited just typing!!! Cheers to you too CRIS SABATER, and stay safe! -hw
Matthew Setzer thank you brother...that’s a big deal coming from you. I’ve been fortunate to see you perform live many times, and not only do you shred every guitar note, you bring a presence to the stage that is absolute wizardry 🙇🏻♂️ The dedication you put into everything is inspiring Matthew, thanks for setting such an awesome example ;-) I mean, your guitar rig even has a drawer for cigars...❤️🙏 Cheers, and talk soon! -hw
Sogo thanks for sharing such an awesome quote my friend! I’ve had the privilege of paying close attention to some really incredible engineers over the years, particularly in my years an as assistant at Mushroom. Your quote makes me think of Rave ;-) Cheers to you, stay safe! -hw
Alright, I'm a hard sell, but after watching a handful of your videos, you've got my subscription. Now, your content is defintely better explained here than in most tutorials on youtube, but I think what won me over is the abundance of enthusiasm coupled with the "rock on" gesture as you point at your screen. Big ups dude. Keep em comin! You're doing good work.
raverone909 thank you my friend, and welcome to an awesome community in the making ;-) I sincerely appreciate you engaging here, and for subscribing to the channel!!! If you’re making music yourself, we’ll be doing another ‘Collaboration Under Lockdown’ VERY soon, and we’d love to have you contribute and collaborate on it!!! The last one was a freaking BLAST! Thanks again for your inspiring words, have a great week! -hw
I’ve been toying with this idea using sidechaining in Logic Pro and the pre-fader sends and how to obtain them with this DAW have been on my mind for a while. Thank you very much for inspiring/urging me to delve back in on this subject! By the way, LOVE this “quirky” riff! Thank you Sonic Sensei!!
Pete_Logic thank you, that’s music to my ears my friend!!! I’m always messing around, and revisiting my setup, and in my own experience, I’ve discovered some really cool ‘mishaps’ that can lead to new discoveries within our own systems...LOVE IT!!! Just turn the monitors down before you start routing your hardware lmao 😳 Thanks again Pete_Logic, take care! -hw
Karel Matocha thank you my friend ;-) I look forward to sharing more sessions on signal path for sure!!! If you’ve had any cool ‘mishaps’, and/or discoveries in your own signal-flow world, please let us know!!! I’ve had a few of those feedback moments result in new signal paths that I wouldn’t have discovered otherwise...just turn the monitors down first lmao!!! 😳 Have a great Sunday, thanks again! -hw
Aecio de Souza thank you my friend, I appreciate that very much ;-) I hope you’re able to apply some of these ideas to your own productions, and I especially hope you explore the radio (or any other source) gater session idea haha, cause I know you’ll loose a couple of days in your studio once you dive in!!! Thanks again, and stay safe ;-) -hw
C. C. I encourage you to gate just about anything you can find on your hard drives lol, I’ve been so blown away with the results!! Really tight gate times can produce FUN results ;-) Thanks for sharing C. C. , I hope you have a great Sunday! -hw
I used to have a Tascam 488 8-track cassette recorder. Man, I miss that thing! I also had this little old Radio Shack "realistic" brand. Delay effect for a karaoke machine, I think? It was straight up noisy Bucket Brigade style. I loved it! It had sliders on it instead of knobs. And I also had a "DOD death metal Distortion" pedal. And what I would do is since the 488 had 2 auxiliary sends on each Channel along with 4 band EQ is I would send the delay on auxiliary 1 and the distortion on auxiliary 2 and do the old trick of feeding them back into their own channel on the mixer. And instead of just doing the normal feeding back the auxiliary input into its own signal. I would cross feed the single from one and the other sending auxiliary 1 to 2 and 2 to 1 and it would Get this beautiful rhythmic wall of noise!🎧💫😵 That would create its own jarring and jerking rhythms. Cuz they're across modulating each other. I miss being able to do that..BrAp oN!!¡!✋✌
Max Matson what an awesome process you’re up to here...and the cross-feeding is brilliant...I wanna try ;-) That Radio Shack slider delay effect would be sort of epic in a mix today...and sliders too!!! Nothing like real knobs, buttons, sliders, faders, etc. to inspire in the studio, and I absolutely love what you’re getting up to. Madness really...and I bet the results were sometimes UNREAL!!! Thank you Max, I appreciate you sharing part of your process here with the community, it’s really a big deal ;-)) Stay safe! -hw
@@hiwattmarshall Thank you so much for responding back. And I think you'll really like that technique. It gave me a lot of incredible sounds!🎧💫😵 Also, I managed to find an old interview of skinny puppy with the band sitting in talkin with the interviewer and Dave (Rave) in a rare appearance is sitting there with them. And later in the interview We see footage of you guys in the studio during the "last rites" era, and it sounds like the song "lust's chance" is playing in the background. And I see you with the "cable dreads" you were mentioning. I was like, oh shit, There they are!
@@elusivegroove I definitely Second That Emotion.👍 I used to have a Alesis SR16 for a drum machine and pairing that baby with that little beauty of a pedal Was Magic!
@@maxmatson1578 I has the SR16 and the HR series and did the SAME! LOL Great minds think alike. Also had a Casio SK1 that I would run through that and create some killer vocal samples.
Jacob Skriver just checking in...haha, did you sleep last night?!? I have literally burned HOURS in the studio messing around with gates lol, but oh man the results can sometimes be worth every effort!!! The keyable gate...what a brilliant invention! Thanks for sharing Jacob...I wanna hear! Cheers, have a great week! -hw
Definitely makes a huge difference depending on the gate settings. With the slower release setting on the gate, it sounds a bit like overuse of a noise reduction plugin. 😬
testube exactly, the crazy amount of control we have with some of these plug-in’s can lead to some pretty amazing results, particularly when we engage automation! I’ve had great results automating things like the range control...where we just sort of mix in some of the gate in real time...works great on anything with sustain ;-) Classic example would be gated strings...one of my faves! Thanks for sharing testube, have a great week! -hw
I've been doing that my whole life since my first music record players and CD players tape players then hook them up to VCR my TV pretty soon the cable box auxiliary out to MP3 players nobody taught me nothing I was just all experimenting learning all this stuff yeah I get some crazy sounds a lot here and there maybe mess up a few systems but I learned so much and now I can hook up anyting. I remember plugging in my headphones into a microphone Jack and was able to record don't ask how? I really wasn't worried about it I was just happy it did it!
I’m curious to know where you went to recording school. I also went that route but my lack of musical knowledge/ability didn’t allow me the confidence to really follow through on the recording music tip. I wound up in broadcasting, which has been great, but I still like to make synth noise as a hobby. Tips like these are gold, thank you for your dedication and enthusiasm!
RobNickel001 so awesome of you to share my friend, thank you!!! Funny thing is, it was my initial interest in broadcasting that led to recording school lmao!!! I attended Trebas Institute of recording arts right out of high school, it was a two year full time program that I believe was one of my best decisions ever. That said, I grew up on a ranch so I definitely needed that kind of ‘immersion’. Today we have so many great resources available right here on TH-cam, it’s an awesome time we’re living in ;-) So many areas of broadcasting that have always interested me, like the lure of a great sounding DJ’s booth in an old-school radio station!!! That’s was got me hooked haha, working in a dark room, lots of buttons and knobs, and playing music...sign me up!!! Love that you’re making synth noises, I hope you contribute to our next collab project ;-) Have a great week, stay safe! -hw
I remember dealing with the, "Cable Monster" back in the day... the backs of my amp/effects racks and mixers looked like a giant squid exploded... You also had to keep those 1/4 inch phone plugs (and sockets) SUPER clean, otherwise you would get unwanted random ***CRUNCH*** noises that would RUIN a performance or recording take... ;)
Sogo oh boy can I relate to your last haha! That CRUNCH can be so obnoxious...and always when the monitors are cranked up lol! Thank goodness we’ve moved into the bantam world, and much more ‘streamlined’ work flow ;-) Your cable monster reference is perfect, that patchbay used to get...insane lol! Cheers to you, have a great eve! -hw
Dr. Feelicks so cool that you have the experience on a spaghetti patchbay, it can be an awesome foundation for just about everything we do in the studio!!! Haha, now you’ve inspired me to go digging cause I’m sure I have a shot of the phone dreads somewhere lmao! If I find one I’ll include it in the next signal path session for sure my friend ;-) Have a great Sunday, be safe! -hw
No matter how careful I am, every once in a while, I will enable monitoring on a hot condenser microphone by mistake in my hom estudio. I hate when that happens. lol
Absolutely best channel on TH-cam for learning new mixing and production tips. Thanks for your content, Ken! You make fridays awesome;)
Stanislav Zalevskyi wow, those are some inspiring words my friend, thank you 🙏 ;-) These sessions are a a blast, and I look forward to sharing more on signal flow and routing...for sure!!! Just last week I discovered something that had been a mystery...for 4 years lmao 😳 Note to self...read the manual haha!!! Thanks again Stanislav, I hope you have a great week!
-hw
Yaaaaayyyy it’s HiWatt Friday!!
Pete_Logic YESSSS!!! I’ve always loved the energy of Friday’s, absolutely my favourite day of the week my friend!!! Thank you, I hope your Sunday is AWESOME too ;-)
Be safe, -hw
Ken... you have to show us your eurorack system!
The 'Quirky Idea' puts me in mind of Butch Vig's 1998 remix of DM's 'In Your Room'. Nice! :)
siriusisastar thank you! What a legend...Butch Vig’s credit list is epic!!! I wonder how many DM remixes are out there?!? Love that band. Thanks for sharing, I hope you have an awesome week ;-)
-hw
thanks, Ken! another session of focused, concentrated learning- broken down for easy understanding. the surface of my work desk is a pad of large, tear-away paper. these papers allow me to map out, in boxy flow charts, sources and destinations for my signal. it's a test-bed, really- signal path combinations are nearly infinite with outboard effects, split-signal looping, parallel mixing, etc. the signal paths that i keep get copied into a notebook 'roadmap' for future reference. i learned early that i'm a visual learner, and if i want to retain something, it's best for me to actually 'see' a signal path in order to test and / or implement it. not going to lie, half of the fun for me is grabbing a bunch of cabling and adapters -and just seeing how much trouble i can get my signal into.
the gating!! i am so incredibly excited to begin using these methods! so many thanks, Ken! oh, and by the way, your track sounds super awesome. so creative!
JammyPants wow, I LOVE your desktop of paper idea...and the fact you can simply tear away and start a new session, that’s brilliant!!! I hear you on notebooks too...it was Rave that inspired me to keep notebooks early in my career, and I still keep them today! THANK YOU for such inspiring words JammyPants, and for sharing part of your process! Ideas like your tear-away session, or project sheets can be a game changer for someone in our community, and your willingness to share here is priceless. Can’t thank you enough for engaging, and always having such an awesome attitude 😊
Cheers, and be safe!!!
-hw
It’s Friday night and I’m watching Ken’s latest video whilst enjoying my favorite signal path: Beer > Mug > Mouth Cheers!
M that’s brilliant, and with so many options, I hope you found a nice ‘patch’ ;-) Thanks for sharing M, stay safe!
-hw
@@hiwattmarshall I did! I can't put 'em back like I used to so I drink good craft beers to make each one count. btw thanks for addressing the noise question I asked earlier. I was experimenting with a gated reverb on a snare when I realized it basically sounds like pink noise. Pshhhh.
Great video Ken will certainly take inspiration from this. Cheers mate.
CRIS SABATER That’s music to my ears my friend, thanks for sharing ;-) Externally keying noise gates can result in some of the most inspiring musical ideas, even when you’re not using conventional sounds...a simple drum beat can turn into an orchestra with the right combination of gated sources into effects!!! Haha, I’m getting excited just typing!!! Cheers to you too CRIS SABATER, and stay safe!
-hw
The pink noise tip is such a simple idea, but it works incredibly well. Will have to try that real soon!
I feel like im in Wizard school when i watch Ken's videos 🧙♂️
"Pay LOTS of attention to the man behind the curtain..." ;)
Matthew Setzer thank you brother...that’s a big deal coming from you. I’ve been fortunate to see you perform live many times, and not only do you shred every guitar note, you bring a presence to the stage that is absolute wizardry 🙇🏻♂️ The dedication you put into everything is inspiring Matthew, thanks for setting such an awesome example ;-) I mean, your guitar rig even has a drawer for cigars...❤️🙏
Cheers, and talk soon! -hw
Sogo thanks for sharing such an awesome quote my friend! I’ve had the privilege of paying close attention to some really incredible engineers over the years, particularly in my years an as assistant at Mushroom. Your quote makes me think of Rave ;-)
Cheers to you, stay safe!
-hw
Alright, I'm a hard sell, but after watching a handful of your videos, you've got my subscription. Now, your content is defintely better explained here than in most tutorials on youtube, but I think what won me over is the abundance of enthusiasm coupled with the "rock on" gesture as you point at your screen. Big ups dude. Keep em comin! You're doing good work.
raverone909 thank you my friend, and welcome to an awesome community in the making ;-) I sincerely appreciate you engaging here, and for subscribing to the channel!!! If you’re making music yourself, we’ll be doing another ‘Collaboration Under Lockdown’ VERY soon, and we’d love to have you contribute and collaborate on it!!! The last one was a freaking BLAST! Thanks again for your inspiring words, have a great week!
-hw
He's been doing phenomenal work for decades. Ken had me won for life the day I heard this.
th-cam.com/video/PLXxuu6zZPo/w-d-xo.html
I’ve been toying with this idea using sidechaining in Logic Pro and the pre-fader sends and how to obtain them with this DAW have been on my mind for a while. Thank you very much for inspiring/urging me to delve back in on this subject! By the way, LOVE this “quirky” riff! Thank you Sonic Sensei!!
Pete_Logic thank you, that’s music to my ears my friend!!! I’m always messing around, and revisiting my setup, and in my own experience, I’ve discovered some really cool ‘mishaps’ that can lead to new discoveries within our own systems...LOVE IT!!! Just turn the monitors down before you start routing your hardware lmao 😳 Thanks again Pete_Logic, take care!
-hw
This was great. Thanks Ken.
Pink Tooth thank you my friend ;-) Can’t wait to share more sessions on signal flow!!! Have a great Sunday, be safe!
-hw
Thanks this is amazing :)
Karel Matocha thank you my friend ;-) I look forward to sharing more sessions on signal path for sure!!! If you’ve had any cool ‘mishaps’, and/or discoveries in your own signal-flow world, please let us know!!! I’ve had a few of those feedback moments result in new signal paths that I wouldn’t have discovered otherwise...just turn the monitors down first lmao!!! 😳
Have a great Sunday, thanks again!
-hw
incredible, my mind is blown. thank you
I love this thank you so much !
great lesson, man. inspiring :)
Aecio de Souza thank you my friend, I appreciate that very much ;-) I hope you’re able to apply some of these ideas to your own productions, and I especially hope you explore the radio (or any other source) gater session idea haha, cause I know you’ll loose a couple of days in your studio once you dive in!!! Thanks again, and stay safe ;-)
-hw
There are roli drum packs that have similar sounds, and it’s so helpful to learn (a possible way of) how it’s made. Thank you so much, Ken!
C. C. I encourage you to gate just about anything you can find on your hard drives lol, I’ve been so blown away with the results!! Really tight gate times can produce FUN results ;-) Thanks for sharing C. C. , I hope you have a great Sunday!
-hw
loved the "quirky" track wasn't quirky at all just cool as hell!
I used to have a Tascam 488 8-track cassette recorder. Man, I miss that thing! I also had this little old Radio Shack "realistic" brand. Delay effect for a karaoke machine, I think? It was straight up noisy Bucket Brigade style. I loved it! It had sliders on it instead of knobs. And I also had a "DOD death metal Distortion" pedal. And what I would do is since the 488 had 2 auxiliary sends on each Channel along with 4 band EQ is I would send the delay on auxiliary 1 and the distortion on auxiliary 2 and do the old trick of feeding them back into their own channel on the mixer. And instead of just doing the normal feeding back the auxiliary input into its own signal. I would cross feed the single from one and the other sending auxiliary 1 to 2 and 2 to 1 and it would Get this beautiful rhythmic wall of noise!🎧💫😵 That would create its own jarring and jerking rhythms. Cuz they're across modulating each other. I miss being able to do that..BrAp oN!!¡!✋✌
Max Matson what an awesome process you’re up to here...and the cross-feeding is brilliant...I wanna try ;-) That Radio Shack slider delay effect would be sort of epic in a mix today...and sliders too!!! Nothing like real knobs, buttons, sliders, faders, etc. to inspire in the studio, and I absolutely love what you’re getting up to. Madness really...and I bet the results were sometimes UNREAL!!! Thank you Max, I appreciate you sharing part of your process here with the community, it’s really a big deal ;-)) Stay safe!
-hw
@@hiwattmarshall Thank you so much for responding back. And I think you'll really like that technique. It gave me a lot of incredible sounds!🎧💫😵 Also, I managed to find an old interview of skinny puppy with the band sitting in talkin with the interviewer and Dave (Rave) in a rare appearance is sitting there with them. And later in the interview We see footage of you guys in the studio during the "last rites" era, and it sounds like the song "lust's chance" is playing in the background. And I see you with the "cable dreads" you were mentioning. I was like, oh shit, There they are!
Man that DOD, back in the day.....can't tell you much I loved that little pedal. One of the few you could use on any input source and create magic.
@@elusivegroove I definitely Second That Emotion.👍 I used to have a Alesis SR16 for a drum machine and pairing that baby with that little beauty of a pedal Was Magic!
@@maxmatson1578 I has the SR16 and the HR series and did the SAME! LOL Great minds think alike. Also had a Casio SK1 that I would run through that and create some killer vocal samples.
Amazing, thanks for sharing those great ideas. Will be diving straight into gating for the rest of the weekend.
Jacob Skriver just checking in...haha, did you sleep last night?!? I have literally burned HOURS in the studio messing around with gates lol, but oh man the results can sometimes be worth every effort!!! The keyable gate...what a brilliant invention! Thanks for sharing Jacob...I wanna hear!
Cheers, have a great week!
-hw
@@hiwattmarshall to be honest I was struggling with setting up keyed gates in Studio One. But not given up just yet - more to come
Definitely makes a huge difference depending on the gate settings. With the slower release setting on the gate, it sounds a bit like overuse of a noise reduction plugin. 😬
testube exactly, the crazy amount of control we have with some of these plug-in’s can lead to some pretty amazing results, particularly when we engage automation! I’ve had great results automating things like the range control...where we just sort of mix in some of the gate in real time...works great on anything with sustain ;-) Classic example would be gated strings...one of my faves! Thanks for sharing testube, have a great week!
-hw
@@hiwattmarshall Thank you, Ken, for the inspiration. 🙌
I've been doing that my whole life since my first music record players and CD players tape players then hook them up to VCR my TV pretty soon the cable box auxiliary out to MP3 players nobody taught me nothing I was just all experimenting learning all this stuff yeah I get some crazy sounds a lot here and there maybe mess up a few systems but I learned so much and now I can hook up anyting. I remember plugging in my headphones into a microphone Jack and was able to record don't ask how? I really wasn't worried about it I was just happy it did it!
I learned that pink noise trick from Phil Collins.
I’m curious to know where you went to recording school. I also went that route but my lack of musical knowledge/ability didn’t allow me the confidence to really follow through on the recording music tip. I wound up in broadcasting, which has been great, but I still like to make synth noise as a hobby. Tips like these are gold, thank you for your dedication and enthusiasm!
RobNickel001 so awesome of you to share my friend, thank you!!! Funny thing is, it was my initial interest in broadcasting that led to recording school lmao!!! I attended Trebas Institute of recording arts right out of high school, it was a two year full time program that I believe was one of my best decisions ever. That said, I grew up on a ranch so I definitely needed that kind of ‘immersion’. Today we have so many great resources available right here on TH-cam, it’s an awesome time we’re living in ;-) So many areas of broadcasting that have always interested me, like the lure of a great sounding DJ’s booth in an old-school radio station!!! That’s was got me hooked haha, working in a dark room, lots of buttons and knobs, and playing music...sign me up!!!
Love that you’re making synth noises, I hope you contribute to our next collab project ;-)
Have a great week, stay safe!
-hw
I remember dealing with the, "Cable Monster" back in the day... the backs of my amp/effects racks and mixers looked like a giant squid exploded...
You also had to keep those 1/4 inch phone plugs (and sockets) SUPER clean, otherwise you would get unwanted random ***CRUNCH*** noises that would RUIN a performance or recording take... ;)
Sogo oh boy can I relate to your last haha! That CRUNCH can be so obnoxious...and always when the monitors are cranked up lol! Thank goodness we’ve moved into the bantam world, and much more ‘streamlined’ work flow ;-) Your cable monster reference is perfect, that patchbay used to get...insane lol!
Cheers to you, have a great eve!
-hw
I was blessed with bantam for my spaghetti training. ✌️
Any pics with "Phone dreads"?
Dr. Feelicks so cool that you have the experience on a spaghetti patchbay, it can be an awesome foundation for just about everything we do in the studio!!! Haha, now you’ve inspired me to go digging cause I’m sure I have a shot of the phone dreads somewhere lmao! If I find one I’ll include it in the next signal path session for sure my friend ;-) Have a great Sunday, be safe!
-hw
No matter how careful I am, every once in a while, I will enable monitoring on a hot condenser microphone by mistake in my hom estudio. I hate when that happens. lol
Watched this episode again and ... man, Depeche Mode missed an opportunity not hiring you for a mix. Or even producing. Dang, especially producing.
Right on 😂