You prolly dont give a shit but if you're bored like me atm then you can stream all of the new series on InstaFlixxer. Been streaming with my brother these days xD
I interned at a major studio in Atlanta when Young Thug was recording Thugger Girls, Alex was there a lot of the time and he was really cool. He gives back a lot. Insane experience altogether for me. Even saw Future pull up in his convertible black Lambo. Can't believe I was in the middle of all that now that I think about it. Grateful for it all.
BingBongRockety I asked him what was the best mixing advice overall he could share with me and he told me to start mixing my friend’s projects for free. Mix anything I can get my hands on. Which turned out to be true because the only way you can become a professional is to have hundreds, eventually thousands, of projects under your belt. Good advice. I didn’t mix anyone’s projects for free but I did start my prices out very low, gradually raising my hourly rate by $5.
@@SetMeFree thanks man, i been mixing so much shit lately, just waching videos and shit, i did a 18 track project in like a day but it was very fun and i think i am actually getting better. you have any place i can talk to you maybe you can talk to me, teach me some stuff.
@@BingBongRockety yeah my instagram is @ dustybrogdon. I can tell you what I know. It's crazy how good you can get using just the stock plugins. Every once in a while, I'll open a project from 2-3 years ago and I'll see how drastic my vocal chain has changed, not so much the plugins but how I set them. Over time, as your ear gets used to the room your in, you'll make little micro-adjustments to your EQ or compressor and it'll make all the difference in the world. I remember at one point Joey Sturgis wouldn't show his vocal EQ because he wanted his students to figure out their own settings. I've been recording as a job for 3 years and I still feel like I'm trash compared to the GOATS but everybody in my town comes to me and they swear up and down I got the juice, haha. You really just gotta be recording people or mixing (FINISHING PROJECTS) to become a beast.
When he mentioned lowering the beat instead of the raising the vocals. Holy shit what a common mistake between engineers AND producers. People always counteract quietness by raising levels instead of dropping them. THANK YOU ALEX FROM THE PAST
Here is his mastering chain : Slate Digital SSLComp Slate Digital FG-GREY Slate Digital virtual tapes machine Slate Digital Virtual Mixbuss Waves S1 Stereo Imager Slate Digital FGX
bilbo baggins I've been producing and engineering myself since 05. I taught myself everything I know( before all the TH-cam tutorials), always thought engineering and producing was something out had to teach yourself, but once I found out there are schools for I checked in immediately. Though nothing is wrong with trial and error there is no replacement for knowing the actual science so you know exactly what you're doing
Nu Black Soul Yo what happen, did you graduate already? I’m doing Electrical Engineering but I’m really thinking in doing my masters on Audio Engineering...
I wish I wouldn't have scrolled down.. I didn't realize how bad it was till I read your comment. Or he just bets worse as the video goes on I'm not sure..
I had a teacher in 5th grade keep me after school because I kept saying like. It took me damn near an hour before I realized I said like too much. Reading helps and pausing before you finishing your sentences.
One thing I would like to say is I'm happy you are explaining to them the music and how it really works. No if's or buts about st8 to the point. But a lot of those kids look a little lost and are rethinking their career right now. Cause you are telling them how it needs to happen. If not you will not last more then first major session. My name is Jordan and I've worked on about 400 major sessions. This career is not as easy as it looks. Have fun and make the most of it and be creative. But don't over think it.
He's nearly giving away his secrets if he played the audio he'd let the entire cat out of the bag. Gotta get paid somehow it's not his job to make us good engineers.
How would he give away secrets from playing the audio? He already gave his whole master chain and plugins he uses. I think seeing the chains he uses would hurt him more then hearing the audio lmao
I agree I think it's more of a copyright thing. Think about it, this video would be taken down by youtube just like the La Flame Documentary travis had.
Reverse yeah you're right that is more harmful probably. I just think he is trying to be helpful but not give away his whole thing and if they played the audio for it then we'd know exactly what he does to achieve what he's doing (not that it's anything CRAZY or out of the ordinary.) just my two cents tho.
Probably not. As an example.. the various izotope ozone suites sounds different from eachother even with the same settings because of how they are made.
I wish I was that uber driver, I woulda learned something.(Ps I don't drive uber & I'm in California)I'm gonna try that mixing in the car. I told myself to listen to it in 3 different sound environments before putting it out, but I get lazy & rely on just the studio monitors & sometimes the mix is shitty In the car. But Im back to working harder & checking mixes
26:12 I never used the AT4047, but I will say the AT4040 is one the best (if not the best) mic I've ever heard in the $300 or below price range and better or just as good as a lot of mics that are 10x more expensive.
like like like like like like. If I could get paid $1 evry time I'm talking to ppl that's what you hear every 3rd word. Please say what you mean and mean what you say.
it was the kitchen/living room.. Atlanta rappers get it out the mud.. there aren't very many basements in Atlanta.. those would get converted into full blown studios.. We wish we could find legitimate basements in Atlanta.. lol
I really like what you said about enjoying the space in the music. I learned to enjoy this through other styles of music I was writing and playing, keeping the dynamics is the way
The title says young thug engineer. But! I hope he received a production credit. Because the choices he's making are his. And that's the problem today and yesterday in music. The roles are mixed up or misunderstood. But to each his own.
I be using plugins from 2004-8-10 if ur listening to these utubers talking about you have to do this ..... and this.... compressor this.... first of all, remember mostly all newer plugins are coded very poorly , also mostly all youtubers are misleading you this guys advice is very smart
@@daniellane5574 for real, but ima be honest yo - there's so much shit they teach you in recording/engineering school that you can't just look up on google
As a novice recording engineer, I'm curious as to how you would go about setting the input levels so that when Dex is going crazy in the booth, the audio signal doesn't clip.. My guess is to set the input gain extremely low, so that his vocals won't go any higher than about -6dB (which is still wayy to hot/loud for an input signal)... Or do they use a compressor on the pre-amp/Audio-Interface to keep the audio signal from jumping..???
I hope your talking about this guy and not me because I'm not an engineer but have had plenty of experience with people thinking because there doing the production and engineering it's amazing
You can read more on Alex Tumay here...
► www.redbullmusicacademy.com/lectures/alex-tumay-lecture
You prolly dont give a shit but if you're bored like me atm then you can stream all of the new series on InstaFlixxer. Been streaming with my brother these days xD
@Corey Carmelo Definitely, been using instaflixxer for years myself =)
@Corey Carmelo Definitely, have been watching on instaflixxer for years myself :D
@Corey Carmelo Yup, I've been using instaflixxer for since november myself :)
@Corey Carmelo Definitely, been using InstaFlixxer for since december myself =)
I interned at a major studio in Atlanta when Young Thug was recording Thugger Girls, Alex was there a lot of the time and he was really cool. He gives back a lot. Insane experience altogether for me. Even saw Future pull up in his convertible black Lambo. Can't believe I was in the middle of all that now that I think about it. Grateful for it all.
did you learn anything recording-wse/mix wise that you'd like to share?
BingBongRockety I asked him what was the best mixing advice overall he could share with me and he told me to start mixing my friend’s projects for free. Mix anything I can get my hands on. Which turned out to be true because the only way you can become a professional is to have hundreds, eventually thousands, of projects under your belt. Good advice. I didn’t mix anyone’s projects for free but I did start my prices out very low, gradually raising my hourly rate by $5.
@@SetMeFree thanks man, i been mixing so much shit lately, just waching videos and shit, i did a 18 track project in like a day but it was very fun and i think i am actually getting better. you have any place i can talk to you maybe you can talk to me, teach me some stuff.
@@BingBongRockety yeah my instagram is @ dustybrogdon. I can tell you what I know. It's crazy how good you can get using just the stock plugins. Every once in a while, I'll open a project from 2-3 years ago and I'll see how drastic my vocal chain has changed, not so much the plugins but how I set them. Over time, as your ear gets used to the room your in, you'll make little micro-adjustments to your EQ or compressor and it'll make all the difference in the world. I remember at one point Joey Sturgis wouldn't show his vocal EQ because he wanted his students to figure out their own settings. I've been recording as a job for 3 years and I still feel like I'm trash compared to the GOATS but everybody in my town comes to me and they swear up and down I got the juice, haha. You really just gotta be recording people or mixing (FINISHING PROJECTS) to become a beast.
When I was interning and met Alex, I was ASS as an engineer but I've always been a good songwriter.
When he mentioned lowering the beat instead of the raising the vocals. Holy shit what a common mistake between engineers AND producers. People always counteract quietness by raising levels instead of dropping them. THANK YOU ALEX FROM THE PAST
Ive always done that😂cause of clipping
Here is his mastering chain :
Slate Digital SSLComp
Slate Digital FG-GREY
Slate Digital virtual tapes machine
Slate Digital Virtual Mixbuss
Waves S1 Stereo Imager
Slate Digital FGX
My nigga
waves sslcomp*
Victor Malvolti thank you
THANK YOU
missed the L3
Mastering Chain is as follows:
1. Waves SSL G-Master Buss Compressor
2. Slate Digital Buss Compressor (FG-Grey)
3. Slate Digital Virtual Tape Machine
4. Slate Digital Virtual Mix Buss (Virtual Console Collection)
5. Waves L3 Multimaximizer
6. Waves S1 Stereo Imager
7. Slate Digital FG-X Mastering Processor
12:57 he talks about the Jeffrey album
Goated
ily
Godly for this
🐐
Thank god that’s all I came here for 💯
He forgot about his all time favorite plugin, CLA VOCALS.
fax
Alex 'CLA' Tumay
CLA vocals is nice for quick mixes tbh, when I don’t want to put in all the work for perfection lol, just the general idea
I didn't even notice him saying like, was too busy hearing what he had to say about mixing tracks and working with clients.
"I'm not afraid of compression, I'm just not the biggest fan" - dude who put 5 compressors on his mix buss
😂😂😂😂
🤣
he means heavy compression goofy. the whole lecture is about never doing too much.
LMFAO!!!!
Lmao😂😂
This shit really is an art in itself
yes it is. I'm in school for it myself and it aint no joke
Nu Black Soul im not in school for it and you probably have to play some catch up. It's all about the reps and daily hours of trial and error.
bilbo baggins I've been producing and engineering myself since 05. I taught myself everything I know( before all the TH-cam tutorials), always thought engineering and producing was something out had to teach yourself, but once I found out there are schools for I checked in immediately. Though nothing is wrong with trial and error there is no replacement for knowing the actual science so you know exactly what you're doing
obviously, producers are the hardest workers much more than rappers nowadays except for like 3% of the lyrically insane
Nu Black Soul Yo what happen, did you graduate already? I’m doing Electrical Engineering but I’m really thinking in doing my masters on Audio Engineering...
"Dropbox is full" -- even professionals feeling that struggle
Patrick Wilkie HA
Producers and engineers; take notes. Haters; keep your negative energy with you we don't want that.
Like where should I keep it like?
His philosophies on mixing can help you get out of your own way. Salute!
i will never say the word "Like" again.
Boomer 3rd eye 😂😂😂😂💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
I wish I wouldn't have scrolled down.. I didn't realize how bad it was till I read your comment. Or he just bets worse as the video goes on I'm not sure..
I had a teacher in 5th grade keep me after school because I kept saying like. It took me damn near an hour before I realized I said like too much. Reading helps and pausing before you finishing your sentences.
Liked
Drove me crazy, makes this kind of hard to watch for me
One thing I would like to say is I'm happy you are explaining to them the music and how it really works. No if's or buts about st8 to the point. But a lot of those kids look a little lost and are rethinking their career right now. Cause you are telling them how it needs to happen. If not you will not last more then first major session. My name is Jordan and I've worked on about 400 major sessions. This career is not as easy as it looks. Have fun and make the most of it and be creative. But don't over think it.
19:07 i shit myself
APKSRMKS HAHAHA
Hahahahahh
surely can't hurt to play a few seconds of audio.. apart from that dope lecture
He's nearly giving away his secrets if he played the audio he'd let the entire cat out of the bag. Gotta get paid somehow it's not his job to make us good engineers.
How would he give away secrets from playing the audio? He already gave his whole master chain and plugins he uses. I think seeing the chains he uses would hurt him more then hearing the audio lmao
I agree I think it's more of a copyright thing. Think about it, this video would be taken down by youtube just like the La Flame Documentary travis had.
Jon Rahi I've seen plenty mix breadowns from artist that are way bigger
Reverse yeah you're right that is more harmful probably. I just think he is trying to be helpful but not give away his whole thing and if they played the audio for it then we'd know exactly what he does to achieve what he's doing (not that it's anything CRAZY or out of the ordinary.) just my two cents tho.
I've been mixing a long time and producing and recording longer. Many amazing learning moments in my life. This is among them.
Can you mix and master me?
that one fucking girl just on her phone, holy shit
MIght be writing notes,
I saw him talking at the waves booth at namm this year and he seems like a genuinely nice guy
That’s the longest I’ve ever seen anyone in a studio without playing a sound
Facts. I was waiting for some demos
red bull prob edited out the demos cause of copyright concerns :(
"Old outdated plugins" means Cracked...NOT hating, just saying.
Fax😂
Probably not. As an example.. the various izotope ozone suites sounds different from eachother even with the same settings because of how they are made.
Who cares tho
Quit snitching
Alright 6ix9ine calm down
I'm mad they had to cut the audio tho 😪
Young I.G.G. red bull always does this. blame youtube
for real, it's kind of pointless.
prob license /rights issues
fuck man been waiting for you to press play lmao
is this david blaine doing beats.
Isaac V doing beats?
I wish I was that uber driver, I woulda learned something.(Ps I don't drive uber & I'm in California)I'm gonna try that mixing in the car. I told myself to listen to it in 3 different sound environments before putting it out, but I get lazy & rely on just the studio monitors & sometimes the mix is shitty In the car. But Im back to working harder & checking mixes
I tried that and killed my battery smh
Shavarez Smith 😂
JayDee bra I was hurt. Had to get a jump from the Chinese delivery man
6:16 'I don't know if you've heard of that.' ..... still humble I love it
26:12 I never used the AT4047, but I will say the AT4040 is one the best (if not the best) mic I've ever heard in the $300 or below price range and better or just as good as a lot of mics that are 10x more expensive.
2023 still a classic, thx Alex
like, i kinda, like, i dont know...
triplxsix It's literally a free education. Everybody complains about everything, huh?
godjira 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@estebanb7166 fr bruh
🤣🤣🤣
brave little you and all that public speaking ability on your channel. grow up.
there's always another level man damn everything is hard work lol
like like like like like like like like like
so, he was nervous. i was in the room for this workshop and he is pretty brilliant and you're pretty petty.
like like like like like like. If I could get paid $1 evry time I'm talking to ppl that's what you hear every 3rd word. Please say what you mean and mean what you say.
ahahah lol
Calm down Bro
Shu_BLN he apologized on Twitter lol
The GOAT
Priceless info...what an awesome lecture!
all these professionals in youtube comments can't even realize why he can't play audio and get mad about it LOL. made my day
U can tell 21 recorded in his basement i hear his alarm system beep in songs especially Red Opps
it was the kitchen/living room.. Atlanta rappers get it out the mud.. there aren't very many basements in Atlanta.. those would get converted into full blown studios.. We wish we could find legitimate basements in Atlanta.. lol
I went to go listen cuz I thought you was trippin but like 3 seconds into the song theres a really loud one
ovo xo lol its the smoke/co2 detectors everybody has in their apartments.
This happened to me today
Biggest thing I took from this was " how am I gonna get through this. Like how?"
🙏🏽 good aspect
2:59 is so true yet ive never really heard anyone vocalize it b4
I really like what you said about enjoying the space in the music. I learned to enjoy this through other styles of music I was writing and playing, keeping the dynamics is the way
Young engineer from Atlanta taking notes 📝🔥
Damn I watched the whole thing?? Time flys when you’re soaking in gems 😭
Dude was about to cry talking about DS2 😂😂
Thank you. This is just what I needed
shout out to the dude @ 14:24 rockin the dawn raid ent hoodie . nz up !
You can learn so much from this video 🙏🙏💯
Just talk
Awesome! Thank you Alex and Red bull academy👍🏼👍🏼
Dope. Would love to see & hear more from Alex on mixing hip hop. There is very little quality videos out here.
More of this kind of stuff please
No matter what this dude says he's obviously good at what he does. That's why he has his job.
thank you alex, this is wonderful... youre a legend
Retiring from The Colts was probably the greatest thing you ever did Andrew. Thank you for changing your name and coaching us on how to mix.
9:44 harmony engine
17:30 Two Track
He said "like" enough to take care of each & every video on TH-cam #LIKE
😂😂😂😂
I love the way he mixes London On Da Track beats. Specially them kicks.
Thanks red bull recording
New drinking game
Take a shot every time he says "like"
i made it 20 seconds and then blacked out
i was playin with my friend now he passed out
I just woke up. I was in a coma for 2 years 🤦♂️😂
I still haven't recovered.
wish the whole video was there
Dope. Dope. Dope. Thank you for this!!!
I'm sure there's some dope wisdom being dropped here, but like I can't even.
Kendrick Kirk 🤣
These are good pointers for sure.
beautiful lecture
This dude says “like” for every other word . Sheeeesh
guy at 2:55 uses the plugin he's talking about and puts shimmer all over everything
The title says young thug engineer. But! I hope he received a production credit. Because the choices he's making are his. And that's the problem today and yesterday in music. The roles are mixed up or misunderstood. But to each his own.
19:08 looks a beginning of a ad or something 😂😂
'Please give just £3 a month so we can these help these people get proper careers'
legend. shlatt
The old thumbnail was a vibe change it back
Said like at least 1000 times
This guy said Like, Like a Billion Times Like!
Youth lagoon is amazing
didn't realise he had worked with him. incredible albums. first one if prob my most played album ever
they don't know they have a legend in front of them
I be using plugins from 2004-8-10 if ur listening to these utubers talking about you have to do this .....
and this....
compressor this.... first of all, remember mostly all newer plugins are coded very poorly ,
also mostly all youtubers are misleading you this guys advice is very smart
Finally Watching This
19:07 When you REALLY want to hear what someone has to say.
Wow this is such good information. Thank you
yo this shit is so good god bless alex
This is fire 🔥
How can I get in the Red Bull music academy?!
by applying :) applications usually go out in january
@@daniellane5574 for real, but ima be honest yo - there's so much shit they teach you in recording/engineering school that you can't just look up on google
Monarc true shit
As a novice recording engineer, I'm curious as to how you would go about setting the input levels so that when Dex is going crazy in the booth, the audio signal doesn't clip.. My guess is to set the input gain extremely low, so that his vocals won't go any higher than about -6dB (which is still wayy to hot/loud for an input signal)... Or do they use a compressor on the pre-amp/Audio-Interface to keep the audio signal from jumping..???
Herbie Hancock a huge ratio of compression.
Herbie Hancock distressor Nuke mode maybe?
They record with outboard compressors and good pres on most artists
New drinking game: take a shot every time he says "like"
Mike Washington I’m drunk af
Great job Alex
Holy Fuck This Guy Said LIKE 1million Times!!!!!
I hope your talking about this guy and not me because I'm not an engineer but have had plenty of experience with people thinking because there doing the production and engineering it's amazing
I Lol'ed when he said 21 Savage records most his vocals in his basement
NOTES TAKEN THANK YOU 🙌
never knew David Blaine was into music Producing! lol
Petros Hurdas legit was thinking this the whole time 😂
sammybwoy worddd hahaha so mellow like him too 😂
SCREECHING
You are great man, thank you!
Alex Tumay is a low key sauce lord
3:51 mastering chain
i think he's hinting for us to like this video
Great stuff❕
easily more likes in the video than the video has.
real legit yo !
nobody:
alex: like
Alex 'like' tumay
I did not know i need to use autotune all the time for recording vocals? definitely a learning point
He’s mixing a rap record here man what do u expect mj vocals
This was great! I learened soooo much.. Would be awesome if you could upload a pro tools template?
I didn’t realize he said like so much until I seen the comments 💀
this guy is like the producer version of faze rain lmfao
3:20 What was he saying about Mike Dean? It sounded like he was talking about New Slaves but idk