I've worked in live production for nearly 20 years, mostly on the side. My advice is BE VERSATILE. Depending on what clients have needed, I've done recording, live sound, back line/guitar tech, monitors, lights, video playback/fx, etc. it's easier to get work when you are adaptable.
Finally getting some semblance of a band together, thanks for all the advice. Went through many people and many excuses but we are shredding now. Thanks Glenn.
2:45 woah, that was an unexpected surprise! Thank you for responding to my comment Glenn. My apps are geared towards musical practice and the first one that is close to finished is a metronome app with several advanced features like polyrhythms, which is the reason I started developing this app and it has grown from there. It’s also very customizable so you can show the features that you want to use and hide the others. I still have a few minor things left to finish on it and then I need to get the business setup, so that's going to be the next major thing. As soon as all of this is done I’ll get in contact with you and I'd love to get your thoughts on them. Thanks again.
The first epic drum sound I heard was "Flip The Switch" by The Rolling Stones. Hearing every snare being their own distinct sound was very helpful in showing how drums should sound!
Hey Glen, love your channel great to see you've got yourself an Audient console I'm sure you'll squeeze the best out of it! :) As to recording apps have you checked out Audio Evolution Pro? Man it's a daw on your phone! With plugins! You can punch in/out crop etc all the usual stuff, I think it's pretty %uckin amazing for an android phone app ( not sure if it's available for i phone?) Love your channel sooo looking forward to hearing you work the Audient! Cheers:)
to all aspiring musicians I´ll tell you the hard truth my dad did to me. At the time it pissed me off, but now , almost 20 years, later I know he was right. in 2001 I had to choose a career for university and my father told me ¨Son, you´re a logical person, good in math, physics you should study engineering¨. At the time I was totally into music, guitars, my band was playing the local scene with great feedback and I´ve replied to him that I´d like to me a musician... and them the wild truth enters the scene, he said ¨son, you love music , but you love even more money. What would you rather: playing music that you may not like it everyday or being able to buy any guitar or car you want it?¨ . 18 years later I´m driving a Porsche, own like 17 guitars , still playing metal, still have a band and I´m really happy. To all aspiring musicians: have a safe net. listen to Glenn and do it as a side activity, if by some bizarre reasons you became rich and famous, drink one for me, if not... being able to pay your bills and having a reasonable life is GREAT TOO!
Man, I enjoy watching your tips and lessons here, and, I can say that you helped me more than I expected for youtube videos! I started my life in music back in the 90's, when I was a kid, and learned the oldschool producing, and, now, I am starting my learning on producing in computers and digital recordings... a whole different new world from each other. I love to make it oldschool, but, digital makes everything more faster! Nowadays, I am working more making shows with my band, but, I am studying to make good productions for our new song releases in the near future!^^
Such an appropriate episode! I learned many years ago that sometimes you have to create your own opportunities. I made it into a professional band (an endeavor that were the best four years of my life), produced albums, and had a six-month gig editing video for a local TV show by doing some homework and making myself available for the person needing a specific skill. If you sit on the couch and wait for the phone or doorbell to ring, the only thing you're gonna have to show for it is a nice clean spot where your ass kept the dust away.
Other great audio-related careers for people who dont feel like being "starving artists": -Corporate/event AV tech -Installation tech -Product design/development (hardware) -Audio app/DSP developer -Repair tech -Broadcast audio engineer (news, sports, etc) (Look towards college athletics for this one!) And one of my favorites, home studio design/consulting! A lot of people are willing to pay someone to come in and show them how to run their home studio rigs they just bought and don't know how to use. I've given most of these a try throughout my short time since graduating college, and freelancing will allow you to do a little of each to see what floats your boat! I've started working full-time with an installation company specializing in courtroom AV systems, and I'm so happy I took the time to try different things to find this path!
You're damned right about the Horrible Reality! I started playing guitar shortly after Jimi Hendrix died, and did my first professional gig when I was 14. I'm 58 now. The struggle ends at death, not a moment sooner. But I've had experiences and accomplishments I wouldn't trade for anything. The stories I could tell,,, I've also done some recording engineering back in the analog days. I was the engineer, manager, and in-house studio musician at two studios in New York City, and came close to having a gig as an assistant engineer at Electric Lady. Eventually, I built a home studio, and never looked back. There's a book I highly recommend; "The Art of War," by Steven Pressfield. I despise self-help books. 98% of them should be sent to paper recycling plants, and the people who write them should be given enhanced behavior modification therapy in special hospitals. Pressfield, however, is an ex-Marine, and has the right attitude and approach to becoming a true artist and true professional. I better get back to work. Thanks for the great work you're doing, Glenn!
Glenn! It’s been long since I’ve watched the show and I just realized that the number of subs you currently have is TEN TIMES the amount you had when I first subscribed! Highest of congratulations and cheers from Chile!
Thanks for answering my photography question. I'm a solo artist and I do everything on my own from the music, to the recording, to the artwork, so I enjoy getting advice for all the other stuff outside of the music itself. I'm in the process of getting a new camera and coming up with ideas for the album artwork. Thanks again!
I have no problem getting recording clients but the issue is finding a spot to rent for my recording studio instead of using my home studio. The second a landlord hears the word musicians or producer they stop hearing the words soundproof and acoustic treatment. Time to start lying about my profession to find a place....
What is the name of the software you are using, tue one you mentioned being better tnan photo shop ? I apologize, I am having a hard time understanding what you said in the video. Did you say "fiddly photo" ?
Billy's and Austin's covers were great. Congrats guys (I still jam out to the Knights of the Round table). My consolation will have to be the video that seemingly got the most laughs. I will have to unleash my full skill set for the next one (The video insanity must flow).
I'm totally down for the cover contest!! I have a side project with my guitarist where we just tear down songs and rebuild from the ground up. It's helped us massively in our regular originals band... First off, the songs are already written, so the writer's block factor is taken care of. Then, we choose some songs we want to do and look at different angles to take on them... we get to work our chops and arranging skills while figuring out how it'll go. Since this process is relatively quick, we can knock out a 6 song EP every 3 months so we get a massive amount of studio time under our belts. We get to try out different recording techniques and even different instruments that probably would get used in our proper band. Also, since I'm doing all the mixing, I'm spending lots if time using the tricks I learn here and on other channels in the process. My skill has made significant improvements in the past year!! Fuck you and thanks for the very informative channel!!
Back in the olden days, they had this quadraphonic sound system. Guess it didn’t catch on, BUT, I got this 7.2 sound system and was wondering if/how to make music for it.
Hey Glenn, your question about iOS. The 2 biggest DAWS are Auria Pro, and Cubasis. Kymatica’s “AUM” is a full featured digital mixer. BeatMaker 3 is similar to Ableton live: real time stretching, scenes, automation etc. I am now calling myself an “iOS Producer” because I have given up on MBPro’s and computers. In the last 2.5 years, I have realized that so much more can be accomplished with LESS tools instead of more. Example: Plug ins. I have HUNDREDS in OSX. I have less than 50 in iOS, but....I know them intimately.😎 There are a lot of pro soundcards available that don’t specifically state iOS compatibility, but actually ARE.
TOOL - AEnima album has great Mono guitar work, and only uses stereo panning when necessary. But maybe that works since they're not a metal focused band.
RECORDING A SINGLE GUITAR TRACK: I completely agree that you should do at least 2 tracks of guitar. However, if you can only have one track of guitar there are things you can do to make the track sound bigger. My favorite is to pan the guitar 30 to 50 one direction and then bus in a short reverb putting the reverb hard panned in the opposite side. Bring the reverb volume up to just below unity with the actual track volume. I've also panned the track dead center and used a little stereo chorus and stereo reverb. A third way that I've done when using a daw is to duplicate the track and pan them hard left and right. Then I eq them differently by scoping the mids out one one track and then bringing the mids up in the other track. Like I said, the first method I mentioned is my favorite. Listen to the first Van Halen record. A lot of the guitars on that record are that way except the reverb is longer and not as loud as what I do. But that is where I got the idea. All in all, I say experiment! Some of the coolest things I learned was from experimenting. Especially back when all I had was cassette 4 track recorder. What do you think Glenn?
Just want to be pedantic and say open source doesn't always mean free, there's open source software with restrictive licenses that don't allow you to use it for free. In this case it has a permissive license, however. Darktable is great.
Dude, I have been watching your content for a while now and I absolutely love it. Very entertaining!! Can you do an "Explain It Like I'm 5" video on recording drums at home? Basics on drum mic set-ups? Keep the content coming!!
Another great video Glenn! I'm the singer/rhythm guitarist in a metal band - we're all pretty young. Often, it's hard to tell whether or not something we've written is actually "good" or not. We aren't really close with anyone who's really into the genre to give feedback, so when do we know something is "good enough" and can be left alone?
My uncle gave me great advice on trying to get a job in the music industry... "If it's easy or fun, people probably already do it for free. But it's a far more useful hobby than video games." I've never made a dime playing music but I agree with Glenn that music is what keeps me sane. Problem is that many young people today don't have the patience to learn an instrument when they can get much more dopamine faster from video games... when what they really need is patience.
Glenn, talking of well recorded drums; what are your thoughts on the drum sound from Life is Peachy? As much as I've grown out of that kinda music, whenever I go back to that album I am amazed at the overall presence of the drums. They're so damn crisp. Do they represent a shift away from "realistic" sounding drum performances to something more polished and uniform? I love the sound but I wonder what it takes away from the drummer themselves in terms of expression.
A good way to tell the difference between real drums and programmed robot drums, listen to any 70’s ZZ Top album for real drums. Then listen to Eliminator for robot drums
"Metal got so much better when we started letting computers play the drums in stead of people" -Glenn Fricker. Because letting the computer play people is SOOOooooo great!!
Hey Glenn, gotta thank you for teaching me practically everything I know about recording, mixing and mastering music. You're great dude. Question though. How do you prefer tracks be recorded. I've heard some people say they record section by section, or more or less riff by riff, and others say they do multiple full takes of a song, and cut in bits and pieces of the best parts of each take. It seems obvious that maybe latter may be a better way, as you have to play the whole song each time, giving you more practice actually playing it from beginning to end, but what are you thoughts?
I went to recording school, how ever I started work as an AV tech afterwards. Recording school, plus my degree in Computer Electronics helped get me in that field. 11 years later I am now a Supervisor of the Media Dept. at a Community College making $70,000 per year.
For that 4 guitar method, if the guitar player is having a hard time keeping tight enough (or to save time), could the 1st track be reamped to the other tracks to give the illusion of 4 performances, or will it just end up being massive but not in a good way?
That huge mixing board and rack systems behind you is a clear sign you didn’t give up. As a home recording artist, I’ve been considering going to a professional studio to have some if not many of my songs professionally recorded. It just occurred to me that I do not know how much I should pay for studio time. I live in Southern California and would be interested in learning about different recording studios and their prices. That would be a fun video to watch.
I live in a smallish city in Queensland Australia (about 100,000 people). I finished my audio engineering degree and found the same thing, impossible to get a job. So I decided to offer my services to a guy opening up a new studio and record young people who can't afford to go to the other studios here (they charge a little above normal rates). So i decided to offer it at a significantly lower price. My question though, I get a bit of work doing this, but I think I'm stuck charging this amount now, how do I work my way up from here?
3:52 I use moblie apps to record my videos. I use mixpad, wavepad and looper(no longer on the appstore). You can get looper on apkpure . com. I don't have an audio interface so I use the phone mic. I know it would sound bad@ss with an audio interface
Hey man, bit of a noob question. My band have done some home recordings and are sending them away to get mixed. I was just wondering what exactly is it that a mix engineer does? Obviously while tracking stuff I’ve messed around with EQs, panning, compression and reverb. Do I send the stems with the these, or bypass audio effects entirely for the engineer to start from scratch? I don’t want to send the wrong things and piss off the engineer/make myself look stupid, please advise! Thanks so much, love your vids x
"I do enjoy shooting people." Glenn Fricker 2019 Also: Roswell Colares = $1,259....That is (literally) 10x the price of the SM57. What can it possibly give me that the SM57 cannot? I will stick to the trusty SM57. As for an alternative to Photoshop, use GIMP. It is free, and does everything you could possibly need.
Noob question! if the guitar is the same in all the verses, should I rerecord every verse or just move the same recording over to the next section? I’m at a weird point where recording is hard because i’m having to record with garage band on my phone and move it to my pc to edit in cakewalk so recording one track can take 5 plus minutes each time with a slow computer where as in most cases it’s as simple as pressing a button and playing. i’m really new to audio engineering so pardon the noob question. love your vids and fuck you Glenn!
yup. always label everything! i have a small one room project studio and i still label both ends of every cable. i even label my guitar heads and speaker cabinets since it's not easy to get around to the back of them to take a look. ie, what cabinet they're going to and what ohm they are set for.
In an interview, Fenriz of Darkthrone talks about how drums sounded the best in the 70s and that compression changed that for the worst, and drums started to sound clicky, like typewriters. But he doesn't get into much detail regarding the technical aspect. Do you have any idea what he was referencing specifically that could've caused this change?
If you did another cover song contest, I would absolutely enter this one. Like an Oldies But Baddies type thing but for 90s and 00s music, or original songs from TV/movies that were sung by the character (a few from GoT come to mind). A lot of good routes you could go.
I'm having trouble with the fredman technique, in mixing on the board before sending it to my DAW but I'm still getting a lot of phase problems. How can I fix this?
Hey Glenn, have you ever put together any of the DIY preamp kits out there (Seventh Circle, Five Fish, CAPI, etc)? Would love to hear your opinion on how they sound and hold up. Thanks!
Just returned from the studio. Did 11 takes, but there were 2-3 hits that were not dynamically consistent (they were like ghost notes) so we made samples of the drum kit i used and we are gonna put them in there, opinions on that? I know its lazy but i was so busy with work I couldnt practice as much as i wanted
Cheers Glenn, I'm definitely enjoying the Slick PC! If I ever manage to catch one of the Merciless Mix Reviews live (seriously I always see that it streamed a day later. FUCK.) I'll be sure to submit something I've made since receiving it! Congrats to Billy Cobb too, dude's hilarious Oh, and it goes without saying that more contests = very yes :-D
Cheers, Glenn! What is the advantage of ramping a guitar sound? I mean, normally when I record I adjust my picking hand dynamics according to the amp in question, as where to get the proper harmonics and how to get the "sound I like" from a specific gear. When you reamp something after the performance, wouldnt you lose said nuances? - Obviously, not talking about changing from a fender to a diezel, but even between similar amps there is a fairly huge difference in the sound.
I use an app from the play store called Wave Editor for whenever I'm out on the road or just for when I need to make a quick demo of something. It's simple and easy to use, but with the free version you get the essentials and you have to pay for the full version. It's still being updated every once and a while, so I expect more from it in the future, but I suggest checking it out
Hey Glenn I played a life show a while back, and the sound guy decided to mic up a bass cab. I saw him using a mic you'd normally use in a kick drum to mic up the cab. Apparently he had 2 of those laying around. What's your opinion on this. I couldn't hear what the crowd heard since I was on stage. Cheers from Suriname (The smallest country in South America)
I’ve been using a 6 mic setup for drums that I love right now, mono condenser room over head, stereo dynamic pair 90 to the floor, top and bottom snare and a kick. Sounds awesome, and I can control how forward the toms are, while making them sound nice and organic with an analog spread. Not the best choice if you want super hype toms but great for most genres.
Thank you Glenn for waking me up and showing me how unfulfillling being a working musician can be. Ive been fingerpicking strings for 30 years, fantasizing about making money... but realizing I'll never have to motivation to make a career out of it.
My band didn't have a drummer for a whole year, We did some recording and used programmed drums. When I programmed the drums I spent hours making sure each hit was at a different velocity to make it sound as much like a real drummer as I could. In my opinion the only way you can tell they were programmed is the fact that they are perfectly in time.
I've built a multi track recording tablet for my Masters degree. It uses a raspberry pi cluster computer, a touch screen, and a full blown Ardour DAW with 4 channels of I/O and phantom power. The pre-amps sound incredibly clear for how little it cost to design and build them. And all battery powered and portable. It was a really fun project, and once it's all done and I get my thesis defense completed, I was going to just release it out to the DIY community to build and improve upon. Apps for your phone are great, but if you want to record with a Hamasaki Square or a Decca tree setup live out in the field, with your good microphones, somewhere that electricity is hard to come by. Also nice that it's a solution you can build for a couple hundred bucks all by yourself if you know how to use a soldering iron.
Hey Glenn, on the topic of drums, I know usually a metal drum set has bigger and fuller heads for a more deep bassy sound. What are your thoughts on going cross genre and using for example a fusion, swing, jazz type drum set with smaller heads and bass drums? I found that depending on the wood of the build some drum kits, independent from their size, can achive a more cutting tone without sacrificing that umf that is so desired for metal. Cheers
Hey, I agree but I do have some slight distinction on your point - or maybe the interpretation of your point. Working in the music industry is hard. I've been trying to break through since my first band as a child. But even if you never make it, it's not horrible! It's hard, yes. But it IS fun. In my opinion anyway.
Its nice to hear someone talk about using a mic on a bass cab for a change. Most "how to record bass" tutorials or whatever basically boil down to "plug straight in," which is fair because you need to make things really simple for us bass players. Anything more than that will hurt our brains. But on a more serious note, I've always enjoyed the sound of my amp mic'd with a DI coming out of the amp itself. Get it in phase, and the bottom end takes on a whole new life without losing the higher frequencies. It might be old school, but sometimes the old school stuff just works.
Hey Glenn. You're telling us to never mix on headphones. But is it any different on In-Ear monitors? Like the kind you'd use on stage if you don't want to become deaf.
Olaf van Rijnsbergen it will essentially be the same thing. Any headphone is going to change the imaging and your frequency range will generally be very different. My only advice for mixing with headphones is do several A-B comparisons. Grab a few songs you like and compare them to your mix; not necessarily volume but how each instrument sits in the mix. Hope that helps 🤘🏻
There are physical reasons why the frequency response of headphones, or in ear monitors is never as flat through the full bandwidth as good pair of monitor speakers. It's a bit of a long story why so i'm not going to go to details, but it has to do with impedance matching (not impedance of the phones, but the impedance matching of the driver to the acoustical space/air in the ear) to the fact that you have one driver for the whole bandwidth that has unavoidable resonances (because physics) throughout the bandwidth to how the acoustics of the headphone system inherently works... so you pretty much can never have very flat frequency response with headphones. At least until you pay as much for a pair as you'd get very high end monitor speakers for. So after that... it's a bit like "Why not get speakers since you'd get really good ones with that price." Then there are issues with no cross-feed, having completely un-echoic acoustics etc. that will distort what you think is going on etc. So it's always a trade off.
If I use a mixer into an interface to record drum (let's say), does every line signal track independently into the DAW or does it all bounce into one file?
Not recording app, but 'Neutron' is one amazing work of art for high res audio from android's. You can control the number of channels, distance from speakers, Dither, output frequency, phase inversion, a highly effective 30 band EQ, pre-amp volume control, etc... the list doesn't end..do check it out, Glen! It's a money worth spent!
With tech I wonder why we aren't seeing cloud based recording apps for tablet devices. We're seeing it in gaming, offloading audio processing to a powerful rig (even one with analog outboard) for a subscription would be awesome.
Hey Glenn, I remember you saying that you record the bass above 80hz so the bass won't interfere with the drums. I may be remembering wrong seeing that I heard you say something like that in one of the several dozen videos I've watch on your amazing channel. If so, how do you record the B string that's at 30hz and how would you record lower tunings such as those in a Kalium Quake Bass? Thank you, F from Hialeah, Florida (Hi ah lee uh)
I'm not Glenn, but I don't ever remember him saying 80hz...more like 40, and that 80 is the harmonic of 40 ...just like 60hz will supply enough 30hz to be perfectly audible
Hey bud, thanks for everything you do. I was wondering if you use a ribbon mic for anything. And what are the applications? I'm asking because a friend of mine let me borrow a pretty nice ribbon mic(MXL R144) but not sure how I could make the most use out of it.
"Tommy Lee was an absolute fucking beast of a drummer." Well said! Too many people slag on him - so underrated! Love your videos - keep up the great work!
Is there a reason why guitars are always hard paned? I often find that when there are 2 different guitar parts that are hard paned (like the intro to In to Deep by Sum 41) it can be a little weird. in my recordings, I found it painting thing about 70% either way sounds pretty cool. Is there anything wrong with doing it like this?
My band's going to go talk to Jackson Ward from Strata Recording soon to discuss recording our next record. Didn't realize he was local to Indiana until he randomly friended me on facebook a couple months back. Thought i recognized the name from your channel, and he also did some work with one of my friend's bands in the area as well. I'm pretty stoked! Looking to do live drums with him at the very least. We actually have a good drummer now, compared to our last record (which the performance and end mix was bad enough we had to redo the whole thing ourselves with superior drummer.) So I'm hoping it turns out well Lesson for people: Dont pay for live drums if your drummer cant handle doing it. you're probably going to have to redo it anyway. Tell them to practice or find someone new.
Recording Bass my best experience is going trough Direct Out of the Amp AND hooking up a Kickdrum Mic in front. Mic about 25% away from the Cone, pointing towards the Cone, distance to metal-grid (speaker protection) about 1-2 cm (1/4-3/4 Inch). What do you think about that glenn?
Glenn, I would be interested to learn more about Bandlab's new mobile recording device and platform. They seem really affordable. I am skeptical because I haven't been able to find specifications for bit and sample rates.
I know you don't like sampled drums, but what about sample replacement? my band recorded some live drums and I'd rather use live drums but I have way to much cymbal bleed in the kick. The drummer didn't want to cut a hole in his resonant head or take it off. The engineer said he could do sample replacment's and it would still have the same dynamics. What's your take on this Glenn? Any advice on how to make the kick sound good and control the cymbals without losing the nice high end of the kick?
I graduated from a recording school after highschool and went straight to university after an unpaid internship at studio here in Atlanta. Definitely a VERY tough career to make it in. I do understand how we all have access to home recording gear, but great albums aren't made at home (in my opinion) the band I am starting right now will save money to get a single recorded anywhere but my bedroom 😅
App for recording guitar that i've been using is LoopStation. It gets the job done, you can record, trim, save and load your tracks, but few changes could be made.
3:52 I use BandLab to make music on my Android (just started using it a month ago, because my laptop is broken), it's not perfect, in fact it's a little buggy and not very much you can do to the mix, it's also have the web version with more tools (never try it before), but overall it's do the job...
Anyone know the name of that Photoshop alternative he mentioned. I can't quite make out the word he's saying when he said the title of the software. Thanks! ...and YES, I did try Google "fiddly photo" and found nothing. Even using alternate spellings. If anyone has a link or the proper name of the software it would be greatly appreciated! Thank you for helping.
It's kind of ironic for me to hear the stories of the audio guys having computer skills as their backup. I'm a systems administrator/IT manager, and when I worked in a factory as the IT manager, it was assumed that I knew sound recording and video production. It just happened that I had run live sound for theater in high school, college, and community theater, (once live mixed a 21-piece big band. That's a job for an ambidextrous octopus, but I digress) and my tech did wedding photography on the side, so we managed OK. Sounds like there's something in the skillsets or at least mindset in common.
1:38 The same for musicians. Mastering your instrument may last some time. Ravi Shankar, the absolute grandmaster of Sitar who recorded with the late Beatles once was asked, how long it lasts to have this perfection. He answered: "I am practising now for 50 years, and I have to say, l am just about to be satisfied to my abilitys."
Re: cable management, you can order entire A4/letter sheets of cable labels stickers off eBay for like $5 for a pack. I don't even run a studio, but labeling all the cables behind my PC desk (_especially_ the power adapter cables) has saved me lots of time fiddling.
the only thing i have against mobile recording is the mic stand and isolation issues... its not stable to record it handheld. how can one solve this and the external noise problems?
Hey Glenn, I wanted to take the time to thank you for all of the work you have done and for inspiring me a great deal. I was first introduced to you by a friend because I played bass and I wasn’t too great, your sarcastic tough love approach really motivated me to be the best musician I could be and now I am a songwriter in my own band. That is not where your motivation ends though. Throughout high school I never really knew what I wanted to do with my life and was planning on skipping college until you and your videos about recording metal got me intrigued. Your videos helped me realize that I really enjoy the production side of music and the physics of electronics so I decided I will be attending the University of Hartford to study audio engineering technology. Thank you for unintentionally helping me find my path. (Sorry if this is massively cringe but I thought you would like to know your videos created positive change in a strangers life, Fuck You Glenn!)
+1 for Shout at the Devil drums sounds and sound over all, people now maybe take crue less seriously than their peers but that record was a classic front to back
"I do enjoy shooting people, especially headshots" - Glenn Fricker 2019 -
T-shirt!!!!
Can't believe I didn't catch that... fucking halarious!!!!
yep, we definitely need a t-shirt of that
Hahahaha
I was about to say the exact same as you. Wouldn't be surprised if somebody cans the channel for that
I've worked in live production for nearly 20 years, mostly on the side. My advice is BE VERSATILE. Depending on what clients have needed, I've done recording, live sound, back line/guitar tech, monitors, lights, video playback/fx, etc. it's easier to get work when you are adaptable.
Finally getting some semblance of a band together, thanks for all the advice. Went through many people and many excuses but we are shredding now.
Thanks Glenn.
Dude that's awesome, keep shredding
Everybody wants to be a rockstar till it's time to put In work lol
Keep your momentum Rollin 🤘
How many bass players do you need to change a lightbulb?
Doesn't matter, the recording engineer will do it in the end anyways.
"I do enjoy shooting people, especially doing headshots"
Whoa, slow down there
At least, he is not a school student
Recording bass gone wrong (GONE HOMICIDE)
I know it's out of context, but I thoroughly enjoyed hearing Glen say, "I do enjoy shooting people."
2:45 woah, that was an unexpected surprise! Thank you for responding to my comment Glenn. My apps are geared towards musical practice and the first one that is close to finished is a metronome app with several advanced features like polyrhythms, which is the reason I started developing this app and it has grown from there. It’s also very customizable so you can show the features that you want to use and hide the others. I still have a few minor things left to finish on it and then I need to get the business setup, so that's going to be the next major thing. As soon as all of this is done I’ll get in contact with you and I'd love to get your thoughts on them. Thanks again.
Your butthurt of the week voice was the best Cartman impersonation I've ever heard XD Another great video, dude!
The first epic drum sound I heard was "Flip The Switch" by The Rolling Stones. Hearing every snare being their own distinct sound was very helpful in showing how drums should sound!
Hey Glen, love your channel great to see you've got yourself an Audient console I'm sure you'll squeeze the best out of it! :) As to recording apps have you checked out Audio Evolution Pro? Man it's a daw on your phone! With plugins! You can punch in/out crop etc all the usual stuff, I think it's pretty %uckin amazing for an android phone app ( not sure if it's available for i phone?) Love your channel sooo looking forward to hearing you work the Audient! Cheers:)
"I do enjoy shooting people, especially doing headshots."
Best line ever said on SMG VC
Was about to post then but then I saw the comments are full with this quote.
@@WildsevenMusic just like the ingame chat of Call of Duty lol
to all aspiring musicians I´ll tell you the hard truth my dad did to me. At the time it pissed me off, but now , almost 20 years, later I know he was right. in 2001 I had to choose a career for university and my father told me ¨Son, you´re a logical person, good in math, physics you should study engineering¨. At the time I was totally into music, guitars, my band was playing the local scene with great feedback and I´ve replied to him that I´d like to me a musician... and them the wild truth enters the scene, he said ¨son, you love music , but you love even more money. What would you rather: playing music that you may not like it everyday or being able to buy any guitar or car you want it?¨ . 18 years later I´m driving a Porsche, own like 17 guitars , still playing metal, still have a band and I´m really happy. To all aspiring musicians: have a safe net. listen to Glenn and do it as a side activity, if by some bizarre reasons you became rich and famous, drink one for me, if not... being able to pay your bills and having a reasonable life is GREAT TOO!
Man, I enjoy watching your tips and lessons here, and, I can say that you helped me more than I expected for youtube videos!
I started my life in music back in the 90's, when I was a kid, and learned the oldschool producing, and, now, I am starting my learning on producing in computers and digital recordings... a whole different new world from each other. I love to make it oldschool, but, digital makes everything more faster!
Nowadays, I am working more making shows with my band, but, I am studying to make good productions for our new song releases in the near future!^^
Such an appropriate episode!
I learned many years ago that sometimes you have to create your own opportunities. I made it into a professional band (an endeavor that were the best four years of my life), produced albums, and had a six-month gig editing video for a local TV show by doing some homework and making myself available for the person needing a specific skill.
If you sit on the couch and wait for the phone or doorbell to ring, the only thing you're gonna have to show for it is a nice clean spot where your ass kept the dust away.
Other great audio-related careers for people who dont feel like being "starving artists":
-Corporate/event AV tech
-Installation tech
-Product design/development (hardware)
-Audio app/DSP developer
-Repair tech
-Broadcast audio engineer (news, sports, etc) (Look towards college athletics for this one!)
And one of my favorites, home studio design/consulting! A lot of people are willing to pay someone to come in and show them how to run their home studio rigs they just bought and don't know how to use.
I've given most of these a try throughout my short time since graduating college, and freelancing will allow you to do a little of each to see what floats your boat! I've started working full-time with an installation company specializing in courtroom AV systems, and I'm so happy I took the time to try different things to find this path!
You're damned right about the Horrible Reality! I started playing guitar shortly after Jimi Hendrix died, and did my first professional gig when I was 14. I'm 58 now. The struggle ends at death, not a moment sooner. But I've had experiences and accomplishments I wouldn't trade for anything. The stories I could tell,,,
I've also done some recording engineering back in the analog days. I was the engineer, manager, and in-house studio musician at two studios in New York City, and came close to having a gig as an assistant engineer at Electric Lady. Eventually, I built a home studio, and never looked back.
There's a book I highly recommend; "The Art of War," by Steven Pressfield. I despise self-help books. 98% of them should be sent to paper recycling plants, and the people who write them should be given enhanced behavior modification therapy in special hospitals. Pressfield, however, is an ex-Marine, and has the right attitude and approach to becoming a true artist and true professional.
I better get back to work. Thanks for the great work you're doing, Glenn!
Glenn! It’s been long since I’ve watched the show and I just realized that the number of subs you currently have is TEN TIMES the amount you had when I first subscribed!
Highest of congratulations and cheers from Chile!
Thanks for answering my photography question. I'm a solo artist and I do everything on my own from the music, to the recording, to the artwork, so I enjoy getting advice for all the other stuff outside of the music itself. I'm in the process of getting a new camera and coming up with ideas for the album artwork. Thanks again!
I have no problem getting recording clients but the issue is finding a spot to rent for my recording studio instead of using my home studio. The second a landlord hears the word musicians or producer they stop hearing the words soundproof and acoustic treatment. Time to start lying about my profession to find a place....
What is the name of the software you are using, tue one you mentioned being better tnan photo shop ? I apologize, I am having a hard time understanding what you said in the video. Did you say "fiddly photo" ?
Affinity photi
Billy's and Austin's covers were great. Congrats guys (I still jam out to the Knights of the Round table). My consolation will have to be the video that seemingly got the most laughs. I will have to unleash my full skill set for the next one (The video insanity must flow).
Your pun art killed me dude! Your entry next one is definitely one I am looking forward to!!
I'm totally down for the cover contest!! I have a side project with my guitarist where we just tear down songs and rebuild from the ground up. It's helped us massively in our regular originals band... First off, the songs are already written, so the writer's block factor is taken care of. Then, we choose some songs we want to do and look at different angles to take on them... we get to work our chops and arranging skills while figuring out how it'll go. Since this process is relatively quick, we can knock out a 6 song EP every 3 months so we get a massive amount of studio time under our belts. We get to try out different recording techniques and even different instruments that probably would get used in our proper band. Also, since I'm doing all the mixing, I'm spending lots if time using the tricks I learn here and on other channels in the process. My skill has made significant improvements in the past year!! Fuck you and thanks for the very informative channel!!
Another great Q&A vid. Keep doing what you do, Glenn!
Cheers from another Ontarian
Back in the olden days, they had this quadraphonic sound system. Guess it didn’t catch on, BUT, I got this 7.2 sound system and was wondering if/how to make music for it.
I feel this is one of the top studio music channels out there.
You have a great weekend too.
Hey Glenn, your question about iOS. The 2 biggest DAWS are Auria Pro, and Cubasis. Kymatica’s “AUM” is a full featured digital mixer. BeatMaker 3 is similar to Ableton live: real time stretching, scenes, automation etc. I am now calling myself an “iOS Producer” because I have given up on MBPro’s and computers. In the last 2.5 years, I have realized that so much more can be accomplished with LESS tools instead of more. Example: Plug ins. I have HUNDREDS in OSX. I have less than 50 in iOS, but....I know them intimately.😎 There are a lot of pro soundcards available that don’t specifically state iOS compatibility, but actually ARE.
TOOL - AEnima album has great Mono guitar work, and only uses stereo panning when necessary. But maybe that works since they're not a metal focused band.
LOL how is Tool not Metal?
@@JoeontheInside I said "Not metal focused" as in they don't have a conventional metal production approach, never said they're not metal at all
RECORDING A SINGLE GUITAR TRACK: I completely agree that you should do at least 2 tracks of guitar. However, if you can only have one track of guitar there are things you can do to make the track sound bigger. My favorite is to pan the guitar 30 to 50 one direction and then bus in a short reverb putting the reverb hard panned in the opposite side. Bring the reverb volume up to just below unity with the actual track volume. I've also panned the track dead center and used a little stereo chorus and stereo reverb. A third way that I've done when using a daw is to duplicate the track and pan them hard left and right. Then I eq them differently by scoping the mids out one one track and then bringing the mids up in the other track.
Like I said, the first method I mentioned is my favorite. Listen to the first Van Halen record. A lot of the guitars on that record are that way except the reverb is longer and not as loud as what I do. But that is where I got the idea. All in all, I say experiment! Some of the coolest things I learned was from experimenting. Especially back when all I had was cassette 4 track recorder. What do you think Glenn?
For RAW photos, you could check Darktable, it's open source, so it's free, and it works great
Just want to be pedantic and say open source doesn't always mean free, there's open source software with restrictive licenses that don't allow you to use it for free. In this case it has a permissive license, however. Darktable is great.
Dude, I have been watching your content for a while now and I absolutely love it. Very entertaining!!
Can you do an "Explain It Like I'm 5" video on recording drums at home? Basics on drum mic set-ups?
Keep the content coming!!
Another great video Glenn!
I'm the singer/rhythm guitarist in a metal band - we're all pretty young. Often, it's hard to tell whether or not something we've written is actually "good" or not. We aren't really close with anyone who's really into the genre to give feedback, so when do we know something is "good enough" and can be left alone?
My uncle gave me great advice on trying to get a job in the music industry... "If it's easy or fun, people probably already do it for free. But it's a far more useful hobby than video games." I've never made a dime playing music but I agree with Glenn that music is what keeps me sane. Problem is that many young people today don't have the patience to learn an instrument when they can get much more dopamine faster from video games... when what they really need is patience.
Glenn, talking of well recorded drums; what are your thoughts on the drum sound from Life is Peachy? As much as I've grown out of that kinda music, whenever I go back to that album I am amazed at the overall presence of the drums. They're so damn crisp. Do they represent a shift away from "realistic" sounding drum performances to something more polished and uniform?
I love the sound but I wonder what it takes away from the drummer themselves in terms of expression.
A good way to tell the difference between real drums and programmed robot drums, listen to any 70’s ZZ Top album for real drums. Then listen to Eliminator for robot drums
Well, Ola will tell you I'm proof mobile recording isn't a bed of roses either ^^
"I enjoy shooting people and doing headshots."
"Metal got so much better when we started letting computers play the drums in stead of people" -Glenn Fricker.
Because letting the computer play people is SOOOooooo great!!
Hey Glenn, gotta thank you for teaching me practically everything I know about recording, mixing and mastering music. You're great dude. Question though. How do you prefer tracks be recorded. I've heard some people say they record section by section, or more or less riff by riff, and others say they do multiple full takes of a song, and cut in bits and pieces of the best parts of each take. It seems obvious that maybe latter may be a better way, as you have to play the whole song each time, giving you more practice actually playing it from beginning to end, but what are you thoughts?
I went to recording school, how ever I started work as an AV tech afterwards. Recording school, plus my degree in Computer Electronics helped get me in that field. 11 years later I am now a Supervisor of the Media Dept. at a Community College making $70,000 per year.
For that 4 guitar method, if the guitar player is having a hard time keeping tight enough (or to save time), could the 1st track be reamped to the other tracks to give the illusion of 4 performances, or will it just end up being massive but not in a good way?
That huge mixing board and rack systems behind you is a clear sign you didn’t give up.
As a home recording artist, I’ve been considering going to a professional studio to have some if not many of my songs professionally recorded. It just occurred to me that I do not know how much I should pay for studio time. I live in Southern California and would be interested in learning about different recording studios and their prices. That would be a fun video to watch.
I live in a smallish city in Queensland Australia (about 100,000 people). I finished my audio engineering degree and found the same thing, impossible to get a job. So I decided to offer my services to a guy opening up a new studio and record young people who can't afford to go to the other studios here (they charge a little above normal rates). So i decided to offer it at a significantly lower price. My question though, I get a bit of work doing this, but I think I'm stuck charging this amount now, how do I work my way up from here?
3:52 I use moblie apps to record my videos. I use mixpad, wavepad and looper(no longer on the appstore). You can get looper on apkpure . com. I don't have an audio interface so I use the phone mic. I know it would sound bad@ss with an audio interface
And youve gained plenty skill that way to apply further down the road.
Hey man, bit of a noob question. My band have done some home recordings and are sending them away to get mixed. I was just wondering what exactly is it that a mix engineer does? Obviously while tracking stuff I’ve messed around with EQs, panning, compression and reverb. Do I send the stems with the these, or bypass audio effects entirely for the engineer to start from scratch? I don’t want to send the wrong things and piss off the engineer/make myself look stupid, please advise! Thanks so much, love your vids x
"I do enjoy shooting people." Glenn Fricker 2019
Also: Roswell Colares = $1,259....That is (literally) 10x the price of the SM57. What can it possibly give me that the SM57 cannot? I will stick to the trusty SM57.
As for an alternative to Photoshop, use GIMP. It is free, and does everything you could possibly need.
Noob question! if the guitar is the same in all the verses, should I rerecord every verse or just move the same recording over to the next section? I’m at a weird point where recording is hard because i’m having to record with garage band on my phone and move it to my pc to edit in cakewalk so recording one track can take 5 plus minutes each time with a slow computer where as in most cases it’s as simple as pressing a button and playing. i’m really new to audio engineering so pardon the noob question. love your vids and fuck you Glenn!
yup. always label everything! i have a small one room project studio and i still label both ends of every cable. i even label my guitar heads and speaker cabinets since it's not easy to get around to the back of them to take a look. ie, what cabinet they're going to and what ohm they are set for.
Amazing drum sounds on any Steely Dan record !!!
Hey Glenn,
How much musical differences do you think a band needs before problems start to arise?
You Will Know:)
In an interview, Fenriz of Darkthrone talks about how drums sounded the best in the 70s and that compression changed that for the worst, and drums started to sound clicky, like typewriters. But he doesn't get into much detail regarding the technical aspect. Do you have any idea what he was referencing specifically that could've caused this change?
If you did another cover song contest, I would absolutely enter this one. Like an Oldies But Baddies type thing but for 90s and 00s music, or original songs from TV/movies that were sung by the character (a few from GoT come to mind). A lot of good routes you could go.
I'm having trouble with the fredman technique, in mixing on the board before sending it to my DAW but I'm still getting a lot of phase problems. How can I fix this?
Practice. A lot.
Phase flip or move one of the mics :P
8:16 idk if he's talking about the same stuff anymore
Hey Glenn, have you ever put together any of the DIY preamp kits out there (Seventh Circle, Five Fish, CAPI, etc)? Would love to hear your opinion on how they sound and hold up.
Thanks!
7:09 label your cables and snakes with text and colour so its faster to tax out a bad cable or connection.
Cover competition OH Yeah!!!!!!
Oh yuuuuuurrr!
Grandma once told me you should always try to learn at least one new thing every day.
which Is the background song that start at 8:44?????
Just returned from the studio. Did 11 takes, but there were 2-3 hits that were not dynamically consistent (they were like ghost notes) so we made samples of the drum kit i used and we are gonna put them in there, opinions on that? I know its lazy but i was so busy with work I couldnt practice as much as i wanted
Cheers Glenn, I'm definitely enjoying the Slick PC! If I ever manage to catch one of the Merciless Mix Reviews live (seriously I always see that it streamed a day later. FUCK.) I'll be sure to submit something I've made since receiving it! Congrats to Billy Cobb too, dude's hilarious
Oh, and it goes without saying that more contests = very yes :-D
Cheers! Been wondering what happened to the contest. Feels like it has been a year since it started.
Cheers! Feels like it has been a year since it started.
Cheers, Glenn! What is the advantage of ramping a guitar sound? I mean, normally when I record I adjust my picking hand dynamics according to the amp in question, as where to get the proper harmonics and how to get the "sound I like" from a specific gear. When you reamp something after the performance, wouldnt you lose said nuances? - Obviously, not talking about changing from a fender to a diezel, but even between similar amps there is a fairly huge difference in the sound.
I use an app from the play store called Wave Editor for whenever I'm out on the road or just for when I need to make a quick demo of something. It's simple and easy to use, but with the free version you get the essentials and you have to pay for the full version. It's still being updated every once and a while, so I expect more from it in the future, but I suggest checking it out
you mention your career in manufacturing in several videos. What did you do?
AWESOME channel!!!
Hey Glenn I played a life show a while back, and the sound guy decided to mic up a bass cab. I saw him using a mic you'd normally use in a kick drum to mic up the cab. Apparently he had 2 of those laying around. What's your opinion on this. I couldn't hear what the crowd heard since I was on stage.
Cheers from Suriname (The smallest country in South America)
I’ve been using a 6 mic setup for drums that I love right now, mono condenser room over head, stereo dynamic pair 90 to the floor, top and bottom snare and a kick. Sounds awesome, and I can control how forward the toms are, while making them sound nice and organic with an analog spread. Not the best choice if you want super hype toms but great for most genres.
Thank you Glenn for waking me up and showing me how unfulfillling being a working musician can be.
Ive been fingerpicking strings for 30 years, fantasizing about making money... but realizing I'll never have to motivation to make a career out of it.
My band didn't have a drummer for a whole year, We did some recording and used programmed drums. When I programmed the drums I spent hours making sure each hit was at a different velocity to make it sound as much like a real drummer as I could. In my opinion the only way you can tell they were programmed is the fact that they are perfectly in time.
I've built a multi track recording tablet for my Masters degree. It uses a raspberry pi cluster computer, a touch screen, and a full blown Ardour DAW with 4 channels of I/O and phantom power. The pre-amps sound incredibly clear for how little it cost to design and build them. And all battery powered and portable. It was a really fun project, and once it's all done and I get my thesis defense completed, I was going to just release it out to the DIY community to build and improve upon. Apps for your phone are great, but if you want to record with a Hamasaki Square or a Decca tree setup live out in the field, with your good microphones, somewhere that electricity is hard to come by. Also nice that it's a solution you can build for a couple hundred bucks all by yourself if you know how to use a soldering iron.
Lol when you were speaking on real drum sounds I was so happy you mentioned Zeppelin! Great drummer there. Same with Pink Floyd.
Hey Glenn, on the topic of drums, I know usually a metal drum set has bigger and fuller heads for a more deep bassy sound. What are your thoughts on going cross genre and using for example a fusion, swing, jazz type drum set with smaller heads and bass drums? I found that depending on the wood of the build some drum kits, independent from their size, can achive a more cutting tone without sacrificing that umf that is so desired for metal. Cheers
Hey, I agree but I do have some slight distinction on your point - or maybe the interpretation of your point.
Working in the music industry is hard. I've been trying to break through since my first band as a child. But even if you never make it, it's not horrible! It's hard, yes. But it IS fun. In my opinion anyway.
Its nice to hear someone talk about using a mic on a bass cab for a change. Most "how to record bass" tutorials or whatever basically boil down to "plug straight in," which is fair because you need to make things really simple for us bass players. Anything more than that will hurt our brains. But on a more serious note, I've always enjoyed the sound of my amp mic'd with a DI coming out of the amp itself. Get it in phase, and the bottom end takes on a whole new life without losing the higher frequencies. It might be old school, but sometimes the old school stuff just works.
Hey Glenn. You're telling us to never mix on headphones.
But is it any different on In-Ear monitors? Like the kind you'd use on stage if you don't want to become deaf.
Olaf van Rijnsbergen it will essentially be the same thing. Any headphone is going to change the imaging and your frequency range will generally be very different.
My only advice for mixing with headphones is do several A-B comparisons. Grab a few songs you like and compare them to your mix; not necessarily volume but how each instrument sits in the mix. Hope that helps 🤘🏻
There are physical reasons why the frequency response of headphones, or in ear monitors is never as flat through the full bandwidth as good pair of monitor speakers. It's a bit of a long story why so i'm not going to go to details, but it has to do with impedance matching (not impedance of the phones, but the impedance matching of the driver to the acoustical space/air in the ear) to the fact that you have one driver for the whole bandwidth that has unavoidable resonances (because physics) throughout the bandwidth to how the acoustics of the headphone system inherently works... so you pretty much can never have very flat frequency response with headphones.
At least until you pay as much for a pair as you'd get very high end monitor speakers for. So after that... it's a bit like "Why not get speakers since you'd get really good ones with that price."
Then there are issues with no cross-feed, having completely un-echoic acoustics etc. that will distort what you think is going on etc.
So it's always a trade off.
If I use a mixer into an interface to record drum (let's say), does every line signal track independently into the DAW or does it all bounce into one file?
Not recording app, but 'Neutron' is one amazing work of art for high res audio from android's.
You can control the number of channels, distance from speakers, Dither, output frequency, phase inversion, a highly effective 30 band EQ, pre-amp volume control, etc... the list doesn't end..do check it out, Glen!
It's a money worth spent!
"I do enjoy shooting people especially doing headshots" -Glenn Fricker
With tech I wonder why we aren't seeing cloud based recording apps for tablet devices. We're seeing it in gaming, offloading audio processing to a powerful rig (even one with analog outboard) for a subscription would be awesome.
Hey Glenn, I remember you saying that you record the bass above 80hz so the bass won't interfere with the drums. I may be remembering wrong seeing that I heard you say something like that in one of the several dozen videos I've watch on your amazing channel. If so, how do you record the B string that's at 30hz and how would you record lower tunings such as those in a Kalium Quake Bass? Thank you, F from Hialeah, Florida (Hi ah lee uh)
I'm not Glenn, but I don't ever remember him saying 80hz...more like 40, and that 80 is the harmonic of 40 ...just like 60hz will supply enough 30hz to be perfectly audible
Hey bud, thanks for everything you do. I was wondering if you use a ribbon mic for anything. And what are the applications? I'm asking because a friend of mine let me borrow a pretty nice ribbon mic(MXL R144) but not sure how I could make the most use out of it.
"Tommy Lee was an absolute fucking beast of a drummer." Well said! Too many people slag on him - so underrated! Love your videos - keep up the great work!
Is there a reason why guitars are always hard paned? I often find that when there are 2 different guitar parts that are hard paned (like the intro to In to Deep by Sum 41) it can be a little weird. in my recordings, I found it painting thing about 70% either way sounds pretty cool. Is there anything wrong with doing it like this?
Hey Glenn what are your thoughts on mr bungle? I was just wondering what you thought about mike Patton and his band
Amazing band 🤘🏻
My band's going to go talk to Jackson Ward from Strata Recording soon to discuss recording our next record. Didn't realize he was local to Indiana until he randomly friended me on facebook a couple months back. Thought i recognized the name from your channel, and he also did some work with one of my friend's bands in the area as well. I'm pretty stoked! Looking to do live drums with him at the very least.
We actually have a good drummer now, compared to our last record (which the performance and end mix was bad enough we had to redo the whole thing ourselves with superior drummer.) So I'm hoping it turns out well
Lesson for people:
Dont pay for live drums if your drummer cant handle doing it. you're probably going to have to redo it anyway. Tell them to practice or find someone new.
Recording Bass my best experience is going trough Direct Out of the Amp AND hooking up a Kickdrum Mic in front.
Mic about 25% away from the Cone, pointing towards the Cone, distance to metal-grid (speaker protection) about 1-2 cm (1/4-3/4 Inch).
What do you think about that glenn?
Glenn, I would be interested to learn more about Bandlab's new mobile recording device and platform. They seem really affordable. I am skeptical because I haven't been able to find specifications for bit and sample rates.
I know you don't like sampled drums, but what about sample replacement? my band recorded some live drums and I'd rather use live drums but I have way to much cymbal bleed in the kick. The drummer didn't want to cut a hole in his resonant head or take it off. The engineer said he could do sample replacment's and it would still have the same dynamics.
What's your take on this Glenn? Any advice on how to make the kick sound good and control the cymbals without losing the nice high end of the kick?
Another great drum performance, Bill Ward in Black Sabbath live in 1970 Paris. ESPECIALLY War Pigs
I graduated from a recording school after highschool and went straight to university after an unpaid internship at studio here in Atlanta. Definitely a VERY tough career to make it in. I do understand how we all have access to home recording gear, but great albums aren't made at home (in my opinion) the band I am starting right now will save money to get a single recorded anywhere but my bedroom 😅
App for recording guitar that i've been using is LoopStation. It gets the job done, you can record, trim, save and load your tracks, but few changes could be made.
I keep missing name of that Photoshop equivalent. Does this support CMYK, print album art
3:52 I use BandLab to make music on my Android (just started using it a month ago, because my laptop is broken), it's not perfect, in fact it's a little buggy and not very much you can do to the mix, it's also have the web version with more tools (never try it before), but overall it's do the job...
I think the days of the “tape-op” have definitely gone but not forgotten.
Anyone know the name of that Photoshop alternative he mentioned. I can't quite make out the word he's saying when he said the title of the software. Thanks!
...and YES, I did try Google "fiddly photo" and found nothing. Even using alternate spellings.
If anyone has a link or the proper name of the software it would be greatly appreciated! Thank you for helping.
Affinity
SpectreSoundStudios AHHH! You ROCK dude! Thank you!!!
...& fuck you!
To add to the list of albums to hear great drums, Black Sabbath's Headless Cross. Cozy Powell has an AMAZING drum sound.
"I do enjoy shooting people, especially headshots..." 😂🤣🤣🤣
You get a like, even though you beat me to it. :P
It's kind of ironic for me to hear the stories of the audio guys having computer skills as their backup. I'm a systems administrator/IT manager, and when I worked in a factory as the IT manager, it was assumed that I knew sound recording and video production. It just happened that I had run live sound for theater in high school, college, and community theater, (once live mixed a 21-piece big band.
That's a job for an ambidextrous octopus, but I digress) and my tech did wedding photography on the side, so we managed OK.
Sounds like there's something in the skillsets or at least mindset in common.
1:38 The same for musicians. Mastering your instrument may last some time.
Ravi Shankar, the absolute grandmaster of Sitar who recorded with the late Beatles once was asked, how long it lasts to have this perfection. He answered: "I am practising now for 50 years, and I have to say, l am just about to be satisfied to my abilitys."
Re: cable management, you can order entire A4/letter sheets of cable labels stickers off eBay for like $5 for a pack. I don't even run a studio, but labeling all the cables behind my PC desk (_especially_ the power adapter cables) has saved me lots of time fiddling.
the only thing i have against mobile recording is the mic stand and isolation issues... its not stable to record it handheld. how can one solve this and the external noise problems?
In audio school i was taught to spot sample drums by listening for an identical snare first rather than an identical kick. Just some extra perspective
Hey Glenn, I wanted to take the time to thank you for all of the work you have done and for inspiring me a great deal. I was first introduced to you by a friend because I played bass and I wasn’t too great, your sarcastic tough love approach really motivated me to be the best musician I could be and now I am a songwriter in my own band. That is not where your motivation ends though. Throughout high school I never really knew what I wanted to do with my life and was planning on skipping college until you and your videos about recording metal got me intrigued. Your videos helped me realize that I really enjoy the production side of music and the physics of electronics so I decided I will be attending the University of Hartford to study audio engineering technology. Thank you for unintentionally helping me find my path. (Sorry if this is massively cringe but I thought you would like to know your videos created positive change in a strangers life, Fuck You Glenn!)
+1 for Shout at the Devil drums sounds and sound over all, people now maybe take crue less seriously than their peers but that record was a classic front to back