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Bro keep doing what your doing your the real deal. giving us all this free game from start to finish. while all these other youtube engineers take out key components just to sell you a preset, even though every vocal is different!!!! meanwhile your teaching me how to do it myself. respect bro 🙏
Out of all the videos I ever ran across yours I can say was well put and very understanding and a lot of help. Thank you! Do you have any videos showing a brief of your mixing process
Amazing. Glad I could help Nate! I’ve got some more mixing template videos planned for the coming months so keep a lookout for those in the coming weeks 👀
Thanks for the great content. By any chance, could you show how to route the audio in Luna? I've been searching and asking for weeks but to no avail. New Sub! 🙏
Thank you! I tried setting a template up in Adobe Audition using your template structure but I just can’t figure out how to make everything interact with one another. I’ll have to find another way. Thank you for your videos.
Hmmm wish I could help there but my Adobe Audition days are well behind me. I imagine it may not be as flexible as a DAW like Pro Tools routing-wise, but I could be mistaken. To be devils advocate: It’s never too late to look into a new DAW and workflow 😈
Hi I am from Toronto, I use ProTools for audio editing and vocal recording. I really liked your template. I would like to know what is your charge for vocal recording template how you will send it to me? Also does this work for any updated versions of protools? Thanks
@5piece Can u make a tutorial about: How to set up standard Vocal layers within a modern HipHop/Trap/Pop/EDM Song? I mean how many layers got e.g. a typical Travis Scott Lead Vox/ Background Vox/ Addlips Vox etc. ? What could be a typical Template to achieve such sound? In order to reach those Genre's significant big sound, I need to know what is THE MUST have to be recorded and on which point I passed the minimum
Every song is different and there certainly isn't a "minimum". Most popular rap songs only have one vocal sound - 2 Chainz is a good example of this. Travis has more intricate layers but not every artist has to follow his template. I personally like keeping things more minimal - afterall, the less things that are competing for space, the easier it is to mix. I will see what I can do for a future tutorial although I have covered this already in some of my other ones such as these ones about... Pitshifting Vocals: th-cam.com/video/W11XgE5a8oE/w-d-xo.html Distorting Vocals like Kanye / Travis: th-cam.com/video/SV9soJt3Ons/w-d-xo.html I also have another coming out called "How To Make A Chorus Sound Big" which covers more vocal layering. This drops on January 9th. It will be available on this link then: th-cam.com/video/8HGHooBFSZA/w-d-xo.html Between these 3 videos, you should be armed with a lot of knowledge to use moving forward. Don't be afraid to try things even if no one tells you too. This is my favourite way to learn. Good luck.
@@5piece Thank you for the overall massive covering answer! I will definitly check those vids out. Of course if its as good as this one, I'll share your work among my producer collegues and encourage them to spread it too
Thank you for this video I would love to be mentored by you I got a artist that I want to push bur I find that im lacking the necessary knowledge to better myself.
I'm glad I could help with this video. I would love to help more on the mentoring front- feel free to reach out via my website contact form so we can chat about helping you accomplish just that: www.5piecemusic.com/contact
I personally do because I hardly (if even at all) hear a difference between 48K and higher sample rates. I’ve seen a lot of other engineers at a major level say the same thing. Plus Higher sample rates lead to larger files. I never saw that trade off as worthwhile since it’s a negligible difference. I could be wrong though but that’s my 2 cents, and the consumers who stream my mixes don’t seem to complain - over 1 million streams and continuing strong 😅🚀
yo dude, nice videos. did you know if you hold down shift option then right click on a large group of selected tracks you can name them consecutively by just pressing enter after typing each name.. it just pulls up the next naming dialogue box automatically, radical.
Thanks my friend! Yes I usually do that or you can go one at a time and I believe hit command + right arrow. I may be mistaken on the quick key as it’s more muscle memory than actual memory at this point, but this video is quite old now so doesn’t really showcase my current workflow to the same degree. Either way, great tip for those watching and reading the comments. Thanks Seph!
Thank you! Everything is personal preference - I just find its quicker to do it the way I do it, rather than individually route + arm every track every time I need to record. I can quickly use one track, and either use playlists to record multiple takes on that track- OR just move the audio from my record track onto the ones meant to house the takes. I can edit and compile a track pretty quickly from there. This seems to be common industry practice (I picked this up from the award winning folks I've worked with) but at the end of the day, whatever works best for you IS the best. Hope this helps.
I may be wrong; but I believe this may depend on your interface / computer configuration as I've seen some people have much more limited bus counts while mine was always stacked like this. That being said, you can easily add more. Simply go to the I/O setup, select the 'bus' tab and click 'add new path'. You'll want to do this for every bus you wish to create beyond 24. Pro Tip: export these settings after the fact so that way you don't have to constantly create new busses beyond 24 in the future. Best of luck.
Hey thanks for the help but I have a question about routing the instrumental and vocal masters around 8:10 . I have a built in output and I only see bus 3-4 and higher, is there a reason I don’t have bus 1-2 and how do I route to the instrumental and vocal master ?
Sounds like you need to fix your I/O settings in Pro Tools. There’s a lot of things that could happen within your I/O so unfortunately I won’t be able to cover them all in a comment reply like this- however, an easy place to start is to open your I/O settings, go to the BUS tab, delete all currently created busses and then click the “Default” button. By restoring to default, it should create the buses needed. In the event it doesn’t, you’ll need to manually create busses. There should be an “New Path” option that you can use to create new busses one by one. You should be able to get all the busses you need from there. Hope this helps!
when i try to add effects in the Vox channel, it seems like it doesn't recognize the effects (plugins), because they are mono tracks. what would you recommend?,
You need to use mono plugins on mono tracks. Most plugin companies provide both mono and stereo versions of their plugins, so just be sure you are using the right one for the right purpose, ie if its a mono track, you use a mono plugin, if its stereo, you use stereo, etc. Best of luck!
okay so when you make a template that you want to use everytime you sing how do you apply it to the mic? like how do i go about sounding same (having my template sound ) evrytime i go to record vocals? can i take it. off to do record normally then when im ready to-sing again put the template back on only when im singing
I'm not sure if I'm understanding your questions correctly but uf you're using a template correctly, you should achieve exactly what you're asking about. To record the mic, you need to change the INPUT on your RECORD TRACK to receive the signal from whatever your mic Is on your interface. For me, its Mic Line / Hi Z 1 but it will depend on your interface and set-up. Judging by your questions, I'm not 100% sure you understand the purpose of the template which is: 1) To save you time and get you started almost instantly upon opening Pro Tools. Without a template, you'll need to start with a blank session every time, creating tracks and doing all kinds of routing and other stuff that will take away from getting to whats important: creating and recording. 2) To create a consistent sound between your songs, because if you use the same template every time, you should achieve a fairly similar sound each time so long as you set up your preamp volume correctly. There isn't really a circumstance or reason why you'd "take it (the template) off" - without a template, you aren't getting the above 2 benefits and will likely end up with music that sounds all over the place as you may record Song A one way, then Song B another, leading to an inconsistent sound. You can of course remove/mute plugins, or channels as you see fit since you may not need to use them all depending on the song. And despite having a template created and saved, you can still select to start a BLANK SESSION in Pro Tools if you prefer to start from scratch for whatever reason. Hope this helps.
Sounds like you have selected all of your tracks, rather than just one. Make sure only the track you want to change the color on is selected. It’s also possible you have a group enabled, which may apply any changes you do to one track to everything in the group. You can easily suspend groups by holding shift+command (or CTRL on PC) +G. From there you can select your one track to change the color on. You’ll know what’s selected because the name will be highlighted white.
Could be a whole bunch of things but likely something wrong with your routing. I recommend double checking your I/O settings. You may want to delete all paths and and return them to default settings as sometimes things get wonky there. Otherwise, if you’re routing and matching inputs and outputs so every signal goes somewhere, you should be able to achieve what I’m doing here. Double check your routing and you may find you made an error somewhere. My experience with troubleshooting is 9 times out of 10 we overlook a simple and obvious thing that creates the issue. Best of luck!
Yeah sometimes I interchangeably use the word “stem” to refer to audio. A stem is typically a group of tracks printed (ie, a drum group) but it could also refer to an individual sound. If I said it while referring to the beat track, then that’s what I likely meant but the previous definitions are better suited to the word “stem”
I’ve been contemplating making a video on this for awhile but just not sure if it’s worth it since there’s no way I could cover ‘em all. Definitely recommend learning them though!
Hopefully I understand your question correctly, here's my answer: when I go to my busses (under BUS MENU A) you see the top busses are actually labelled (ie PRINT, INST VERB, etc). These are busses I have manually relabelled in the I/O settings of Pro Tools. I use these same I/O settings for pretty much all of my sessions. If I didn't re-label them, they would be displayed as Bus 1-2, Bus 3-4, etc. That's why further down the list you see they are back to being labelled as Bus 51-52, etc. You can find I/O settings under the "Setup" tab in Pro Tools. It's also possible to save and export I/O settings so you can always have them set up and ready to go in future sessions, and or when travelling and working in other places on other devices. Unlike Logic and other DAWs, Pro Tools usually has all of your busses ready to be utilized (unless your I/O set up is messed up which does happen from time to time). That means I can route inputs and outputs to busses even if they aren't being used yet. Hopefully this makes sense. If you check your I/O settings and you don't have much there, try deleting all busses manually by highlighting them and pressing delete on your keyboard. Once done, press the DEFAULT button which will re-populate your busses and help restore your I/O to where it was. You can also manually create busses one by one but that's a whole other process that you hopefully wont have to explore. Hope this helps.
Not sure why but these are hardly presets - this is a very basic template and even if you follow the video and pause to recreate what's going on, you should be good to go. Best of luck!
@@SIX1FAM its basicly just a delay and when you set the delay to 1/8th note in the delay thats a short delay and 1/4th -1/2 note on the delay would be long delay. take any delay plugin and put one on each channel strip that you have set for the long delay and short delay and set the note accordingly
These things happen, even to me. Good catch! Take notes to anyone reading this - all delays are best set at 100% wet and then use the send level to achieve your desired blend 🤙🏼
Interested in buying this ready-to-record Pro Tools template for $25 USD? Send me a message via my contact form for more information to buy. Click here: www.5piecemusic.com/contact/
i cant send you a message on your website it keeps saying error!! Id like to purchase it where can i buy??
Bro keep doing what your doing your the real deal. giving us all this free game from start to finish. while all these other youtube engineers take out key components just to sell you a preset, even though every vocal is different!!!! meanwhile your teaching me how to do it myself. respect bro 🙏
Agreed. But there are some good ones out there- just gotta sift through the BS 😂 thanks for watching 🙏🏼
Very Clean Busing. You didnt even forgot a dust grain
yo, you did a great job explaining everything quickly and efficiently- really appreciate you bro! very helpful
Thank you for the love Griff 🙌🏼 glad I could be of service 🙏🏼
That solo safe is a gem 👌🏾. Great vid
Out of all the videos I ever ran across yours I can say was well put and very understanding and a lot of help. Thank you! Do you have any videos showing a brief of your mixing process
Dude… YES👌🏻 This man needs a raise
Yes please! I don't know who the boss is but I'll forward the memo haha. Thanks for watching Jesse!
Thank you for this. Appreciate your commitment to detail.
Glad it was helpful! Thank you for watching.
Thanks a great deal.I started the year off by loading different templates up into my daw to be more versatile and this one is one of my favorites.
Amazing. Glad I could help Nate! I’ve got some more mixing template videos planned for the coming months so keep a lookout for those in the coming weeks 👀
Just here again to say this video changed my life. Thank you 🙏🏾
So happy to help Olympus!!! Really touched to hear that. Pay it forward my friend 👊🏼
I learned a hell of a lot watching this video.
Happy to hear that James! Thank you for watching 🙏🏼
Your so GOATED for this‼️
Ayyyy thank you Osaretin!!! 🙌🏼
Thank you so much. This confirmed some ideas I had as a beginner, but gave me a way to do it with greater efficiency!
You’re welcome! Glad it was helpful 🙏🏼 and hope to continue helping you along your journey through my content
THANK YOU 5PIECE AND TY TORONTO
Anytime my friend! 🙏🏼
THE BEST TUTORIAL REALLY THANKS LOT MATE!!
I appreciate you! Thanks for watching
Thank you. A big help for future to come. #Setup
Thank you very much for this content
Thank You It's a BIG start for me! 100%
You got this! You're welcome :) thanks for watching
Thanks man for the video makes my life easier
Bro you are beast
Great video!!
Thanks for the great content. By any chance, could you show how to route the audio in Luna? I've been searching and asking for weeks but to no avail. New Sub! 🙏
Excellent tutorial, thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching.
Thank you! I tried setting a template up in Adobe Audition using your template structure but I just can’t figure out how to make everything interact with one another. I’ll have to find another way. Thank you for your videos.
Hmmm wish I could help there but my Adobe Audition days are well behind me. I imagine it may not be as flexible as a DAW like Pro Tools routing-wise, but I could be mistaken. To be devils advocate: It’s never too late to look into a new DAW and workflow 😈
Hi I am from Toronto, I use ProTools for audio editing and vocal recording. I really liked your template. I would like to know what is your charge for vocal recording template how you will send it to me? Also does this work for any updated versions of protools? Thanks
💯 perfect
Like it extremely much
@5piece Can u make a tutorial about: How to set up standard Vocal layers within a modern HipHop/Trap/Pop/EDM Song?
I mean how many layers got e.g. a typical Travis Scott Lead Vox/ Background Vox/ Addlips Vox etc. ?
What could be a typical Template to achieve such sound?
In order to reach those Genre's significant big sound, I need to know what is THE MUST have to be recorded and on which point I passed the minimum
Every song is different and there certainly isn't a "minimum". Most popular rap songs only have one vocal sound - 2 Chainz is a good example of this. Travis has more intricate layers but not every artist has to follow his template. I personally like keeping things more minimal - afterall, the less things that are competing for space, the easier it is to mix.
I will see what I can do for a future tutorial although I have covered this already in some of my other ones such as these ones about...
Pitshifting Vocals: th-cam.com/video/W11XgE5a8oE/w-d-xo.html
Distorting Vocals like Kanye / Travis: th-cam.com/video/SV9soJt3Ons/w-d-xo.html
I also have another coming out called "How To Make A Chorus Sound Big" which covers more vocal layering. This drops on January 9th. It will be available on this link then: th-cam.com/video/8HGHooBFSZA/w-d-xo.html
Between these 3 videos, you should be armed with a lot of knowledge to use moving forward. Don't be afraid to try things even if no one tells you too. This is my favourite way to learn. Good luck.
@@5piece Thank you for the overall massive covering answer!
I will definitly check those vids out. Of course if its as good as this one,
I'll share your work among my producer collegues and encourage them to spread it too
I appreciate you! I'm happy to help. Let me know if you have any other questions or things you'd like to see future tutorials about.
What does the iOS settings look like for a session like this?
Thank you for this video I would love to be mentored by you I got a artist that I want to push bur I find that im lacking the necessary knowledge to better myself.
I'm glad I could help with this video. I would love to help more on the mentoring front- feel free to reach out via my website contact form so we can chat about helping you accomplish just that: www.5piecemusic.com/contact
Do you always work at 48 sample rate? There's a lot of varying opinions on this...also super helpful video! Thanks!!
I personally do because I hardly (if even at all) hear a difference between 48K and higher sample rates. I’ve seen a lot of other engineers at a major level say the same thing. Plus Higher sample rates lead to larger files. I never saw that trade off as worthwhile since it’s a negligible difference. I could be wrong though but that’s my 2 cents, and the consumers who stream my mixes don’t seem to complain - over 1 million streams and continuing strong 😅🚀
Great video
yo dude, nice videos. did you know if you hold down shift option then right click on a large group of selected tracks you can name them consecutively by just pressing enter after typing each name.. it just pulls up the next naming dialogue box automatically, radical.
Thanks my friend! Yes I usually do that or you can go one at a time and I believe hit command + right arrow. I may be mistaken on the quick key as it’s more muscle memory than actual memory at this point, but this video is quite old now so doesn’t really showcase my current workflow to the same degree. Either way, great tip for those watching and reading the comments. Thanks Seph!
So helpful, Thanks a lot man
Anytime! Thanks for watching 🙏🏼
u are the goat , what's the benefit of not recording to every track if u don't mind me asking ?
Thank you!
Everything is personal preference - I just find its quicker to do it the way I do it, rather than individually route + arm every track every time I need to record.
I can quickly use one track, and either use playlists to record multiple takes on that track- OR just move the audio from my record track onto the ones meant to house the takes. I can edit and compile a track pretty quickly from there.
This seems to be common industry practice (I picked this up from the award winning folks I've worked with) but at the end of the day, whatever works best for you IS the best. Hope this helps.
@@5piece thnx fam !
Can you make a template to download
I dont see options for 51 and 52, it only goes up to Bus 24? Can you please helpp me! ty in advance GOD BLESS YOU!
I may be wrong; but I believe this may depend on your interface / computer configuration as I've seen some people have much more limited bus counts while mine was always stacked like this.
That being said, you can easily add more. Simply go to the I/O setup, select the 'bus' tab and click 'add new path'. You'll want to do this for every bus you wish to create beyond 24. Pro Tip: export these settings after the fact so that way you don't have to constantly create new busses beyond 24 in the future. Best of luck.
Thank you so much, this really helped!
So glad to hear that!! Thank you for the love 🙌🏼
...okay 😆😂😂😂 top Videos 👍👍👍 but the okeys got me 🤣
Here's my question. How do you rename the inputs like you're doing around time stamp 8:14?
Right click on the bus/send/IO you want to rename and select rename
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Where can I find your template for sale at?
Hey thanks for the help but I have a question about routing the instrumental and vocal masters around 8:10 . I have a built in output and I only see bus 3-4 and higher, is there a reason I don’t have bus 1-2 and how do I route to the instrumental and vocal master ?
Sounds like you need to fix your I/O settings in Pro Tools. There’s a lot of things that could happen within your I/O so unfortunately I won’t be able to cover them all in a comment reply like this- however, an easy place to start is to open your I/O settings, go to the BUS tab, delete all currently created busses and then click the “Default” button. By restoring to default, it should create the buses needed. In the event it doesn’t, you’ll need to manually create busses. There should be an “New Path” option that you can use to create new busses one by one. You should be able to get all the busses you need from there. Hope this helps!
when i try to add effects in the Vox channel, it seems like it doesn't recognize the effects (plugins), because they are mono tracks. what would you recommend?,
You need to use mono plugins on mono tracks. Most plugin companies provide both mono and stereo versions of their plugins, so just be sure you are using the right one for the right purpose, ie if its a mono track, you use a mono plugin, if its stereo, you use stereo, etc. Best of luck!
So I just seen this video Setup everything but now it’s not picking up my mic
Don’t have any signal going through
okay so when you make a template that you want to use everytime you sing how do you apply it to the mic? like how do i go about sounding same (having my template sound ) evrytime i go to record vocals? can i take it. off to do record normally then when im ready to-sing again put the template back on only when im singing
I'm not sure if I'm understanding your questions correctly but uf you're using a template correctly, you should achieve exactly what you're asking about.
To record the mic, you need to change the INPUT on your RECORD TRACK to receive the signal from whatever your mic Is on your interface. For me, its Mic Line / Hi Z 1 but it will depend on your interface and set-up.
Judging by your questions, I'm not 100% sure you understand the purpose of the template which is:
1) To save you time and get you started almost instantly upon opening Pro Tools. Without a template, you'll need to start with a blank session every time, creating tracks and doing all kinds of routing and other stuff that will take away from getting to whats important: creating and recording.
2) To create a consistent sound between your songs, because if you use the same template every time, you should achieve a fairly similar sound each time so long as you set up your preamp volume correctly.
There isn't really a circumstance or reason why you'd "take it (the template) off" - without a template, you aren't getting the above 2 benefits and will likely end up with music that sounds all over the place as you may record Song A one way, then Song B another, leading to an inconsistent sound.
You can of course remove/mute plugins, or channels as you see fit since you may not need to use them all depending on the song.
And despite having a template created and saved, you can still select to start a BLANK SESSION in Pro Tools if you prefer to start from scratch for whatever reason.
Hope this helps.
So I follow your tutorial and when I got to the recording stage I couldn't enable track record is it possible u can tell me what I did wrong?
hey so I figured it out I had safe record the track and had to undo do it lol
Yes that solo-safe can be a pesky little guy that can mess things up if you aren't careful. Glad you figured it out!!
When I click to change the color to red on the rec track it’s changed all of the tracks the same color. How do I fix that?
Sounds like you have selected all of your tracks, rather than just one. Make sure only the track you want to change the color on is selected.
It’s also possible you have a group enabled, which may apply any changes you do to one track to everything in the group. You can easily suspend groups by holding shift+command (or CTRL on PC) +G. From there you can select your one track to change the color on.
You’ll know what’s selected because the name will be highlighted white.
I can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong with my sends and my reverb just isn’t working no matter what I try
Could be a whole bunch of things but likely something wrong with your routing. I recommend double checking your I/O settings. You may want to delete all paths and and return them to default settings as sometimes things get wonky there. Otherwise, if you’re routing and matching inputs and outputs so every signal goes somewhere, you should be able to achieve what I’m doing here. Double check your routing and you may find you made an error somewhere. My experience with troubleshooting is 9 times out of 10 we overlook a simple and obvious thing that creates the issue. Best of luck!
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thank you brother!
What is a stem? As referred to for the beat track.
Yeah sometimes I interchangeably use the word “stem” to refer to audio. A stem is typically a group of tracks printed (ie, a drum group) but it could also refer to an individual sound. If I said it while referring to the beat track, then that’s what I likely meant but the previous definitions are better suited to the word “stem”
i jus need learn the hot keys other than that good vid
I’ve been contemplating making a video on this for awhile but just not sure if it’s worth it since there’s no way I could cover ‘em all. Definitely recommend learning them though!
I got confused at 8:04 how did you have all them buses did you just create one then sent it there
Hopefully I understand your question correctly, here's my answer: when I go to my busses (under BUS MENU A) you see the top busses are actually labelled (ie PRINT, INST VERB, etc). These are busses I have manually relabelled in the I/O settings of Pro Tools. I use these same I/O settings for pretty much all of my sessions. If I didn't re-label them, they would be displayed as Bus 1-2, Bus 3-4, etc. That's why further down the list you see they are back to being labelled as Bus 51-52, etc. You can find I/O settings under the "Setup" tab in Pro Tools.
It's also possible to save and export I/O settings so you can always have them set up and ready to go in future sessions, and or when travelling and working in other places on other devices.
Unlike Logic and other DAWs, Pro Tools usually has all of your busses ready to be utilized (unless your I/O set up is messed up which does happen from time to time). That means I can route inputs and outputs to busses even if they aren't being used yet. Hopefully this makes sense.
If you check your I/O settings and you don't have much there, try deleting all busses manually by highlighting them and pressing delete on your keyboard. Once done, press the DEFAULT button which will re-populate your busses and help restore your I/O to where it was. You can also manually create busses one by one but that's a whole other process that you hopefully wont have to explore. Hope this helps.
good hack
Did you get the template up on your website yet? Will it work if we only have the waves Gold Package?
i dont have the same presets as u :(((
whyy
Not sure why but these are hardly presets - this is a very basic template and even if you follow the video and pause to recreate what's going on, you should be good to go. Best of luck!
No longer have long short delays in plugins
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What do you mean ? Like you’re not using those types of delays? Or did you mean something else
I'm unable to find those in plugins but I'll look later t
@@SIX1FAM its basicly just a delay and when you set the delay to 1/8th note in the delay thats a short delay and 1/4th -1/2 note on the delay would be long delay. take any delay plugin and put one on each channel strip that you have set for the long delay and short delay and set the note accordingly
you forgot to set the long delay to 100% wet
These things happen, even to me. Good catch! Take notes to anyone reading this - all delays are best set at 100% wet and then use the send level to achieve your desired blend 🤙🏼
Making fart video for paywall levels bad, clipping the mic with ass force. Video help much