All about that coffee! Tony have you tried the brand Death Wish Coffee? I found out about them recently and so far all of them I’ve tried have been both delicious and effective!
While talking about plugins the XLN addictive plugins are extremely functional and absolutely sound amazing. I have a couple of the piano ones and I have no desire for any other piano plugins. If I need something different or more natural sounding I’ll just record with a Yamaha keyboard 🤘
Nice tune 😊 I made a tune yesterday simple kick and snare, search a sound that I like and hit record, keep the faults no quantize and play whatever happens, then next track and repeat. Lot of fun and always a surprise how it will end up 😊
The more plug-ins people have, the less time they spend working on the actual music. This generally leads to laying down something musically mediocre in 5 minutes and spending the next 2 hours circling through plug-ins to find the one that elevates the mediocrity to mediocrity+ level. If the chord progression, riff, lick or melody isn't interesting whilst dry, then one should keep working on the musicality of the piece first before touching the effects. Listen to Michael Jackson's *_"Beat It (Demo)"_* and you'll understand what I mean. It blows away 99% of final releases today, including Charli XCX project
@@stevebennett2447Something like that. I think they ended up going with mix no.1 or no.10. Besides the point, though. He had something intriguing enough that was worthy of mixing. Even if you listen to the home demo of Billie Jean, the musicality of it was interesting enough to catch the listeners' ear, and the mixing just brought it to life. Mixing can't save a boring song. The Kinks - "You Really Got Me" and "All Day and All of the Night" were hits because of the musicality and riffs, even though the mixing was nowhere near the level of The Beatles or Zeppelin. Basically, artists are better off with a great song that isn't mixed well than a trash song mixed by whoever the leading engineer of the time is. In life, we bake the cake first, and then we decorate it. Many artists nowadays toss the ingredients in the bowl and immediately start frosting
My list is a bit bigger than that probs like 10-12 but I agree, for the most part I have the same set of “go tos” for whatever it is I’m wanting to achieve. If I were to break it down by instrument/type of sound tho it would probably be closer to 5
@ or like I do, if it doesn’t fill a need there’s no need. I do break on Black Friday every year but I think that’s fair. What I notice is that people don’t let gear/plugins simmer. They want what the next best thing is but if you look under the hood of a lot of these plugins you’ll notice a ton of the, are doing the absolute same thing. Find a few plugins that offer the tone/character you want and learn them inside an out. Trust me , it’s worth it.
The first thing I do with Addictive is dry it out completely and set the all the stereo width controls to 0%. I guess it's a more electronic approach and I mostly use the Reel Machines Kits, but it just hits way grittier which suits my sound.
Hey Tony, just wanted to suggest a topic for the next live stream; do you or your circle of producers still use session musicians, mostly session drummers or bass players? It seems Addictive Drums can do the job these days or can a session play still make the difference to a song? I can't imagine Rage Against the Machine or similar bands being produced with Addictive Drums. Perhaps it's different horses for different courses 🙂
tony, do you master your own mixes? i read some big dog mixers master thir own stuff because they don't want anybody else to touch what they did after they are satisfied with the mix.
Once in a while I do one of these inside the session videos...thank the rain and coffee.
Question..... Do you prefer stems with effects, or dry when you receive the files?
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All about that coffee! Tony have you tried the brand Death Wish Coffee? I found out about them recently and so far all of them I’ve tried have been both delicious and effective!
While talking about plugins the XLN addictive plugins are extremely functional and absolutely sound amazing. I have a couple of the piano ones and I have no desire for any other piano plugins. If I need something different or more natural sounding I’ll just record with a Yamaha keyboard 🤘
I added a memo on my community page for the Tony Black NYC layer cake lives. We gotta get some new members in here.
thank you
Nice tune 😊
I made a tune yesterday simple kick and snare, search a sound that I like and hit record, keep the faults no quantize and play whatever happens, then next track and repeat. Lot of fun and always a surprise how it will end up 😊
Thanks for the insight into your process Tony! 🔥
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Thanks Tony. I've been enjoying your ramblings.
wait, I ramble? LOL
@@TonyBlackNYC I figure all of us who get on TH-cam and blab about the stuff we know are rambling. ;-)
The layers on this Tony !
Loved this!
The more plug-ins people have, the less time they spend working on the actual music. This generally leads to laying down something musically mediocre in 5 minutes and spending the next 2 hours circling through plug-ins to find the one that elevates the mediocrity to mediocrity+ level. If the chord progression, riff, lick or melody isn't interesting whilst dry, then one should keep working on the musicality of the piece first before touching the effects. Listen to Michael Jackson's *_"Beat It (Demo)"_* and you'll understand what I mean. It blows away 99% of final releases today, including Charli XCX project
Wasn’t ”Billie Jean” from the same album mixed 91 times?
@@stevebennett2447Something like that. I think they ended up going with mix no.1 or no.10. Besides the point, though. He had something intriguing enough that was worthy of mixing. Even if you listen to the home demo of Billie Jean, the musicality of it was interesting enough to catch the listeners' ear, and the mixing just brought it to life. Mixing can't save a boring song. The Kinks - "You Really Got Me" and "All Day and All of the Night" were hits because of the musicality and riffs, even though the mixing was nowhere near the level of The Beatles or Zeppelin. Basically, artists are better off with a great song that isn't mixed well than a trash song mixed by whoever the leading engineer of the time is. In life, we bake the cake first, and then we decorate it. Many artists nowadays toss the ingredients in the bowl and immediately start frosting
some embellishment never hurt
@@TonyBlackNYCTrue. Life is a paradox. I love that bass line you wrote. That guitar sound is cool. What's this side project you speak of?
I love AD2! You can process the whole kit in the plugin if you want it's sweet.
AD is powerful
love that iron distortion on kicks and snares
Drumless sounds sick honestly
really Cool I enjoy learning from you !!!!!
Good Stuff Broski 💪
Great song and sound Tony. ❤🤙
Nice feeling track dude!
You only need Valhalla VintageVerb.
I only put three strings on my guitar so I can be more creative 😅
Cool track!!
good one
I honestly use the same 5 or similar 5 plugins all the time.
My list is a bit bigger than that probs like 10-12 but I agree, for the most part I have the same set of “go tos” for whatever it is I’m wanting to achieve. If I were to break it down by instrument/type of sound tho it would probably be closer to 5
Man oh man .. the plug-in hell is real. Also, there is a such thing as option paralysis .
self control
@ or like I do, if it doesn’t fill a need there’s no need. I do break on Black Friday every year but I think that’s fair. What I notice is that people don’t let gear/plugins simmer. They want what the next best thing is but if you look under the hood of a lot of these plugins you’ll notice a ton of the, are doing the absolute same thing. Find a few plugins that offer the tone/character you want and learn them inside an out. Trust me , it’s worth it.
The first thing I do with Addictive is dry it out completely and set the all the stereo width controls to 0%. I guess it's a more electronic approach and I mostly use the Reel Machines Kits, but it just hits way grittier which suits my sound.
Reel Machines is pretty sweet
Cant go wrong with a bit of sound toys.
I could sauce up that bassline.
Fast attack t blizzy
I can really hear *insert 'hard' rapper name* on this 🤣
Practical advice.
Hey Tony, just wanted to suggest a topic for the next live stream; do you or your circle of producers still use session musicians, mostly session drummers or bass players? It seems Addictive Drums can do the job these days or can a session play still make the difference to a song? I can't imagine Rage Against the Machine or similar bands being produced with Addictive Drums. Perhaps it's different horses for different courses 🙂
another ominous- and malthusian sounding- title
googling malthusian...
tony, do you master your own mixes? i read some big dog mixers master thir own stuff because they don't want anybody else to touch what they did after they are satisfied with the mix.
most of the time, yes.