How to produce Analog Sound (in your DAW)
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- I’ll show you how to produce analog sounding music in your DAW, using free plugins ONLY. You’ll learn how to inject analog warmth and glue into your sterile digital tracks. I’ll walk you through the entire recording and mixing process. Serve up some vintage magic in your home recording setup right in the box!
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The simplest, fastest way to get real analog tape warmth into your songs is to simply create the best mix you can, and then send it out to a real cassette tape. You might need try it a few times, and adjust your EQ to best suit your tape machine, and the type of cassette you have. But this still is going to be a way more authentic analog tape sound, because it’s actually being sent to analog tape. To hear a sample of that check out this video here:
If that is not a possibility for you, or you want to use plugins, then here is a basic guide. The idea is to use several stages of compression, and saturation. You do that by adding gentle compression and subtle saturation to individual tracks, then grouping together similar instruments into submixes. You then treat those submixes with more subtle saturation and compression. What you can do is inject white noise using a generator or a free plugin like the caelum tape plugin. I also found the analog obsession plugins to sound very good.
And then finally on your master track you can push the mids forward a touch, and add a touch of saturation and compression again. My ultimate number one plugin suggestion is to use izotope vinyl. It’s free, it has a lot of these functions built right in, and I absolutely love the sound of the warp function. It is a really pleasing sound to my ears.
Honestly, I could have been way LESS subtle, and it would sound more ‘vintagey’. The reason i was being so subtle about all the plugins (why?!), is because digital overdrive and saturation sounds really bad to me. So I want to barely hear it, but still get some of that gluing effect. I just want to feel it a little.
Somebody who makes incredible sounding recordings in the box is washed out. Their stuff has a super analog vibe to it. It’s just very dramatic, it sounds old and new all at once. Dope producer.
BTW - I had major technical issues while making this video, so the balance of the camera mics and the mixes is all out of wack (the first mix is louder) and I could not fix it without crashing davinci. So sorry about that!
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I came for the information, stayed for the vibes. Cool Text + Chill music, o ye
Hey thank you so much!
This was really great. I subbed based off this. There are to many expensive plugin videos. This was amazing to see someone make a great sounding track and use basic methods that many try to avoid.
thanks CDM! I agree. the powers are trying to sell us garbage lol. it's the operator, not the machinery
Love the vibe, the editing and the actual content. I’m subbing 😎 Keep it up!!
wow that is such a nice thing to hear, Frank! I appreciate you.
That snare sound is unbelievably good!)
that's kind of you, vladimir!
Love your studio set up man! Got both the classic vibes with the sound and visual. Really really great video! Keep up the awesome work
hey T Pro! that's real kind of you to say. So glad you're watching
@@travisraab do you have any channels that you enjoy that you would say are similar to yours? Always looking for people who put out really good information out into the world
Just found your channel, serendipity. And no I'm totally not into guitars and always do the 'in the box' thing but you sparked something. This sounds like so much more fun! I think I can do this. Thanks man!
That's so cool to hear, Sool! Heck ya 👍
I love your channel…I’ve binged them all today…more please….haha
what?! that's so cool. i'm gonna put one out ASAP!
Glad to see you liking the analog obsession plugins!
yeah Ian!😀
I see you bro, making these jams. Sharing those gems. Keep em coming.
hey long time no see ! glad to hear from you netm8kr and thanks so much!
I love it. It is so warm and analogy. Great music.
Thanks Andile
Really excellent. Great playing, feel, groove. I like your style, Dude.
Thank you!
Such awesome sauce, I mean you're an awesome source, thanks Travis!
I appreciate that! thanks BSM!
I been Subbin´ hard for a time, love your work Thanks Travis Love cheers =)
Thanks for the sub! glad to have you
This dude is poetry I loved this whole video!!!!!!
thank you!
very well edited - told the story from idea to end!
heyy thank you!
Thank you for making the video. I think George Benson would be very proud of your track. Anyway I’ve had success using Harrison Mixbus 32C to give a realistic saturation. It’s a lot easier than trying to maintain a Studer 😅
Thanks for the info! I should check it out this plugin!
Really love your approach. I NEED to use this approach in my creations. Thanks for sharing.
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for the info man! much love on the jam too.
Any time! thanks
You are in my dream studio man I love the above the garage/barn
Glad to hear that thanks francis
Nice!! Great sound!!
Thanks livius:)
Amazing video dude!!
Wow thank you Rodrigo!
Very nice video and playing Travis, thank you for sharing :-)
ThomC my pleasure!
You got 'percussion face'!! Consistent snare in your track and on yo face too. Your drum groove is tight and comfy here... Love that bass tone! Dyno vid as always Travis!
Thanks Dave! I appreciate that coming from such an excellent drummer
Love this! I need some of those bongos now, that’s what I’ve been missing in my life.
you probably need two sets just to be safe
the goat, amazing video
Hey thank you jt!
yo dude love this vid, love the groove. Yer barn studio is really coming along, too!
thanks I appreciate it!
I thought you had 100k subs, your videos are so professional, Greetings from Uruguay!
Wow, thank you! so cool to hear you are from uruguay! glad to have you here
youre my new favourite youtuber, just bought a 388 yesterday
whaaat?! legend
@@travisraab LOL Travis, i used to use a portastudio and master to a cassette deck. but now with the 388, i was wondering if its worth mastering to my 7 1/2ips reel to reel recorder. or just daw. i always ended up putting it in the daw anyways with cassette, but would that extra master reel be worth it?
Thanks!
@@bobzmuda3940 it depends how legendary you want to be. I mean you need to leave some for the rest of us. i personally wouldn't do that, but that's just cause my 388 adds plenty of character as is. What would be super cool is to go from 388 to cassette and just mail out the cassettes. then it will always remain in analog! nextlevel
@@travisraab youre hilarious, i’ll keep all this in mind though forsure, stay safe nice chatting! ✌️
Great video, great track, great ideas!
thanks so much Marwan!
Very Nice Mr. Raab💪🏼😎
Thanks TT!! 🙏
Great little groove BTW 👍👌
Hey, thanks Kieran!
Super inspiring
great video!
Thanks SNOC!
Hey Travis. Great as always. Glad you discovered Analog Obsession! (I think I may have turned you on to them). But I'm such a dummy some of them are too complicated for me. I use Tuba & a Neve like EQ by them called NCar or something. (Like a Neve side car I think, but for mac it's just one channel strip).
Also, it's not free but there's a cheap plugin called Sketch Cassette. It has hiss, wow & flutter but ALSO it has "Metal tape" and "high bias", which I'm old enough to remember from the real old days and I'm sure you're familiar with.
Keep rockin!
that's very cool Barney thanks for the suggestion! I appreciate it. What I kinda liked about them is that I didn't see any manuals or any marketing so I just downloaded a few and started turning knobs and for me that's the way to do it.
I'll take a look at sketch cassette! thanks and stay in touch
@@travisraab Yeah. Apparently Analogue Obsession is just one guy. Man on a mission. I'm not a real engineer so some of the "FET" compressors etc go over my head. But the EQ's make sense. (I'm a guitarist of course. Ha!). He also has an old one if you dig deep called "Sweet Drums" which has two knobs and just subtly distorts & compresses I think. But best thing is that it reduces the gain as you do it so there's no " Wow! That sounds better!" and it's just louder.
Let me know what you think of sketch cassette!
Try a free tape delay plugin called "VariSpeed" by GSI. Great tape wind down effect and basic tape delay / echo. Sounds super analogue to me.
@@barneymiller5488 yeah I thought all his plugins did that but none of the ones I tried had that feature. I didn't see the drum one anywhere. It's weird he has a lot of stuff! What a guy
I love this song 💯💯
thanks!
Sounds good!
whaaaaat! are we related? haha
Really nice sound and feel. Especially love the bass sound. I woulda eased back on that pitch wobble/'wow'.
Thank you very much!
This guy is something else man 😂😂
Tomas you cool I like you
Amazing!
Thanks Ariel!
what a tune!!
Thank you Mate!!
Very nice thing Bro! Yes yes yes
yeah cristiano!!
Tasty stuff, sir. Thumbs up.
Thank you kindly, Karl, glad you enjoyed it!
The bongos and tambourine sound killer, two instruments that haven't been used enough in music in the last few decades
let's bring them back
Also, using small amps for recording - love this trick! I bought one a while back - go to Reverb and search Mouse Electronics - handmade great sound!
Uh oh am I gonna go down a rabbit hole?
Using an old Roland 25w keyboard/power amp and using the outboard eq sounds 👍😃
very cool :)
A thing I have been doing is recording room noise in two separate passes and panning them L/R.
I literally just let it record two times throughout the entire track. No looping or anything. Maybe at a low cut if I need it.
It kind of sounds like to me more as if I am in the room with the music more in that way with lots of air. I like it on acoustic songs.
nice idea!
Yup! Awesome.
Reve I appreciate that !
Came for a tutorial, stayed for the groove
Love it. Only thing missing is a nice organ mojo....
Good call!
Gotta love Izotope!
You said it Mac!
Woah, I think I still have that same Gorilla amp somewhere in my house! Just discovered your video and I'm thinking that maybe I also need to dig out the Tascam M416 mixer and see if that old Tascam 112 tape deck still works. Thanks!
It feels like back in the day everybody had this little gorilla. That would be cool if you found some of that old gear!
Hey I use the isotopes Vinyl
It worked just have to tweak it. Thank you.
Glad to hear that
Great stuff as always Travis! Hey, just curious, what kind of tape do you run in your 388? (e.g., LPR35, SM911...)
Lpr35!
@@travisraab Nice! Same as me, I get the Recording the Masters stuff...
@@countryskystudio only the best!!
So dope! If I wasn't blocked on Facebook I'd share this!
You've been blocked from all of FB? That's kind of cool 😎
@@travisraab 😆 it happens a few times a year. I said the only thing mysterious about women is how dumb they can be. Oops!
Hey dude super dope..! what mic did you use on your kick? I freaking love that sound you got
Thank you it's that big Shure kick mic
Thanks very cool
Thank you Ron! 🙏
Also dude could you do vid breaking down all the guitar parts? they are sooper doops dope
Maybe one of these days!
Nice bongos! Lol great video!
thanks Vincent!!
I like your bit about digital recording not being able to fully produce analog tones. It's like trying to nail a mellotron flute sound on a dx7. In my experience, plugins are great and there's a bunch of stuff you can do without spending money. But i never got consistany fullness in my tracks, mixes, etc till I bought some vintage style preamps. (Asp 800 and jhs colour boxes) Once you add that true analog color to the front of your signal chain, you suddenly have no use for most plugins.
That's interesting! I should check out some of these Pres 🙏 thanks
Okay second comment after rewatching. I wanna do this man. I’ve got reaper, a midi controller, some guitars, a cheap bass, an egg shaker from my kids Christmas present, an sm57 and an orange practice amp. Where do I go from here? lol
Lovely.
Thank you Sam :)
Liked and subbed ✅
you are a hero! thank you George
Vibes 😎
Pedro!
The thing is.....like im doing now....once I get my mix right...in Btiwig...I run my Mix through my analog rack and Soundcraft LX7 II then back through the UAD Interface back into the DAW...then decided how....I want to "Plugin Color and Finalize Mix...then either Run everything back through the Rack and the SoundCraft or Through Fussion or Portico with Access Analog...either way...once your mix is "Analog" even if it "Started in the DAW" you can...use ANY PLUGINS...you prefer at that point...though...on post production "To Me" it seems like
Aucstica Audio and Nebula....and or Plugin Alliance seem to be the safest "To not ruin your good analog mix"
Came for the tutorial, stayed for the killer tune
thanks so much trevor!
Mixing from the get go!!! (Producer Spirit Spice)
Whooo 👍🙏
I recorded a small 15w fender bass amp and recorded the speaker and it sounded gigantic and really bassy.
oh nice!
Great glock sound with the toy love it all!! By the way go try out sketch cassette 2 plugin i think you will love him!
Kick is beautiful
whoa. people keep mentioning it to me. just listened to a sample. sounds pretty cool i'm impressed!
and thank you for watching!
Thank you Travis for another great video. When you bounce the audio out to tape, do you do it track by track or the whole finished mix or both?
you mean from DAW to cassette? whole finished mix is the easiest way to do it. If you have a cassette that accepts 4 inputs, you could do 4 submixes, but then you have to make decisions about stereo. it's just simpler to do a completed mix, and adjust it to work for your cassette machine
@@travisraab Yes it would require more work if you want to do a separate bounce for each sound/instrument.
@@Mute67 you can't do separate bounces it wont sync up
@@travisraab Yes you’re right. I was thinking of ’syncing’ in DAW afterwards. (I don’t use DAW myself 🥴) just tape.
@@Mute67 tape only? you are the real deal dude
Hi! I have a Tascam M216, In your opinion, is it possible to record a drum kit by entering its pre amps, exiting the groups and entering the sound card inputs? I mean do you think it would give added value to the sound? Thx 😀
Sorry can you rephrase?
@@travisraab Sorry, I wrote at different times and it came out as rubbish. 😅
I have a Tascam M216. Do you think it can give added value when recording drums using its pre amplifiers?
yep!@@nowmixstudio
What plug in or video edit app do you achieve the Low Pitched on Acid Voice?
davinci
Nice
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You know its good if it makes you do this 1:32 hoooooooo🥰😍
Sent to me the gorilla!!!thanks for the info
So cool!!
I have had that same Gorilla amp, since 8th grade. I actually just tried to plug into it last year and it didn't work. I should figure out why.
what?! there can only be one, joe.
i have a video where i talk about taking the gorilla apart and fixing it i think its inside this series: th-cam.com/video/zXY2dGhPxWI/w-d-xo.html
the Sm57 was designed for Radio. its a radio ready sound... not far off from todays TH-cam compression or Ear Buds and tiny Bluetooth speakers.
I just make a white noise track in a way that you hear the tzzzzzzzzzzzzz when is silence, makes it feel like old vhs recorded from mtv.
Reminds me of the good old days!
EASIEST was also is do NOT run your input signals too hot! That works for tape. You try 0db signal on digital and you get harsh, distortion!
love it
@@travisraab Indeed!
I like you too dude
Thank you Jesus for showing me this channel! I want a room like that! Amen!
Amen Morten!
Great video but I do not have a clue what path you used into your DAW
Keep watching! I'll let you know
Would sending the mix to an old tape radio be any good?
tape radio that would be interesting! like are you going to record it to tape? maybe im not sure what tape radio is
@@travisraab Hello again! thank you for your reply! I meant a radio K7 player, the idea is to load it with an empty K7 tape and send the mix through it.
@@homestudioculture yep that would work sounds fun
@@travisraab I know right!?
Good music but def needs more cowbell. Also AirWindows ToTape and IronOxide plus others are the best ive heard for saturation.
absolutely
dont have analog tape (yet) but Im going out of the box thru stereo tube preamp instead.
Oh cool? Like a send and return thing or just ahead of your interface?
@@travisraab using it since sometime, experimenting a lot, it is LPB2ube from Electro-harmonics.
I bought it long time ago, it was designed as stage bass pedal (why stereo? to link 2 tubes for more dist if you go mono probably)
it has gain and volume knobs on each channel only (good), 2ins and outs, acceptable noise floor.
I can use it on way in (mono with one or two tubes or stereo) or as send/return mono or stereo (I need a patch-bay to make it smoother). dont have good routine yet, but sound seems 'fatter' when on way in, and if I use it as master insert sound gets 'unscoped' from center and distributed nicely in pan. making stuff warmer and wilder. getting some nice harmonics too, A/B comparison is killing it. so yeah, my first step into hybrid mixing. thing is I need more experiments so I will not overdo it.
last mix I did I recorded all stuff thru 2ube on separated stereo tracks (with a little help of my dsp mixer build into my sound card, it takes 3 inputs and outputs, 4 if recording stereo) except drums (using edrums unfortunately) then again played master thru the unit after inbox fiddling. applied limiter and ready.
my friend said it is most 'spacious' and 'monstrous' mix (in good way, according to him) he ever heard from me, so there is that.
The pignose amp has that same vibe if you keep the guitar down low
i've heard of those they soudn familiar
One of my recording teachers at Berklee taught me that small amps sound huge and huge amps sound small!
*When recorded that is
😮 wow Jacob I wonder why that is?!
@@travisraab I reckon it has something to do with the fact that small amps break up easier giving the illusion that it’s really cranked!
@@JacobMcCaslin that's trippy! I was gonna drill a hole in the floor to run a 50 foot cable to an amp on first floor but might skip that after all 🤣
@@travisraab I would use the space as a chamber!
What kind of bongos are those??
Bobby Allen I think
TUBA is a UA-610 emulation I think
thats funny Carey i feel everybody used to have that in their little home studio and it always drove me crazy! there you go.
Not free but Tupe by Goodhertz is the best analog saturation plugin in my opinion.
Thanks for the tip Joey! I'd like to do a shoot out one of these days. sketch cassette sounded pretty good to my ears
@@travisraab I love Sketch Cassette. Its my go to for cassette saturation/wow &flutter.
Leave some mojo for the rest of us you hog!!
catoooo good to hear from you! #mojohog
that settles it. im just going to get the Neve 500 series tape saturator.
Try Chow tape model before you buy. I love that plugin, oversampling, tape noise, degradation, everything I wanted, I found everything I needed and you can get totally wicked with it.
interesting! it just costs so much more than a tape machine
@@Sool101 is it better than sketch cassette?
@@Sool101 i have it and its ok but nothing sounds like real analogue gear. its just no comparison. it has alot more depth and makes everything pop out. It's not even subtle either its obvious it has more going on.
@@travisraab th-cam.com/video/o4zDB9FFdVw/w-d-xo.html here is the tape emulator by neve but its analogue
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Idk what it is with all of these analog emulation plugins, I think “oh wow this sounds great” when mixing. Then, it never sounds good to me in the final mix. Like “tape” saturation plugins or the wow and flutter plugins all end up making it sound like a digital track that has tape emulation plugins on it rather than a track recorded to analog. My thought is, go full on digital if you are digital - try to get the cleanest possible sounds. When analog or on tape, exploit the saturation and dirt you can get. If possible, combine the two with what works best for each medium, I.e. record bass and drums to tape then record vocals and guitars to digital. There’s really no secret sauce to anything
THIS.
Thats my 2 cents about that...I really dont like Tascam...because it has to much of a "Faded" Analog Sound to it....I would put....Sound Craft LX7II up against ANY Tascam Console...becasue "To me it has more of a "Rounder and Punchier Sound" which is going to make your mix sound more "Radio Ready" instead of "Jam Sessionish"
Plug ins are like pharmaceuticals be like this plug has this side effect so we need to use this one to counteract lol and so on or as the rolling said and on and on and on
lol first time i ever heard that. so true. once i start using them i need like a million !
Noise is not mojo. That's what a famous Mastering Engineer said to the young me, one day in a mastering session when I said something like "sometime noise can be like mojo can made the record to be felt like an old record".
ahh ok! wise words mojito thank you
You frown when you play. LOL
yeah i'm sad lol
@@travisraab Nah, just meanly focused.
Tascam giveaway man
I think I wanna do that! I'm organize something and make a video with the details
@@travisraab those mixers sound pretty amazing
It seems that most plugins that make tape replication is just vibrato
Interesting