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Instantly step up your music production game with these 3 strategies. No more sloppy productions!!!. // Gear listed below! MORE Music Production tutorials & behind the scenes: http://bit.ly/behindthesongseries
Every song I work on in this series is released on my channel. You can watch the finished music video and & the final production of this song right here: https://youtu.be/FE4TOLtZ3jU
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MY BEAUTIFUL GEAR 💖
• Instruments
My cheap & mini midi controller: http://amzn.to/2fhLwg5
My acoustic guitar: https://amzn.to/2rG5fsx
My electric guitar: https://amzn.to/2wG6XzU
My bass guitar: https://amzn.to/2wN1esj
My digital piano: http://amzn.to/2hy7yw9
• Recording Gear
My studio speaker controllers: https://amzn.to/2rHRae7
My studio headphones: https://amzn.to/2KjM1Ax
My FAVORITE studio computer: https://amzn.to/2Fo4ysx
The best mic I've ever owned: http://amzn.to/2whWSVK
My audio interface: http://amzn.to/2hy0zDa
JBL Studio Monitors: http://amzn.to/2vsshXR
My favorite mic stand: http://amzn.to/2fhQWYx
• Software
What I use to record music (Logic Pro X): https://apple.co/2JP5g5a
Mixing plugins (Get 10% with this link!): http://bit.ly/10percentoffwaves
Main Sample Library: http://amzn.to/2hxBd8v
• Video
The camera I use to make videos: http://amzn.to/2v7hq4p
My main lens for closeups: http://amzn.to/2wvzCm6
Amazing Lighting for Tight Spaces: http://amzn.to/2fh42Wd
Proline Tripod: http://amzn.to/2wvp6eI
Sony Remote (Holy grail of selfshooting): http://amzn.to/2v9kDz1
Studio Lighting (I love these): http://amzn.to/2xiHXOM
Edited on Final Cut Pro: https://apple.co/2LUD6Xi
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More info:
Tip 1: Record midii instruments first!!!
- This is a huuuuuuge one. You want to record all of your midi instruments first, as much as you possibly can because you can quantize midi, meaning you can map midi notes to a grid so that they are perfectly in time.
- If you start this way, recording on top of that perfectly in time, set of instruments makes your audio performance of guitar, electric guitar, whatever it is, a lot more precise.
- The problem with starting your production by recording audio first, is that it becomes difficult to keep things tight.
Tip 2: Scratch Midi
- If you’re not planing to have any midi instruments in your production, record a midi percussion track and loop it for the entire song and record on top that. Or, record a midi instrument like…piano chords for example, and then record on top of that.
- The midi percussion and the piano chords that you start with aren’t designed to be anything more than just a quantized instrument to help you perform a better audio take. You can delete them when you’re done
- So layering instruments in a production a lot like building a house. Your foundation is everything and carries the rest of the parts that lay on top of it. And, once that house is built, it’s a lotttt more work to fix a weak structure when all the parts are already place. So tip #1 and tip #2 are extremely similar in that, whatever you do - give yourself as strong as a foundation to start with if you’re recording audio, and the way to do that is to start with midi!
Tip 3: Flex Time
- So tip #3 is the fail safe. The thing you do when you’ve started with recording midi first or layering a scratch midi track that you quantized but your guitar part is still a bit sloppy. In this scenario you’ve got 2 options:
- If it’s too sloppy, you gotta practice the part more
- If it’s only out of time in a few small areas, then use flex time
- What is flex time? Flex time is a tool in Logic Pro x that lets you manipulate audio by nudging waves in time with the grid of the project.
- The reason why I dont recommend relying on flex time to fix your really sloppy performance is because it can take you way longer to fix, than to just play to a quantized midi track or go back and practice