Lessons
Intro to Bootcamp
13:44 2Purpose of Pre-Production
15:54 3Technical Side of Preproduction
11:32 4Pre-Production: Setting Up the Tempo Map
12:05 5Pre-Production: Importing Stems
10:10 6Pre-Production: Click Track
15:26 7Creating Tracking Templates
17:03 8Intro and the Tone Pie
04:51Drums - Lay of the Land
10:44 10Bearing Edges
03:09 11Wood Types
10:36 12Depths and Sizes
04:00 13Hoops
02:38 14Sticks and Beaters
07:38 15Drum Heads
07:30 16Drum Tuning
1:03:54 17Drum Mic Placement Intro
10:37 18Basic Drum Mic Setup
53:36 19Cymbal Mic Setup
35:24 20Touch Up Tuning
46:55 21Microphone Choice and Placement
40:34 22Drum Tracking Intro
01:01 23Getting Tones and Final Placement
34:51 24Primary Tracking
31:54 25Punching In and Comping Takes
20:11 26Guitar Setup and Rhythm Tone Tracking
01:59 27Amplifiers - Lay of the Land
10:00 28Amplifiers & Cab Shoot Out
27:12 29Guitar Cab Mic Choice and Placement
03:56 30Guitar Tracking and Signal Chain
29:07 31Finalizing Amplifier Tone
51:24 32Guitar Mic Shootout Round Robin
05:21 33Intro to Rhythm Tracking
07:46 34Setting Up Guitars
15:02 35Working with a Guitarist
05:04 36Final Guitar Tone and Recap
04:10 37Guitar Tracking with John
15:19 38Guitar Tracking with Ollie
32:03 39Final Tracking
22:08 40Tracking Quads
33:44 41Intro to Bass Tone
01:26 42Bass Tone Setup
07:35 43Bass Tone Mic Placement
16:42 44Bass Tracking
45:08 45Intro to Clean and Lead Tones
02:15 46Clean Guitar Tones
34:04 47Lead Tones
10:58 48Vocal Setup for Tracking
11:26 49Vocal Mic Selection and Setup
02:38 50Vocal Mic Shootout
09:13 51Lead Vocal Tracking
38:09 52Writing Harmonies
07:44 53Harmony Vocal Tracking
23:25 54Vocal Warm Ups
11:39 55Scream Vocal Tracking
18:56 56Vocal Tuning and Editing Introduction
01:35 57Vocal Tuning and Editing
29:26 58Routing and Bussing
25:16 59Color Coding, Labeling and Arranging Channels
17:54 60Setting Up Parallel Compression
30:50 61Setting Up Drum Triggers
10:41 62Gain Staging and Trim
1:00:54 63Drum Mixing - Subtractive EQ
25:38 64Drum Mixing - Snare
23:00 65Drum Mixing - Kick
11:39 66Drum Mixing - Toms
24:47 67Drum Mixing - Cymbals and Rooms
17:23 68Drum Mixing Recap
08:57 69Mixing Bass Guitar
16:26 70Mixing Rhythm Guitars
1:16:07 71Basic Vocal Mix
1:08:59 72Mixing Clean and Lead Guitars
58:55 73Mixing - Automation
43:35 74Mastering - Interview with Joel Wanasek
31:01Lesson Info
Drum Mixing - Kick
Start getting rid of all the kick. There's a lot of stuff in these rooms that as soon as I turn them on, they're cool because they kind of glue everything together, but at the same time, there's just wild stuff going on, like that kick, and like those trash frequencies, so I gotta get this under control, but I don't wanna completely kill them, because they definitely add nice body and life to the kit. (fast drum beat) All right. Starting to sound like something. And check out these toms real quick, and then come back to other things. I'm muting these. (fast drum beat) (slow drum beat) Okay. (slow drum beat) All right, so I'm gonna do some global EQ stuff. I'm raising them up. They already sound all right, but there's some problems I need to solve. I'm raising them universally at 8 and up. Maybe I'm gonna go to 10, because that's gonna help the high end peak over the guitars, help us hear the toms throughout a very, very dense mix. (slow drum beat) Filtering out the very, very lows. The...
re's nothing like the low end of toms to destroy a mastering chain, so I'll just get rid of that. (slow drum beat) Just looking for all the nastiness, 'cause there's quite a bit, and I'm gonna cut it. Usually it happens kind of around the 500 to 800 region on the toms. Just like, I've never found a tom that doesn't have just crap in that area. The mics that I like, a lot of the time, the D6s naturally scoop that, but you still are gonna get it, especially with this room. This room is just adding a ton of that garbage. (slow drum beat) Also some grossness down there. (slow drum beat) It's already sounding better. Sometimes you don't realize it while you're making the changes, but always bypass, to see where you were before. Listen with and without. (slow drum beat) And try to bring down some of those highs just a little bit in the bleed. Where is it? Just try to be gentle about it though. (slow drum beat) I don't really like compressing toms much, but I do like limiting them as well as cliffing them, because it sounds cool. (slow drum beat) (fast drum beat) So by themselves, you might get carried away into thinking that they sound a little weird, and a lot of things sound weird by themselves, but just pay attention to what happens, now that I put the drums back on. (fast drum beat) As opposed to before. (fast drum beat) I'd say we're in better shape. (fast drum beat) I still have a little bit to do to these. First of all, I'm gonna send them to the drum verb, and see what happens. (fast drum beat)
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Ratings and Reviews
Ron
I'm on lesson 19! Already worth every dollar!!! Priceless insight! I have already incorporated some of the ideas (preproduction common sense stuff that I never thought of, but damn). VERY HAPPY with this course! ALWAYS LEARNING and looking forward to the next 50 (or whatever) lessons!!! Excellent course! GREAT PRODUCER/ENGINEER, GREAT DRUM TECH, and GREAT BAND!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!
ceeleeme
I'm just part way though and I'm blown away by the quality approach Eyal takes to getting the best out of the sessions. I love how well everything is explained and Eyals calm manner is just awesome it really makes you want to listen to the gems of wisdom he offers.
Will
Wow is all I can say. This bootcamp goes in so much depth from tuning drums, setting up guitars, to recording and mixing. I have learned so much by participating in this bootcamp. It has taught me some new recording techniques and signal routing for my mixes. I just want to thank Eyal, Monuments, and Creative Live for taking the time to do this. It has been amazing and I will keep going back to these videos.
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