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 Recap
Hello, I am Eyal Levi and welcome to my Metal Recording Bootcamp on CreativeLive. This is day and if you haven't seen days 1 through 15, it's probably a good idea 'cause we're right smack in the middle of a mix about to get started with guitars and bass and if you haven't seen everything leading up to this point, this might not have any context for you. Anyways, it's a track by the band Monuments called "Quasimoto" that we tracked all up leading to now and I got some basic drums and balances going. Yesterday, I actually fixed some problems overnight, put them in the mix, I'll walk through those and then get going with guitars and stuff. So this is where we're at right now. ("Quasimoto" by Monuments) Alright, so I think that that's better than it was yesterday. I'm still kind of in the dark with what these speakers are doing but I'm not as pissed off so that's always a good thing. Show you some of the differences. Some of the things I made, some of the things I changed. Well I just fig...
ured let's call a spade a spade and I got rid of most of the bass tracks. It was just a lot of work and not much gain cost benefit ratio wasn't very good on the amount of bass microphones that I had. Not that they sounded bad, but just having to wrestle them too much. So I took the POD, the POD track that John Brown made on his POD HD Pro and then I took the DI. I got rid of some of the processing on the toms and just went for group processing and I think they sound better. I think they were sounding a little bit on the push side yesterday but you can hear now that they sound like they sink in a little more. ("Quasimoto" by Monuments) And they just kinda, they just kinda glide in there a little bit better. Yesterday they were kinda, a bit kinda annoying. ("Quasimoto" by Monuments) And I'm going to turn up the floor tom a little bit. ("Quasimoto" by Monuments) Now that's what I call awesome. As far as the snare goes, I also, I got rid of some of the samples, redid some of the balances and, simplified a little bit of the chain 'cause I feel like it might have been going a little bit overboard yesterday. I got rid of the parallel bus on the toms, I got rid of the parallel bus on the bass and I got rid of a parallel bus on the kick as well. I redid the kick a little bit to be a little thuddier and less clackity clack. We can check that out. ("Quasimoto" by Monuments) Those are just the scratch guitar tracks, I mean the scratch guitar tone. (rock drum beat) Also gave the snare a little bit more beef so it wouldn't be so cracky and annoying but it's still pretty cracky. Any more beef and I feel like it might've gotten lost with the guitars but we'll see once we start really working on them. (rock drum beat) Let me go from the beginning so you can hear those toms coming in again. (rock drum beat) There's one thing that I did not touch yet that I feel as though I should touch. (snare drum hit) Got a snare room here by Steven Slate. It's going, it's routed to the cymbals but just before I forget, I'm gonna just do a few things to it. Going to limit it, (snare drum hit) and then I'm going to put a transient designer on it to get rid of some of that crack so that it's more about just length. So where are you, SPL. (snare drum hit) And I might add some harmonics to it. We shall see, we shall see if it works. Where you at Decapitator? Oh, wrong menu. Funny how that happens. (snare drum hit) I'm just curious. What presets do they have for snare? For drums? Snare Accent, Thumpy and Bumpy huh? How about Room Driver? (snare drum hit) How about not. This might not be a good idea. (snare drum hit) Ah, that was good. Drum Fattener 3, perfect. That's exactly what I wanted. (snare drum hit) (drum beat) And of course, this is too loud. And now our snare's just a little bit longer. I didn't wanna forget to do that. ("Quasimoto" by Monuments) Reason that I'm doing this with music playing is 'cause it's really hard to know how long that tail is or if it's even audible when you're playing it by yourself, by itself. ("Quasimoto" by Monuments) Okay, that's pretty good. There's some automation stuff that I'll have to do later on but for now, I think it's good to move on.
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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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