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Setting Up Drum Triggers

Lesson 61 from: Recording Metal with Eyal Levi: A Bootcamp

Eyal Levi

Setting Up Drum Triggers

Lesson 61 from: Recording Metal with Eyal Levi: A Bootcamp

Eyal Levi

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Lesson Info

61. Setting Up Drum Triggers

Lessons

Class Trailer
1

Intro to Bootcamp

13:44
2

Purpose of Pre-Production

15:54
3

Technical Side of Preproduction

11:32
4

Pre-Production: Setting Up the Tempo Map

12:05
5

Pre-Production: Importing Stems

10:10
6

Pre-Production: Click Track

15:26
7

Creating Tracking Templates

17:03
8

Intro and the Tone Pie

04:51
9

Drums - Lay of the Land

10:44
10

Bearing Edges

03:09
11

Wood Types

10:36
12

Depths and Sizes

04:00
13

Hoops

02:38
14

Sticks and Beaters

07:38
15

Drum Heads

07:30
16

Drum Tuning

1:03:54
17

Drum Mic Placement Intro

10:37
18

Basic Drum Mic Setup

53:36
19

Cymbal Mic Setup

35:24
20

Touch Up Tuning

46:55
21

Microphone Choice and Placement

40:34
22

Drum Tracking Intro

01:01
23

Getting Tones and Final Placement

34:51
24

Primary Tracking

31:54
25

Punching In and Comping Takes

20:11
26

Guitar Setup and Rhythm Tone Tracking

01:59
27

Amplifiers - Lay of the Land

10:00
28

Amplifiers & Cab Shoot Out

27:12
29

Guitar Cab Mic Choice and Placement

03:56
30

Guitar Tracking and Signal Chain

29:07
31

Finalizing Amplifier Tone

51:24
32

Guitar Mic Shootout Round Robin

05:21
33

Intro to Rhythm Tracking

07:46
34

Setting Up Guitars

15:02
35

Working with a Guitarist

05:04
36

Final Guitar Tone and Recap

04:10
37

Guitar Tracking with John

15:19
38

Guitar Tracking with Ollie

32:03
39

Final Tracking

22:08
40

Tracking Quads

33:44
41

Intro to Bass Tone

01:26
42

Bass Tone Setup

07:35
43

Bass Tone Mic Placement

16:42
44

Bass Tracking

45:08
45

Intro to Clean and Lead Tones

02:15
46

Clean Guitar Tones

34:04
47

Lead Tones

10:58
48

Vocal Setup for Tracking

11:26
49

Vocal Mic Selection and Setup

02:38
50

Vocal Mic Shootout

09:13
51

Lead Vocal Tracking

38:09
52

Writing Harmonies

07:44
53

Harmony Vocal Tracking

23:25
54

Vocal Warm Ups

11:39
55

Scream Vocal Tracking

18:56
56

Vocal Tuning and Editing Introduction

01:35
57

Vocal Tuning and Editing

29:26
58

Routing and Bussing

25:16
59

Color Coding, Labeling and Arranging Channels

17:54
60

Setting Up Parallel Compression

30:50
61

Setting Up Drum Triggers

10:41
62

Gain Staging and Trim

1:00:54
63

Drum Mixing - Subtractive EQ

25:38
64

Drum Mixing - Snare

23:00
65

Drum Mixing - Kick

11:39
66

Drum Mixing - Toms

24:47
67

Drum Mixing - Cymbals and Rooms

17:23
68

Drum Mixing Recap

08:57
69

Mixing Bass Guitar

16:26
70

Mixing Rhythm Guitars

1:16:07
71

Basic Vocal Mix

1:08:59
72

Mixing Clean and Lead Guitars

58:55
73

Mixing - Automation

43:35
74

Mastering - Interview with Joel Wanasek

31:01

Lesson Info

Setting Up Drum Triggers

I'm gonna set two things up, just to have. Gonna set up an instance of my Drumforge on the kick and on the snare, but I'm gonna have it muted. This is gonna be just in case I need to use it, I can access it quickly. It's an instrument track, so I'll just treat it like it's an actual audio track. Okay, so. You know what, maybe... Maybe during the break I'll reboot and it'll work just fine. So anyways, I was setting up a contact right there, to be routed to kick. Come on, where is it? There it is. Okay, and I just go ahead and turn the audio volume all the way down and then I'm going to go to the MIDI, this is the kick MIDI. But yeah. I have to have Drumforge actually instantiated for it to, for it to see it. So contact 1, alright, and I'm gonna put one right under the snare as well. Gonna make an instrument track. Okay. And then this goes to snare, which I will find, there we go. Turn the volume all the way down, the audio volume, and assign the MIDI, right here to contact 2. (click) (b...

urst of fast music) I know that the session sounds all kinds of crazy right now, as it should, because all the routing is insane, but... (heavy rock music) But I am seeing that I'm not getting vocals to my vocal aux, so that's good. As in, not good, as in I should fix this. Voc FX should be going to my vocal aux. Look at this, voc screens, none of these were going to my vocal aux. What a horrible reality. So I'm just gonna scan through here and see if anything is going to the mix master bus and not to the stuff that I've created and assigned it to. Alright, all looking pretty normal. (heavy rock music and vocals) No bass, probably because I turned it all down. Yeah. (music) Anyways, this sounds crazy and out of whack 'cause it's absolutely not mixed, but... (music) See how easy this is gonna be now? Get the, whatever fine moves I need to do down there, out of the way, but then when it comes down to the big moves, I just have to be within this screen and I'm pretty much good. Get a little smaller, fit the drums and... (heavy rock music with drums) It's all there. (drum solo) Some people have asked me what the Pro Tools version would be of the way that my business partner, Joe Sturgess, does the mixing with faders at zero in Cubase, with the input knob at the top of the track. Well, this is a really good example right here. So in Pro Tools we have the trim control, and so with faders at zero, and the busses are at zero as well, I believe, I'm gonna turn down the level of the bass to not overtake the drums. (bass and drums) You know, and then that just opens you up to be able to do whatever you've gotta do. (bass and drums) (guitar riff joins) So I'm starting each one of these with a trim plugin. (music) Okay, whatever. Now I actually have to mix this. I hope that this all makes sense to you guys. This is all routed now, there might be a few things that come up while I'm mixing, and I'll deal with them as they come up, but as of now, this is ready to mix. Again, like I said, at the risk of getting redundant there will be things that come up and I might need to rearrange a couple things, but, you know. As far as I know we're good to go, and I mean, just check it out. We've got the whole band. (burst of music) I mean, a little loud, and I will turn them down. (rock music and vocals) Whatever, not even gonna get into that now. But as you can see, all the instruments are coming through. So good to go, I hope you guys learned something from this. Oh, lastly, the plugins that are on here are the plugins that were on during the tracking session. Because we liked what was going on in that room, we felt like we got some good sounds. But all in all, I might just start from scratch. Just remains to be seen, but this is where it kinda left off after tracking. We did feel like got some good stuff so why reinvent the wheel. But I'm gonna actually find out now if it's worth scrapping or keeping. So with that, peace out.

Class Materials

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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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