Recording/Studio Questions Not Worth Their Own Thread - Megathread

[ThePIGI King]

I'm finalizing my music I wrote in high school and getting ready in the next few weeks (time willing) to start the tracking process. I know nothing about this sort of thing and have watched a couple videos but I am going to have a ton of questions that are silly and dumb.

Also @BlackMastadon said he needed this. So here it is!

 

[tedtan]

For @BlackMastodon!

 

[BlackMastodon]

I feel so loved

 

[CanserDYI]

Can we make this the BlackMastodon thread?

 

[STRHelvete]

My question...Can I get a new DAW? FL Studio stays on some weird shit..da fuq is my EQ doin, bruh?

 

[ThePIGI King]

For @BlackMastodon!

Spelling at work is not my strong suit.

 

[BlackMastodon]

Can we make this the BlackMastodon thread?

I'm OK with being the poster child of "I have no idea what I'm doing" when it comes to recording, let alone plugging in a guitar to an interface and making sounds come out of the computer.

 

[ThePIGI King]

I just wish there was a step by step guide (non-video) that I could read when I have free time. I feel like the recording space is very difficult to get past the beginning stage. It's a bit daunting.

 

[Crungy]

My question...Can I get a new DAW? FL Studio stays on some weird shit..da fuq is my EQ doin, bruh?
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Your eq need some milk

 

[TedEH]

I just wish there was a step by step guide (non-video) that I could read when I have free time.

I'll try to find it again, but there used to be this really long post on (I think?) the home recording forum with a title like "why your guitar tone sucks" or "why your mix sucks" or something like that, and it went on and on about all the details of what goes into getting a good guitar sound in a DIY recording. It's obviously very dated, but the concepts I think would still stand, if I can find it. (Or someone else can find it first)

 

[SalsaWood]

A lot of studio rhetoric is contextual. The finer points are extremely contextual. To get better you need to put the time in and experiment a little, all these instructional vids folks watch and then never apply might as well be porn.

 

[AwakenTheSkies]

Systematic Mixing Guide

SYSTEMATIC MIXING GUIDE

www.systematicproductions.com

 

[TedEH]

But of course those finer points have to build off of a foundation that's much more objective. Like, sure, not every mix is going to specifically need to you shelve low end off of your guitars at a certain frequency or something, but as a general understanding, it's good to know that the reason it's common to do so is that low frequencies take a lot more energy to sound the same amount of "loud", and because sound is additive, it's very easy and common for low frequencies to dogpile and create a really uneven, bass heavy, muddy kind of a mix (on top of concerns about masking other low-end dominant instruments).

Also yeah, the books. The books are good.

 

[AwakenTheSkies]

Tutorial Videos for Recording, Mixing & Production

Groove3 is your source for video tutorials and digital books on DAWs, music production, mixing, mastering, instruments, and more.

www.groove3.com

 

[ThePIGI King]

Thanks guys! I'll look into them. I'm almost ready to start learning the drum programming.

 

[BlackMastodon]

I just wish there was a step by step guide (non-video) that I could read when I have free time. I feel like the recording space is very difficult to get past the beginning stage. It's a bit daunting.

The amount of YouTube bullshit one has to soft through just to get the most basic info is pretty staggering

 

[tedtan]

There’s also a long (did I say LONG?) thread over at the Reaper forum called Why Do Your Recordings Sound Like Ass? that lays out recording pretty well. BUT, it’s really long and kind of dies off halfway through when people start showing up asking how to get 80’s era guitar tones.

And I can second the Systematic Mixing Guide mentioned above. It’s a good, more directed, guide to recording metal.

 

[Kosthrash]

All-time classic

The 7 Bad System Dwarves

The official mascots of Rational Acoustics. These seven little gremlins like nothing more than to give your sound system their own distinctive voice. Sure, they’re friendly enough when encountered as a balanced group, but hanging out with any one of them for too long can drive you to...

www.rationalacoustics.com

 

[TedEH]

There’s also a long (did I say LONG?) thread over at the Reaper forum

^ AHA, that's the one. I had the wrong forum in mind. I need to bookmark it or something.

 

[ThePIGI King]

The amount of YouTube bullshit one has to soft through just to get the most basic info is pretty staggering

That's exactly why I prefer books, because I don't have the knowledge to spot the BS that the majority of youtube is. And it's easier to take notes for referencing later.