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All right. So, here is a project that I

did for my band. The band's called

Infamous Quick. The song is called Lemon

Haze.

And I'm going to show you basically how

I build projects. Um, I always start

with uh drums. And I use Superior

Drummer

in almost every project I do. And I use

this metal machine, EasyX.

And I use

um their reverb and uh their mixer and

stuff like that right in the plugin

rather than doing a whole lot

here in the uh child tracks.

I did gate the toms here because they

have a ring uh that drones on after the

tom is hit.

But for the most part, I don't add

reverbs and things here. I do it right

in the plugin because why not? They're

there and it sounds fine. Um,

guitars

for my bass.

I really, really like this

element bass.

Um, this is the best bass sounding

plugin I've ever come across and I'm

using it in every project now.

Um, for guitars

here I'm using the free Ignite Amps

Emissary with the awesome Cabinetron

IR loader. Comes with hundreds of IRs.

You can load what is this two, four,

six. You can load eight of them and mix

them over here. And it even has a uh e

EQ match. You can import say a guitar

tone that you like and you can mix that

with your IRS. So I'm a I'm a plug-in

guy, I guess. And I'm using our TB

reverb that comes with Mixcraft and the

TB Gate. Uh down here on this guitar,

I'm using Bias Effects 2

with the Fab Filter Pro Gate. I don't

know why I don't just use the same one

on both tracks, but I didn't. Um, for

the solo, what do I got going here?

Oh, I used a Cherry Audio

uh rack mode phaser.

And I see I've yet to put an amp on this

because the amp I was using, my license

expired, so I had to replace these with

something else. Um,

my vocal chain

looks like that.

Compression, compression, compression,

compression is your friend on

everything.

Uh, ProQ awesome equalizer DSER,

which showed up on my other screen.

Uh, reverb, which also showed up on my

other screen.

I love this little delay plugin

uh from Nembrini Audio.

It's got a sync

and it just works perfectly for me.

And then this one I love as well. Wider

gives you a stereo wideness over

anything you put it on and it works

great for vocals. So, let's hear what

this project sounds like with none of

these plugins on.

[Music]

Okay. Doesn't sound good, right? Well,

let's start with uh compressing the drum

uh track here.

brings everything up to a to a level.

And then we will enable everything on

the bass

and show you the tone on that.

Yeah. Distorted tone. That's uh that's

the modern bass tone.

And we'll enable everything else,

vocal chain,

everything on the sub tracks.

I always have a submix track with a

bunch of vocal tracks under it.

You can see here we've recorded some

vocals here. This is probably Oh, this

is some uh

So,

now let's have a listen to it. I'm not

going to turn on the mastering plugins

yet.

[Music]

Let's get you to a

I

can't hear nothing

when

I'm so

Okay, sounds pretty good now, but it

does sound uh scattered and not pulled

together. That's where our mastering

plugins come in.

The uh multiband compressor is kind of a

must-have on your master. It just pumps

the crap out of the the whole mix

without uh without letting it clip

really. And then for this project, I

also let uh ozone 10 or ozone 11 do its

AI trickery and tell me what it thought

was the better mix. So, we let it do

that. And then finally,

another one of my very favorite plugins

here, Flatline 2. It's a clipper.

Can set your ceiling here, which says do

not let the audio go past this point.

and then you pull the threshold down to

pump the audio up. So, what you're doing

is pulling up everything that may not

have been loud enough in the mix while

setting a ceiling and not letting

everything else go over that ceiling.

So, you're pulling it all together. It's

kind of like glue.

And with those three enabled, have a

listen to it.

[Music]

Get you to a chorus here.

Heat. Heat.

And that's about it. Um, I I put markers

at every point, choruses, solos, verses,

etc. So, you can go over here and show

the marker list and play from any marker

and it just visually helps you know

where you're at, especially if you're

zoomed in working on something like

this. Um, and I will let you know that

as far as the mixer goes,

I like to use this more comprehensive uh

parametric.

And uh,

for MIDI, for the drums, let's bring

that back over here.

I build all of my drum tracks by hand. I

don't drag in grooves from Superior

Drummer or import

MIDI files from somebody else. I create

them myself. Um, it helps that I can

play drums, so I'm not creating anything

that would take a three-handed drummer

to pull off. It's all actually playable.

Um, I record all my own guitars, bass,

solos. Uh the singer, his name is Dan

and he is the singer for my band.

We record him. Um one of these is me. I

guess it's this one. It says Eric over

here.

Um and this technique though, it'll work

for you even if you don't play

instruments. If you're just dragging in

loops or

remixing or whatever it is you

electronic music people do,

you can still use these same techniques,

especially the mastering. So, I hope

this helps.