Big Believing

Hey everyone today I want to talk to you guys about when your recording music are you believing. So when you record a song let say your recording guitar do you think about what your playing or do you just sit back relax and just play. Because sometime when you just sit back relax and just play and fell the music and the grove of the beat of the song that's believing, sometime it's better to believing because then you won't be so like thinking hard like where do I go next so just remember when your recording believing is a great trick just believe what you want the song to sound like fell it in your heart if you have a love and a passion for music then when you believe it will come to you 

Rendering Down Your Midi Drums Tracks

Hey everyone today I want to talk about using midi drum's in your Daw, midi drums can be great to use for those people who don't know how to play drums or just like programing them. One of the new cool features that I use in my Daw in called rendering down midi files witch means after you record a midi track you turn it into a audio track so you can start working with that track, and what do I mean by working with it I mean using EQ using compression using all those plugins on the tracks. And one of the great thing's about my Daw I use Cubase pro 8 so one of the great things about it is you can do that render down your midi files. Its a great way to put all your drums on there own tracks and for those who don't know how to play drums or don't know how to mic a drum kit this would be the way to go. 

Inside of cubase pro 8 there a VST instrument called grove agent and what it is its a drum VST instrument where you can make all your beats place them into your project and then render then down and then start using plugins on them 

Rending down your midi tracks is also good for people who don't know how to play a instrument and they just program there stuff 
Its something every musicians would like to use because it makes making music a whole lot easy to do Im not trying to hate on working in audio I love working in audio I work in audio all the time. What I'm just saying is when your in that part of your song and you want this piano part really bad or you want this drum beat really bad and you just cant play the beat live then wipe out your midi keyboard lay down the beat render it down and there you go you have the beat in your song for a fast way to make music 

Again this is Ryan if you have any other questions audio recording mixing and audio please shoot me a email and all get back to you as soon as I can 

Drums

All this week I'm going to do a whole week of talking about drums because I have not giving you guys any information audio drums so all this week I'm going to be talking about drums and give you guys the information to teach you how to record and how to mix drums and how to get a great sounding mix 

Muting Instruments

Hey guys at some point on the blog I talked about dropping out the bottom end the bass guitar but right now I want to talk about dropping out the guitars in your song to open up your mix and make your mixing a whole lot Easyer. So let's say your coming out of a chorus and into a verse and you have 2 guitar tracks on that verse if you mute those 2 guitar tracks hafe I'm not talking about the whole thing just hafe way, it will really open up your mix and you can be left with bass piano drum and vocals trust me your mix will be more open and you it will be Easyer to mix because guitar rack up so much room in our mix I'm not trying to hate on guitar I love guitar if I could I would have a 100 guitar tracks in my mix but I would not do that because then I would not want to mix it but just dropping a instrument out can really make a differents in your mix and make Easyer. 

The Gear I Use In My Studio

The one peace of gear I want to talk about first that I use in my recording studio is my computer I use a, Windows 8 hp operating system I'm very happy with it a lot of people say you need to use a Mac for a recording studio know that's not true you can use any computer as long as you have a good hard drive and it cleaned and it's fast. That audio interface I use is a focusrite 2i2 and I will be updating to the focuserite 18i20 soon but right now I'm using the 2i2 it is sub powered and it has 2 inputs with phantom power and it sounds great I'm a huge fan of focuserite products. Some of the microphones I use are a GXL 2200 condenser microphone and I use a focuserite CM25 condenser microphone also and I use a USB M audio condenser microphone. For my drum set I use a electric drum set witch is a Ddrum Dd 1 drum set I also have 5 guitars and one bass guitar I'm not going to get into the names of those cause I have 6 of them the DAW I use is pro tools 11 and I also have the upgrade version 

Updating Your Computer

Hey guys today I'm going to talk about something new and it's something that you all should be doing with your computer that you use for your recording studio.

I'm going to tell you 2 of the most importing things you can do for a home studio computer to keep it nice and safe number one is keep it updated check for updates every week and if you have a new update make sure you update it because if you don't you will run into problems down the road. Number 2 clean your computer hear what you do for that every 2 weeks go through your computer see what you have if you see something you don't need get rid of it but make sure you read about it first before you delete it. These things can make your studio and work faster witch means you can get your music out and for people to hear faster 

Do these steps they will help

Off Line Bouncing

Hey everyone today I want to talk to you guys about off line bouncing, so let's say you have a kick drum track and a bass guitar track but then when you play them back they don't line up the bass is not playing the same pattering the kick drum in playing so what do you do to fix that. you grab your slicing tools and start slicing your tracks up and drag them to the right spot they need to be, so that bass guitar can line right up with that kick drum. But after your all done slicing and moving track and doing all that editing work your left with gaps. So right now Im going to tell you how you can fix those gaps so you have a full bare of audio and your not let with any gaps in your track because gaps can cause pops and cracks and all kicks off sounds you don't want in your mix So hears how to fix it

Highlight the whole track then go up to where it say's bounce and click that and your audio track will transform into one whole audio track you don't have to wast all that time pasting but remember you have to edit first and fix everything in the edit and then audio bounce it. 

Hope this help you for more information on recording audio and mixing please email me and I will get back to you as soon as I can have a great day