Larry Crane provides recording tips for tailoring effects, gaining sonic control, and opening new creative doors.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction to the Music Production Secrets Weekly Series
- Introduction
- Fix vocal Auto-Tune crossfades
- Repair bad kick with the Pro Tools Multiband Splitter
- Repair bad snare with the Pro Tools Multiband Splitter
- Use phase cancellation to change tracks
- Remove explicit content
- Remove snare ring
- Line up out-of-sync tape tracks
- Parallel compression with aux sends
- Double Compressing Vocals
- Taming Hi-Hats
- Tame string squeaks
- De-ess on vocals with RX5
- Clean tom tracks
- Prepping acoustic guitar with RX 5
- Prepping electric bass with RX 5
- Automating EQ filters
- Predelaying reverbs
- Changing cheesy drum machines
- Prepping organ for mixing with RX 5
- Vocal proximity repair with RX 5
- Prepping real pianos with RX 5
- Autopanning guitars and keyboards
- Removing amplifier hum with RX 5
- Distortion as EQ brightening
- When to turn vocal effects off
- Reverse delay vocal effects
- Clip gaining lead vocals
- Splitting a kick drum track into hi and low components for control
- Using short delay to stereoize guitars
- When and how to use reverb on bass guitar
- Using alternate takes or nonmix mics as reverb sends
- Corralling harshness with bx_refinement plugin
- Using de-essers to control harsh midrange
- Using guitar amp plugins to modify guitar tones for mixing
- Making guitar solos stand out in a mix
- Adding length to abrupt instrument fades
- Using Little Labs IBP for phase on bass guitar or DI situations
- Making and using bandpass filters (high- and low-pass combo)
- Using delay to hide shaky pitch
- Using delay to add drumbeats
- Creating automatic double tracking
- Creating digital vintage tape delay sounds
- Fades applied only to select frequencies with RX 4 (remove amp hum, etc.)
- Staggered creative song fade-outs
- Reverb and effects automation via track duplicate and parallel processing
- Using stem mixes to make alternate mixes
- Frequency splitting tracks to control lo-fi or midrange material
- Utilizing EQ and compression on reverbs
- Frequency splitting tracks to manage bass guitar
- Using transient shaping plugins to alter acoustic guitar in a mix
- Fades applied only to select frequencies with EQ (remove amp hum, etc.)
- Using iZotope RX 4 gain control to remove low-end content on vocals
Taught by
Larry Crane
