How to Record Better Tracks
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If I could only give you ONE piece of recording advice – if you could only watch ONE video from me, and then my channel gets deleted forever – this would be it. If you’re a singer/songwriter recording music in a home recording studio, this one piece of advice will improve not only your recordings, but your mixes and your masters. It has to do with what I’m calling the THUMP. If you slay the Low-Mid Monster during recording, it won’t rear its ugly head during the mix, and I’ll show you how in this video.
Also at the end of the video, I give you my simple formula for dealing with any low-mid monsters that make their way past the recording phase and into your mix.
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Thank you for the video ???? Using your words, I'd suggest solving the problem at its source – buying a less thumpy guitar. Not everyboody can place the mic that far due to the room reflections.
Thank you for this !!
Get It Right At The Source – maybe the best advice I ever heard.
Well maybe except, ‘Wives are always right’
Since spending more time at the source, I have found my mixing sessions only take a day – previously I could spend many months on mixing a track.
Yes!!! THANK YOU! Finally! I feel like you’ve tapped into something that EVERY OTHER CHANNEL IGNORES. They assume that these kinds of basics are understood by everyone when in fact they aren’t. You understand and I cannot tell you how much that means! Thank you for listening to us and actually responding. Words cannot express…
Joe. A question…do you use any tape saturation? I you aint, why not?
Joe, I never fail to learn something important when I watch your videos. This video on mic placement on acoustic guitars is a game changer. Thank you!
Excellent content, I agree, do it right the first time and mix a good recording instead of trying to patch up a bad recording. Do you have a link to where people submit mixes that you guys review?
This video showed up in my feed on the day I am planning to re-record some acoustic guitars. If that sounds flaky so be it. THANKS for this.
Great vid as always Joe, finding myself with more question than answers… I typically record “performance”, vox and guitar in one take, wouldn’t think of a large diaphragm condenser a foot away, would pick up so much bleed from my foghorn voice…. I usually use a Lewitt 140Air at the “Warren Huart” spot, and SM58 on box (I just love dynamic on voice, always have always will).
All that said, I still try to mix a crappy recording. Well this turned into a pointless post…. I must must must try some of your techniques!!
This is a great tip. Typically when I'm tracking I don't have the time to get the mics exact so I've adopted a (probably bad) habit of using mics all over and choosing or blending to get the sound I want but that technic still becomes a thump issue as Joe said, It's an aggregate of all the tracks thump.
Just kidding thank you, this is a helpful video ????
Excellent advice! and I vote kill everything below 100Hz if it's a band recording to avoid mud hell with the kick and bass, but OK to leave it if it's just an acoustic track
Oh my, Joe, your string action on this accoustic shook my world ????????
Joe, if I’m recording a two track on Studio One, should the music track be in Stereo or Mono while recording vocals?
Nobody hates them low mids more than joe
Would using more neutral or accurate sounding headphones help with the placement while recording?
Get Somethings Thumping.
great video, would love to see you expand on this idea on vocals
So useful… I was always told topoint the mic at the bottom of yhe neck but my takime has like a bassyness thay just doesnt sit right. Thank you
Funny that you posted this when you did. I was at a pizza place tonight with a singer guitarist who's sound was exactly as you described here. Told my wife that he needed a pretty good cut between 2 and 300. She said that I could go up and tell him and that he would probably appreciate it. But would he have, though?????
good tip on recording. that thump definitely likes to rear its head in mixes lol, good video & advice
thanks Joe! Thumpocalypse? ????
Thank you for mentioning the different voice every guitar has. My Taylor 12 is a joy to work with, my $200 cracked top Alvarez 6 is the soloist guitar. I absolutely enjoy your videos. It's nice to know some current fad hasn't goobered up proper technique.
I've been watching your channel for a while, and I love it. Please, please record a mixing and mastering video with music that does not use acoustic instruments. Yes, I used to play and record and engineer 30 years ago. Now, as divisive as it is, I use AI to generate tracks to enjoy some creativity with the challenges for old times' sake.
But my goodness, the same approach just doesn't do it. There's only so much I can do at the source. If that's ever something you might consider addressing, I'd be so grateful. Keep at it, and thank you. I've said it before, and I'll say it again – I have no bloody idea why you don't have a lot more subscribers. ????
Thanks for the great video. Good tips here. Since taking your advice on top down mixing I am improving the mixes on my amateur recordings. Thanks.
Really great video!
Thanks for the good knowledge Joe! We recorded our music in our practice space then did vocals, mixing and mastering at a local studio. Everything sounded good in the studio, but something seemed to be lost in the mastering process. It also sounds way different on Spotify than it did in the studio control room when we listened to the playback during mixing and master. The bass vanished on a few of the songs. Maybe there were too many guitar tracks on the song and that made the bass seem buried.
Very good "thump" lesson. Thanks!
Skip to 6:48 unless you want to listen to him talk in circles and promote his courses etc
Great video Joe – love your style
As a home recorder guy doing it for a fair number of years, mixing ain't fun…it's a nightmare…until you slowly get better at song arrangement, getting it right at the source, performance and execution. Then you're half a chance. Which is where I'm roughly at now. For many years recording, mixing and mix translation was bleak. Just terrible result after terrible result after terrible result.
20 mins just to say move back a little to reduce low mids. ????????
I would use Spiff on that guitar, that plugin does magic ^^