How To Produce A Song From Scratch Pt. 2 - Girl That Was Perfect - Alina Smith
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2020
- Female music producer Alina Smith from the production team LYRE continues the "How To Produce A Song From Scratch" series with part 2 video, showcasing how she produced her song "Girl That Was Perfect". In this video, you will watch Alina produce a chorus the demo version of the song, starting with guitar/vocals.
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Listen to "Girl That Was Perfect": • Girl That Was Perfect
PART 1: • How To Produce A Song ...
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LYRE is an international female writer/production/vocal production team, comprised of best friends Alina Smith and Elli Moore. Together, their work has accumulated over 100 million+ streams and gained them #1’s on iTunes and Billboard. Some of their notable collaborators include Betty Who, Kenzie Ziegler, Fallout Boy, Kirstin from Pentatonix, Red Velvet, INNA, Gabbie Hanna, and many others.
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I love this series! I’m also super glad you added the voiceover, it sounds super professional, and kept me interested the whole way through. Most production process videos don’t, but these are excellent!
Thank you!
You are absolutely one of my favorite producers. Thank you for sharing your process. Love it!!!
Wow, thank you!
This is SO BEYOND HELPFUL I am so grateful for this!!! Can't wait for next week :)
Jules Brave thank you!
Thank you for showing your process. It was priceless for me and gave me the confidence that I needed
one of the things i was most excited for in this series was seeing you put the string walk up at the end of the lines in the chorus bc that was the moment when i first heard the song that i lost my shit
Been waiting for this part! thank you for sharing your process♥
OMG, thank you for the tip about Pancake! I'm gonna grab it :D
Do itttt
DAAAMN.... awesome like part 1.. we ALL want that vocal chains 😍
I really like your DIY formula here, great job, very admirable.
I love this girl 💗very inspired by your production thank you for all the tricks
Amazing video! Learn a lot... And amazing song, super beautiful
Thank you!
This is very inspiring! Thank you for doing these videos.
love this video 😀😀👍🏻👍🏻
I’m loving these videos!! Super helpful, can’t wait for the next one 🤩❤️
So glad!
Amazing video 💕 What I need the most work on is arrangement in general so this was so insightful. Can't wait for the next video!
I'm so glad!
I love these videos ❤️.
Love your channel keep going ❤
very helpful ! Although it's little bit hard to understand (im korean !), anyway it's so amazing video ;)
This is sooo coooolll
Dope af. Helpful af. Looking now really more for structuring things together (e.g. intro to 1st verse to pre to chorus etc.) but continuing the series to see how that plays out. I'm sure it took a ton of work to get this tutorial together so thank you for this!
You're welcome! Glad it's helpful!
Obsessed. Paper shaker, rukidding meeeee
Respect !!!!
The rhythmic thing you did with the paper sample, there's a great plugin called Texture which applies really nice textures to whatever track you put it on - you can choose whatever texture you want from a huge list (paper, foley, water, sludge, etc) and even import your own.
Ur so talented
Sounds dope Alina, молодец
Very Very Good
no one:
Alina: I'm gonna stretch you
with no context that would be weird
🔥🔥🔥
As a producer who also records vocals it would be so nice to be able to record in the room I produce in. My problem is room reverb. Any tips on minimizing it? :D
Yes, so the portable treatment behind me from Auralex do wonders to deaden reflexions. auralex.com/promax-v2/
But low key it’s expensive so you can make your own with some mic stands, wood paneling and treatment. I had done in back in the day. It was kinda ugly but very effective.
"can i make this sound... weirder" is my absolute favorite quote. also, this video made me realize just how badly i need to get on the Splice train.
ps. what headphones do you use? i see you don't use Sonarworks Reference to get a perfect flat response, which is interesting! i love using it to make sure i hear everything perfectly bc my beyerdynamics dt 990 pro are near-perfect but not quite
You are incredibly talented. Please contact me lol. This is insane. Rarely every do I feel Like I'm looking at myself in the studio creating but you are the real deal. Would love to network with you. I never rarely ever reach out to others. You have some real skills.
Question on 'knowing your plugins' - I recently got NI Komplete specifically for orchestral stuff but some of the instruments just sound super thin. Is that more of a case of me just not knowing how to use them or is Spitfire just far superior?
Ok, honestly, strings are SUPER hard to sample. Unless you’re using EastWest or something, you’re always gonna have a bit of that “fakeness” especially on legato transitions. Which is why you’ll constantly see me pile on aging plugins on strings to make them sound deliberately lo-fi. If you want them to sound very real, I suggest looking for actual WAV samples of string lines.
The more authentic the string software, in my experience, the more likely it won't quite perform how you expect if you're doing anything but orchestral work. There's a lot less attack than I'm ready for, and even with Spitfire on the tightest setting I still end up dragging the whole thing back a fraction of a second.
When I had EastWest (granted, an old/simple version) that issue was more pronounced.
no one:
Alina: ka kee ko kaa koef... right?
13:32
please could you do a series where u make a song more real time? ♡
you be fly
Hi Alina. I love your videos, especially these 2 - It helped me enormously getting better at putting a song together. My question to you is; there aren't so many videos on how to record and process classical singers. I am a professional opera tenor working at home mainly with 2 track orchestra tracks or piano. I have made a vocal booth with curtains around made by a professional company specialized in sound blankets. I work with an Apollo x4 UAD stuff and Luna. I use some waves plug ins, izotope, fab - that's it. I have a charteroak SA538 mic. How would you start the recording process? In the booth I not really have to sing as loud/powerful compared to when I have to fill a concert hall or opera theater, I think non of the operatic singers do (like Bocelli ect) unless they record it in a concert hall live - How would you process the vocal and what plug ins (UAD) (fab) would you use? Most vocal chains are used on pop vocals and when I follow these ideas the vocal doesn't sound that good anymore compared with what I hear how classical singers sound on cd or you tube. It has a lot of space and it sounds very smooth but still you're hearing the dynamic and power of the voice. I am absolutely certain you with your experience can help me on my way so I can make my classical recordings as best possible...Thanks in advance :-)
Hey Josh!! Okay, so I have a lot of thoughts and I'll try to squeeze them in a comment, but honestly, if you wanna DM me on IG, I'll send you some voice notes with more ideas, which might be easier. Basically, what I think you're really wanting to do here is capture a classic sound without too many post-production artifices. I'm not familiar with your mic, so I don't really know how it colors a tenor, but I would say a really important thing to pay attention to would be to make sure your low mids still come through rich and thick. You don't wanna thin out a classical vocal too much. You might wanna try the mic emulation plugin from Slate - that way you can try the colorings of U67 or U47 mics, for example, and see if that helps enhance the lower mids. Another thing I'd be really careful with is the verb you choose. If you wanna give the illusion of performing on a stage, I'd go with hall reverbs. But also if you're trying to capture more of a studio sound, then I'd go with something like EMT 140, a very classic-sounding plate verb from UAD. And I'd stay away from vocal delays because they scream pop music. Hope this helps and feel free to hit me up if you need more help!
@@LYREMusicGroup hi Alina, thank you so much for taken the time to help me on my way :-) you’re awesome. I wrote down all the tips and was able today to try things out. I replaced the verb with a hall and it sounds better for the music I’m doing. The mic I have has a warm sound so there is a lot of low and mids present - I will try to get my hands on the plug in to try out the different mics, I believe UAD has something like that or I can try the one Antaris has. I would absolutely love to contact you although I didn’t understand how and where to drop you a mail :-) I will wait for your reply :-). Again, I really appreciate and feel grateful for your help.
*constantly googling plugins*
YES i was waiting for this video! Alina, this song is beautiful and your process of showing me how you produce really inspires me to try different things in production that i didn't think of. Because of this, it made me want Ableton and now i have it :D i can't wait to make music thank uuuuu!!!
That’s awesome!!