Music Production | Recording Session Preparation with the Songwriter | Prince Charles Alexander

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In this video, Berklee Online instructor Prince Charles Alexander and Berklee alumnus Brian Walker continue to produce Walker’s song “Call Me,” along with engineer Samantha Stallings. They begin by preparing multiple vocal tracks in Pro Tools. They use a compressor to add attenuation for load, belting vocals, find the “sweet spots” for the EQ, and add a little reverb. After the tracks are ready, they perform a headphone-level check to make sure Brian can hear himself before they start recording scratch tracks.
About Prince Charles Alexander:
Prince Charles Alexander is a sought-after music producer and audio engineer whose clients include Mary J. Blige, Destiny's Child, Faith Evans, P. Diddy, the Notorious B.I.G., Usher, Boyz II Men, Brandy, Babyface, Sting, Aretha Franklin, Brian McKnight, Donnie McClurkin, and others.
He has garnered more than 40 Platinum and Gold certifications from the RIAA and has multiple Grammy Awards and nominations. He teaches Advanced Production and Mixing at Berklee, and created the Commercial Record Production minor in that department. Alexander also teaches production and engineering for Berklee Online, is co-creator of the Vocal Production course for Berklee Online, and for more than 10 concurrent years, was also an adjunct instructor at New York University's Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music.
From the early to mid 1980s, he produced, wrote, and recorded on Virgin Records with his group, Prince Charles and the City Beat Band. Alexander was an early innovator of wind synthesis and a part of the "punk-funk" generation that incorporated many of the devices that would propel rap music to the forefront of the American music scene.
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[@kipdrums147]

This vid is gold, he really knows his stuff.

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Thank you!

[@j.m.swaine8772]

WOW, this is the best video I've ever seen for digitally recording music.

[@Pretzels722]

this is a really good series.

[@Berklee_Online]

Thank you!

[@AnthonyCarrier]

Awesome, once again thank you!

[@joannalenau1870]

I understood hardly any of this but it was so interesting to watch 😂

[@BrenQ99]

Oh, Brian.

[@alrightythen759]

Great vid.

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Thank you!

[@PatriotPersonfromIndia]

The pretty girl on the DAW must be a Russian Girl! 👍🇷🇺❤🇮🇳

[@davidcristian4367]

First

[@CyberDocUSA]

This is why every recording and artist sound exactly the same these days. Homogenize it.

[@bw2937]

They don't though. You're heart is obviously just in a different era. I used to feel the same way but I was ignorant.