I got a couple for ya!! 1: if you wanna get more out of your preamps, turn on the pad on the mic and the preamps, then you can really crank the tube to get more sound from that circuit. 2: if you’re recording a guitar player with some timing issues, always grab a DI signal. Way easier and better sounding to edit a dry signal and then feed it through the amp. 3: Turn off the click every once in a while so you don’t start to like it 😂
I always track a DI with guitar and bass. Of course, for Re-Amping if needed, but it’s also easier to edit the DI track, and the clean DI can add a nice pick attack when blended in with electric guitar.
Colt, I've watched most (if not all) of your videos and they are all great, but this one is the best so far - some real gold nuggets in here! Thanks so much for sharing these tips. I've done the claps and snaps before, but I've never tried the stomping. Look out Home Depot, here I come.
Colt, can you make a follow up video that demonstrates the best techniques for the stomps specifically using high heels? 🤣😜 All kidding aside, your videos are amazing and I have learned so much from you. Keep doing your thing brother!
Double or triple tracking the vocal is just killer. I do it on every single proyect since the first time I tried it! A cool trick with the same technique, for the double takes, make the singer take one step back to record. This makes the take sit perfectly in the mix with (almost) no touches
A great tip I learned from a british microphone maker was that the pop filter should be 7 inches away from the condensor mic and no closer or else it isn't doing its job. I see the pop filters right against the mic and he says that does nothing or very little. I use this tip and it's a big improvement on sibilance.
I had the same thing for music stands last month. I was clapping my hands and listening the mic and I heard something ringing and it was the music stand. I took a towel and put it on... 😃
A super simple trick I always do when recording vocals is that I tell the artist to sing as loud and as big as you will in X part of the song, I’ll do a rough take, and when they hit the loud part of the song I’ll turn the gain down just under where they would be clipping.
Hmm, pic/string noise on an electric guitar. Feel like that'd be really cool on some shredding guitar solos... Well, I know what I'm doing today haha. Great video as always Colt!
Thank you so very much for all your videos! Always helpful! Thank you Sweetwater for sponsoring our favorite channels! It's another reason I only buy gear from you!
The 6th hack, you said to record the 2nd and 3rd vocal layers after editing the lead one. Do you quantize, tune and comp the vocals in the session with the singer?? How much time does it take?? I found the editing process very hard, and takes a lot of my time, so I record everything and then start editing…
Great question, I should have made that a bit more clear. I always do vocals in two sessions. A lead vocal session where we spend lots of time getting the performance and the emotion, right. After I have edited the lead vocal, I have the singer back in for a background vocal session they will be doubles, triples, harmonies, etc..
I do record my own snaps and claps but def going to have to start doing the stomps! And I stole the double and triple vocal from you years ago 😂. My only hack to add is what we used to do live to get as much sound as possible out of 2 acoustics. I always track a standard guitar panned hard to one side and the a capo version up the neck to the other. Different frequencies equals wall of sound! Keep it up my friend!
Snaps claps stomps. I made them in Fabfilter Volcano 3. I also use it for Snare sounds that I'll use to enhance a recorded snare instead of using the same samples everyone uses. I swear, most rock/metal use the same GGD hits or Slate Trigger snares on everything.
Nice, I already do all that except I normally ban stands from my sessions unless they are the thin wiry ones and I'm recording musicians who need to read music. I sometimes tape the text to the mic stand instead for singers.
I sometimes PAN Electrical Gtr. ( Crunch, Dist…) one side & the other the DI ( tweaked w/ EQ) make the listener say Wow! Same thing but using to AUX Send w/ VB or DLY to one side. To though it off 👍 On Vocal I do the same at Chorus push the C ( Tuned solid ) while doing two other TAKE PANNED L & R just supporting the C L. VOX. Plus w/ Harmonies … Doubles on all> then depending how dense I sometimes will use VocAlign to tighten them but at time I tend to make them tad looser. ( every songs different) ☺️
Yo colt, so right now l have a AKGP120(looking to upgrade) but unfortunately my room is not treated at all, and l have wood tile floors, it’s super expensive to properly treat my room.. So l’m asking, What mic would you recommend that l can buy that won’t pick up the room noise/ reverb off the walls AS much? ( l do hip hop rap vocals ) Does self noise in the mic matter also ? l see a rode NT1A that has a 5dB self noise. Would love to know your thoughts, thank you!
For stomps, I ended up recording stomping on a few different acoustic instrument hardcases. Obviously be careful not to destroy them, but it turned out good.
People might be interested in this tip, a lot of people are very allergic to certain kinds of rubber, especially the rubber used in some of the elastic bands used in shock mounts to hold large diaphragm microphones, after years and years of using multiple different companies shock Mounts I realize it was actually the rubber bands, I replaced them all with silicone rubber bands. I got from Amazon for about $10 enough to do about eight shock mounts so if you one of those people that starts singing feeling good and then halfway through a song, things start to tighten up it maybe something to look into. Have a nice day.
I’ll record back ground vocals with a cheaper/ different mic. I have a specific Beta 58 I found in a ditch that’s a little broken that works great for this. It’s got mojo
Colt, I have a strange situation and I don't know where to go. I have 3 power conditioners for my studio. Just redid my studio, and now when I power on my desk, my studio's lights flicker and my gear restarts (including my tv) but it doesn't flip my breaker. And i only lose power to that room.I have an electrician coming out. He gave me another outlet that's from a different room, but same problem. Have you ever seen or experienced this?
I'm not an electrician but this sounds like an inrush current problem (a sudden large flow of current that exceeds the usual, steady-state operating current, commonly caused by transformers and capacitors being energised). Perhaps do some research in that area, there are solutions but I'm not sure what sonic side effects they may have. Hope this helps.
@@MrBearfaced so I found the problem... one of my outlets was wired wrong and fried. Massive fire hazard. Thank God for studio remodel and power conditioners!
Hang an omni pencil condenser down in the bottom of a 5 gallon water jug, put it in front of a kick drum, high pass to 20-30hz and low pass everything to about 100hz. Best subkick, no comparison.
I got a couple for ya!!
1: if you wanna get more out of your preamps, turn on the pad on the mic and the preamps, then you can really crank the tube to get more sound from that circuit.
2: if you’re recording a guitar player with some timing issues, always grab a DI signal. Way easier and better sounding to edit a dry signal and then feed it through the amp.
3: Turn off the click every once in a while so you don’t start to like it 😂
I always track a DI with guitar and bass. Of course, for Re-Amping if needed, but it’s also easier to edit the DI track, and the clean DI can add a nice pick attack when blended in with electric guitar.
That Atlantis mic has quite a ring to it as well, ..tapping on the body (Podcastage video).
Colt, I've watched most (if not all) of your videos and they are all great, but this one is the best so far - some real gold nuggets in here! Thanks so much for sharing these tips. I've done the claps and snaps before, but I've never tried the stomping. Look out Home Depot, here I come.
I like videos like this. The more info I have the better my life gets in the studio. Thanks!
Awesome hacks! Thank you for sharing so much with our Audio Community 🙏😊
Thanks for sharing this! 👍
Actually interesting ideas. Thank you
Colt, can you make a follow up video that demonstrates the best techniques for the stomps specifically using high heels? 🤣😜
All kidding aside, your videos are amazing and I have learned so much from you. Keep doing your thing brother!
That was the best hand snap I’ve ever heard.
This was really helpful, thanks!
Really nice tricks and hacks. Will put some of them to use! Thanks for sharing your knowledge!! Rock On!!
Dude I’m about to spend about 10k on my studio from your link , Colt your the best
I hope it helps you make the best music of your life! I appreciate your support!
Me too lol
Double or triple tracking the vocal is just killer. I do it on every single proyect since the first time I tried it!
A cool trick with the same technique, for the double takes, make the singer take one step back to record. This makes the take sit perfectly in the mix with (almost) no touches
The last one was gold
A great tip I learned from a british microphone maker was that the pop filter should be 7 inches away from the condensor mic and no closer or else it isn't doing its job. I see the pop filters right against the mic and he says that does nothing or very little. I use this tip and it's a big improvement on sibilance.
I had the same thing for music stands last month. I was clapping my hands and listening the mic and I heard something ringing and it was the music stand. I took a towel and put it on... 😃
Such a great video Colt, always helping us a lot!!!!
Love the channel.
A super simple trick I always do when recording vocals is that I tell the artist to sing as loud and as big as you will in X part of the song, I’ll do a rough take, and when they hit the loud part of the song I’ll turn the gain down just under where they would be clipping.
Hmm, pic/string noise on an electric guitar. Feel like that'd be really cool on some shredding guitar solos... Well, I know what I'm doing today haha. Great video as always Colt!
Let me know how it works for you! Thanks for watching
I really hope the next video on this channel is Colt recording stomps wearing boots and high heels.
Thank you so very much for all your videos! Always helpful! Thank you Sweetwater for sponsoring our favorite channels! It's another reason I only buy gear from you!
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
The 6th hack, you said to record the 2nd and 3rd vocal layers after editing the lead one. Do you quantize, tune and comp the vocals in the session with the singer?? How much time does it take??
I found the editing process very hard, and takes a lot of my time, so I record everything and then start editing…
Great question, I should have made that a bit more clear. I always do vocals in two sessions. A lead vocal session where we spend lots of time getting the performance and the emotion, right. After I have edited the lead vocal, I have the singer back in for a background vocal session they will be doubles, triples, harmonies, etc..
@@ColtCapperrune Thanks man, now I get it!! Great video as always, huge brazilian fan here 🇧🇷😂
I do record my own snaps and claps but def going to have to start doing the stomps! And I stole the double and triple vocal from you years ago 😂. My only hack to add is what we used to do live to get as much sound as possible out of 2 acoustics. I always track a standard guitar panned hard to one side and the a capo version up the neck to the other. Different frequencies equals wall of sound! Keep it up my friend!
A subkick mic (i use the lofreq from solomon mics) on the bottom of the floor tom gets me a full floor tom sound almost instantly
Dat room!❤
Steve Earle and his producer pulled that gimmick where they mic'd his ES-335 for Taneytown.
I do the same thing with vocals on the chorus, but sometimes us a different mic to vary the flavor a bit.
Thx for the great videos colt, but where exactly do you put the towel? In between the shockmount and the mic stand?
Snaps claps stomps. I made them in Fabfilter Volcano 3. I also use it for Snare sounds that I'll use to enhance a recorded snare instead of using the same samples everyone uses. I swear, most rock/metal use the same GGD hits or Slate Trigger snares on everything.
Colt have you used a reverse gated plate reverb on a snare?
Honestly I got to comment again
About the release time hack
This really made me notice a big mistake that I do sometimes
Thank you so much ❤
Awesome!!
Nice, I already do all that except I normally ban stands from my sessions unless they are the thin wiry ones and I'm recording musicians who need to read music. I sometimes tape the text to the mic stand instead for singers.
Appreciate the hacks, I need a Sweet-water sponsor 😭
Do you ever double the vocal verses? Or tuck the doubled take a little under?
Probably common but I use a clip on book light on the mic stand so singer can still be in dark vibey mood yet still see the lyrics
I sometimes PAN Electrical Gtr. ( Crunch, Dist…) one side & the other the DI ( tweaked w/ EQ) make the listener say Wow! Same thing but using to AUX Send w/ VB or DLY to one side. To though it off 👍
On Vocal I do the same at Chorus push the C ( Tuned solid ) while doing two other TAKE PANNED L & R just supporting the C L. VOX. Plus w/ Harmonies … Doubles on all> then depending how dense I sometimes will use VocAlign to tighten them but at time I tend to make them tad looser. ( every songs different) ☺️
Yo colt, so right now l have a AKGP120(looking to upgrade) but unfortunately my room is not treated at all, and l have wood tile floors, it’s super expensive to properly treat my room..
So l’m asking, What mic would you recommend that l can buy that won’t pick up the room noise/ reverb off the walls AS much? ( l do hip hop rap vocals )
Does self noise in the mic matter also ? l see a rode NT1A that has a 5dB self noise. Would love to know your thoughts, thank you!
big like from ISRAEL !!
For stomps, I ended up recording stomping on a few different acoustic instrument hardcases. Obviously be careful not to destroy them, but it turned out good.
thank you
People might be interested in this tip, a lot of people are very allergic to certain kinds of rubber, especially the rubber used in some of the elastic bands used in shock mounts to hold large diaphragm microphones, after years and years of using multiple different companies shock Mounts I realize it was actually the rubber bands, I replaced them all with silicone rubber bands. I got from Amazon for about $10 enough to do about eight shock mounts so if you one of those people that starts singing feeling good and then halfway through a song, things start to tighten up it maybe something to look into. Have a nice day.
Do you process those lead vocal doubles and triples differently or exactly the same as the main center lead vocal?
I’ll record back ground vocals with a cheaper/ different mic. I have a specific Beta 58 I found in a ditch that’s a little broken that works great for this. It’s got mojo
Colt, I have a strange situation and I don't know where to go. I have 3 power conditioners for my studio. Just redid my studio, and now when I power on my desk, my studio's lights flicker and my gear restarts (including my tv) but it doesn't flip my breaker. And i only lose power to that room.I have an electrician coming out. He gave me another outlet that's from a different room, but same problem. Have you ever seen or experienced this?
I'm not an electrician but this sounds like an inrush current problem (a sudden large flow of current that exceeds the usual, steady-state operating current, commonly caused by transformers and capacitors being energised). Perhaps do some research in that area, there are solutions but I'm not sure what sonic side effects they may have. Hope this helps.
@@MrBearfaced so I found the problem... one of my outlets was wired wrong and fried. Massive fire hazard. Thank God for studio remodel and power conditioners!
+1 for tracking your own snaps stomps and claps. There’s no excuse for the level of laziness and lack of creative vision to use pre-packaged samples.
Hang an omni pencil condenser down in the bottom of a 5 gallon water jug, put it in front of a kick drum, high pass to 20-30hz and low pass everything to about 100hz. Best subkick, no comparison.
Pray before session starts 💪
Wow! First to view. Thanks
Thanks for watching!
Let’s Go 🤘
Thanks for watching!
@@ColtCapperrune yes sir!
This will read kinda lame, but the best recording hack I've discovered is: Know thy Gear, trust they ear and commit to a sound.
Easy first
Appreciate you!!
45th to watch. Woo hoo !!
I appreciate you!