Honestly, depending on where in the US you hire him, that is actually VERY cost effective. Since he's got a great streaming set up you could also use a telepresence sheldonbot to roll around and scream at fuckwits in the act SURPRISE THE TRASH BIN IS TELLING YOU TO STOP FUCKING SHIT UP AND GET BACK TO WORK *broom with LCD screen on it rolls away*
Never met my real dad. My mom instantly ran into the room upon hearing you rant, saying " That's the guy! That's your father!" Not sure which one of you I am more disappointed in, but Thanksgiving is at 4:30 just fyi.
@@trulsolsen683 Just spoke to mom. She said she thought she was hooking up with Geddy Lee, but realized the next morning it wasn't him at all. Despite looking like a dead ringer for Geddy at the time, she said Glenn had a much higher voice. She left the next morning with a Triumph T-Shirt and a 5 pack of Molson.
Reason for hiring another engineer to do mixing and/or mastering is not just another new pair of ears, or "different spin". It is also about deliberately cutting the emotional connections to the earlier creative process. Example: you spend 6 hours getting a snare sound that uses 5 mics and clever routing, complicated dynamics and you travelled to nearby town concert hall to re-amp it there with that hall sound. It took a long time, it was hard and its importance in the song is not just as one element in the song, it is also about seeing it more significant, wishing it is more in front as it took so much effort. Another engineer who was not present at the recording (or even worse, when you compose and mix yourself) does not have those memories but they judge everything at face value: how it sounds and how it fits in the mix. Our minds work like that. We have two apples but one of them had to be picked by climbing up to a tree and the other one fell into our lap. We will appreciate them differently, because of what happened. They weigh differently in our heads, while they really are just apples, no different from each other.
Yeah I agree. When you make a track of your own there's a familiarity to it that you can't lose. In your own head it's decent because, for one, it's your track, and two, you've heard it so many times that it's pleasurable to your ears, but you can't trust your brain to be fully objective. I only do home recording as a hobby so I'm not stressing about how the final mix sounds, although I'm always open to criticism and learning. But for now, I just fuck around with melodies in my head and see if I can make something I find interesting with them and try to turn them into songs. But, I notice in my own stuff that, for example, the bass might be faintly audible, but because I put the track together and heard it so many times, my brain can pick it out easily whereas someone listening to it the first time might not register the bass at all. It's like why you get someone else to proof read an assignment, you can't see your own spelling and grammar mistakes.
agreed, even if it comes back sounding the same...I made like twenty mixes I was unhappy with and finally sent it to the pro, he sent back basically what I had achieved on the final project but without all the overthinking I kept ruining the masters with; a great lesson on when to let go!
@@actualreplyguy people are protective of their baby (music) some get pissy when ya tell them their baby is a little on the ugly side, while others say hmmmmmm how can i improve my babies looks then ????? help!!!!! hahahahaha i think with age most learn outside input is a must to get the very best out of anything you may do. that outside input could be a partner or a mate or another artist/producer, whatever :) i think ya get what i mean. to their loss is the reality of it really.
Hey Glenn, Linux user here. In advance, sorry if there are any grammar mistakes, haven't practiced my English since... forever, I guess? So, first things first, using Linux to record is NOT harder. It's a bit different, yes, because the whole system is like a fucking LEGO - you build your setup yourself with the bricks the developers provide, no magic pill all-in-one software. Luckily, there are recipes for it online, in particular, the ArchWiki is truly detailed on that topic. Now, the most important part of a Linux-powered sound rig, JACK. JACK is the go-to audioserver and it's a GODSEND! It allows you to reroute the sound however you see fit, you can even make it so you record both a clear track and a bunch of others sent through plugins. And when I say 'a bunch' I mean 'as much as your hardware can handle', I'm not kidding. Seen a guy recording a bass to 8 fucking tracks! Next, drivers. Most 'home-grade' audio interfaces, such as 2-4 input Focusrite Scarlett, Behringer U-Phoria or Steinberg models work out of the box, no need for proprietary drivers at all. Although, some of them are really quirky, like my M-Audio Air 192-4 that doesn't allow me to record at 44.1kHz with the sample rate lower than 512 and latency of 5ms. Yikes, should have purchased a Scarlett Solo instead. Luckily, the sound is crisp and clean, so I'm at least grateful for that. About PCI-e cards, I heard that ESI Audio makes them, and, wait for it, they OFFICIALLY SUPPORT LINUX! Now Isn't that great! Many DAWs (Ardour, LMMS, etc) actually support routing through Windows plugins with the help of Wine (an emulator, sorta, you mainly use it to run Win-only games). Can't say much, though, as I use Linux-only free and open source plugins (and there are plenty of them, like Rakarrack or KPP). Also, the distro choice doesn't matter, you can turn any distro into a sound recording beast. There are instructions online for each of them. Hell, one of my online friends once used FreeBSD, that madlad. That's about it, hope it helps clarify the topic. Cheers, and fuck you from Ukraine, Glenn.
Wow! Although the Linux guy whose question was featured wasn't me, but this is an epic and very useful reply and thank you for it. 🤘🤘🤘 A beginner linux user
The question wasn't about recording on Linux but to a Windows VM running on Linux. He needs the PCI-E card to pass the hardware through to the VM, nothing more.
This sounds great - tho I'm still having trouble getting latest version Reaper work with latest version Ubuntu - its not clear (to me) which dependencies, which components i need to download for it to work- (I DO kinda wish Reaper would just appear in the software window!)
@@petegaslondon if you are having trouble try AVLINUX it is better curated than Ubuntu Studio and even comes with LinVST installed. LinVST is the app used to convert win plugins to Linux. I use and old pc as my second recording station with very good results. You can go to the Linux section on the Reaper forum and post your questions there, we are a nice bunch.
This one is a PCI e and works with Linux Disclaimer i have only used it on Windows, but my understanding is that the support Linux www.musicstore.com/en_US/USD/ESI-MAYA-44-eX/art-PCM0014493-000 wiki.linuxaudio.org/hw/esi_maya44_pci
So It's been literally years since I commented on an SMG video but I'd just like to say that this past weekend was my first ever time in the studio and even though I wasn't playing metal the information I got from this channel about what happens in a studio and how to make the engineer's job easier was so massively invaluable to me. Thanks for making my first studio session a not completely dogshit time for everyone involved Glenn!
Re people not getting their guitar tone to sit in a mix, I've found recording the bass tracks first and then recording the guitar, to see how it fits and tweak the tone if it needs, has helped my tacks sound better.
@Dirty Pixels I guess I'm the exception that makes the rule. I do enjoy playing bass and I'm not afraid of being heard in the mix because I do practice and know my shit. What very few people (even bassplayers) doesn't realise how important the bass is because if the bass sounds like (b)ass than everything will sound like ass.
Your how to record and mix heavy drums tutorials are the greatest videos on youtube, and by the way, it really did some magic for my vaguely folkish alterna-indie rock project I'm working on right now. You don't need to play metal to use the tutorials and people should know that.
I have absolutely ZERO self respect but I still consolidate my files when I send them to the mix guy. And I send DIs along with them. And reference tracks.
@@madhatter797 I do. And I’m polite to people in the service industry. Cause everybody else matters more than me. I just sit at home making fun noises with my guitars.
This doesn't apply to what we do as hip-hop mixing/mastering engineers, as we can make hits without room mics or guitar bass players, but I'm here for the middle finger though.
I think you should do more product reviews, I know you are a recording guy, but your brutal honesty is nice. Amps combos, guitars, even simple stuff like gig bags, cables, etc. thanx!
Love the hair, the info, the attitude, the vids, most of all the fact you're yourself and haven't altered that to suit other people. You learn and grow like we all do and should. Truly, thank you for sharing your knowledge and "The eagle has landed" it never gets old. 🤘
Can somebody please provide a timestamp for when he talks about the Focusrite 2i2? I've watched the video fully once and scrolled through it once again after that, but I can't find it. Help?
I've watched the video all the way through, multiple times, trying to find exactly that. He doesn't appear to actually talk about the focusrite other than briefly in the description of the video.
This may be down to personal preference but I’d love to hear your answer. What does a “rough mix” actually mean? Does it include panning, compression, delay/reverb busses and automation? And if so, should I commit those edits to the audio tracks before sending it off to the mixing engineer or leave them on the tracks so they can be tweaked (or removed entirely incase I fucked up the compression) by more experienced ears?
Last time I recorded vocals with my insanely budget home recording kit, I borrowed my buddys cheap condenser mic, made a pop filter out of nylon stockings and a coat hanger. Then I put the mic facing a wall and a door at a 45 degree angle, and hung a thick blanket over the door for dampening. It worked very well for the budget of 0.
What a very punk/DIY way to record dude, it reminds me of the nonsense me and my former bandmates did in our HS hardcore band. We use to put beach towels and oversized pillow cases on our amps because "it'll sounds better." The most fun I had with recording was when we were recording a EP, and all of us were recording our instruments in separate rooms. It was so much fun... but we sounded like shit lol. -the vocalist was in a padded bathroom -the bass player was in the bedroom closet -the drum was in the living room -one guitarist in the attic -the other guitarist (me) was in the basement
Dudes, use a walk-in closet. Mic all the way inside on boom facing out. Singers stand even with the door jamb. Kills all back reflections for a perfect dry, isolated sound. Best vocal sound I ever got at home. Closet needs a lot of clothes in it all around for best results. A coat closet is great!
@@musicboy2003 Yeah, that would be great. But, that would require me to move into a house with a walk-in closet, which is spending a lot of money for zero budget vocal recording lol.
@@musicboy2003 Is there anyway I can fix or re-mix a really bad recording on a DAW? Or is it just fucked? Because a have a old tape recording from my old band, each of the instruments are mic but the tone sounds like shitty no-wave record.
about the intro of your video, that was exactly the same reason I found and subscribed to your channel about 4 or 5 years ago (that and the way you brought stuff, which was entertaining). I'm glad that kind of content is getting more attention again and making a return.
I'm an 80's generation which means I'm old enough to have humility. I'm no beginner but learn every day. And I laughed at this entire video... Never say die Glenn
Hey Glenn! I’ve recently purchased a new DAW and some new plugins for EQ’s etc. Your 15 mistakes video taught me so much about things I’ve overlooked or just not even thought of/known about. After taking note and looking into these things I’ve been able to make a track sound 100x better than I could previously! Thanks for all you do!
class compliant USB-Interfaces work flawlessly in Linux, personal experience: Focusrite Scarlett, Arturia AudioFuse 8Pre. Poprietary drivers like the software from Universal Audio is another story!
Hey Glenn, I was wondering if you could give us a breakdown on tempo mapping for outlining tracks. Also what kind of notes do you usually take while you’re working on a mix?
GLEEENNN, for recording DI is it literally just as simple as plugging my guitar into my interface with no effects? Or with the effects for a specific song? Thanks
Thank you for making this video. There was a recent video by a Canadian audio engineer and producer that said Focusrite interfaces are garbage because of the converters they have in them. I tried to tell him there are literally only a handful of companies that even have the patents to make A/D and D/A converter silicon, and they are all more or less the same...
The difference between an amateur and a professional is usually that last 10-15% of the finished product. Sure, you can get close on your own, but that last bit is where the money is made.
I've never known what I'm doing. That applies on so many levels for me. lol ! Also watching this wearing a Ride the Lightning tee with long hair as well. Wow
Comment about providing DI track, Glenn your so right about guitarists dialling in their tone. I record my track to what is a great guitar tone but not necessarily what's best in the mix. When I mix after I alter the guitar tone which sounds incredible in the mix, and nothing near to what actually tracked!
Vocal recording question: I come from the world of TV production and commercial/corporate audio/video production (soul sucking, I know); When you record in the studio do you record room tone so you can get rid of hum and buzzing noises in post? Thanks and *OBLIGATORY FCC BLEEEP* GLENN!
Well that's what I'm here for, to learn.. Because I don't know a shit. And an entertaining way to do it too listening Glenn yelling like my dad when I didn't do my homework right or at all 🤣 🤣 Anyone that can humble themselves enough to admit that will probably make less mistakes than those know it alls.
Glen!! I always see this Soldano SLO-100 head behind you. Ive been using the Neural DSP SLO-100 plugin for a while now. Always relied on other type of solutions for amp modeling... but the neural DSP stuff I'll gladly pay for. If that real SLO-100 really sounds like the model, probably even better... then, damn!!! What an amp!!! SO versatile, dynamic, lovely saturation, and just a brutal monster it can be!
I thought I was a decent guitar player until I recorded myself. I quickly realized that I suck at both guitar AND recording. Thank you for making home recording 101 type videos. With a job and family, I don't have time to screw around and figure things out the hard way in all honesty. I finally subscribed after lurking for a while, you sneaky son of a bi.....
Damn Glenn! I've been away from the channel for a little while (still subbed) and I remember you being excited for 250K subs. You're about to double thar. Congrats!
Now, how do I get the toms in the tub and the snare and bass under the angled ceiling on the other side of the room? Unrelated: Harrier, Sea Harrier or Yak-38?
The RME 9632/52, AIO & AIO Pro pci/pcie cards all have Linux drivers (ALSA) and work with HDSP Mixer. Using a 9632 in the studio since the DAW PC (AM4) has two legacy pci holes.
Weird. I just got a notification from fedex saying my new focusrite 2i2 will be delivered today. I'm sure I have many frustrating days, weeks and months ahead of me figuring this recording shit out an couldn't be happier
@Rob Mikels the preamps are pretty good on 2i2. And it works well with condenser and dynamic mics and using it to line my guitar DI. Cant go wrong. Anything to make some noise.
@Rob Mikels well unfortunately for whatever reason everything that comes with it is what it's supposed to be, and the box is for a 2i2...but for whatever reason the scarlett solo was in the box. Now I gotta deal with some return bullshit. Not sure stoked about that...in any event the solo I can say is a solid unit...but it ain't what I ordered
I bought a focusrite scarlett 2i2 about a year and a half ago. I am using the bundled DAW (Ableton Live 10 Lite) and a few plugins that comes with it for free. I watched a lot of videos from you and some other youtubers who do review free amp sims and in about a week or so I was able to get a lot better tones than my Tube amp to my ear. No seriously this new sound recording era with the whole amp sims and other plugins is just great. It costs 1/20th of the real gear and it sounds identical. I'm not a pro recorder or even a pro guitarist or sound engineer. I'm just playing for fun as a hobby. The reason I got this was to be able to get good sounds without getting too loud and cover some metal songs while listening to them on youtube or something. And with earphones during the nights. It is a whole lot cheaper. It works great, it sounds great. I am sure I can make it sound a lot better if I just try a little. People who don't like these things don't even try. They're basically thinking off their butts. Fuck you Glenn for the awesome content! Be safe.
IT Guy here - Should be able to get a PCI USB interface and pass that card thru to the VM and pass that thru to the VM and use any USB devices you want. I do this for a lot of my VM's on my servers.
@@crnkmnky The only lag you would get is from the USB interface itself. It will not add any lag ontop of the normal usage. It directly uses the USB interface on the VM and the PCI interface adds no latency.
GLEEEEEEN!! Had this idea to come up with a comment that would land me a spot on the butthurt of the week segment, just because I'd find it funny. But upon watching more than a few VC's I've realized you can't make that shit up 🤣 So instead I choose honesty. Thank you so much for providing your insights, viewpoints, advice and humour on a regular basis. This show has really taught me A LOT, and I'm really grateful that you keep doing it despite/in spite of the haters and mouthbreathers out there.
Man I recorded my first CD ten years ago with a £50 Creative interface, a single SM57 and Audacity. Sure it didn't sound like a million dollar studio recording, but I got a better sound than a lot of shit I've heard since. I got a great guitar sound, and it didn't come from some expensive plugin, it came from spending like five days agonising over the mic placement and getting good takes.
Linux: RME makes some sweet pcie stuff, all of it works natively through the jack server. I have an older HDSPe AES card that works a treat. No need to be doing windoze snafu when you have Ardour5 any way. By the way, all the Behringer, focusrite, even old school digidesign stuff tends to work
I enjoyed your comments on using DI for guitar recording and it makes a lot of sense. However, I sometimes like to play with feedback sustain or whatever it's called... I stand in front of the amp and control the feedback by moving around. How can I stand in front of a VST and get that feedback and sustain? I just can't believe any plug in could make this sound right. Is this a good reason to mic up and record the amp or is there a good DI solution for that situation?
To the guy at 10:52. Instead passing through the usb device, try to passthrough the usb controller itself. Most desktops have two controllers. Yes, that means you lose half of your usb ports, but you can buy a hub to plug in mouse, keyboard and other low powered devices. I use this setup to passthrough an iPhone to a mac VM for development purposes. Tip: Use the command "lspci" to list your pci devices, your usb controllers should be listed there. Also, in my experience, KVM runs much nicer than VirtualBox, you might try it if you are having problems with your current setup. But for mixing, i'm currently using Ardour, Jack and Carla (to load windows VST's directly on Linux through Wine). Works flawlessly. The initial setup with Jack might give some headaches, but after that everything runs nicely. Every Windows VST I tried worked just fine on Linux with Carla. Linux plugins, especially Calf ones, are awesome. Check out Unfa, he has a channel on music production (not metal, though) using only Free and/or Open Source tools. Also, Glenn, I'd love to see you try Ardour (it works on Windows too) one of these times. That would be amazing.
Genious. I actually thought "I dont need the DI Signal" as well. Until you mentioned that you can sidechain a Noisegate to it. Genious- Just ordered a splitter :)
Re: the Linux thing..... he's talking about adding a VM to run a DAW... you will get a TON of latency doing that as it's got to go through the native OS first and then to the VM.... I don't think you're going to be happy with the results doing it that way PCIE or not......
In this case, I'd probably consider a separate partition for Windows and Linux, and boot with Windows whenever I'd be working on audio. Running a DAW on a virtual machine sounds super inconvenient.
Man you're great, I always get alot of chuckles watching your show man. One day hopefully soon I'll be finally setting myself up for home recording my guitar for the first time, and ill for sure be watching a whole whack of your videos to learn what the hell im doing haha
Found this channel because I bought a bunch of random audio equipment with no idea which order to hook them up, and stayed because of the humor. Good shit. 👍
I wanna hear a guitar sound that absolutely flops in a mix. You know, putting "my sound, man" in a full mix. I'm pretty sure you have more than a few of those.
There was another guy who was whinging in the comments about Glenn insisting on DI tracks and he was using his music as an example of doing fine without it. Thinnest guitar tone I've heard from a metal track. Just completely ball-less, and it was so thin he'd turned down the bass too to avoid overpowering it. All of this could have been avoided with a DI track and some re-amping or recabbing, careful blends and judicious use of comp to get something like the tone he wanted, while also not making the reediest instrument noise to come out of something that wasn't a woodwind, but of course, too proud for that. There's so many reasons to use a DI track, from doubling your cabs, using sims, using the clean signal as a trigger, particularly in sidechains because it's cleaner to control your plugins, and the way it can save a take, you can get an absolutely awesome take of something really tricky, and have it absolutely ruined by background noise or by issues with mic placement. DI track means you don't lose that work.
As one of those linux nerds screaming "No you idiot" about the linux audio interfaces, as far as I can tell, any interface that works with mac without additional drivers will just work without any effort. I run my focusrite with no issues and have used the USB out of multiple mixers as interfaces more reliably to linux than I have to windows. since this person is trying to pass the interface to a windows virtual machine though, that shouldn't matter as the windows VM will handle it. as for PCI-e interface specifically, I don't know of any affordable ones at all, but it may be cheaper to pass through a PCI-e usb 3 card to the VM and use the existing USB interface connected to that
Good call on passing through a USB card. Seems like a lot of work, though, when most DAWs run fine under WINE, as do most plugins (at least, the stuff that doesn't use iLok).
Dont forget all the hoops you have to jump through with JACK if you want to run a usb device natively. As far as passing it to a VM. If you use Oracle's VirtualBox you have to make sure you actually open up a vUSB port in the machine settings so Win will see it.
@@ANDYN1995 when I tried it on ubuntu 20.04 (focal) I had to run JACK and route the audio where I wanted it to go. It DID showup in my audio settings and it definitely did work as a standard sound card to run my monitors. But when it came to input. I had to do some Goofy stuff.
@@joeyzee for me the patching is a feature I think more systems need, but by default with most think it should pick the inputs fairly reliably. I use ardour under ubuntu and while I do patch things differently sometimes, for simple recording with ardour, as you add channels, it will just use the next input by default, so channel 1 is input 1, channel 2 is input 2 and so until you run out of inputs or stop adding channnels
never looked at pcie personally so no idea but for those who need a audio interface for linux most of the behribger or motu audio interfaces work realy well
Man, do I enjoy your videos! I watch them every morning on my way to work and I just can’t stop laughing, while getting some pretty good advise on recording. Would you do a review on Ampeg’s new SVT Suit? (Yes I’m a bass player)….. looks pretty awesome! Great channel, keep it up.
Hi Glenn I have a problem; sorry if this is a really long one but it's also kind of personal: I have a problem with my old Engineer Friend whom I parted ways with for some time till he became clean.. or so I thought that he did. We recorded 4 rap songs together like 5-3 years ago which wouldn't even have been able to be recorded without me buying a mic and we also partially made the beats together -> I played in something on his keys and sometimes drumpads -> He put them together in his DAW and did some sound design to the raws, eqed, mixed and mastered the beats, my vocals only were eqed, mixed and mastered half ass though and still sounded very crunchy and raw... we decided 3 years ago that I didn't have to pay for it because we co-produced them with both our skills we had at that time (in my case just doing vocals, playing instruments and having the mic) but it sounded way worse than what I can do by myself now since I also built my own little studio. Now that I'm having a few paying customers from all over the world with increasing numbers for the past 3 years, built a small network of people I always work with (small Hardcore Punk bands, rappers, session artists and other studio owners) and spending my musical income on knowledge and gear to improve the quality of my recordings and so that I can record more music genres than just producing beats.. he is kind of jealous and mad at me now because he still is at the point where I met him (I even borrowed him 250 bucks to pay his bills so he doesn't sit at home without water, gas and electricity 2 months ago and he didn't pay me back 1 cent) and NOW wants me to pay him money for those half ass vocal recordings which wouldn't even have been possible without my mic and were recorded 5-3 years ago.. it's just 100 bucks that he wants, so it's not about the money but more about the logic behind his thinking process because if he wanted to charge me he should have said so years ago.. btw he still does blow, codeine, pills and smokes a lot of green and spends most of his money on that and then sometimes blames me why his fridge is empty.. he only got this mad after I told him I was going to buy my first pro studio rack and then went on and on about these 100 bucks every day since last week.. what should I do? p.s.: he still has never had a single job in his life, just wants to make music and is also 2 years older than me. Thanks on advice in advance! =)
Long time Focusrite user here, I was interested in your comments on the Focusrite 2i2 but after checking this vid out twice, there's no mention of Focusrite in the vid, was that a segment that wound up in the virtual cutting room circular file?
I did not understand this whole DI or DIE issue but it's easy once you get it. A DI goes to your amp and when you record the raw/clean/naked sound too - next to your screaming amp performance, the engineer can more easily find the transients of the guitar performance, edit it easier, and reamp it for special effects. Why the fork is this so forking hard to forking help the engineer a bit?
1) hey for the linux question - you don't need a PCI-e audio card! Because it is entirely possible to pass thru any PCI-e add in card, including extra USB ports on it's own seperate PCI-e card. you can buy them for peanuts like $20 typically or $40 for a premium one. So you then are doing a pci-e pass through of a dedicated USB port on it's own PCI-e lanes. And just plug your usb interface into the dedicated USB ports on the addin pci-e card in the normal way. As you would do with any other USB audio interface. You could just as easily do a firewire one too. The time when you cannot use this method is on a laptop. 2) The other main option is only going to work for certain specific PCs, which can let you do a pci-e pass through for a whole entire IOMMU group. So if that IOMMU group in question happens to be on the right make and model motherboard, then you set up the BIOS options and firmware etc t enable IOMMU, and get it working right. Then if that IOMMU also happens to include some of the computers USB ports, (but not all of them!). Then you can end up with a split. 2 distinct groups of USB ports. So some of the computer's USB ports are then still remain directly wired up to the host OS, however a subset of the others all are within the IOMMU group. So end up wired directly into guest VM machine. Once you assign that IOMMU group to the Guest VM (before starting up the VM Guest). Effectively you will end up with the same result, either way 1) or 2). It's just normally a lot easier to use method 1) and buy yourself a dedicated PCI-e USB controller card. Even if it seems superfluous to your needs or whatever. It's just normally much easier to hook it up that way. There is absolutely no interference on the USB bus anymore from the host operating system, so no penalities in the latency or performance via USB emulation or whatever. It should all work seamlessly as its real hardware (after all), and be detected within the guest OS just as any other real and native USB controller. That is what the Guest os will see from it's perspective. And that host OS cannot even access those cordorned off USB ports. And the usb audio interface cannot even tell the difference either. As for linux generally being difficult for music production - YES! However here is an interesting story about that: I have been running Bitwig 2.4 here for a long time. And for about 2 years, overwhelmingly most of the random windows VST plugins (.dlls) flat out would not work (at all). Even though bitwig and wine was reputedly supposed to support them as working. They would just give a black screen and do nothing at all. Well it turns out that there is some bad bugs in Bitwig version 2.4 that affects VST plugins. And that was actually the reason for most of them not working. I only found this out because of some other guy, the developer of an open source free linux guitar amp plugin, (believe it or not). Well he eventually discovered this for all me. In trying to reproduce my bug report where his plugin just didnt work. Very generous of him to take the extra time to help me out trying to reproduce the same issue on his system. And then he found out this bug is only in Bitwig 2.4. However it is now aparrently fixed in version 3+ of bitwig studio. So while i have not upgraded it myself yet - it could be getting much easier now to use Windows VST plugins on linux. Which was actually the 1 main technical dealbreaker for linux TBH. Sure Bitwig is not as good as ableton for certain sound synthesis workflows. But Bitwig is still far from being terrible and it can be somewhat made up for with extra VST windows plugins. So long as they work! So yes, the configuration and setup is still complicated and difficult. However at least it's even somewhat possible now. Which was not previously the case. In future, we will slowly be getting improvements in application packaging thanks to containerization. So that all the more complicated software dependancies (such as WINE emulation etc), so that can be mostly all pre-packaged and bundled up in more easy to download and distribute sandboxed environment. So the libraries on the host system dont have conflicting versions and interfere etc. This is all taking it's sweet time though. Maybe check back in a couple more years.
Can I record at home? Yeah. Do I get what I thought were half decent mixes for demo purposes? Yeah. Do I think 'i know how to record our sound'. Yeah. Booked some studio time recently with an engineer for us to do 3 songs. You know what I discovered? The engineer does know best, you really DO do as you're told/asked and out the other end comes something that makes your home demos sound just like that. Home demos! We all took our gear, she humoured us for an hour having listened to the songs first and then said 'use that that and that', we did as we were told and boom! A value for money session. And all along the way I was hearing Glenn shouting, and thanks dude. You had a big part to play in us going in with the approach needed
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I'm going to hire Glenn to yell at my carpenters all day.
If he showed up on my site and started yelling at me, I'm sure I would hear it in the hamster voice and start laughing my ass off 🤣🤟🎶
@@spddiesel LMFAO!!!
Honestly, depending on where in the US you hire him, that is actually VERY cost effective.
Since he's got a great streaming set up you could also use a telepresence sheldonbot to roll around and scream at fuckwits in the act
SURPRISE THE TRASH BIN IS TELLING YOU TO STOP FUCKING SHIT UP AND GET BACK TO WORK
*broom with LCD screen on it rolls away*
Am effective business tactic
Lol right! He'd be a great foreman
Never met my real dad. My mom instantly ran into the room upon hearing you rant, saying " That's the guy! That's your father!" Not sure which one of you I am more disappointed in, but Thanksgiving is at 4:30 just fyi.
I'd be happy either if this were a joke or if it were real lmao
I'm 99% sure this isn't real but I really want it to be
@@trulsolsen683 Just spoke to mom. She said she thought she was hooking up with Geddy Lee, but realized the next morning it wasn't him at all. Despite looking like a dead ringer for Geddy at the time, she said Glenn had a much higher voice. She left the next morning with a Triumph T-Shirt and a 5 pack of Molson.
@@remedydrums2 For real?
@@remedydrums2 you know you've reached influencer when you start getting backstory arcs with subs moms
Reason for hiring another engineer to do mixing and/or mastering is not just another new pair of ears, or "different spin". It is also about deliberately cutting the emotional connections to the earlier creative process.
Example: you spend 6 hours getting a snare sound that uses 5 mics and clever routing, complicated dynamics and you travelled to nearby town concert hall to re-amp it there with that hall sound. It took a long time, it was hard and its importance in the song is not just as one element in the song, it is also about seeing it more significant, wishing it is more in front as it took so much effort. Another engineer who was not present at the recording (or even worse, when you compose and mix yourself) does not have those memories but they judge everything at face value: how it sounds and how it fits in the mix.
Our minds work like that. We have two apples but one of them had to be picked by climbing up to a tree and the other one fell into our lap. We will appreciate them differently, because of what happened. They weigh differently in our heads, while they really are just apples, no different from each other.
Yeah I agree. When you make a track of your own there's a familiarity to it that you can't lose. In your own head it's decent because, for one, it's your track, and two, you've heard it so many times that it's pleasurable to your ears, but you can't trust your brain to be fully objective.
I only do home recording as a hobby so I'm not stressing about how the final mix sounds, although I'm always open to criticism and learning. But for now, I just fuck around with melodies in my head and see if I can make something I find interesting with them and try to turn them into songs.
But, I notice in my own stuff that, for example, the bass might be faintly audible, but because I put the track together and heard it so many times, my brain can pick it out easily whereas someone listening to it the first time might not register the bass at all.
It's like why you get someone else to proof read an assignment, you can't see your own spelling and grammar mistakes.
agreed, even if it comes back sounding the same...I made like twenty mixes I was unhappy with and finally sent it to the pro, he sent back basically what I had achieved on the final project but without all the overthinking I kept ruining the masters with; a great lesson on when to let go!
spot on
@@actualreplyguy people are protective of their baby (music) some get pissy when ya tell them their baby is a little on the ugly side, while others say hmmmmmm how can i improve my babies looks then ????? help!!!!! hahahahaha i think with age most learn outside input is a must to get the very best out of anything you may do. that outside input could be a partner or a mate or another artist/producer, whatever :) i think ya get what i mean. to their loss is the reality of it really.
As someone who started losing their hair at 19 and had long hair until I couldn't, I freely admit to being jealous of Glenn's luscious locks.
It’s a wig! 😂
Maybe someday the skullet will become fashionable.
@Brendan O' Neil Appreciate the edit :-)
Right there with ya. In the 80's my hair looked like Glenn's, now I'm totally bald.
Hey Glenn, Linux user here. In advance, sorry if there are any grammar mistakes, haven't practiced my English since... forever, I guess?
So, first things first, using Linux to record is NOT harder. It's a bit different, yes, because the whole system is like a fucking LEGO - you build your setup yourself with the bricks the developers provide, no magic pill all-in-one software. Luckily, there are recipes for it online, in particular, the ArchWiki is truly detailed on that topic.
Now, the most important part of a Linux-powered sound rig, JACK. JACK is the go-to audioserver and it's a GODSEND! It allows you to reroute the sound however you see fit, you can even make it so you record both a clear track and a bunch of others sent through plugins. And when I say 'a bunch' I mean 'as much as your hardware can handle', I'm not kidding. Seen a guy recording a bass to 8 fucking tracks!
Next, drivers. Most 'home-grade' audio interfaces, such as 2-4 input Focusrite Scarlett, Behringer U-Phoria or Steinberg models work out of the box, no need for proprietary drivers at all. Although, some of them are really quirky, like my M-Audio Air 192-4 that doesn't allow me to record at 44.1kHz with the sample rate lower than 512 and latency of 5ms. Yikes, should have purchased a Scarlett Solo instead. Luckily, the sound is crisp and clean, so I'm at least grateful for that. About PCI-e cards, I heard that ESI Audio makes them, and, wait for it, they OFFICIALLY SUPPORT LINUX! Now Isn't that great!
Many DAWs (Ardour, LMMS, etc) actually support routing through Windows plugins with the help of Wine (an emulator, sorta, you mainly use it to run Win-only games). Can't say much, though, as I use Linux-only free and open source plugins (and there are plenty of them, like Rakarrack or KPP).
Also, the distro choice doesn't matter, you can turn any distro into a sound recording beast. There are instructions online for each of them. Hell, one of my online friends once used FreeBSD, that madlad.
That's about it, hope it helps clarify the topic. Cheers, and fuck you from Ukraine, Glenn.
Wow! Although the Linux guy whose question was featured wasn't me, but this is an epic and very useful reply and thank you for it. 🤘🤘🤘
A beginner linux user
The question wasn't about recording on Linux but to a Windows VM running on Linux. He needs the PCI-E card to pass the hardware through to the VM, nothing more.
This sounds great - tho I'm still having trouble getting latest version Reaper work with latest version Ubuntu - its not clear (to me) which dependencies, which components i need to download for it to work- (I DO kinda wish Reaper would just appear in the software window!)
@@petegaslondon if you are having trouble try AVLINUX it is better curated than Ubuntu Studio and even comes with LinVST installed. LinVST is the app used to convert win plugins to Linux. I use and old pc as my second recording station with very good results. You can go to the Linux section on the Reaper forum and post your questions there, we are a nice bunch.
This one is a PCI e and works with Linux
Disclaimer i have only used it on Windows, but my understanding is that the support Linux
www.musicstore.com/en_US/USD/ESI-MAYA-44-eX/art-PCM0014493-000
wiki.linuxaudio.org/hw/esi_maya44_pci
I'm glad Glenn found his true purpose is to train us not to be awful with our terrible 1/2 baked DIY recording ideas.
I also agree with this sentiment 😁
@@graxjpg Eh... my last track I baked on 400 for a bit too long.
I wanted to like this but it's already got 69 likes
@@gregthomas2939 yeah that just burns the edges of the track, but your drummer is still cold in the center.
@@toTheWatcher 😂😂😂😂
Early uploads are great I don’t have to stay up till 2 in the morning
So It's been literally years since I commented on an SMG video but I'd just like to say that this past weekend was my first ever time in the studio and even though I wasn't playing metal the information I got from this channel about what happens in a studio and how to make the engineer's job easier was so massively invaluable to me.
Thanks for making my first studio session a not completely dogshit time for everyone involved Glenn!
Re people not getting their guitar tone to sit in a mix, I've found recording the bass tracks first and then recording the guitar, to see how it fits and tweak the tone if it needs, has helped my tacks sound better.
Intro: ´eavy Metal, by L‘Oreal.
What a luscious mane...
Dude should seriously get a hair care sponsor!
Now we need a super glorious hair video
Loretal ?
@@rasmusolesen5307 not quite as clever as you wanted it to be my G
If glenn offends me it just mean i need to WORK on it and DO BETTER! Thank you for all you do Glenn! Love your content from Erie, PA USA
I wish the bass players as a whole had the same mindset. "Me? Practice? Noone will hear me over two guitars and double kick drums anyway."
Amen. Because of Glenn shouting I made everyone work hard and the result was 3 productive days at a local studio.
@Dirty Pixels I guess I'm the exception that makes the rule. I do enjoy playing bass and I'm not afraid of being heard in the mix because I do practice and know my shit. What very few people (even bassplayers) doesn't realise how important the bass is because if the bass sounds like (b)ass than everything will sound like ass.
At 10:03, Glenn check out Fortress and Blackbird from Alter Bridge. Absolute masterpiece albums.
Wait, which part talks about Focusrite? I didn't get that part in the video.
Yes Glen! Back to the recording and production tutorials please. Those are what brought me here years back.
Your how to record and mix heavy drums tutorials are the greatest videos on youtube, and by the way, it really did some magic for my vaguely folkish alterna-indie rock project I'm working on right now. You don't need to play metal to use the tutorials and people should know that.
I have absolutely ZERO self respect but I still consolidate my files when I send them to the mix guy. And I send DIs along with them. And reference tracks.
Legend
I bet you also thank the bus driver
@@madhatter797 I do. And I’m polite to people in the service industry. Cause everybody else matters more than me. I just sit at home making fun noises with my guitars.
r e f e r e n c e t r a c k s s s 👌
@@madhatter797 like a fucking king
Solid advice on the 2i2!
Solved my problem immedietly!❤️
I've missed something and don't know where it is. Where can I find the advice re the 2i2?
@@EdExploresScotland LOL me too. I can't find where he says anything about the 2i2...
Yeah... not sure what happened there, didn't see anything about that in this video...
@@raelik777 seriously wondering the same thing myself, wtf? LOL
As I do mainly hip.hop.vocals I don't get a lot from your page except the reassuring middle finger to youtube....love and respect
This doesn't apply to what we do as hip-hop mixing/mastering engineers, as we can make hits without room mics or guitar bass players, but I'm here for the middle finger though.
I think you should do more product reviews, I know you are a recording guy, but your brutal honesty is nice. Amps combos, guitars, even simple stuff like gig bags, cables, etc. thanx!
Love the hair, the info, the attitude, the vids, most of all the fact you're yourself and haven't altered that to suit other people. You learn and grow like we all do and should. Truly, thank you for sharing your knowledge and "The eagle has landed" it never gets old. 🤘
Can somebody please provide a timestamp for when he talks about the Focusrite 2i2? I've watched the video fully once and scrolled through it once again after that, but I can't find it. Help?
I've watched the video all the way through, multiple times, trying to find exactly that. He doesn't appear to actually talk about the focusrite other than briefly in the description of the video.
This may be down to personal preference but I’d love to hear your answer. What does a “rough mix” actually mean? Does it include panning, compression, delay/reverb busses and automation?
And if so, should I commit those edits to the audio tracks before sending it off to the mixing engineer or leave them on the tracks so they can be tweaked (or removed entirely incase I fucked up the compression) by more experienced ears?
Last time I recorded vocals with my insanely budget home recording kit, I borrowed my buddys cheap condenser mic, made a pop filter out of nylon stockings and a coat hanger. Then I put the mic facing a wall and a door at a 45 degree angle, and hung a thick blanket over the door for dampening.
It worked very well for the budget of 0.
What a very punk/DIY way to record dude, it reminds me of the nonsense me and my former bandmates did in our HS hardcore band. We use to put beach towels and oversized pillow cases on our amps because "it'll sounds better." The most fun I had with recording was when we were recording a EP, and all of us were recording our instruments in separate rooms. It was so much fun... but we sounded like shit lol.
-the vocalist was in a padded bathroom
-the bass player was in the bedroom closet
-the drum was in the living room
-one guitarist in the attic
-the other guitarist (me) was in the basement
Dudes, use a walk-in closet. Mic all the way inside on boom facing out. Singers stand even with the door jamb. Kills all back reflections for a perfect dry, isolated sound. Best vocal sound I ever got at home. Closet needs a lot of clothes in it all around for best results. A coat closet is great!
@@musicboy2003 Yeah, that would be great. But, that would require me to move into a house with a walk-in closet, which is spending a lot of money for zero budget vocal recording lol.
@@musicboy2003 Is there anyway I can fix or re-mix a really bad recording on a DAW? Or is it just fucked? Because a have a old tape recording from my old band, each of the instruments are mic but the tone sounds like shitty no-wave record.
Keep doing what your doing. It cracks me up when you let them have it and the rest of the time I learn something .Works for me have a good one
I always speed up Glenns video's by 1,5 for extra effect.
about the intro of your video, that was exactly the same reason I found and subscribed to your channel about 4 or 5 years ago (that and the way you brought stuff, which was entertaining). I'm glad that kind of content is getting more attention again and making a return.
I'm an 80's generation which means I'm old enough to have humility. I'm no beginner but learn every day. And I laughed at this entire video... Never say die Glenn
this has honestly become my favourite channel rn
I'll take Glenn yelling and swearing at me over a praise from some home recording laymen 100 times any day.
I wish you would do a interview with Terry Date that would be great. Keep up the great work mate.
Your" yelly" moments always make me laugh !!
Thank you🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hey Glenn! I’ve recently purchased a new DAW and some new plugins for EQ’s etc. Your 15 mistakes video taught me so much about things I’ve overlooked or just not even thought of/known about. After taking note and looking into these things I’ve been able to make a track sound 100x better than I could previously! Thanks for all you do!
class compliant USB-Interfaces work flawlessly in Linux, personal experience: Focusrite Scarlett, Arturia AudioFuse 8Pre. Poprietary drivers like the software from Universal Audio is another story!
Just want to thank you for sharing your experience, knowledge and enthusiasm in all of your videos.
Wow not gonna lie, i haven’t watched Glenn for a while, but he’s looking good! Damn
TY!
Hey Glenn, I was wondering if you could give us a breakdown on tempo mapping for outlining tracks. Also what kind of notes do you usually take while you’re working on a mix?
GLEEENNN, for recording DI is it literally just as simple as plugging my guitar into my interface with no effects? Or with the effects for a specific song? Thanks
Not gleeennn but yeah, no effects. With few exceptions of course 😂
Thank you for making this video. There was a recent video by a Canadian audio engineer and producer that said Focusrite interfaces are garbage because of the converters they have in them. I tried to tell him there are literally only a handful of companies that even have the patents to make A/D and D/A converter silicon, and they are all more or less the same...
The difference between an amateur and a professional is usually that last 10-15% of the finished product. Sure, you can get close on your own, but that last bit is where the money is made.
I love how you deal with the moaners & haters.. brilliant!!
Ty!
I've never known what I'm doing. That applies on so many levels for me. lol ! Also watching this wearing a Ride the Lightning tee with long hair as well. Wow
This has to be your funniest video in a while. You are the man, Fricker.
7:45
Glenn please never stop making those gags btw
Comment about providing DI track, Glenn your so right about guitarists dialling in their tone. I record my track to what is a great guitar tone but not necessarily what's best in the mix. When I mix after I alter the guitar tone which sounds incredible in the mix, and nothing near to what actually tracked!
Glenn dont change your haircut, watching you always reminds me of Hoagie from 'Day of the Tentacle'.
Vocal recording question: I come from the world of TV production and commercial/corporate audio/video production (soul sucking, I know); When you record in the studio do you record room tone so you can get rid of hum and buzzing noises in post?
Thanks and *OBLIGATORY FCC BLEEEP* GLENN!
Someday there’ll be an hour long compilation of Glenn’s wisdom… it’ll be an hour of yelling, and we’ll absolutely love it.
Hi Glenn! could you do a video on how to reamp something with a quad cortex? Thanks!
Well that's what I'm here for, to learn.. Because I don't know a shit. And an entertaining way to do it too listening Glenn yelling like my dad when I didn't do my homework right or at all 🤣 🤣 Anyone that can humble themselves enough to admit that will probably make less mistakes than those know it alls.
Glen!! I always see this Soldano SLO-100 head behind you. Ive been using the Neural DSP SLO-100 plugin for a while now. Always relied on other type of solutions for amp modeling... but the neural DSP stuff I'll gladly pay for. If that real SLO-100 really sounds like the model, probably even better... then, damn!!! What an amp!!! SO versatile, dynamic, lovely saturation, and just a brutal monster it can be!
Most blunt comment made during a home recording immediately after a take: "That was great. Now play something that doesn't suck."
I don't know about PCI-e linux recording. However, I have used ubuntu studios for recording and live monitoring with
I thought I was a decent guitar player until I recorded myself. I quickly realized that I suck at both guitar AND recording.
Thank you for making home recording 101 type videos. With a job and family, I don't have time to screw around and figure things out the hard way in all honesty.
I finally subscribed after lurking for a while, you sneaky son of a bi.....
Damn Glenn! I've been away from the channel for a little while (still subbed) and I remember you being excited for 250K subs. You're about to double thar. Congrats!
Ty!!
So you are saying I can't record drums in my bathroom?!? The tub ads reverb man! Reverb! 🤣
Now, how do I get the toms in the tub and the snare and bass under the angled ceiling on the other side of the room?
Unrelated: Harrier, Sea Harrier or Yak-38?
The RME 9632/52, AIO & AIO Pro pci/pcie cards all have Linux drivers (ALSA) and work with HDSP Mixer. Using a 9632 in the studio since the DAW PC (AM4) has two legacy pci holes.
Weird. I just got a notification from fedex saying my new focusrite 2i2 will be delivered today. I'm sure I have many frustrating days, weeks and months ahead of me figuring this recording shit out an couldn't be happier
I got mine a few months back. Solidly impressed. Good luck my friend!
@Rob Mikels the preamps are pretty good on 2i2. And it works well with condenser and dynamic mics and using it to line my guitar DI. Cant go wrong. Anything to make some noise.
@Rob Mikels well unfortunately for whatever reason everything that comes with it is what it's supposed to be, and the box is for a 2i2...but for whatever reason the scarlett solo was in the box. Now I gotta deal with some return bullshit. Not sure stoked about that...in any event the solo I can say is a solid unit...but it ain't what I ordered
@Rob Mikels it was eBay...and sometimes they blow...but when you don't get what your supposed to there return policy is pretty cut an dry thankfully
I love Glenn's videos, really makes me laugh 😅🤣 thank you for the wise words and entertainment 😁
Legit laughed out loud at “might be jealous” lmao
Same here man, legit almost fell outta my seat on that one!
I bought a focusrite scarlett 2i2 about a year and a half ago. I am using the bundled DAW (Ableton Live 10 Lite) and a few plugins that comes with it for free. I watched a lot of videos from you and some other youtubers who do review free amp sims and in about a week or so I was able to get a lot better tones than my Tube amp to my ear. No seriously this new sound recording era with the whole amp sims and other plugins is just great. It costs 1/20th of the real gear and it sounds identical. I'm not a pro recorder or even a pro guitarist or sound engineer. I'm just playing for fun as a hobby. The reason I got this was to be able to get good sounds without getting too loud and cover some metal songs while listening to them on youtube or something. And with earphones during the nights. It is a whole lot cheaper. It works great, it sounds great. I am sure I can make it sound a lot better if I just try a little. People who don't like these things don't even try. They're basically thinking off their butts. Fuck you Glenn for the awesome content! Be safe.
IT Guy here - Should be able to get a PCI USB interface and pass that card thru to the VM and pass that thru to the VM and use any USB devices you want. I do this for a lot of my VM's on my servers.
Still seems like a recipe for lag…
@@crnkmnky The only lag you would get is from the USB interface itself. It will not add any lag ontop of the normal usage. It directly uses the USB interface on the VM and the PCI interface adds no latency.
GLEEEEEEN!! Had this idea to come up with a comment that would land me a spot on the butthurt of the week segment, just because I'd find it funny. But upon watching more than a few VC's I've realized you can't make that shit up 🤣 So instead I choose honesty. Thank you so much for providing your insights, viewpoints, advice and humour on a regular basis. This show has really taught me A LOT, and I'm really grateful that you keep doing it despite/in spite of the haters and mouthbreathers out there.
Man I recorded my first CD ten years ago with a £50 Creative interface, a single SM57 and Audacity. Sure it didn't sound like a million dollar studio recording, but I got a better sound than a lot of shit I've heard since. I got a great guitar sound, and it didn't come from some expensive plugin, it came from spending like five days agonising over the mic placement and getting good takes.
That's the shinny object effect :) That's why the plugin market is so profitable
Good job 👍🏻
That "15 Mistakes ..." video showed you how the right title can get you more views. And you deserve all of them.
Linux: RME makes some sweet pcie stuff, all of it works natively through the jack server. I have an older HDSPe AES card that works a treat. No need to be doing windoze snafu when you have Ardour5 any way.
By the way, all the Behringer, focusrite, even old school digidesign stuff tends to work
Adrour 5? They are up to Ardour 6.7 now!
I enjoyed your comments on using DI for guitar recording and it makes a lot of sense. However, I sometimes like to play with feedback sustain or whatever it's called... I stand in front of the amp and control the feedback by moving around. How can I stand in front of a VST and get that feedback and sustain? I just can't believe any plug in could make this sound right. Is this a good reason to mic up and record the amp or is there a good DI solution for that situation?
Even people who, "Know what they are doing," can still frack something up. It's part of being human. Not that I know what I am doing.
"Frack" ...? Dude it's so okay to say fuck in this thread!!! Lol
Love this series so much! Thank you so much Glenn!
Most interfaces that are class compliant will work with linux. Running my 2. gen scarlett 18i20 on my linux mint setup with no problem.
To the guy at 10:52. Instead passing through the usb device, try to passthrough the usb controller itself. Most desktops have two controllers. Yes, that means you lose half of your usb ports, but you can buy a hub to plug in mouse, keyboard and other low powered devices. I use this setup to passthrough an iPhone to a mac VM for development purposes. Tip: Use the command "lspci" to list your pci devices, your usb controllers should be listed there. Also, in my experience, KVM runs much nicer than VirtualBox, you might try it if you are having problems with your current setup.
But for mixing, i'm currently using Ardour, Jack and Carla (to load windows VST's directly on Linux through Wine). Works flawlessly. The initial setup with Jack might give some headaches, but after that everything runs nicely. Every Windows VST I tried worked just fine on Linux with Carla. Linux plugins, especially Calf ones, are awesome.
Check out Unfa, he has a channel on music production (not metal, though) using only Free and/or Open Source tools.
Also, Glenn, I'd love to see you try Ardour (it works on Windows too) one of these times. That would be amazing.
I have Focusrite Scarlett solo and there's nothing wrong with that one either.
I have that too and works just fine... Though had to buy another interface for monitor speakers, because it doesn't have the xlrs..
Genious. I actually thought "I dont need the DI Signal" as well. Until you mentioned that you can sidechain a Noisegate to it. Genious- Just ordered a splitter :)
Re: the Linux thing..... he's talking about adding a VM to run a DAW... you will get a TON of latency doing that as it's got to go through the native OS first and then to the VM.... I don't think you're going to be happy with the results doing it that way PCIE or not......
Agreed. 1000% Fact. and the USB suggestions would only add to the latency. I double dog dare anyone to try that Linux Virtual Machine idea.
Seems like trying to quit Windows without quitting Windows.
In this case, I'd probably consider a separate partition for Windows and Linux, and boot with Windows whenever I'd be working on audio. Running a DAW on a virtual machine sounds super inconvenient.
Man you're great, I always get alot of chuckles watching your show man. One day hopefully soon I'll be finally setting myself up for home recording my guitar for the first time, and ill for sure be watching a whole whack of your videos to learn what the hell im doing haha
Sooo when I'd Glen going to smash something again. Swing your hammer.
Take that as you will.... Oh Ah love the work
Another spider under hammer? I can give mine... Though it is the only thing I have 🤣🤣🤣
Found this channel because I bought a bunch of random audio equipment with no idea which order to hook them up, and stayed because of the humor. Good shit. 👍
I wanna hear a guitar sound that absolutely flops in a mix. You know, putting "my sound, man" in a full mix. I'm pretty sure you have more than a few of those.
There was another guy who was whinging in the comments about Glenn insisting on DI tracks and he was using his music as an example of doing fine without it.
Thinnest guitar tone I've heard from a metal track. Just completely ball-less, and it was so thin he'd turned down the bass too to avoid overpowering it. All of this could have been avoided with a DI track and some re-amping or recabbing, careful blends and judicious use of comp to get something like the tone he wanted, while also not making the reediest instrument noise to come out of something that wasn't a woodwind, but of course, too proud for that.
There's so many reasons to use a DI track, from doubling your cabs, using sims, using the clean signal as a trigger, particularly in sidechains because it's cleaner to control your plugins, and the way it can save a take, you can get an absolutely awesome take of something really tricky, and have it absolutely ruined by background noise or by issues with mic placement. DI track means you don't lose that work.
Glen. Congratulations on being reunited with your son, @remedy drums.
People who immediately dislike these videos probably are just too excited and jittery to click the like button
An hour later the dislikes start to go down.
You are the Penn Jilette of music and recording!! Love all your information and style of teaching
As one of those linux nerds screaming "No you idiot" about the linux audio interfaces, as far as I can tell, any interface that works with mac without additional drivers will just work without any effort. I run my focusrite with no issues and have used the USB out of multiple mixers as interfaces more reliably to linux than I have to windows. since this person is trying to pass the interface to a windows virtual machine though, that shouldn't matter as the windows VM will handle it. as for PCI-e interface specifically, I don't know of any affordable ones at all, but it may be cheaper to pass through a PCI-e usb 3 card to the VM and use the existing USB interface connected to that
Good call on passing through a USB card. Seems like a lot of work, though, when most DAWs run fine under WINE, as do most plugins (at least, the stuff that doesn't use iLok).
Dont forget all the hoops you have to jump through with JACK if you want to run a usb device natively. As far as passing it to a VM. If you use Oracle's VirtualBox you have to make sure you actually open up a vUSB port in the machine settings so Win will see it.
@@joeyzee what hoops? you plug in the interface, select from a drop down which interface to use and click start
@@ANDYN1995 when I tried it on ubuntu 20.04 (focal) I had to run JACK and route the audio where I wanted it to go. It DID showup in my audio settings and it definitely did work as a standard sound card to run my monitors. But when it came to input. I had to do some Goofy stuff.
@@joeyzee for me the patching is a feature I think more systems need, but by default with most think it should pick the inputs fairly reliably. I use ardour under ubuntu and while I do patch things differently sometimes, for simple recording with ardour, as you add channels, it will just use the next input by default, so channel 1 is input 1, channel 2 is input 2 and so until you run out of inputs or stop adding channnels
never looked at pcie personally so no idea but for those who need a audio interface for linux most of the behribger or motu audio interfaces work realy well
I'm a Linux Kernel Engineer, and even I don't use linux on my personal computer.
Linux is great for a lot of things, not for mixing.
JUST DON'T DO IT.
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I just wanna say thanks for your channel, it has helped me so much during so many years. Thank youuuu
I'm a carpenter who came here to learn, lol. 😆😆😆
Watched the whole video and did I miss something? I don't see any portion about Focusrite interfaces etc like in the title and description.
didn't realise i was this early
You Rock man. I'm a beginner at the home recording thing. You have been very helpful. Thank you. Rock on!
Man, do I enjoy your videos! I watch them every morning on my way to work and I just can’t stop laughing, while getting some pretty good advise on recording. Would you do a review on Ampeg’s new SVT Suit? (Yes I’m a bass player)….. looks pretty awesome! Great channel, keep it up.
Hi Glenn I have a problem; sorry if this is a really long one but it's also kind of personal:
I have a problem with my old Engineer Friend whom I parted ways with for some time till he became clean.. or so I thought that he did. We recorded 4 rap songs together like 5-3 years ago which wouldn't even have been able to be recorded without me buying a mic and we also partially made the beats together -> I played in something on his keys and sometimes drumpads -> He put them together in his DAW and did some sound design to the raws, eqed, mixed and mastered the beats, my vocals only were eqed, mixed and mastered half ass though and still sounded very crunchy and raw... we decided 3 years ago that I didn't have to pay for it because we co-produced them with both our skills we had at that time (in my case just doing vocals, playing instruments and having the mic) but it sounded way worse than what I can do by myself now since I also built my own little studio.
Now that I'm having a few paying customers from all over the world with increasing numbers for the past 3 years, built a small network of people I always work with (small Hardcore Punk bands, rappers, session artists and other studio owners) and spending my musical income on knowledge and gear to improve the quality of my recordings and so that I can record more music genres than just producing beats.. he is kind of jealous and mad at me now because he still is at the point where I met him (I even borrowed him 250 bucks to pay his bills so he doesn't sit at home without water, gas and electricity 2 months ago and he didn't pay me back 1 cent) and NOW wants me to pay him money for those half ass vocal recordings which wouldn't even have been possible without my mic and were recorded 5-3 years ago.. it's just 100 bucks that he wants, so it's not about the money but more about the logic behind his thinking process because if he wanted to charge me he should have said so years ago.. btw he still does blow, codeine, pills and smokes a lot of green and spends most of his money on that and then sometimes blames me why his fridge is empty.. he only got this mad after I told him I was going to buy my first pro studio rack and then went on and on about these 100 bucks every day since last week.. what should I do?
p.s.: he still has never had a single job in his life, just wants to make music and is also 2 years older than me.
Thanks on advice in advance! =)
Long time Focusrite user here, I was interested in your comments on the Focusrite 2i2 but after checking this vid out twice, there's no mention of Focusrite in the vid, was that a segment that wound up in the virtual cutting room circular file?
Long story. It’ll be in next weeks video! Sorry for the screw up!
Maybe you could do a video showing what you do with the guitar di.
I did not understand this whole DI or DIE issue but it's easy once you get it. A DI goes to your amp and when you record the raw/clean/naked sound too - next to your screaming amp performance, the engineer can more easily find the transients of the guitar performance, edit it easier, and reamp it for special effects. Why the fork is this so forking hard to forking help the engineer a bit?
Even tho i upgraded from focusrite to SSL interface, i still recommend 2i2 to people. Great interface!
At what point does he talk about the 2i2 in this video?
1) hey for the linux question - you don't need a PCI-e audio card! Because it is entirely possible to pass thru any PCI-e add in card, including extra USB ports on it's own seperate PCI-e card. you can buy them for peanuts like $20 typically or $40 for a premium one. So you then are doing a pci-e pass through of a dedicated USB port on it's own PCI-e lanes. And just plug your usb interface into the dedicated USB ports on the addin pci-e card in the normal way. As you would do with any other USB audio interface. You could just as easily do a firewire one too. The time when you cannot use this method is on a laptop.
2) The other main option is only going to work for certain specific PCs, which can let you do a pci-e pass through for a whole entire IOMMU group. So if that IOMMU group in question happens to be on the right make and model motherboard, then you set up the BIOS options and firmware etc t enable IOMMU, and get it working right. Then if that IOMMU also happens to include some of the computers USB ports, (but not all of them!). Then you can end up with a split. 2 distinct groups of USB ports. So some of the computer's USB ports are then still remain directly wired up to the host OS, however a subset of the others all are within the IOMMU group. So end up wired directly into guest VM machine. Once you assign that IOMMU group to the Guest VM (before starting up the VM Guest).
Effectively you will end up with the same result, either way 1) or 2). It's just normally a lot easier to use method 1) and buy yourself a dedicated PCI-e USB controller card. Even if it seems superfluous to your needs or whatever. It's just normally much easier to hook it up that way. There is absolutely no interference on the USB bus anymore from the host operating system, so no penalities in the latency or performance via USB emulation or whatever. It should all work seamlessly as its real hardware (after all), and be detected within the guest OS just as any other real and native USB controller. That is what the Guest os will see from it's perspective. And that host OS cannot even access those cordorned off USB ports. And the usb audio interface cannot even tell the difference either.
As for linux generally being difficult for music production - YES! However here is an interesting story about that:
I have been running Bitwig 2.4 here for a long time. And for about 2 years, overwhelmingly most of the random windows VST plugins (.dlls) flat out would not work (at all). Even though bitwig and wine was reputedly supposed to support them as working. They would just give a black screen and do nothing at all. Well it turns out that there is some bad bugs in Bitwig version 2.4 that affects VST plugins. And that was actually the reason for most of them not working.
I only found this out because of some other guy, the developer of an open source free linux guitar amp plugin, (believe it or not). Well he eventually discovered this for all me. In trying to reproduce my bug report where his plugin just didnt work. Very generous of him to take the extra time to help me out trying to reproduce the same issue on his system. And then he found out this bug is only in Bitwig 2.4. However it is now aparrently fixed in version 3+ of bitwig studio. So while i have not upgraded it myself yet - it could be getting much easier now to use Windows VST plugins on linux. Which was actually the 1 main technical dealbreaker for linux TBH. Sure Bitwig is not as good as ableton for certain sound synthesis workflows. But Bitwig is still far from being terrible and it can be somewhat made up for with extra VST windows plugins. So long as they work! So yes, the configuration and setup is still complicated and difficult. However at least it's even somewhat possible now. Which was not previously the case.
In future, we will slowly be getting improvements in application packaging thanks to containerization. So that all the more complicated software dependancies (such as WINE emulation etc), so that can be mostly all pre-packaged and bundled up in more easy to download and distribute sandboxed environment. So the libraries on the host system dont have conflicting versions and interfere etc. This is all taking it's sweet time though. Maybe check back in a couple more years.
For a PCIE interface, look into the Maya44 EX by ESI. Around $200 US.
Can you show us how to get a heavy tone like the intro? I have a crate blue voodoo 120h and a line 6 cab. Im dying for that tone.
Can I record at home? Yeah. Do I get what I thought were half decent mixes for demo purposes? Yeah. Do I think 'i know how to record our sound'. Yeah. Booked some studio time recently with an engineer for us to do 3 songs. You know what I discovered? The engineer does know best, you really DO do as you're told/asked and out the other end comes something that makes your home demos sound just like that. Home demos! We all took our gear, she humoured us for an hour having listened to the songs first and then said 'use that that and that', we did as we were told and boom! A value for money session. And all along the way I was hearing Glenn shouting, and thanks dude. You had a big part to play in us going in with the approach needed
Hey Glen, what is that software with all the buttons on your screen sometimes. Not reaper but the software that is for the buttons on your desk.
Hey Glenn! what if you aren't using a DI but are using a captor X? would you still reccomend splitting the signal and using a DI?