Recording Rock Guitar - Free Software - Easy Tutorial
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- Опубліковано 11 лип 2024
- This explains getting started with Cakewalk by Bandlab. The tutorial has an incredible amount of information to get you started in record time. To absorb what's being explained it's absolutely necessary to download the lesson materials. Materials include: The same Cakewalk Project that appears in the tutorial - a complete transcript of the video - keystroke commands defined and explained. To receive the free download: metalmethod.com/download
I bought your metal method program 35 years ago. I learned music theory through it and it was the best thing I ever did for guitar.There was no internet and it was hard to find a good teacher when I was young. The way it was explained made so much sense so fast. I don't know if I would be playing to this day if I hadn't studied those books. Thanks for unlocking the gift of music for me. Cheers.
You're welcome Ben. I'm very lucky that my path back then led to my teaching career. It wasn't what I chose. As John Lennon said, "Life happens while you're making other plans."
Thats where I remember him from. Wolf Marshall was another one from that era.
BEST TUTORIAL I'VE COME ACROSS FOR EXACTLY THE NEEDS I WANT TO DO... THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
Thanks for letting me know Shan. Glad that you enjoyed it.
More than 2 years of working with cakewalk with no success... these 30 min has summerised every thing for me with optimum results. Thanks alot and keep on.
Great lesson on recording. I took some lessons from Doug in the past. He is one of the nicest guys I ever met. Very patient and caring for all his students. He has been teaching since the 80's and has taught over one million people to play the guitar.
Hey Tim, great seeing you. I always enjoyed our Skype sessions. It's been too long my friend!
Thank you so much for this and everything else that you've done for struggling musicians since the 80's! This was exactly what I needed as I've been struggling to get into/understand the whole DAW process.
That's great Leonard. If you have any questions, let me know.
This is really fantastic, Doug. I remember Cakewalk back when I was looking at DAWs in the late 90s, back in the days of Windows 98. I ended up getting Cubase VST 3.7, with that big serial dongle in the back of my PC...lol. But I've always kept an eye on Cakewalk-- it has had such a loyal following through the years. I did hear that Bandlab purchased the Cakewalk assets, reviving the program and releasing it as a free fully functional DAW, keeping and reinvigorating the Cakewalk brand. I loved this video, Doug. What you are doing here with this supplement to your course is wonderful. Once again you are giving the gift of knowledge to guitarists everywhere, of all skill levels by adding this instructional video on audio recording basics. You have been pivotal in my journey as a musician and guitarist. Thank you, my friend.
Thank you very much Shayne. I worked hard on this one so it's great hearing your review. Also, I started using Cakewalk in about '95 when I did the songwriting course. Actually demonstrated it there. This is way beyond the capabilities back then. I think it was only midi at the time.
Thanks, Doug. All of your lessons are excellent. I'm still working my way through your 2020 Rock Course, so Cakewalk will be a great additional resource.
Absolutely. As recommended in this tutorial, import the backing track to practice the leads and even more important, create your own.
Thank you Doug!
Was searching for guitar noise/hum reduction and got your video from results.
Sonitus Gate was the solution!
Learned more then expected.
Thanks again!
Thanks Jose. Yeah, I play a Strat quite often and the Sonitus Gate is great for making the noise level acceptable.
Great video, gave me a lot of stuff to play around with.
Awesome. There's probably nothing that can help your playing more than to begin using a DAW and the price of Cakewalk is right. Free.
Thank you, thank you, thank you Doug! My time has been limited lately and it seems all my free time is eaten up trying to figure out how to get the software to work... Then I don't have time to actually play!
Thank you for helping me out, again.
You're welcome Paul. Right on Mark mentioned that you were struggling with this and that it would be perfect. Trust me, I've been where you are and it's not pretty. By following my instructions you'll do fine and save yourself a lot of headaches. Still, even after all of these years I occasionally get stumped. It actually happened today. But now I know enough that I was able to see everything was correct. Sometimes the program gets stuck for lack of a better description. When you run into a problem, save the project and reboot. That's what I did and it worked great. Always glad to help Paul.
yeah. i tried a quick start tutorial. but since i was not very well versed in cakewalk it came off a bit clunky. but this opened my eyes to how it really works. thanks.
Yes I've been getting so frustrated fighting audio interfaces, latency, and horrible DAW UIs instead of just making and recording my musical ideas. This tutorial was fantastic and practical, and the software is completely free! Unbelievable. Just discovered bandlab and cakewalk yesterday. This looks like a game changer.
Doug . I bought your guitar method eons ago..how long you ask?.. well let's just say I remember when You used to be Tall ,Dark and Handsome ! The moment you said "why did we picked up the guitar" and your answer was " To pick up chicks" I knew right then that you were A Genius !! Thank you for all that you do !! Stay safe !!!
Thanks but I've never been tall, dark, but yes... always extremely handsome. lol
Very cool, Doug. Thank you. I followed along with the video, to at least import the track and such while I'm waiting for the focusrite to arrive.
(When you first dropped this, I didn't have a worthy laptop and i primarily use linux. I caved and bought a laptop, and am excited to start using this...now I need to unload my little four track and drum machine, I used to use! ha)
Yeah, old technology drops in value like a rock.
It's nice to see the workflow for a DAW I'm not used to. I like how Cakewalk manages multiple takes... I have been using FL Studio's Edison, and have been manually extracting the section of each loop if I want to a/b compare. I'll have to look and see if it has a more streamlined feature like you demonstrate in the video.
What I showed is the tip of the iceberg. Check out some UA-cam videos on comping. Creative Sauce / Michael does one that's excellent. The workflow is way better than the simple method that I explained. Comping isn't complicated but I really didn't want to go there because there was a simpler way to perform the task. Simple but not as effective.
i JUST said what a MESS my VST folders are - only seconds before you said the same exact thing about, "do as i say, and not as i do" hahahhahahahah 🦎
Awesome
Thank you faith.
Excellent stuff! I recently grabbed the free Cake Walk DAW download but haven't yet tried it (normally I use Ableton) so a video like this is just what I needed to start giving Cakewalk a go. I've never recorded dry guitar into a DAW before (always been out of my amp) so adding the amps and effects in software would be a first for me. Will this be the first of a series or is this a one off?
I don't know that this is the beginning of a series but I will offer tips in the future. I'm planning to do livestreams beginning this week and plan to make Cakewalk tips part of the program.
Great effort and project, wondering when it will be available for MacOS?
Well.... the program's been around 30 years so I wouldn't hold my breath. Bandlab is still doing a great job supporting the program but I think it would take more than they're current resources to port it to MAC cause it's free.
Thanks for the video Doug! That's exactly what I've been trying to figure out. And for the same reason. I wanted to record my practice and listen to them to improve. Can the files be exported so I can listen away from my computer?
Absolutely. You can export the entire mix or individual tracks. Go to File at the top left of the window then Export then Audio.
@@DougMarks thanks!!!
I'm new to cakewalk and having trouble recording multiple guitar tracks. I can record one track for rhythm but when I try to loop the riff add a 2nd track to record a lead with a different effect I don't hear anything from the 2nd track.
Doug, are you ever going to make a follow up to this?
Good question. I will continue to follow up with videos on technology. I did one recently on RipX which is awesome and I use the tracks with Cakewalk.
Дуг, молодец! Привет из России!
Very nice info Doug.
I have been using Audacity to record through guitar, pedals and amp's line out going into Line-In sound card of PC with Windows 7. I have been using Behringer pedals and gear and they offered me free software 'Waveform' on a gear purchase. I however decided to stick with my method of conventional amp and pedals rather than all this.
Do you think we analog men have future as players and sound engineers? Please let me know.
If permitted I will send you a link to my album on UA-cam.
Thanks from India.
The future for analog is very limited. You need to upgrade your PC and use Windows 10. Windows 10 is a vast improvement over previous versions. Very stable. When you're doing this stuff on a computer stability is everything. On the other hand, analog is great for players. So, I don't want to discourage you about that.
@@DougMarks Thanks Doug. I will keep on learning the basics only from you about DAW but with very limited resources for survival gear upgrade looks like a dream. I will prefer to stay analog but since I never found any latency I did not buy a DI in the first place.
WINDOWS 10 needs ASIO4All drivers as per my knowledge and they are already installed on my WIN-7 PC but not used. The PC is AMD, strong enough for my load.
Doug I has a tascam portable studio it's 24 tracks and burns right to cd and could I hook that to my laptop and use cake walk?
You're asking for my advice so here it is. You don't need the Tascam portable. Put it on Ebay. I had one thirty years ago and yes, it was a great piece of equipment in that era but today it's best to keep everything digital. There is nothing that I can think of that will add to your recordings by using the Tascam with Cakewalk.
Where Can I get a copy of the backing track?
I did this awhile ago. I'll look into that.
For over 10 years, i use only: Abelton Live, Amplitube/Stealth Pedal, Guitar Pro.... and, ProTools, Reason, 808 beat box beats, etc. maybe some day too
All good. The most important thing, if you're not doing it already, begin using a DAW.