I've been watching your videos for many, many years, I just recently re-discovered your channel, and I'm loving the content as much as I did in my teenage years! Thank you for everything, Simon.
Thanks a lot Simon, with your videos and the ones from Farvann I got the motivation to start playing the guitar at my 37s and I'm really enjoying it and making great progress 👍🏻. Greetings from a spanish guy in Germany 😃
Just started your Black Metal course on Udemy and I`m loving it, It`ll be great a full course on recording and producing a song from scratch in the future
I use the focusrite too thanks for the tips, i only have a mac for now so i use audacity with garageband and record some things on my phone then play it back by holding it up to the speaker cuz i like it to sound like its recorded with a potato, alot of Grausamkeit in my musical diet lately
I'm also a big fan of the KvltDrums2. They sound great, but they take a LONG time to load. I actually rendered out a lot of the Kvlt Drums as samples, and load them in a ReaDrums Template (ReaSamplomatic3000) and they sound the same, but load much quicker.
'Educational Darkness' - somehow I feel this could be the title of you next album 😁 Thank you Simon, that one changed a few directions for me in positive way. Greets from (H)Belgium!
How I record Black Metal + bonus Death Metal guide: First I go to the local church, great acoustics I find the priest and murder him in cold blood I smear my guitar, strings and pick with his blood I setup my Fisher Price microphone and cassette player for ages 4-6, to be authentic with the Burzum traditional recording process I play my songs Burn down the church when I'm done and move to the churches backyard cemetery Detune to B or lower, engage an HM-2 and reanimate the dead by playing/recording Death Metal I sell the recordings from both genres, hit TOP spot in the metal charts, live the rest of my life rich and famous . . in prison probably
Thanks for the tutorial! I'm having an issue whenever I'm doing guitars where it's the tone gets super crackly and washy which makes it really painful to listen to. I'm trying to copy your effects chain here to diagnose where I'm running into issues and was wondering if you had any videos where you show the amp sim settings? Thanks!
Hi Mr Smith, I just subscribed! Great content, the best I've seen. I have some questions please. I'm a beginner, I can play some easy stuff and I also have couple of riffs that I could gather for a track. My dream is to record something. I don't have gear now but I will get it. My questions are: do I only need a guitar, interface, Reaper and a computer? Can the bass be programmed? Also, do I need something along with reaper? Preamps?? I'm not sure.. Would a generic guitar (unbranded) from.amazon and Behringer umc22 interface do the job? Focusrite is a but too expensive and I'm just starting. Thank you in advance
I just discovered your channel a few days ago. Great content! Sends me right back into my youth in the 90s. I played in a Blackmetal band back then. Now I recently ordered a guitar because I'm in the mood for making some oldschool BM again. :) Let's see if I still can play the guitar. Is there any chance to get the MIDI Files for Kvlt Drums from you? Or where did you get them? Cheers and regards from Germany!
Hello Simon, I watched this video, pretty interesting and thank you so much, I have a specific question, I see you used drum tracks that were made before, did you program the drum track or just downloaded from somewhere? can you always find drum track for the songs that you make?
Simon, check Trash 2, a new plugin from Izotope. Sounds very fain, good for black metal. Thanx for fain video (I recorded my music exactly like You). Cheers 🥃🤘
You can download the vst and put it into your VST folder, then load it into the daw following these passages: open Reaper --> Ctrl+P (Preferences) --> VST --> Re-scan (now the VST is loaded). Then insert a new virtual instrument on a new track --> write Kvlt Drums into the searching bar and select it. 🍻
If I buy Kult Drums 2, will I be able to add their drum beats directly into Reaper, or do I need to buy another program like Superior Drummer? I'm not really interested in creating my own drum beats necessarily; I just want to use pre-recorded beats for recording and writing.
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Content makers who respond to the requests of their subscribers are the best. Simon, you are gold. Thank you so much for what you do!
My pleasure mate!
Thanks, Simon! I love seeing the behind the scenes of artists capturing their art! Cool methods! I'm still using Apple Logic 9 on a 2012 Mac.
I used Logic for years. I love it.
I've been watching your videos for many, many years, I just recently re-discovered your channel, and I'm loving the content as much as I did in my teenage years! Thank you for everything, Simon.
Thanks a lot Simon, with your videos and the ones from Farvann I got the motivation to start playing the guitar at my 37s and I'm really enjoying it and making great progress 👍🏻. Greetings from a spanish guy in Germany 😃
Thanks buddy. I hope you're enjoying playing!! It's never too late to learn!
Siempre quise viajar a Alemania. Tocar la guitarra es lo mejor!
Man, a good IR is probably THE most important effect in your guitar chain. And REAPER is awesome to work with. Thanks for the upload, Simon.
Awesome video, Simon. Thank you for responding to a request! This is actually really helpful lol.
Thank you for this! And for all of your efforts and videos! :)
Great tutorial. Kvlt drvms - the best choice for bm.
Thank you for that Simon !
Just started your Black Metal course on Udemy and I`m loving it, It`ll be great a full course on recording and producing a song from scratch in the future
Thanks buddy
149k subscribers well done sir
Thanks
It looks like you've seen the ghost of Euronymous at 00:17 😂
🤣🤣
I use the focusrite too thanks for the tips, i only have a mac for now so i use audacity with garageband and record some things on my phone then play it back by holding it up to the speaker cuz i like it to sound like its recorded with a potato, alot of Grausamkeit in my musical diet lately
Thank you so much Simon, your FX chain inspired me a lot but the loadmax vst is the best, thank you again for let us discover your process
Best middle age friend you could have :)
Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Cheers from Germany!
Those vocals were rly strong man
I'm also a big fan of the KvltDrums2. They sound great, but they take a LONG time to load. I actually rendered out a lot of the Kvlt Drums as samples, and load them in a ReaDrums Template (ReaSamplomatic3000) and they sound the same, but load much quicker.
Nice video, very informative and interesting. Cheers from The Dark Plains of Jutland Denmark 🇩🇰
Cool.
Nice and simple! Very similar to my method only I use Studio One.
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Thanks for sharing this! I made some black metal for the first time for a quick job, and this would have been perfect! Well, better late than never
Pasado de lanza el simon!
Thanks for making this!
🤘
'Educational Darkness' - somehow I feel this could be the title of you next album 😁 Thank you Simon, that one changed a few directions for me in positive way. Greets from (H)Belgium!
I’m a drummer so I usually just improvise something with drums and then go from there :D awesome video btw \m/
Nice tutorial.Please,make a video teaching how to play Storm of the reaper from Nifelheim!
One of my friends records all miced tracks running it hot into tascam four track as preamp to the daw. Sounds good for the extra grit.
Great video Simon, that was awesome and really well explained 😀🤘🎵🔥🔥🔥🔥
i really enjoyed watching this, because i pretty much do the exact same thing xD cheers Simon!!
How I record Black Metal + bonus Death Metal guide:
First I go to the local church, great acoustics
I find the priest and murder him in cold blood
I smear my guitar, strings and pick with his blood
I setup my Fisher Price microphone and cassette player for ages 4-6, to be authentic with the Burzum traditional recording process
I play my songs
Burn down the church when I'm done and move to the churches backyard cemetery
Detune to B or lower, engage an HM-2 and reanimate the dead by playing/recording Death Metal
I sell the recordings from both genres, hit TOP spot in the metal charts, live the rest of my life rich and famous . . in prison probably
Great track!🤘
Thanks for the video! Doing pretty much the same but in cubase. And using Neural DSP plugins for guitars and bass
Nice
Suena parecido a Horna 👍
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Nice. Not so over compressed, or processed sounding. Have you tried TDR Nova? If so, your thoughts, and if not, it's free.
Thanks a lot
Please check out Upon Earth - World Funeral EP
Raw black metal from the Netherlands 🔥
Nice song too
Never seen you play BM on a strat!!
Very helpfull video!
Thanks for the tutorial! I'm having an issue whenever I'm doing guitars where it's the tone gets super crackly and washy which makes it really painful to listen to. I'm trying to copy your effects chain here to diagnose where I'm running into issues and was wondering if you had any videos where you show the amp sim settings? Thanks!
Hi Mr Smith, I just subscribed! Great content, the best I've seen.
I have some questions please. I'm a beginner, I can play some easy stuff and I also have couple of riffs that I could gather for a track. My dream is to record something. I don't have gear now but I will get it.
My questions are: do I only need a guitar, interface, Reaper and a computer? Can the bass be programmed?
Also, do I need something along with reaper? Preamps?? I'm not sure..
Would a generic guitar (unbranded) from.amazon and Behringer umc22 interface do the job? Focusrite is a but too expensive and I'm just starting.
Thank you in advance
Hi. You would need some plugins as well. There are loads of awesome free ones. Should be some links to some on my channel
👌🏻👍🏻
I didn’t realize how many people use hm-2/hm-2 clones
Yo check out the marduk recreation I just did!
I just discovered your channel a few days ago. Great content! Sends me right back into my youth in the 90s. I played in a Blackmetal band back then. Now I recently ordered a guitar because I'm in the mood for making some oldschool BM again. :) Let's see if I still can play the guitar. Is there any chance to get the MIDI Files for Kvlt Drums from you? Or where did you get them? Cheers and regards from Germany!
Hi mate. The midi pack should be on the Ugritone website. Good luck getting back into playing!!
@@SimonSmithGuitar That was fast. Thank you! I guess I found it. At least if you mean the Black Metal Essentials MIDI Pack?
@@fenrir20678 That's the one mate yes!
@@SimonSmithGuitar Got it. Thank you! Got lucky. All MIDI packs are on sale right now. :)
@@fenrir20678 Awesome!!
Hello Simon, I watched this video, pretty interesting and thank you so much, I have a specific question, I see you used drum tracks that were made before, did you program the drum track or just downloaded from somewhere? can you always find drum track for the songs that you make?
no mobile phone recording? it's 2021 dude. Analog is not trve anymore
I need my old cassette recorder to be trve!
Simon, check Trash 2, a new plugin from Izotope. Sounds very fain, good for black metal. Thanx for fain video (I recorded my music exactly like You). Cheers 🥃🤘
Appreciate the video, Simon. How exactly do I import Kvlt Drums into Reaper? Is there a video on it? thanks!
You can download the vst and put it into your VST folder, then load it into the daw following these passages: open Reaper --> Ctrl+P (Preferences) --> VST --> Re-scan (now the VST is loaded). Then insert a new virtual instrument on a new track --> write Kvlt Drums into the searching bar and select it. 🍻
There must be. I'm the least techy person going so I would have had to use a video to figure it out
@@narthang1270 Yep I got it they had a tutorial on their website, just had to do some digging, thanks for the response!
@@SimonSmithGuitar Yup they had one on their website, thanks for the heads up
Hey simon what are the green bars. Are they guitar, what is the third one doing then.
i have that cup too :)
🤘😊🤘
Hey sir can u make vid about downpicking?
Yep!!
If I buy Kult Drums 2, will I be able to add their drum beats directly into Reaper, or do I need to buy another program like Superior Drummer? I'm not really interested in creating my own drum beats necessarily; I just want to use pre-recorded beats for recording and writing.
Works in Reaper by itself yes
Where do you get your tea?
The shop
You don't save this as a template so you don't have to do all these steps each time?
I like to work harder, not smarter!! 😂
I will do now you've pointed it out! Thanks for the tip.
@@SimonSmithGuitar I based mine on how YT'er Resington set his up ua-cam.com/video/8eDQ6rxw-D4/v-deo.html&ab_channel=resington
Yep, using templates saves a lot of time
Where can I find your songs?
Bandcamp. Look for Kyteler and Winters Mourning
This is a great video. Thanks a lot for everything you do. You are a great teacher. P.S Tea is not black metal. What is wrong with you English people.
Is black tea black metal?
@@SimonSmithGuitar depends. Does it have coffee in it?
@@Cochmazh Of course! Who has tea without coffee in it?
Nonsense, dust of an analog 4 track and record everything with one condenser mic that is placed inside of a metal trashcan in the center of the room.
Without Plugins = REAL BLACK METAL!!!! YEAH!!!🤘👹
With Plugins = POP MUSIC!!! BOOOOO!!!
Just kidding...I think...🤔
Artificial ! Natural es mejor !
Goddamn Simon, you are a beast!
I still use my modplug tracker like Windir, for song sketch.