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Hi guys HNY had some trouble with YouTube last year so just reaching out for a bit of help on my channel. Drop your channel in comments to follow each-other, all helps doesn't it? apologise if not allowed on here. I just chatting in the video, i need the practise

Cool! You have cool taste haha

oxymoron was my favourite word for a while when is was a teenager haha

I only use one limiter on the master. I try to have a healthy dynamic range and stereo filed with some simple tricks to have some sheen and loudness. I am no expert but did work for ITV as a tech engineer so i know technically a bit about sound engineering has i was one lol. I find other things more important like you mention the "sheen" and the warmth or shine depending on the soundtrack or vibe. Here some simple tips which will help you, they start at the mixing stage because you cant really make a bad mix or recording sound that great has you know. Better the mix better the sheen.... Tip: Do a low and high shelf cut (20hz-20khz) on nearly "all" tracks at mixing stage, helps reduce hiss and rumble to aim for that "sheen" and headroom that builds up on all tracks when your not cutting, frequencies you can't even hear, so my stereo premaster i will also cut to the sound i want getting close as possible. Not cutting tracks creates at least two problems, often more. I say "nearly al tracks" because i will also do bigger EQ cuts on certain instruments and less on others. So lets say my kick drum sits at 50 to 100hz i will totally cut some tracks low shelf more than 100hz if it doesn't effect the track sound i am cutting, like a hi-hat you can do big low shelf cuts and be more careful with the high shelf. However on the other hand i wont do a 100hz cut on my FX track if i am using impacts and thuds or they would have no impact or thud and we don't want to loose anything that helps the overall sheen, we creating space and reducing mud. You know what sound your guitar or instrument needs to sound like so don't over cut so it doesn't sound like the instrument you want it to sound like. However if some instruments are sharing a frequency we can loose shine and get mud or phasing or stereo issues. So we counter with panning like a band on stage for width and subtle reverb/delay for depth and/or cutting a hole in one instrument frequency by a few db and and boost the other up a few db so they complement each other more. Example If the bass is also at 50 to 100hz same as the kick you got a battle going on and it pushes up the master db loosing headroom and effects the sheen and even mud with overlaps. Most people will turn one up on the fader, bad idea has you chase your tail when mixing turning other things up loosing more headroom, fact its better to turn one down but a cut is better with sheen in mind. We can use the cakewalk pro channel/track eq or Sonitus multiband is a great tool to cut ranges like the example 50 to 100hz kick range maybe 1 to 3db or the bass by 1 to 3db depending on style of music so the master or pro channel db is still the same db and keeping headroom, i might even put a subtle reverb/delay on bass to move in behind or in front keeping the sheen and not creating mud from the overlap frequencies as we don't want to make cuts everywhere and end up sounding to fake with digital processing. More space we have to play with we then can add more life for sheen by adding saturation to glue some harmonics and have that sheen. If we just always push fader up, lots of people do this and it pushes up the the crap, we lose headroom and end up with more noise, hiss rumble and less sheen. We want to create our own noise and sound with saturation and exciters etc to keep the sheen or make it better. hope that helps a bit, im not great at explaining on txt

Yes a quality YouTube channel lol You might notice from September 2020 the quality got better when i moved from a little a 8track to my first song on DAW Cakewalk which was Wisdom of an Angel although the mastering was not great but im still getting there with mastering, thanx

Yes, video editing is great fun to learn but can be very time consuming with certain learning curves but similar to cakewalk in a way. I like to spend more time on music and bang the videos together relatively fast. I like, to spend more time on music ideas and learning cakewalk. Iv'e been using cakewalk a year now for a few times a week and love it, so it helped me learn pretty fast with already have some techie knowledge. Regarding the music, yes i tried different arps sounds and layers etc, i experiment quite a lot. Personally i was happy with the distortion. Our personal tastes will always be subjective with styles and then you have preferences with the hooks, the bass, drums, vocals and even the words when writing our own stuff. One set of my buds there's not much bass and distortion. My mates hifi said it shakes his house down but he sets his eq diffrent to how i would set it up.

Yeh its a bit like marmite that distortion haha I couldn't leave it out, ended up being empty without it. I layered it to my bass line and melody as a glue but also to be the metaphorical ambience between reality and fiction.

Testing the new Christmas gifts, sampler and synth... loving them.. second part with tiny bit of guitar break, i should have done more, really goes up a gear but i wanted to keep song sort... hope you like ... Happy new years to everyone

well glad this years over

HAPPY CHRISTMAS PEEPS

fantastic track and impressive mastering

i must have changed it 20 times haha

Thank you for feedback and yes he had a great run. Now what creative adventure do i do next. I'm playing with izotope Break Tweaker sampler to get me inspired. However for all the hassle of triggering patterns and creating them i might as well use cakewalk has a sampler, don't get me wrong it does have some good sounds what you can manipulate on micro edit...

Full version here finished guys

New idea 2LIVE4 finished

Finished the idea 2LIVE4 i posted couple weeks ago after i lost mans best friend. Few people encouraged me to do a full song from the little idea, here it is, i perk it up in the middle 8. Spent 14yrs with the mighty pigpoo, always sat by me recording when he was not destroying trees haha hope you like

Thanx, i think my next one is better. Should be ready this weekend ?

Nearly finished it, really got stuck in this weekend. Big twist in middle 8, just unsure with a couple of bits before i bang video together. Ive got lots of old footage of Rossi (Pigpoo) so he can have a video dedicated ?

Thanx Tim, I'm a year into cakewalk so been mixing up the styles to learn my way round a daw, however iv'e spent more time on last couple of tracks messing with recording mics and levels

Working on acoustic track at the moment you might like. However, having problems with mic placement, buzz, high frequencies, mud and my playing haha

For sure Freddy your bang on "Music is a real reflection of life, it is a delicious vibe born out of belief!" expressing our full emotions or your not doing it right i would say lol , the pain, love, humour and every other trait we have form our conscious to our subconscious i would say. Thank you Freddy, rock on...

Cameraman had a great amount of fun haha

The the message is what people want to ever make of it. That's the beauty psychology of people self promoting their thinking.

My dog (pigpoo) died at the weekend so i started writing this, he would have been 14 and had a good life. I agree i should finished it now iv'e started, i wasn't sure at the time. The idea is there to build from and i have some ideas, thanx Lynn

Was setting up my bass tonight, new strings, strat new strings and Acoustic new strings. Well i just came up with this little idea after putting a quick loop drum beat together and testing everything, should i do a full song? Was going to call it To live For