Ivan's Metal Arpeggiator Collab :), VIDEO COMMENTS THREAD |
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Ivan's Metal Arpeggiator Collab :), VIDEO COMMENTS THREAD |
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Jun 7 2009, 06:36 PM |
Hey guys, with a small delay I started to produce video comments. Today I did two, for Marek and sted, and for sted it is currently uploading. I will post it soon. Feel free to listen the takes and comment them yourself.
If you need me to give more comments on your playing ask and we wil discuss it in this thread (FINAL MIX is at the end of this post) Cheers! Marek Rojewski Marek's collab take sted sted's take Jakub Luptovec Jakub's take kjutte kjutte's take eat-sleep-andJam eat-sleep-andJam's take matt23 matt's take VictorUK Vic's take Deadevil Deadevil's take arctic1234 arctic1234's take Toroso Toroso's take Paiva Paiva's take kaznie_NL Kaz's take gibsonmatte gibsonmatte's take Outlaw2112 Outlaw2112's take Sollesnes Sollesnes's take This post has been edited by Ivan Milenkovic: Jul 10 2009, 12:33 AM -------------------- - Ivan's Video Chat Lesson Notes HERE
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Jun 7 2009, 06:55 PM |
Already told it on the chat, but once again, HUGE thanks, really helpful comment Ivan:)
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Jun 7 2009, 07:22 PM |
Anytime man, it was my pleasure
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Jun 7 2009, 09:12 PM |
Another comment added guys
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Jun 8 2009, 08:28 PM |
I will be glad to help you of course! I'm no expert so I'll try to explain the best way I can:
As I said your sound is good, but you just need to watch out for the levels. When talking about levels I mean "volume levels" and this is where headroom comes into play. Headroom is nothing complicated really, it's just the amount of "space" that signal can go in terms of volume level until it reaches the clipping point. Check out the next picture: In this picture you can see several headrooms for different appliances. When the sound reaches the red point, it starts to "clip". Clipping means that signal cannot go any further so the information is lost. You can observe the clipping phenomenon on this example: As you can see on the picture - if we increase the overall volume of the signal the audio signal amplitude is not curved. When it reaches it's limit it is clipped and basically lost. You cannot hear that curved tip anymore. So if we say for example that some amp has "big headroom" it means that it can be amplified a lot without clipping, thus staying clean. When the amp is distorting on lower volumes (for example average Marshall clean channel usually goes into crunch after 7-8), we say that it doesn't have a big headroom on big volumes. If you take two Marshall amps, one 50W and other one 200W and crank both of them to 6 on clean channel, the 200W will be louder, so it has bigger headroom, which simply means more loudness without clipping. This is basically the story about headroom a bit simplified. Now, lets get back to clipping part a bit. I said that information is lost when you push the volume up, so the signal is not curved anymore, but it has those straight lines like on picture 2. There are 2 kinds of clipping, one is desireable and the other one isn't: 1. tube clipping (tube overdrive): this kind of clipping is good, and you can hear it when you crank the tube amp, or switch to OD channel on tube amps. The harmonics that tubes produce are even, and goes along nicely with the original signal, so they have that "natural" or "musical" sound as many people describe it. 2. solid state clipping (hard clippin): this kind of clipping is not good, cause it sounds harsh and unnatural. Pretty much every electronic device including solid state amps, digital audio interfaces, and all kind of solid state gear hard clip the signal and above that point work is useless. Hard clipping is not good cause when the clipping occurs it produces odd harmonics. Although some part of the signal is lost, the transients appear (depending what electronic components are used these transients can vary and they are calculated using some math methods) in the upper sound spectrum that "enrich" the sound. These sound waves are functioning to "color" the main signal. Solid state components create odd or uneven harmonics and this is why this sounds bad. If the signal is too high (as you made in your take when rendering) then this will be heard as lots of cracks and pops, and noise. In order to prevent that, you should monitor the faders in your DAW software and watch out so it doesn't go above the 0dB limit. Back in the good old days of analog gear, some degree of clipping would be allowed, cause back than studios used analog mixers, tape recorders etc. These components could be pushed a bit into overdrive (they had bigger headroom), without loosing the information. These days when most of the stuff we use is purely digital, there is a limit above which everything sounds terrible basically, so we try to prevent the signal going above that limit. This is done by constantly monitoring input meters of our sound cards, input meters in our DAW software, and input meters on our master channel. If the sound is bellow 0dB during the whole recording - you can rest assure that you signal will be nice and healthy. If you want to discuss further on this topic, for example want from me to give you some specific tips & tricks on how to achieve that, post all the gear&software that you use for recording and I'll try to help. Cheers mate -------------------- - Ivan's Video Chat Lesson Notes HERE
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Jun 9 2009, 10:01 AM |
Anytime Lee bro
One more thing that I need to know is what DAW software do you use for recording? Reaper, Cubase, something else? -------------------- - Ivan's Video Chat Lesson Notes HERE
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Jun 9 2009, 12:16 PM |
Anytime Lee bro One more thing that I need to know is what DAW software do you use for recording? Reaper, Cubase, something else? Reaper mate, all the way!! |
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Jun 9 2009, 03:13 PM |
OK!
- Make sure you monitor your signal in several mixers, first in POD Farm (picture 1) - Then make sure you keep the signal bellow the 0dB in reaper (picture 2) when recording on the audio track, and also keep the overal signal loudness lower than 0dB on the Master Channel (first channel to the left)
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Jun 9 2009, 03:19 PM |
Cool stuff Ivan, I feel like recording a take, just to get a comment You've also improved your background
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Jun 9 2009, 04:32 PM |
Feel free to do so, I can extend the limit for you Kaz, you are my "regular customer".
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Jun 9 2009, 05:01 PM |
Another comment added for Jakub
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Jun 11 2009, 12:05 AM |
Another take added for kjutte
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Jun 11 2009, 10:50 PM |
2 more takes added for ES&J and matt
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Jun 12 2009, 10:26 AM |
I'm glad to help in any way, and it was cool to listen to your take man! Cheers
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Jun 13 2009, 12:12 PM |
Very useful comments Ivan, thanks.
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Jun 16 2009, 11:32 AM |
Anytime man!
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Jun 16 2009, 11:56 AM |
Sorry for commenting that late but I was out of time:)
Thank you very much for your comment, I noted it and will try to implement that. Oh and regarding that second part and the use of A harmonic minor... I didnt really use a scale on the second part.. I just used my ear and heart to guide me, because I wanted that part to be kind of fluid and sleek, sort of out of box, built on some exotic melody:) -------------------- my youtube account with riffs and ideas: https://www.youtube.com/user/Phoenygzus
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