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Scream Vocal Tracking

Lesson 55 from: Recording Metal with Eyal Levi: A Bootcamp

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Scream Vocal Tracking

Lesson 55 from: Recording Metal with Eyal Levi: A Bootcamp

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Lesson Info

55. Scream Vocal Tracking

Lessons

Class Trailer
1

Intro to Bootcamp

13:45
2

Purpose of Pre-Production

15:55
3

Technical Side of Preproduction

11:33
4

Pre-Production: Setting Up the Tempo Map

12:05
5

Pre-Production: Importing Stems

10:11
6

Pre-Production: Click Track

15:27
7

Creating Tracking Templates

17:04
8

Intro and the Tone Pie

04:52
9

Drums - Lay of the Land

10:45
10

Bearing Edges

03:10
11

Wood Types

10:37
12

Depths and Sizes

04:00
13

Hoops

02:39
14

Sticks and Beaters

07:39
15

Drum Heads

07:31
16

Drum Tuning

1:03:55
17

Drum Mic Placement Intro

10:38
18

Basic Drum Mic Setup

53:37
19

Cymbal Mic Setup

35:25
20

Touch Up Tuning

46:56
21

Microphone Choice and Placement

40:34
22

Drum Tracking Intro

01:01
23

Getting Tones and Final Placement

34:52
24

Primary Tracking

31:54
25

Punching In and Comping Takes

20:11
26

Guitar Setup and Rhythm Tone Tracking

01:59
27

Amplifiers - Lay of the Land

10:01
28

Amplifiers & Cab Shoot Out

27:13
29

Guitar Cab Mic Choice and Placement

03:56
30

Guitar Tracking and Signal Chain

29:08
31

Finalizing Amplifier Tone

51:24
32

Guitar Mic Shootout Round Robin

05:22
33

Intro to Rhythm Tracking

07:46
34

Setting Up Guitars

15:02
35

Working with a Guitarist

05:05
36

Final Guitar Tone and Recap

04:11
37

Guitar Tracking with John

15:19
38

Guitar Tracking with Ollie

32:03
39

Final Tracking

22:08
40

Tracking Quads

33:44
41

Intro to Bass Tone

01:26
42

Bass Tone Setup

07:36
43

Bass Tone Mic Placement

16:42
44

Bass Tracking

45:09
45

Intro to Clean and Lead Tones

02:15
46

Clean Guitar Tones

34:05
47

Lead Tones

10:58
48

Vocal Setup for Tracking

11:27
49

Vocal Mic Selection and Setup

02:39
50

Vocal Mic Shootout

09:14
51

Lead Vocal Tracking

38:09
52

Writing Harmonies

07:44
53

Harmony Vocal Tracking

23:25
54

Vocal Warm Ups

11:40
55

Scream Vocal Tracking

18:57
56

Vocal Tuning and Editing Introduction

01:35
57

Vocal Tuning and Editing

29:26
58

Routing and Bussing

25:16
59

Color Coding, Labeling and Arranging Channels

17:54
60

Setting Up Parallel Compression

30:51
61

Setting Up Drum Triggers

10:41
62

Gain Staging and Trim

1:00:54
63

Drum Mixing - Subtractive EQ

25:39
64

Drum Mixing - Snare

23:01
65

Drum Mixing - Kick

11:39
66

Drum Mixing - Toms

24:47
67

Drum Mixing - Cymbals and Rooms

17:24
68

Drum Mixing Recap

08:58
69

Mixing Bass Guitar

16:27
70

Mixing Rhythm Guitars

1:16:08
71

Basic Vocal Mix

1:08:59
72

Mixing Clean and Lead Guitars

58:55
73

Mixing - Automation

43:36
74

Mastering - Interview with Joel Wanasek

31:02

Lesson Info

Scream Vocal Tracking

♫ Falling ... lost ground ♫ Believers wander without their lie. You sound pretty cool. Hey, why don't we check this out. Because the music is, it already sounds pretty cool. Alright. Let me just duplicate this so that we can do doubles and stuff. (microphone testing) (laughing) Make that booty. Just act like that. Alright, you ready? Let me test. From the top. Got it, I was just putting my guide in there so I know where the screams are. Is your guide live? Alright, you ready? Yes. Okay, go. (electric guitar music) ♫ Falling (unintelligible ♫ Believers (unintelligible Sounds pretty great, man. How is it sounding to you? I'm just adjusting my music level but I think that's okay. Yeah, let me listen to it in here. It's coming to me like a solid block, which is how I like vocals to come in. Okay. Let me listen to it. It's not pretty tremendously aggressive. ♫ Falling (unintelligible ♫ Believers (unintelligible Yeah, cool. I like that take. Yeah, hold on ...

to that. Okay, you want ... Can you do me a favor? Can you boost my click a little bit, though? I'm, like, literally all maxed out and it's still not loud enough. Yeah, just give me a second. (electronic guitar music with metronome) There we go. I know that's louder. That is loud. Alright, let's do this. Alright, you want to double what you just did? Sure. It sounds great. Cool. (electronic guitar music) ♫ Falling (unintelligible) ♫ Believers (unintelligible) Nice. Cool. Let me just try Vocal Lining it. We were having that issue, but I just want to try once. Alright. Okay? Okay. We're having an issue because of this older version of ProTools that we're on. Woah. Older version of Vocal Line, actually. ♫ Falling (unintelligible) ♫ Believers (unintelligible) This is pretty great, man. Cool. Look at the next line. Yep. Thankfully, he's awesome at screaming too. Alright, good to go. ♫ Falling (unintelligible) ♫ Believers (unintelligible) ♫ Burning mission. Be afraid, so afraid. ♫ That would be why she left. That was a lot better. Alright. Congratulations. Thank you. You win. My screams are still on five, right? Yes. Okay, cool. Just making sure. Ready? What're we doing? Are we doubling? Double that. ♫ Falling (unintelligible) ♫ Believers (unintelligible) ♫ Burning mission. Be afraid, so afraid. ♫ That would be why she left. That sounds great, man. Let me align that too. ♫ Burning mission. Be afraid, so afraid. ♫ That would be why Okay. Okay. Alright, next. Where's the next scream? Going into the chorus. Okay, you ready? Yep. ♫ (Unintelligible) ♫ Lost in the fire, concealing the dark. ♫ Locks up my desire I like how you went high at the end. Yep. Try to bring that out even more on the double. I will. ♫ (Unintelligible) ♫ Lost in the fire, concealing the dark. ♫ Locks up my desire Little over. That's okay, I can Vocal Line that. Give me one second. I think it's really important to align screams because if they're not aligned, they're gonna sound like garbage put together when they're played back at the same time. And so you've just gotta, you really just gotta know, on the spot, if they're gonna be workable. ♫ Locks up my desire. Yep, that works. Okay, well, what's next? After ♫ Save this confirmation, onto the revelry. Sure. This is where my notes have really affected me the most. Okay. My low scream has been the hardest thing to recover. So those, like, swoops that I used to be able to do pretty effortlessly have been problems. Do your best and if it's not working, we'll just come up with something cool to do. We will. Okay. Alright, ready? Yes. ♫ Save this confirmation, onto the revelry. ♫ Let it all go. Sounded good. That's the best I can do. Okay, well, double that. Okay. I just can't get that. ♫ Save this confirmation, onto the revelry. ♫ Let it all go. Let me here that aligned. Okey dokey. ♫ Let it all go We're good. Okay. (laughs) Awesome. Just let it roll from there. ♫ Let it all go. ♫ My (unintelligible) ♫ Lost in the desert of sin That was great until those last, like, three words. I'll punch in for that. Yes, please. Okay. ♫ My (unintelligible) ♫ Lost in the desert of sin Yeah, that had way more power. Okay, double? Yes. ♫ Let it all go. ♫ My (unintelligible) ♫ Lost in the desert of sin Let's do the same thing. Okay. ♫ My (unintelligible) ♫ Lost in the desert of sin. Much better. Okay. Hang on one second. Do you mind if we quad the scream? The high one? Yeah. Yeah. With, like, a low one? No, just with high so that I can add them stereo and just make it horribly awful it'd be awesome. Or you can try lows if you want but I was just thinking highs. Well, I did like having those lows contrasted. Bro. Okay, cool. Alright, let's double the scream. Ready? Yes. (electronic guitar music) ♫ My (unintelligible) ♫ Lost in the desert Give me one second here. Okay. I just made it two new vocal tracks so that I can stereo them. Right now, I don't exactly have pan controls 'Cause of the way that we're listening to stuff, monitoring, but I'm putting them on two tracks here so that I can make them stereo. Okay, you ready to double that? Sure. Yeah, so without it being stereo now it's not gonna quite sound the way I envision it but I know it'll be cool. (electronic guitar music) ♫ Wait for us. ♫ Lost in darkness Thank you. No problem. Alright, what's next? Just let it roll from there. ♫ Wait for us ♫ Lost in the desert of sin. ♫ Safer than it seems ♫ Now trust can be had between the bars Hey. Hey there Let me get that scream at the end. Just that one? And there's one more part. Hang on a second. Yeah. ♫ Safer than it seems ♫ Now trust can be had between the bars. I really just wanna get the way it comes in. I kinda wanna do that first half, actually. Okay, cool. Ready? Yeah. ♫ Wait for us ♫ Lost in the desert of sin. ♫ Safer than it seems. ♫ Now trust can be had between the Way better. Yeah. Now let's get the scream. ♫ Safer than it seems ♫ Now trust can be had between the bars Way better, let's double this. Alright. ♫ Wait for us ♫ Lost in the desert of sin ♫ Safer than it seems ♫ Now trust can be had between the bars Let's get the scream. Okay? Fine. Alright. ♫ Safer than it seems ♫ Now trust can be had between the bars Okay, sounds great. Next line, okay. Ready? Yep, just let it roll. ♫ Now trust can be had between the bars ♫ In the south ♫ (unintelligible) I have to punch in for the last one. Yes. I will not be able to do that low scream on my own. That's fine. So this has to be studio magic. Not a problem. The rest was pretty sick. Yeah, okay. It's fine. Go for it, let's get the ending. Okay. ♫ In the south ♫ (unintelligible) You sound really good. Yeah, I think that will be it. Okay, double that. ♫ Whip the place ♫ In the south ♫ (unintelligible) Okay, let's double that last word. ♫ In the south ♫ (unintelligible) That works. Let me align this. ♫ In the south ♫ (Unintelligible) That'll do. Yeah, me too. Okay, what's next? Alright, so, just basically go to the end where the guitar breaks and it goes into the tempo change. Okay. 'Cause I gotta do that whisper voice in the middle. Alright. You mean before the modulation? Yeah, yeah, the tempo modulation. Okay. So just take it from ♫ Who will deny you're one of me Got it. Ready? Yes. ♫ Who will deny you're one of me ♫ One of me It comes in there. Okay. I'm gonna effect the hell outta that. Yeah. But for now, that's fine. Where do you start screaming again? It's a two pick-up into that. Okay, got it. ♫ Make it crawl ♫ Make it Double that. Woo. ♫ Make it crawl ♫ Make it I'm gonna align that. That was sick. Woo. ♫ Make it crawl ♫ Make it Cool. What's next? Just let it roll from "I am." ♫ Make it crawl ♫ My jam ♫ Inside all of my dreams lie ♫ Do what you know ♫ Who would deny Cool. Can I double that? Yeah. I love that he gets stuff right most of the time. It's so much easier. (heavy guitar music) ♫ My jam inside You got it. Cool. Okay, so what's next? It's just a low scream underneath. A call and response thing to "Who would deny." ♫ Who would deny Okay, got it. ♫ All of my dream lies ♫ Who would deny ♫ Who would deny that I could be That was it right there? That's it. Doesn't sound bad to me. Hang on a second. ♫ Who would deny ♫ Who would deny Sounds fine in there, double that. I mean, it should be a little bit lower but doubled, it'll fill up that frequency a little. Yeah, and it does. Okay. ♫ Inside all of my dreams lie ♫ Who would deny ♫ Who would deny Yeah, that's good. That'll do. Alright, what's next? I don't know ♫ Who would deny ♫ that I could feel afraid or so angry ♫ Nothing's forsaken Did I double that with the scream? On the album? Yeah. I do not remember. You know what, I'll just do it right now and if it's there it's there and if not, just take it out. Okay. Ready? Yeah. ♫ Dream lies ♫ Who would deny ♫ Who would deny that I ♫ Could feel afraid or so angry ♫ Nothing's forsaken ♫ In that, though, there is hope. I really have no memory of if you did that or not but it sounds kinda cool. Bonus addition. Alright, double that. Yeah. ♫ Who would deny that I could feel so afraid or so angry ♫ Nothing's forsaken Sounds great. Awesome. What's next? That's it. Congratulations, then. Hey! You're done. Album done. Thank you very much, everybody at home for putting up with me in here. Hopefully I'll see you next time. Thank you, Chris. Appreciate it. Thank you CreativeLive.

Class Materials

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Ratings and Reviews

Ron
 

I'm on lesson 19! Already worth every dollar!!! Priceless insight! I have already incorporated some of the ideas (preproduction common sense stuff that I never thought of, but damn). VERY HAPPY with this course! ALWAYS LEARNING and looking forward to the next 50 (or whatever) lessons!!! Excellent course! GREAT PRODUCER/ENGINEER, GREAT DRUM TECH, and GREAT BAND!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!

ceeleeme
 

I'm just part way though and I'm blown away by the quality approach Eyal takes to getting the best out of the sessions. I love how well everything is explained and Eyals calm manner is just awesome it really makes you want to listen to the gems of wisdom he offers.

user-eb82bd
 

Amazing knowledge is being presented here. If you want to start out recording, this should be your first step, it'll save you lots of time and get you awesome results. Highly recommended class.

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