Music Production Secrets
4h 48mIntermediate2016-09-23
Authors
Larry Crane
Editor, Writer, Recording Engineer, Musician, Educator, Archivist
Course details
Music Production Secrets is a series with Tape Op magazine founder and Jackpot! Recording Studio owner Larry Crane. Larry provides a new technique for tailoring your effects, gaining sonic control, and opening new creative doors during mixing and tracking.
These tutorials work with any DAW, in almost every recording scenario, and are based on Larry's 20+ years of experience recording, producing, and mixing some of the world's best musicians, including Sleater-Kinney, The Decemberists, Elliott Smith, She & Him, Jolie Holland, and Stephen Malkmus.
These tutorials work with any DAW, in almost every recording scenario, and are based on Larry's 20+ years of experience recording, producing, and mixing some of the world's best musicians, including Sleater-Kinney, The Decemberists, Elliott Smith, She & Him, Jolie Holland, and Stephen Malkmus.
Skills covered
Pro ToolsMusic ProductionAvidSerial (Weekly)Audio and Music
Concepts
Introduction to the Music Production Secrets Weekly Series
- 01 - Introduction
September 2016
- 02 - Fix vocal Auto-Tune crossfades
- 03 - Repair bad kick with the Pro Tools Multiband Splitter
- 04 - Repair bad snare with the Pro Tools Multiband Splitter
- 05 - Use phase cancellation to change tracks
August 2016
- 06 - Remove explicit content
- 07 - Remove snare ring
- 08 - Line up out-of-sync tape tracks
- 09 - Parallel compression with aux sends
July 2016
- 10 - Double Compressing Vocals
- 11 - Taming Hi-Hats
- 12 - Tame string squeaks
- 13 - De-ess on vocals with RX5
- 14 - Clean tom tracks
June 2016
- 15 - Prepping acoustic guitar with RX 5
- 16 - Prepping electric bass with RX 5
- 17 - Automating EQ filters
- 18 - Predelaying reverbs
May 2016
- 19 - Changing cheesy drum machines
- 20 - Prepping organ for mixing with RX 5
- 21 - Vocal proximity repair with RX 5
- 22 - Prepping real pianos with RX 5
April 2016
- 23 - Autopanning guitars and keyboards
- 24 - Removing amplifier hum with RX 5
- 25 - Distortion as EQ brightening
- 26 - When to turn vocal effects off
- 27 - Reverse delay vocal effects
March 2016
- 28 - Clip gaining lead vocals
- 29 - Splitting a kick drum track into hi and low components for control
- 30 - Using short delay to stereoize guitars
- 31 - When and how to use reverb on bass guitar
February 2016
- 32 - Using alternate takes or nonmix mics as reverb sends
- 33 - Corralling harshness with bx refinement plugin
- 34 - Using de-essers to control harsh midrange
- 35 - Using guitar amp plugins to modify guitar tones for mixing
January 2016
- 36 - Making guitar solos stand out in a mix
- 37 - Adding length to abrupt instrument fades
- 38 - Using Little Labs IBP for phase on bass guitar or DI situations
- 39 - Making and using bandpass filters (high- and low-pass combo)
December 2015
- 40 - Using delay to hide shaky pitch
- 41 - Using delay to add drumbeats
- 42 - Creating automatic double tracking
- 43 - Creating digital vintage tape delay sounds
November 2015
- 44 - Fades applied only to select frequencies with RX 4 (remove amp hum, etc.)
- 45 - Staggered creative song fade-outs
- 46 - Reverb and effects automation via track duplicate and parallel processing
- 47 - Using stem mixes to make alternate mixes
October 2015
- 48 - Frequency splitting tracks to control lo-fi or midrange material
- 49 - Utilizing EQ and compression on reverbs
- 50 - Frequency splitting tracks to manage bass guitar
- 51 - Using transient shaping plugins to alter acoustic guitar in a mix
- 52 - Fades applied only to select frequencies with EQ (remove amp hum, etc.)
September 2015
- 53 - Using iZotope RX 4 gain control to remove low-end content on vocals