This year we’re going to stream 50 times. Every Friday morning I’ll be live on YouTube to answer questions, and explore music production related topics.
Will you be there for the next one?
This post is collecting the four condensed live stream videos from June 2023, which is still many hours of content to see and learn from.
A LOT of my time goes into these streams and edited videos, and I’m committing to doing them all year. Support these efforts with the YouTube Channel Membership, or Patreon.
June 2 – Testing your knowledge of audio engineering
I found a bunch of audio engineering quizzes online so I challenged chat to complete them with me.
We also looked at a script for easily linking fx parameters across grouped tracks, drum machine shopping and more
0:01:45 - coming up, script to link fx parameters across tracks 0:02:08 - Nugen Aligner plugin 0:04:04 - REAPER 6.80 recap 0:05:04 - pranked 0:05:27 - recap of past week 0:06:17 - REAPER 7 rumors 0:08:55 - Audio Engineering Quiz # 1 0:33:07 - Quiz #2 0:52:57 - break - food - diet talk 0:55:28 - Quiz #3 1:07:40 - sidetracked by acoustics conversation 1:12:18 - quiz continued 1:17:42 - Link FX script 1:27:55 - startup actions 1:29:23 - Diodes and Rust sample pack 1:33:16 - drum sampler/machine shopping 1:38:43 - Synth drum sound library 1:39:51 - the scheme failed 1:40:24 - stream end
June 9 – Very bassed 🎸stream
Here’s the short version of what happened in the last live stream – recapping apple event, answering your questions, and trying to make some great tones with various plugins for a 5-string bass.
0:01:29 - Apples WWDC 2023 recap 0:09:44 - QUESTION - managing media for projects 0:13:37 - QUESTION - more instruments with REAPER in future 0:14:20 - QUESTION - resolving playback issues 0:17:31 - external drives I use 0:18:58 - News - IK Multimedia T-Racks Sale 0:26:14 - buying gear but no time to use it 0:26:57 - QUESTION - Copy and paste sections of items 0:30:19 - June ReaMixed challenge 0:31:02 - QUESTION - SHRINK 2X AND STRETCH 2X ACTIONS 0:34:14 - Preview of new quiz 0:34:56 - Guitar shopping 0:36:59 - Bass tone building 0:37:43 - Amplitube 0:37:53 - QUESTION - Recording guitars mono or stereo? 0:38:14 - NEW BASS REVEAL 0:41:26 - QUESTION - tiny track height 0:42:53 - mic selection in Amplitube 0:46:45 - distortion pedals in Amplitube 0:55:36 - The Growler 0:57:46 - comparing and tweaking amplitube again 1:00:06 - Bass Professor mkii 1:06:09 - Ampeg SVTVR 1:16:00 - Goblyn 1:17:31 - Comparison of bass tones so far 1:20:42 - Lin-6 Helix Native 1:23:17 - Helix bass distortion pedals 1:27:28 - Helix mic position 1:34:34 - Finally Helix sounds alright, with a preset 1:36:55 - Switching to Fender Jazz Bass 1:41:12 - ripple edit inside folders
June 16 – Inspiring home studios, Behringer RD-6, + all plugin installers suck
In this stream we looked at Music Battlestations subreddit and saw some amazing home studios, tried out Sitala 2 vsti, played with the Behringer RD-6, and roasted all the plugin installer software.
0:00:59 - free RD-6 sound pack for members 0:01:48 - Volca sample is here - some complaints 0:04:33 - r/MusicBattlestations 0:28:29 - Sitala 2 0:28:39 - What's new in Sitala 2 0:28:55 - Sitala features 0:31:44 - Sitala pad controls 0:33:10 - Tone Shaping 0:34:40 - Trigger and choke functions 0:36:13 - Making a new kit in Sitala 0:36:34 - details of the sample pack 0:43:36 - Saving the kit 0:44:13 - RD-6 complaints 0:45:18 - RD-6 goes hard 0:46:10 - Saving MIDI note names 0:48:30 - I ruined my sleep and body for Lilith 0:49:33 - Moog partners with inMusic 0:50:15 - Soundwide partnership renamed to Native Instruemtns 0:50:35 - Native Access to replace other plugin managers 0:52:48 - they all suck at least a little bit 1:00:05 - How to hide plugins in reaper's browser 1:04:43 - Support the blog 1:07:04 - how to route around plugins in a chain
June 23 – Trying Neural Amp Modeler and more
Here’s the short version of what happened on stream last week: Tried out Neural Amp Modeler for the first time, showcase of Project Archiver script,l and Project Underrun scripts
LINKS
NAM – https://www.neuralampmodeler.com/
NAM Profiles from users – https://tonehunt.org/
Project Archiver – https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=280150
Vulture Culture’s RE-501 Chorus Echo stream – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5StcJ7lOCA
0:00:10 - coming up in this video 0:00:47 - taking attendance 0:01:35 - No stream Next week 0:01:59 - In the news 0:03:43 - Studio Power Conditioning 0:07:47 - Neural Amp Modeller 0:09:32 - Downloading models 0:11:26 - Testing Mesa Single Rect model 0:15:50 - Tubescreamer model 0:19:42 - Sounds great but not the best workflow, yet 0:20:06 - Making your own amp or pedal models 0:33:59 - Darkglass Alpha Omega pedal model 0:35:58 - Testing first attempt with NAM training 0:38:13 - 2nd attempt 0:39:00 - Testing Darkglass model 0:42:02 - free reverb impulse responses from Echo Thief 0:44:42 - Testing 2nd attempt at training 0:47:06 - Final thoughts on NAM plugin and training 0:49:20 - Oded's Project Archiver script 0:55:32 - Project underrun monitor 0:58:30 - testing Flac VS WAV performance 1:00:08 - Glenn Fricker's REAPER issue 1:01:26 - Amplitube CPU reduce trick 1:03:42 - Vulture Culture arrives 1:05:46 - pops and crackles in MIDI editor 1:06:04 - Space Echo talk 1:10:23 - Volca Sample 2 1:14:40 - RD-6 + Volca Sample 2 + Moog Mavis 1:15:36 - Poly-D with Space Echo 1:18:45 - =END
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