Glad you found it useful! Would you be interested in seeing more track breakdown videos like this?

Hey Kev, the voice is a muscle just like any other in the body. Which means it can be trained and strengthened. So really, just practice and sing a lot and your voice will naturally get stronger. A good vocal coach will be able to help you do this very deliberately and methodically, and this will open up a lot more creative and expressive potential for you. Regardless of the strength of a vocalist, once in the studio the normal criteria apply, get the best take possible, comp with care and affection, edit to enhance the performance appropriately, and do a great mix. Feel free to jump into The Complete Producer Network to post this question and get some feedback from other music makers working on the same question 🥂

Hi Damian. Thanks for getting back to me and for the advice. I live in a remote rural part of Australia but I'm willing to bet there is a vocal coach here hiding somewhere. Maybe they will do some singing lessons. Thank you for responding 🙂

If you got it, flaunt it! 😂🥂😂

Thanks Joey, and yeah there seems to be a couple of frames between audio and screen capture video. I run a two computer setup (mix rig and streaming rig, which captures video from a number of sources) so need to figure out a flow to get this more accurate in future videos. Hope you’re well!

Thank you Damian! Looking forward to your new lessons. Hope you have a healthy and prosperous new year.

Nice one Joey, Happy New Year!

Hey Paul, that's all so cool! Welcome to Music Production World, I'm sure you'll enjoy Invigorate a lot once you add it to your collection :-)

Try any of those drum bus settings and tweak to taste! You’ll probably really enjoy experimenting with the overdrive section on synths - check my insta for a reel where I mapped invigorate parameters to a controller 🔥

​@@HereIsDamian Yeah I had good success with it on a synth but I wasn't sure how to use it on my kick or drum bus. I frequently do parallel compression or parallel processing and there's some phasing issues there as you brought up. If I understood you right. Would you be inclined into thinking you'd use this on both a kick to make it pounding, and then also on a drum bus that includes the full range of percussion? There's also a technique in EDM/Techno where you process a "rumble" that is a reverb of the kick into the 30-60 range which is either offset to not phase with the kick or ducked on the attack of the kick. I wasn't sure how I might use this to do that workflow because that usually requires a side chain. This seems like I may be able to do the same thing tweaking the attack/release?

Hey buddy, I'd be more inclined to just use it on a drum bus rather than individual drum elements, though of course it's totally up to you how to run it. The mix knob is all phase aligned with the dry signal, so that's the simplest way to do parallel, though I do love having a parallel on a separate fader too. Parallel on a separate fader / channel will be phase accurate if you don't use any of the tone control section - they can be bypassed easily. You could use it as a more conventional processor in that case, though it's far from conventional even in that context. The parellel filtered down low end kick technique has been around since the 70s or early 80s. I messed with it a little bit earlier in my career but found it to be a bit fussy and unpredictable, way better to just get the right sample and process it simply. The longer I mix, the more simple and direct my approach to low end becomes, and the more banging my records get. ;-)

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it :)

Interesting! I've been running a ton of instances no problem - I'm using the medium oversampling mode, and in general when I'm mixing I'm also making sure I'm using my largest buffer setting. Maybe give those a shot and see what happens?

@@HereIsDamian I got Invigorate to finally work smoothly and wow the potential for modification of sound is breath taking. Pleased I bought it! Thanks.

That’s great news! What change did you make to get it working well?

@@HereIsDamian Restarted everything, after creating more space on my hard drive. Apple says here's your hard drive space now fill it with our products in the applications folder, in your Library fill it with plugins, extensions, presets, pictures and movies, clogging up the hard drive. Apple offer so little space to hold everything you need or may want, and then they charge a fortune to you, if you want more space for everything. They it appears, purposefully, make it nearly impossible to have external drives support their Mac OS systems, so you're left with externals as one storage placement devices. Therefore you're forced to buy and increase the space necessary to have your OS work within your main hard drive, leaving you with clutter. After 20 to 30 years, you'd think they'd take their profits made, almost a Trillion$, and advance their systems, and if you don't upgrade your hardware they penalize you, by leaving you out of their newer Operating Systems. They do not support their long term client purchasers. Anyway, enough with my rant, I've got it working and that''s enough.

Great feedback on all levels, thanks!

Hahaha that is a SERIOUS productivity hack!

@@HereIsDamian in all seriousness, I agree that something needs to be done to push the process along, but a public announcement seems ultra risky. But I like the food for thought. It's an important topic. Thanks for bringing it up.

Yeah we definitely all need to find our own motivators, I loved how extreme this concept was even though I don’t use it myself. Good for thought indeed!

Hey Gareth! I totally know what you mean, a ton of chatter out there. So the choice becomes where do you put your attention? You could try shifting your reading from audio blogs over to a different discipline that still will impact positively on your music work (anything from cinema to productivity etc). I loved that Invigorate didn’t feel like another rehash of the classics, and am looking forward to seeing how it incorporates into my mixing going forward :)

Hey there! You can switch it between a couple of levels of oversampling which will affect cpu, I just ran it in its default and had no problems. Might be a vibe to try the demo on your machine and see how it works for you :)

You’re super welcome Geoff, I’m sure you’ll enjoy it a lot. Let me know if you have any other questions about Invigorate, or making records in general :)

Hahaha no point in messing!

You’re very welcome! Anything else you’ve been thinking about that I could help you with?

@@HereIsDamian Hey, nice to have a reply :). It would be nice to have a video advice for producers that kind of lose their motivation of making music. I'm talking about burnout. I guess the solution is to get reconnected with the "why" we invested ourselves into music. Nowadays, music is kind of commodity. We don't buy anymore from music stores. There is spotify or other music distribution that make available music for cheap fee. It's a good thing to have more way to spread to the world the music that we make but the reward for small producers (not known) is not up to par for the sacrifices (softwares, music production, stuff) ... that sometimes, we are kind of silly to cling to a "job" that doesn't pay your bills in full.

I found on another video some kind of answer to it : kzbin.info/www/bejne/h4vYomRjpbOebrM

Hey Andrew, thanks for the kind words! Yes I actually have been building out a whole platform to pass on the knowledge and help other producers and artists make big breakthroughs in their music. The Beats Accelerator Process and The Mix Accelerator Process are my two courses, then there's also a mastermind style group called Damian's Online Studio. These are hosted within a community platform I've been developing called The Complete Producer Network, great people in there! Links here: linktr.ee/damiantaylor

Hey Claudio, so happy to help, this vid was made for folks like you! Gotta actually do it “properly” soon 😂. Feel free to join us in The Complete Producer Network if you have any other questions :)

@@HereIsDamian Cheers! I'm already in it :) just haven't been very active recently but hey, kudos, it's an amazing initiative 🤟

Nice one Andrew! Glad to help :)

Hey Ivan, thanks for this tip! Just to make sure I understand properly, you're saying that even in pre-roll (and even before you "officially" hit record) the audio file will be recorded? Cheers :-)

Might be time to do a fresh OS install and rebuild your system piece by piece if you're getting those kinds of issues. I've been running Live 11 constantly since the beta and it's been great. But in the past I've lost big chunks of my life to figuring out which plugins and applications on my computer slow things down. I run a suuuuuuuper tight ship, hardly installing anything else on there, and it runs like a dream. To clarify, I do run plenty of plugs, but I'm always hyper aware any time I install anything about what kind of knock on effects they have on music stability. I hope the situation improves for you :-)

@@damiantaylor896 yeah, i did try to clean up my pc, but still... i was unable to work with it after flatten tracks to audio, it crash the whole time with no heavy plugin (i have the trial version from the website btw)... i had to export my project to protools, and everything run smoothly...

Hey Josh, thanks for the kind encouragement, and that’s great that you heard the HOWA episode. Simply put, I move stuff over into Pro Tools either in advance of a big batch of recording (in which case I’ll send over a few subgroups) or when I feel I have maximized the production of the song, maximized the ideas, and that all that is remaining is the mix. If I’ve done a lot of recording I’ll finish up comping and editing in Pro Tools , then will print a couple of subgroups to bring back into Live to act as anchors if I’m developing any further programming. Thanks to covid I haven’t done any in person sessions since Live 11 became available; I’m sure I’ll do a lot more recording in there in my room, but I imagine I’ll still want to be in ProTools for heavy duty tracking sessions. My program The Beats Accelerator Process has a full breakdown of how I prep and export my multitracks from Live , you can get on the waitlist for the next round at www.beatsaccelerator.com Please feel free to come hang out at www.completeproducer.net and over on www.Twitch.tv/HereIsDamian too to connect with a wonderfully positive and supportive group of people involved in all aspects of music production :)

@@HereIsDamian Ok awesome, I’ll check it all out! Thank you so much for the detailed explanation.

Will do! Thanks for the feedback :)

Thanks a lot!

Hey! Thanks for the great comment. Yeah I agree that Pro Tools is still definitely the place to do tracking for live instruments, and I’m happy Ableton Live isn’t trying too hard to fill that niche. I’ve been using the Beta of Live 11 for quite a while now and really love that these new features bring an additional creative dimension - they’ve expanded on what makes Live great but aren’t trying to put themselves into Pro Tools territory. I’m happy to have really clear choices about what kind of work I do where, and to have the best environments for either of those processes.

Yeah exactly ! I can’t wait to try these functionalities for things they were not intended for tho ! Unfortunately for my wallet, none of both could replace the other haha

Thank you Seán, it’s gonna be amazing. I’ve been playing with the random velocity range stuff which is great, and next up is diving into MPE controllers.

Hahahaha okay coming up!

Hahaha nice one Simon!

Yeah it’s a great time to be making music, so many incredible tools :)

Can’t wait to see what you do with 11 Krait!

Hey Maurizio, that’s a great way to put it. Live’s creative and functional abilities have just taken a massive leap forward and it very much still (in a good way!) feels like a very different environment than Pro Tools. I don’t feel it will replace my use of Pro Tools, but rather expand my use of Live :)

Thank you Sietse! I’ve only just begun to scratch the surface of Live 11 - there is SO much to love about it :)

Oh nice Nick, thank you so much! Just in the middle of editing a peek at a few of my most anticipated features in Live 11 Beta, but some more track walkthroughs coming up soon after :)

Nice! Thanks for swinging by. That was a fun chat :)

Thanks!

That's great to hear Guillermo, thank you so much :-)

Amazing - so glad we could be of help!

Rad thanks Krait!

Bluuuue Clooooouuuud! Thank you!!!

Chrome is a kind soul! Lovely to see you here. Thanks for the kind words, this one was a real joy to make :-)