I look at it as arpeggiated chords (Eb/F followed by D/F) There’s a full chord progression there but I didn’t have time to play it all out in this Short. Check out the full song here if you’re interested! arthurfox.bandcamp.com/track/enter-entree

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Glad to help. Cheers!

Do a bit of research and choose the one free version (if possible) or whatever looks the coolest to you. I started with FL Studio, then switched to Logic (which I’ve settled on for music production), dabbled with Ableton, and got deep into Pro Tools because I’m a professional audio engineer. I really like the way Logic (GarageBand would be the free option) and Pro Tools lay out their mixers/routing, but that’s personal preference. If you watch any of my tutorials, I’ll be using Logic (though I try to make them generalized).

I’ve been thinking a lot more about art and creativity rather than just music production lately. So much more to say!

I spent years and years never doing this and had my mind blown when I saw it and then tried it out for the first time!

Glad to help!

Go with 96 Gigs of Memory and get yourself one or more external SSDs!!! Much more flexible that way. Keep the internal drive as empty as possible on these machines (and all computers, really). I grabbed a simple converter from Amazon to extend the display (more specifically: geni.us/Anker-USBC-HDMI). Will do more research if and when I upgrade to a 4k monitor ;) Hope that helps. Have a great day!

Absolutely - I'll often explain this with a brickwall limiter as the dynamics processor because we often want that style of limiter to be as transparent as possible (whereas I like driving compressors for their sound). The same issues apply though!

It was expensive lol Prices are liable to change. Specs (especially on these new Macs) are not.

Used to do this in high school subconsciously. Stopped doing it in university. BIG difference in grades haha Best of luck with your studies!

I appreciate the kind words

Fretless bass is up next! Followed by a Taylor acoustic and a Strandberg electric 🤘

@@ArthurFoxMusic Awesome! I’ve always wanted to pickup Fretless bass to get a Tony Levine, Jaco, Tony Franklin sound. We just got a beautiful Mahogany Taylor 324ce acoustic for the studio. Worth every penny.

@@brucewayne251 Beautiful instrument. I have some saving up to do!

Cheers to that! I appreciate the support!

Same here 😂😂

Still no luck - it threw me for a loop. At least I have a backlog of 60+ second clips for the future

De nada! Mantente creativo, amigo mío

Sneaky way to get some chromaticism in there!

Pitched instruments have a fundamental frequency. Their timbre is based on the content of their harmonics. I should do a longer video lol

Glad to help. Put ‘em into practice!

I used to use the reverse effect all the time (and still do when sound designing tv/film). This is a pretty “out there” technique, but I’m sure at least one person could benefit from it!

This track couldn’t handle that fire

Glad to pass on the information and inspiration!

Totally, I've used it to stack harmonies, double lines, and harmonize lines with MIDI instruments. Unlock Pro Level by running a polyphonic instrument's audio through Melodyne and exporting that as MIDI! Super powerful stuff-music technology is getting insane!

Thanks as always! Cheers

Thanks! This has been the challenge with Shorts (which is a great challenge to minimize "fluff" in my content).

Thanks! I’m grateful for the sub-minute format of YT Shorts.. I can ramble on for hours so while it’s still difficult to condense information, I’m getting my practice in. I would suggest speaking with whatever mastering engineer is on the job and asking what specs they may want. Headroom’s great, but different engineers have different thoughts (how’s that for a non-answer? Lol)

Ha! If only I could pull this off with index, middle and ring fingers. For now, I’ll program it into the DAW 😂

Seems I skipped the ducking step-mixing these shorts in Premiere Pro has been a trip!

I suppose it's a difficult concept to explain fully in under a minute. The pitch of a musical note can be defined by a frequency. These frequencies refer to the first harmonic or the "fundamental frequency". Assuming A4=440 Hz (a common tuning benchmark), the low-E of a guitar, for example, will have a fundamental frequency of 82 Hz. Its harmonics (of varying amplitudes and enveloped) will be at integer multiples above that fundamental, 164, 246, 328, and so on. If you were to play that E and let it ring, these harmonics would play out. If you were to record yourself playing that E, these harmonics would be recorded as they sound (ideally without colouration from the acoustics and recording equipment). Once recorded, we can actually eliminate the fundamental (that 82 Hz) from the audio signal, play it back, and our ears (and brains) will still hear the low E bases solely on the 2nd, 3rd, 4th harmonic and so on. This is the psychoacoustic phenomenon of "the missing fundamental". So, if you have issues with muddiness in the mix, you can use this to your advantage. Consider high-pass filtering the guitar (for instance) above its fundamentals (whatever notes the guitar may be playing) to make room for other tracks that are "more important" in the low-end. In doing so, you'll make more room for bass, kick, low end of keys, all without completely changing the timbre or perceived notes that the guitar is playing. Of course, this is just a concept-do whatever you wanna do! If it sounds good, use it. If it doesn't, scrap it :) Hope that helps!

Try it out and let me know how it goes. It won’t retain the power (especially with good subs in the picture). Could be a good technique to cut the low-end in certain sections, to bring it back with more energy in other sections. The trick I’ve found with my 808s is to keep the fundamental but to enhance the upper harmonic with saturation/distortion-working out a script for that one in the future!

I love to use Waves Maxxbass(or a saturated filtered bass parallel) to push the bass perception up an octave; allowing me to reveal the fundamental that small speakers cannot reproduce, or to add weight and proximity to a thin source.

Hell yeah. I've never used Maxxbass, but I've dabbled in R-Bass to bring out the low end when necessary. brucewayne251 do you have your music available for streaming online? I'd love to give it a listen

I think I messed about with that for about 5 minutes and couldn’t find an immediate use case lol Probably missing something there 🧐

We have been

Lol

Great guitarist. That Mr Big is a wicked guitar, too!

I'll take that as a compliment! Never got into them heavy, but they've been on a playlist or two. I remember being freaked out as a kid seeing Wes Borland's all-black full-eye contacts 😂

Absolutely. I used to try to get that heavy syncopated Djent sound, and even with gating, it sounded like mush. Cutting like that and grid-alignment can work wonders (at the trade-off of sounding mechanical)

Something I’ve been thinking about (and can’t quite make a solid case for) I why 5 and 7 time are so odd in Western music while, concurrently, pentatonic and heptatonic scales are so normal. Food for thought