CUBASE ELEMENTS WORKFLOW | The Stock Challenge

[@notsoflexibleflyer]

David, Coming from an old fart who's gotten board with most everything done, I have to say what sets your music and production so apart from the rest of the world is first of all, the way you use your harmonies, rhythm, and space. But you having the courage to being able to share these production details is quite a gift to the public. I have a lot of respect for you bud and wish you years of success and perseverance without burnout. Keep up the inspirations!

[@tiagolopes7802]

I enjoy the floating borderless monitor.. ;)

[@VMac3]

How does he do that? Some sort of plugin perhaps?

[@WinterhouseRecords]

@@VMac3 a screen capture software would be able to do that - and you could take the footage and sync it up later in the editing. You could use something like OBS, which is free. If you're wondering how he actually brings the screen in at that particular angle, it's surely in the video editing software he uses (I think he uses Final Cut, but this could theoretically be done in most major editing softwares like Premiere, Sony Vegas, etc.)

"The room, is really... the ting." David Maxim Micic 2016

[@jerbear97]

the snare really does go _ting_

[@domrt]

This is fantastic David! Really inspiring for all the people out there to show that it CAN be done if you put the time into it!

[@HamofSky]

I was always so afraid of all that recording stuff and always prefered to let somebody else to do it. After watching this video, I'm thinking of learning it myself. It just seems so easy, when you present it. Thanks for the inspiration, David

[@MariaMartinez-pw6gr]

I'm not a musician or know much about music but I really enjoyed watching this. I've have heard of you because of a friend that admires your work and I can tell why he's impressed by you. I look forward to seeing and listening to more of what you do in the future. You're awesome, keep it up!! :D

[@keemocore]

Good thing you kept continuing with the project! I understand how it could get frustrating sometimes when you're not getting the right stuff out of your head and into your project - it happens to me on my Ableton projects mostly. But this is a good inspiration. Really good job! Also hi to Aleksandra

[@flownomis]

i really think that this is the best video i´ve ever seen helping me getting better in music production. thanks so much dude.

[@SimonBorg]

Thank you so much for sharing this! I'm in love with the song, and it's awesome to see your process behind the scenes. As much as you aren't a fan of the guitar tone, I think the "fake" sound is part of what makes the track - it has that real industrial vibe to it. I love the true tones that BIAS provides, but they would have been out of place. This song is dirty, gritty and aggressive and it's amazing. I'd love to see more of this kind of thing from you, as I'm a massive fan of not only the music you create, but your production style as well. Thanks again for sharing!

[@westchef7]

Simon Borg What's the name of this song?

[@SimonBorg]

Ibwestchef its called wallflower. its on David's bandcamp page

[@westchef7]

Simon Borg Thank you..

[@gingerleyham]

Would love to see how you made those vocoder vocals in more detail, they're awesome!

[@capnmag]

Really well put together, David. Cool to see how much you make out of the stock Cubase stuff, REALLY inspiring!

[@BackboneNF]

You did an amazing job! Making Music for so long but this is hat´s off! Great Music! I never thought that such great music could be made with stock plugins. Now there is no excuse , everyone who learns to go with limited tools just can concentrate on the main aspects. Best music howto for beginners!

[@SergeGolikov]

I've just invested in Elements 9 and love your presentation style. Really slick video editing! Thanks for the effort you put in.

[@jonnieve2483]

that snare sounds quite intense, man

[@gastongarant9209]

David thank so much man for your explanation technic Cubase ! I am drummer and i setup my home studio with Cubase !

[@CartoonTheory]

Thank you !

[@Ghost17110]

Ayy, it's Cartoon Theory! Love Planet Geisha. It's so weird, but in an interesting and fun to listen to way.

[@CartoonTheory]

:D

[@hvadseth]

Wow, amazing what you achieved with this software. I particularly loved the vocals. Nice :)

[@wannabewrtr]

that's amazing! I will struggle to have the acustic set slip into it different components (SD, KD, HH, TOM) and then I'll try to play around with them. Also the electric and acustic drum combo was really inspiring! tnks!

[@kingoftangents]

Thanks for the walkthrough! Very useful and informative. Make more :)

[@Sennith]

Cool being able to look over your shoulder at work =D

[@kmmmaye]

Awesome video! That automation looks like so much work, but it sounds so cool!

[@febriantonia157]

i'll move to the cubase elements, david... thanks for your share.

[@TheStavrin]

Great video David, thanks a bunch!

[@jadetelegraph]

Thanks for taking the time to create this tutorial.

[@m4ssee]

This video was so informative and inspiring, thank you David! If you're interested and have some time in the future then it would be nice to have a video solely on the automation (especially for the electronic wobbles) since they're giving me hard time to understand.

[@haralemes]

Hey David, how are you? Thanks for the video. Please, all your drums sounds is Groove agent SE4? Im looking to buy a good drum, and I like your drum tones. Thanks!

[@DavidMaximMicic]

On this particular project yes, as a challenge. But I usually use SD2.0 and GGD :)

[@haralemes]

Thanks dude! I'll check both...keep rock!

[@FelipeRandolfiMusic]

I fucking love you man.

[@Yabe55]

Great video, very inspiring! Thanks for that!

[@bendanielj19]

That was a wonderfully informative video. One question, though: Would you be up to doing a second video to cover "Melancholia"?? I would love to get even a quick look at your automation and gating for your 'glitch' effects (I'm assuming you're using sidechain gating?).

[@TheAnthropic]

That was interesisting as hell, thanks David!

[@EvilDragon666]

Awesome effort, David! Here's a quick production tip since you mentioned you didn't have a de-esser in the stock plugins. But you did - a de-esser is basically an EQ in front of a compressor, which heavily emphasizes the "s" frequencies that the compressor then tones down depending on how you set the ratio. Might as well use a multiband compressor to focus just on that particular "s" band of frequencies. Simples!

[@sanfords]

Thanks for sharing DMM!

[@1fprrlxk]

Hi David! I re-watched this video and found something I can't figure out. I'm very new to mixing/operating DAWs, and I would be very grateful to know what Vnl is, and where else you used it in previous songs. fab

[@BrandonArd91]

Not really music related but where did you get that jacket? It's fresh af

[@TrymDH]

Amazing...:o This makes me want to quit school and just sit at home playing Cubase all day long!

[@HarryJBone]

Hi David, very helpful video! Was reading about using stereo enhancement on the master bus and the risks of doing so - do you have any tips with regards to getting the best results out of it? Seems quite a drastic thing to do.

[@jacobwagnerdrums]

David you turned me onto Cubase 8 with this video, you could sell water to a fish my friend

[@bapozhang4555]

So cool ~and I always have a question about your sound effect ,where did you get so much more for the sound effect?

[@francescodomenichetti3787]

Really good David, i've learned a lot, expecially for the drums. I just don't understand a thing, which is how to effect every single part of the drum. ( for example, just the tom, or the kick ) But i'll try these days. You're a great motivator and ispiration :) 13:10, i laugh a lot! AHAH!

[@abhishekchakraborty6754]

david please teach us about your mixing tricks and tips

[@filipmiklas2597]

That was damn good and very inspiring! Thank you for this video. :)

[@BoyOfLol]

24 minutes of bliss

[@bjoernkmusic]

Great stuff, learned a lot. I guess I've not been paying enough attention to automation as it seems ... maybe part of the reason why my mixes always sound not very dynamic. Just one final question: did you really not process the guitars at all? Or did you decide to not go into detail for all the EQing?

[@DavidMaximMicic]

To be honest, I forgot to show the guitar group channel... Probably because I had nothing interesting going on there. Just a subtile low-cut and scoop on some harsh frequencies :)

[@bjoernkmusic]

Ah okay. Thanks for answering!

[@aotq]

You really have a knack for making a casual video like this! :D However there's one important question I'd like to ask. I noticed in Bilo 3 the overall loudness of the songs is a bit less than Eco or Ego. How do you get your mix to be as loud as the songs in Eco and Ego? I always have difficulty with volumes when mixing/mastering. I put limiter and compressor to maximize the volume and it helps, but it's still not as loud as your song can get. Thanks David!

[@RobertBruckmayer]

It's not about loudness but about the song mostly and details :)

[@DavidMaximMicic]

Sorry for the late response man :) A lot of it comes down to gain staging I think... and I improved from BILO 3.0 a bit when it comes to mixing I think... altho the songs are a bit more loudness friendly on Ego and Eco... idk, many factors... but mainly gain staging :)

[@aotq]

David Maxim Micic Thanks! I'll look into it.

[@CatsCoffeeGuitars]

Plus, there's a bunch of free vst which may raise the volume of your master track in the mastering stage without inserting unecessary loudness into the mix so you'll avoid being the part of Loudness Wars :D

[@jules7181]

Hej David, great Video and great music! what macbook do u use for recording and mixing? Do u have issues while recording? I was always afrad that the mac is to weak for recording, mixing and cubase...?!

[@DavidMaximMicic]

Mac is a PC like any other. I just use it cause I'm used to it :)

[@jules7181]

@@DavidMaximMicic Thank u very much! But the macbook has quite less computing power right? I use also a macbook pro from 2013. Maybe I should try to install cubase.

[@DanielMikeRm103]

Very nice! Thanks!

[@distractionpool]

It's obvious he's brilliant, but can anyone tell me if having headphones over a hood can affect one's interpretation of the sound? Love having my hood up, but I've always been worried that my MX-50s wont translate in a mix if I filter them through that much fabric..

[@AMbiencesRadio25hz]

U got a sub' 😊😊 In ur opinion Which would be better Cubase vs magix MM premium vs FL Studio? M just asking bcoz.. I don't have that much expertise.. M trying to get Magix MM premium...

[@flownomis]

please please please do more of this videos.

[@jhnlk]

David this is amazing! Thanks for sharing, Do you use a midi keyboard for the synths?

[@bapozhang4555]

Hi David, sorry for bothering, but could you tell me how to add a track as the little KD track and other little tracks like SD, TM, OH, HH which are following the KD Instrument track (which is showing in 1:20 in the video)? what those tracks are? I can't figure them out for even a week since I watched your videos again this year (my English skill was terrible for understanding what did you say in your videos....) . I'm looking forward to your helps if I'm fortune enough, thanks for all your helps.

[@DavidMaximMicic]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYTKeWd-iqamqpY This should help ✌️

[@MozezVanHelgen]

damn...first i thought jonathan davis is going to kick the vocals ^^ (20:32) by the way: great work, it helped me out a lot! :)

[@ezassegai4793]

That riff is straight from BFG division :D

[@richwags1189]

I know this is a old video but hot did you get the video up in the screen of the demo? What is that called and what do you use for video editing please? Thank you and I am a huge fan....

[@VMac3]

Did you ever figure this out btw?

[@sanctipaprichio]

please please do that once again!

[@rmp5s]

Is that overlayed picture in picture thing built into Mac/Final Cut?

[@mixfmglasgow]

rmp5s ripple tools simple 3d

[@ElCharlos94]

How did you progam your drums? or is this a recording that you mod. with pluggins? this sunds amazing!

[@progfoxmusic]

Not sure if you actually watched the video but it's the Groove 3 plug in that comes with cubase.

[@ikbenpablo]

David thank you so much for Sharing the process of your work. I have a question though How do you make a sound to repeat it self many times? Sometimes is the piano or the guitar that has that repeating sound. It's like as you would have a sound bar and then you cut it in many pieces then when you play it sounds like the repeating effect... Like a loop. Hope you got what I'm trying to say :D

[@DavidMaximMicic]

You asked the question and gave yourself the answer man hahah :D Exactly that... cutting audio files

[@ikbenpablo]

Hahaha really?? For example in the full EP Bilo 3.0 in the song "Daydreamers" at 37:12 the piano sound has that effect of repeating it self very fast. I guess this is how it goes For instance I record an acoustic guitar with a mic, then export the audio file, open it again and start cutting? Is that it? Man... Then how many times do you cut an audio file to make that effect. Thank you so much for answering man I really appreciate it :D

[@DavidMaximMicic]

yep, that's it :) take your time and enjoy it :)

[@ikbenpablo]

Thank you David :)

[@Calquin123321]

oh man I was wondering how to do that too... cutting the audio files and repeating them makes so much sense lol

[@smetaltube]

If you're going to do some more videos of this kind, may I suggest to use an external microphone for your voice. The macbook's microphone sometimes creates some aweful high frequences. Anyway, thanks a lot, David, for going into detail but keeping it short and for showing us Vladimir Lalic's awesome voice by itself. You're the best :)

[@DavidMaximMicic]

I agree with this man 100%... macbook's mic is just so weird o.O

[@GianlucaMurru]

thanks for this, dude

[@kkeinc2238]

love potato's music

[@vt7ellada]

Why are you with jacket?.. We have June! :P

[@ukcats82]

Made me realize that I needed to go to Berklee lol

[@jerbear97]

no you don't

[@TheChrispablo]

man i was wondering why there is no de essing but now i know...my cubase pro hat a de esser as a stock plug in

[@staynkarhien447]

+David Maxim Micic , Hey, this is a very good job and with all your advices just puted myself in. I'm diving into it because even if there is a lot of work and ideas to get some solutions with problems, you just shows that is possible with focus. For that Thank you Bro!

[@AMbiencesRadio25hz]

Btw... The 3d in-screen is top notch, JFI.. How'd u did that....

[@v8metal]

the riff sounds like meshuggah ! hahaha :)

[@FrozenSparky]

amazing

[@adrianwehunt8033]

This is probably a rookie mixing question, so I apologize up front if this is something I should know, but to all of the mixing guru's in these comments: I notice that when David's EQ window is open that he dials down in some areas far past the 'middle EQ line'. As I've been mixing my own stuff, I tend to boost the frequencies rather than take away from them (meaning I start at the line and raise the points). I am aware of 'low-cut' EQ for guitar, where the idea is to drop a good amount of the lower frequencies to make the higher more distinctive, but David's choices here have me puzzled. The Kick EQ window in particular is shocking to me because he boosts nothing at all and only lowers his frequencies with some being more drastic than others. He really kills the mids while striking the extreme highs. Would it be more beneficial to the mix impact to raise the deeper and higher low hz levels rather than lowering the frequencies around them? Is this a common approach to the mixing process, or is this simply what David has to do to make the drumset plug-in and recording interface sound 'good'? Should I start lowering my frequencies rather than raising them? Does this create a more natural equalization within the mix for the instruments? To clarify, I ask this because when I read up on 'EQ' mixing, especially in regards to making an instrument clearer in the mix, the general vibe I get is to boost the instrument to a specific hz range to make it more distinct, while raising levels to taste. But that doesn't seem to be working for me very well. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. Even if it's just links to random articles.

[@DavidMaximMicic]

This is a pretty complex theme to clarify in a YT comment I believe... To be completely honest, most of the time I don't really know why I'm doing what I'm doing... and to some degree I don't even want to know hahah.. I'm all for using my ears as much as I can then just using some mixing tricks only because I know them. When it comes to EQing... I find it easier to clean up what I don't need and that way boost whatever I feel like it's missing in my ears. If I cut down some of the low mid frequencies I'm giving more space to upper mid frequencies (and vise versa)... of course, when recording of something or a sample of something is good and healthy sounding, I find it easy to pop up whatever it is I feel like I need to pop up on my EQ... but at the same time, the better the sample/recording the less moves you're going to make anyway :) And... to make it clear, I haven't finished any schools for this, I just do what I feel like doing and that's all there is, so do get any advice that I give with a grain of salt :)

[@adrianwehunt8033]

Thanks for clarifying. It does make a lot of sense to remove what you don't want to hear rather than boost what you do want in terms of frequency. I just never really thought of it that way. But I have to say, regardless of whatever "school" or credit that you feel you lack, for me, and likely many, many others, your musical accomplishments are trully phenomenal. Your works, in pretty much every aspect, from composition, to recording, to mixing and onward, is the goal for us; the peak of the mountain we all climb and reach for. There is no music quite like David Maxim Micic music So I think I will keep the salt far, far away from your advice :-) Now, if you will excuse me, I have to take a moment to fan-girl over the fact that this conversation actually happened. Ha-ha!

[@stevencorry5790]

Always best to take away what you don't need,rather than boost what you do.When you start boosting,levels increase,which means you then have to increase levels of other instruments...which means their imperfections may show up.For example,if you are trying to get bass and guitar sounding good together,but the low end seems muddy,instead of boosting guitars mids or higher end to make things sound brighter,you maybe have to remove lows from guitar to make the bass more pronounced so they aren't fighting with each other.Just remember each instrument has it's intended frequency range.And like David says...it can get pretty complex,but I have always heard that it's best to take away instead of having to keep adding.

[@stevencorry5790]

P.S....great rookie question.

[@adrianwehunt8033]

Steven Corry Thank you! This is really helping me clear up EQ mixing, at least in my approach. I really appreciate your input!

[@deniskovichitv4247]

compressOr) but...no matter) good tutorial)

[@bassiclogic]

If you would have mixed your bass and synth tracks to not step on each other that would be the resolution to that problem!

[@AaronWelchMusic]

You really have to write for films!

[@jamjestrysiek]

13:16...love that face :)

[@slashcash6515]

interesting but please TAKE OUT THIS HOOD !!

[@dncviorel]

lol! Who're you, his mom?!

[@Brahless]

As a bassplayer. :(

[@tomvomton2371]

Is there a PlugIn in it that makes me not feel like an idiot when i wear headphone over my hoody ? I just wanna look professional like you guys. Good that human cannot really hear above 1k. Or Waves should make a hoody PlugIn so we never had to choose sound over fashion. Justin does it, so i do.

[@pedrovenegas-rodriguez8962]

[@1fprrlxk]

Hi David! I re-watched this video and found something I can't figure out. I'm very new to mixing/operating DAWs, and I would be very grateful to know what Vnl is, and where else you used it in previous songs. fab

[@DavidMaximMicic]

It's just a sound of a vinyl :) Cracks and noise it produces... I use it only as an effect :) No rules, just going nuts with it :D

[@1fprrlxk]

David Maxim Micic Got it man!! Thx for the fast response. I really appreciate the way you use non-instrumental and typical everyday sounds into your songs :)