Writing and recording a song from scratch

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[@MichaelSmith-zw5fu]

Between you and thicc riff thursdays, I am falling back in love with Logic.

[@nickbroomhallmusic]

🤘

[@CharlieRobbins]

Finally someone else using the boogie. The coil sounds you can get from this amp are amazing.

[@aastralplane]

love these, more more

[@BlackstoneJ]

Midwest emo meets prog . Perfect middle position tone

[@JoshuaDeLaVictoria]

Tele middle position is underrated

[@BlackstoneJ]

@@JoshuaDeLaVictoria indeed. I think every player outside of mathrock/postrock/emo /prog etc only uses bridge pickup , and neck for jazz and blues . All I use is middle lol

[@calebshelton9240]

Really sick. I'd like to see a home studio setup at some point! Your space looks inspiring.

[@JoshuaDeLaVictoria]

Thanks! Yeah, good idea. It’s been a long time coming haha

[@LeoPerantoni]

Commenting for engagement because I love your content yay! I hope whatever happened to your cheek gets better soon! I'd love to see you making a video about your process of shooting and editing video, color correcting etc. You have the absolute best looking videos of all youtube/nstagram guitarists out there and it would be so cool to see tutorials like that from the perspective of a musician.

[@cyrnoz1803]

This!

[@MaddMag]

For real, like it’s unfair that he’s a brazy guitarist and video editor/photographer as well. Just oozes creativity

[@stevenhopner7879]

Yes!!!

[@HighZ]

There's something so satisfying seeing a song come together

[@superdoodjj]

I love this series! Keep 'em coming!

[@NiklasMeads]

Man i love these videos! Massive source of inspiration for me.

[@bijenshrestha]

You are such an inspiration Josh!

[@TheShakour]

love it...hope to see more.

[@buttforce4208]

Love these videos, thanks for making them!

[@renanaugustotrinca3233]

Dude, you're awesome!

[@billymcguiremusic]

Beautiful song, tone, and playing!!! Always love insight like this!!!

[@mooreav]

This is great man. Thanks for sharing. Much respect

[@averagest]

Amazing, very inspiring!

[@iamrichlol]

I absolutely love these videos

[@charvel111]

Thank you man, I really enjoyed this. Love your music!

[@obconcept]

Love your video, very inspired, thank you.

[@jacobdoes]

This is so beautifully filmed. Smashing it 🫶🏼

[@alexgaudette779]

Enjoying these videos Josh, keep 'em comin!

[@jimmycan3696]

Very insightful video as always! Thanks Josh

[@JoshBrown190]

everything you do is magic

[@AbhayNayak]

love this series, need more!

[@MusicbyCiaran]

Love your videos, Josh! You and your music are killer.

[@traety1870]

You're a genius brotha. Really dope to get a glimpse of your creative process.

[@rodrigospelz2258]

Amazing man!

[@rodrigospelz2258]

I loved this video!!!!

[@itzmemarzie]

loved it!

[@David-qe9np]

Man, I just love content like this. It's so fascinating to get a peek into the workflow and process of awesome song writers. subscribed!

[@ruslanconstanta]

Awesome. Man.

[@YMRGUITAR]

This was sick, I would love to see more writing/demoing vids!

[@bikku.369]

One of the best contents for the musicians on KZbin. 💎

[@somogyi0127]

I really appreciate your effort, these videos are golden! Would love to see one where you show how your audio tracks are set up. I experience difference in the Neural DSP standalone versions and when I load them in Logic, so would like to learn more about them to figure out what I'm doing wrong.

[@sirishthapa651]

Love this kinda content ❤❤ keep em coming

[@usdill590]

Sounds great man

[@jhpeka7]

awesome video too

[@PeteDHeat]

I've never seen a video say 47 seconds ago on the main page lol Loving your presets on the Neural plug ins dude.

[@jonswain4539]

This all sound great Josh! Metric modulation in this one is pretty cool. This style vid your going for is by far my favourite that your doing atm. Just a thought.. it would really cool to see you do the same thing, but with how you go about recording a “real” amp in the room ( monitoring etc) any ways, always a pleasure to hear you play man ❤

[@JoshuaDeLaVictoria]

Yeah I’m def down to do some more real amp stuff!

[@chancethrash]

This channel is a gem

[@g6dhand]

Love these videos ❤‍🔥

[@JoshuaDeLaVictoria]

More to come!

[@kevinp_25]

Love this. Could you consider doing a video on a bunch of your favorite chord voicings?

[@DaveZnoise]

Really awesome seeing your workflow! Interesting and learned a few things.

[@DaveZnoise]

Can you explain the track stack for guitar a bit? You had 2 mono guitar tracks, then stacked into a summing stack and threw a stereo instance on the stack?

[@JoshuaDeLaVictoria]

@@DaveZnoiseyeah, I’m running 2 mono DI’s panned right & left into a stereo instance of an amp sim. This is so I can get the double tracked sound with only 1 plug-in. Also let’s me adjust the tone of both sides at the same time

[@makingmusiconline2309]

I really enjoyed and learned a lot from watching how you work at building a track. Shouldn't be that much different in Cubase (my DAW) so I'll have to give it a go. Thank you.

[@joenamredla]

Great as always man, these videos are always so inspiring for me. If I could suggest one thing though, it would be nice to see more of your rejected ideas when producing. It's great seeing you put music together but it would be nice if these videos were slightly longer and featured more clips of you trialling things and then showing how you further develop a rejected idea into something you're happy with. Looking forward to the next one!

[@JoshuaDeLaVictoria]

I’m thinking about doing some live streams like this where nothing is edited

[@guilhermematta]

Seus videos me ajudam muito!!!! Muitooo obrigado

[@fenrisform]

well i like watching you struggle… it is entertaining 😂 all jokes aside, awesome stuff man!

[@devoidofsilence]

Inspiring!!!! :)

[@kylegrossi8175]

MOAR of dis stuff...

[@jeffc21-12]

You program some nice, organic drum tracks! Really dig all the music you put out

[@JoshuaDeLaVictoria]

Thanks! I just want things to feel good haha

[@jeffc21-12]

I can tell and it's one of the things I appreciate in your music that makes it more enjoyable than some of the other groups in the genre. I take that approach on my own drum parts with the 8 string guitarist I play with. Our music is a little more jazz oriented so there is some room to 'go out' but I still always want it to feel good to the listener

[@ElShogoso]

I have been using the mesa plugin as my "main" sound for a while now. At first I was one of those who just wanted "metallica and petrucci" sounds but after tweaking a lot with the plugin I find myself using it for pretty much everything.

[@thomasbuck6250]

More of this, man! Can you please explain more of the theoretical thoughts, while you're playing?

[@omynel]

This was sick. Gotta put that playthrough at the end though, give the people a sweet pay off for watching the process.

[@JoshuaDeLaVictoria]

Yeah good idea. I’m trying to get people hooked in the beginning, but I’ll try it at the end

[@used019]

Just so immensely talented it's nuts. Your pick attack always sounds great. What's your plectrum of choice at the moment?

[@barisbenice]

Sick 👍🏽 BTW I think you should consider using "Control+X" to cut silent sections of the regions. Thanks for the video 👍🏽

[@corydhmiller]

Whew yes. As soon as he started manually cutting, I was like oh no, there's a shortcut for that!

[@juandavidmoralestovar5088]

Beautiful idea man! is there any more info about your video setup?? like camera, lense... it looks so good.

[@giuseppegilardi]

the goat

[@carlosanor9005]

First vid watched of you, instant follow! What drum plug in are you using?

[@matt2362]

Beautiful writing and the mix sounds so natural and crisp! What bass plugin were you using to write this? Sounds awesome

[@clemlvn9598]

Love this, please do more! Also, when it is « that easy » for you to compose something, how to you sort out between the stuff you want to keep developing and eventually release, and the stuff that will not be a thing?

[@JoshuaDeLaVictoria]

I struggle with this for sure. The stuff I actually release as music I spend much more time on. This is kinda just a single riff. The hard part about writing a full song is creating a bunch of different parts that go together with a nice flow

[@peterschmitz1754]

cant wait to see you with sun gazer! btw what is your style of playing called? its really cool and interesting

[@haralemes]

Hey dude, great video. What your camera and lens? Cheers!

[@karlgwaps67]

❤

[@TJisJustFine]

Damn, anyone else feeling inspired right now?

[@buttforce4208]

When you start from some chord, how do you move to the next bit? Can you just intuit what the movement should be, or do you use some kind of theory knowledge to constrain your choice?

[@Beyond-Antares]

Josh can you do a video on how you program drums? Do you use GGD?

[@dustynbeasley6261]

You're playing is awesome so is the quality. What kind of camera are you using?

[@danielschafhautle1691]

Noice algo brrrrr

[@underfeed]

awesome to see. What monitors are you using in your studio? Do you use UA interface? Super inspirational! thanks for sharing!

[@JoshuaDeLaVictoria]

These are Yamaha HS8s! And I’m using a focusrite Scarlett 18i8. Definitely need to upgrade at some point

[@jonswain4539]

Man the line at 14.55- 15.02….. What is that based around? It sounds sick!

[@augustov107]

how do you set up to record the guitar without roundtrip latency ?

[@robertpaten]

How low do you have your action? Seems like you barely press on the fretboard. Really enjoyed seeing the process!

[@JoshuaDeLaVictoria]

It’s pretty low, but not buzzing 🤙

[@Alex-ye1br]

So cool! I've been using Garage Band's basic default drums, but I notice you use another extension for your drums? What is it called?

[@JoshuaDeLaVictoria]

This is GGD Modern Fusion

[@Alex-ye1br]

@@JoshuaDeLaVictoria Oh, and this isn't GB, it's Logic? Thanks for the reply

[@eltole4766]

what bass plugin is that? sound amzing!

[@JoshuaDeLaVictoria]

Grovebass from Submission Audio!

[@eltole4766]

Thanks man! youre a genius!!@@JoshuaDeLaVictoria

[@DoublesaberVII]

How long did it take until you were 'done' with it?

[@JoshuaDeLaVictoria]

Maybe an hour & a half or so?

[@benjaminblanck7662]

Good soup

[@MaddMag]

Is the band-aid on your face from Joseph finally paying you back for slapping him in the buy high music video