Hello everyone!
This is a bit of a long one, so just giving you a heads up! I go through the basics of how to produce music with a FREE DAW - in this instance, Ableton Live Lite (all free/stock plugins etc).
This tutorial is a follow up from my recent cover of blink-182 feeling this. I thought I would upload a lesson to help guide anyone who wants to get started, for free! This skips over the actual recording or how to play the song, but gives basic recording, mixing, and mastering tips.
Here is a link to my cover of Feeling This:
For the guitars, I go through panning, effects, EQ and compressors, and more. Then for vocals, we look at the same plus a few additionals like autotune.
I mention at the start how this is all free in Ableton, and I do end up using the Focusrite Red EQ and Comp - honestly, you can get the same for a basic mix and demo with the Ableton stock EQ and Comp (I should both and explain all in the video!)
I will say that this is the Ableton free version (live lite), so it has its limitations but still gives you a good understanding of what to do!
Please check out my original music - that would be amazing! It is all available for free right here on YouTube. Here are a few links:
馃幍 ORIGINAL MUSIC VIDEOS
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV0X7nJY1BuvKMuYK3lJKzSQ_SYp4Fy1c
馃帶 ORIGINAL MUSIC https://www.youtube.com/@CHOEYGMUSIC/releases
馃寪 Everything else (to stream my albums) https://linktr.ee/choey_g
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro
00:38 GUITARS
01:58 Guitar Tone
03:00 Guitar 1 sound
04:40 L & R panned guitars
05:25 Guitar 2(L) and 3(R) sound
06:46 ALL guitars sound
07:29 Backing Guitar layers
08:34 VOCALS
10:22 Vox 1 sound
11:22 Panned group vocals sound
12:58 Chorus vocals sound
13:51 Harmonies (2) sound
15:01 Lofi telephone vocals sound
16:29 outro harmonies (4) sound
16:55 Automation
18:25 Master... done!
Thanks everyone! \m/
