Tag Archives: DAW

MIDI – The Ultimate Guide to Get Started

Do you want to make songs, but can’t play all the instruments needed? Virtual instruments to the rescue! And MIDI is the way you control them – what they play, and how they play it. In this video you will learn everything about how MIDI works in a DAW – especially in Reaper, but valid for any DAW.

We will cover recording, editing, instrument plugins, velocity, quantizing, humanizing, pitch bends, drums and advanced track routing. Go from MIDI curious to MIDI expert in 22 minutes and 19 seconds.

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Double-Tracking Guitars – a Tutorial for Awesome Metal Rhythms

Double-Tracking Guitars

Do your rhythm guitar recordings sound thin and dull compared to what you hear in songs? Chances are that you’re not using the oldest trick in the book when it comes to recording guitars – double tracking!

Double-tracking will not only instantly make your guitar recordings at least twice as good, it will also automatically create space in your mix so your rhythms don’t collide with bass, vocals and lead guitars.

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How to Write Your First Song

Have you always dreamed of writing your own metal songs, but don’t know where to start? In this video I share my workflow, let you in on some tricks to get your creative juices flowing and overall tips on song arrangement. We’ll also cover how to come up with riffs for verses, choruses and other parts, and how to match your drum patterns to those riffs.

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