My First Collab! Broken - Seether

Wow Happycat thats cool!!! Ill have to check out some of yalls stuff out!!! Yeah she seems like shes a real good teacher, shes very skilled and talented for sure!! Thanks for listening!!! I think I got my stuff sorted out thanks to LBro. :slight_smile:

Byron,
One of your biggest challenges to learning DAW and Recording is finding information to help you. In detail that means you need to find exactly what you need for a given issue. There is a ton of stuff out there on recording and how to with in ā€œLiveā€. The trick is knowing what to use as a search term. Here is an example:

I want to know more about recording levels and how to control them. So what do you search for? How about ā€œRECORDINGā€. You will get back a million hits and maybe buried in there is your answer. Another maybe is you wonā€™t find the info as there is too much returned by the search. Our search term is the issue. Instead we can search like this - ā€œAbleton Live Recording Input Levelsā€. That should narrow down your search and tell you how to avoid clipping when you record your tracks. Thus, the solution here is knowing what to search so that it returns more hits specific to what you want to know.

It will take a little time for you to learn what to search on. But indeed, you will get better at it as you work with your DAW.

I donā€™t know if I shared this already. But have you been up to the Ableton Live website help section? It looks like they have a blog and also a getting started tutorial. I would spend some time up there and see if anything can help you out.

Also, donā€™t discount them 500 or so Reaper video tutorials. While they were made with Reaper in mind. There is a wealth of information there about recording and other aspects of DAW work that apply to all DAWs. Knowing how to search there is important. I expand all videos per the link or button there. Then I hit Cont-F on the keyboard for FIND and put in my search term.

Hope the above is of some help,
LB

Thanks for the insight LBro you have been a big help and yeah your right! Ill look into it for sure! Thank you!!

WE fixed the problem everything lines up perfect now! Vocals, and Guitar. Now we are working on my original!

That is greatā€¦ But donā€™t leave us hangingā€¦ What was it that was wrong?

LB

The installation of my Scarlett a.I drivers and switch from me/direct x to Asio in the audio device settings!! :slight_smile:

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The installation of my Scarlett a.I drivers and switch from me/direct x to Asio in the audio device settings!!

Ha, I guess now and then it pays to listen to Broā€¦ I think you now realize how important your native ASIO driver is. All decent AIā€™s will have a set of driver(s) for them and it is ultra important the latest ones are loaded!

Happy mixing mate!
LB

LOL, Itā€™s me, Alykat . I found you over here. I wanted to follow your progress & see how people react to the changes & progress you have made

I enjoyed working with Byron very much, he is a diamond in the rough!

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Lol! Hey Aly! Stalking me ehh LOL! Im just playing! Welcome to justinguitar!!! This is usually where i post all my stuff, ive done it here for years! :slight_smile: Thats so sweet! Thank you!!

Welcome to the Community Aly.

Why not introduce yourself and tells us all about your guitar journey and what brings you to JusinGuitar. :sunglasses:

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Just got to this one Mr H, love this song so was interested in your cover of it. Covered it a while back.
Felt it came across quite well. Interesting video. Some good advice given on production, seems you are finding DAW usage is just as difficult as learning to play but which ever route you take its all good fun.
:sunglasses:

Im having a blast with all this DAW stuff! Aly is a pro at mixing inside of her DAW in my opinion and its crazy! I didnt know you could do all that!

I did just that!
Thank you for the warm welcome.

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This was our first collaboration together, Byrons first collaboration, ever. It was a tricky song & we had recording issues along the way. The key is out of my range & I struggled with the vocals. All & all it was great to get acquainted with Byron & I joined a new guitar site too. Itā€™s all fun at the end of the day.

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Hey thatā€™s what capos were made for :rofl: Trying to emulate Amy Lee on any song is a mammoth challenge for sure, even harder if youā€™re a bloke !!

I honestly thought she did great with the vocals in this!! Amazing!!

I painstakeningly learned all that finger picked stuff from some internet tab & that is very difficult for me to do. The key & the guitar tuning & the tab worked great but to go lower for me sing I need a zero fret & a -1 fret & a -2 fret, lol. I tried transposing & it was a nightmare so we just kept the original key. The whole collab was riddled with obstacles :slight_smile: We did finish though!

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Dave @ Hero2Zero has a great lesson, which I must revisit. No way my fingerstyle was up to playing that when I recorded it about 3 years ago, so kept it simple. Nice played Aly :sunglasses:

Lesson? Iā€™d like to check it out? Is this Dave @Hero2Zero a memeber or is there a site?

Its another YouTube teacher, will DM you a link as he has some good fingerstyle song lessons, that Justin does not cover at the moment. :sunglasses:

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