hey everybody I do this show every single Friday this is SMG viewers comments this is
where I listen to your comments I listen to your questions and try to answer them to the
best of my ability and we are 414 episodes into this and I just want to say I've noticed
a massive uptick in subscribers as light and I'd like to welcome everybody on board to
the channel buckle your seatbelts because it's going to be one hell of a ride you got
something cool to say you got a question you need an answer I want to hear from you because
that's what this show is all about you let's get right to it I like songs over three minutes
I feel like bands like forever and sleep token do it well and I have no argument with that
assessment the problem is most of the mixes I have to listen to on this show every Monday
aren't five periphery and sleep token by guys who think nine minute songs somehow make a
great song here's the hint guys you're [ __ ] boring you're just a guy at his desktop trying
to get people's attention here's an idea don't Boris get to the chorus next so it's okay
to replace my pickups if I'm trying to change the visual appearance of my guitar going from
stock black back to nickel plated or a white black for example okay okay I think I think
you're getting the wrong impression there you don't need my permission to do anything
to your guitar that's not what this show's about please don't misinterpret it like that
if you want to change the pickups on your guitar you are well within your rights to
do it it is your guitar it's absolutely okay all I'm trying to do is inform you that you
might not get the perceived tonal shift that you were you've been expecting due to the
massive amounts of disinformation out there when it comes to High Gain guitar tone you
might get a little bit of a shift but you're not going to get a gigantic shift so if you're
thinking the pickup is going to be the Magic Bullet for the tone you're looking for it's
just not gonna do it being set on clean tones yes you'll get a much bigger shift and no
question about that now if you're looking to upgrade your guitar visually of course
absolutely [ __ ] go for it actually uh check this out this is a guitar I got a review
coming up on real soon this is a vicious guitar from Toronto and the pickup manufacturer is
local and I don't know if we can see this or not see if I can block out my face here
look at that is that sick or what that's from Pariah pickups from Belle River Ontario uh
definitely very cool looking one of the coolest looking pickups I've ever seen best of all
they're a local Builder and I'm happy to show them up uh if you guys want to see this being
reviewed because oh damn is this ever a cool instrument uh make sure you hit the Subscribe
button the notification Bell and all that good stuff so you get notified when this comes
out this is an episode you don't want to miss especially if you're looking for something
a little more unique you don't have studio monitors can someone please explain in further
detail why this makes a difference if my mixes sound good on my own headphones and when I
mix I threw them why wouldn't this result a good mix overall well the simplest explanation
is headphones lie they're not giving you the real truth about what's going on mainly because
we're not getting audio cues like our ears here they're isolated therefore uh the Left
Channel speaker and the right channel speaker we get a little bit of the opposite speaker
in each year we don't get that when we're wearing headphones uh also they're not a flat
frequency response at least a lot of them are the Slate vsx aren't half bad to mix on
but I'm not the jury's kind of out on those but your average Garden variety of headphones
are probably one of the worst things you could ever mix music on mainly because what you
hear you're making judgments based on what you're hearing and if they're not a flat frequency
response you're going to wind up boosting and cutting the wrong frequencies and if anybody
goes to play that mix on anything else but that set of headphones it's going to sound
like [ __ ] that's why I recommend getting studio monitors because they're a great point
to reference and they will translate better into the real world so in other words save
your pennies you're not getting around this one sorry a comment saying the preamps or
a pro consumer grade I think I'm purchasing a Volt 2 by UA I'd be upgrading from a pre-sonus
firebox 96 I run a Windows 10 PC and Ableton Suite edu are you satisfied with the preamps
on this device also I've noted USBC not much at all I'm used to my Firebox and his USB
based interface and the more Square USB shapes in the back of the device to a regular skinny
classic USB port how how matter would you say the audio digital converters when compared
to the priest on the Spider Box how about the preamps why can't any issues when running
Windows 10 most respects of extremely has nothing to move to Windows 11.
thanks all dude talk about a lot to unpack okay let's pump the brakes there Chief um
you've obviously been reading a lot of forums and of course you know the big emphasis is
put on the preamps and the converters okay all right let's let's be very very clear here
unless you're recording absolute top of the Heap major label Platinum releases unless
you're doing that don't stop worrying about your preamps and converters seriously uh what's
being loaded onto that Firebox that you're using right now and the universal volt those
are absolutely fine okay they're not going to hold you back we need to get over this
thing okay 30 40 years ago yes the cheap preamps weren't very good the Mackie came along with
the vlz mixer system and they had some really good preamps on people were going nuts of
them over them in the early 90s I remember I recorded on one of those points it was actually
quite clean and ever since the preamps have only gotten better and better and better and
I'm talking on the Bare Bones entry level stuff so stop worrying about what you don't
need to worry about because the preamps and Converters on either of those boards the one
you have right now and the one you're thinking you're going to upgrade to aren't the [ __ ]
[ __ ] emblem I can't say any more clearly than that work on your mic technique or better
yet if you're looking to spend money upgrade your mics and buy some room acoustic treatment
not only in your control room but whatever your tracking room is as well or it builds
some traps that is going to give you a massive increase in sound quality over what you're
struggling with right now fix the real problem instead of the imaginary one good luck dude
oh yeah and as for uh Windows 10 versus 11.
dude do I look like Universal audios tech support all right everybody this video is
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below go grab it now do you suggest learning vocal tracks in the proper World they often
do a second vocal then take the main one and drop it down an octave and buried in the mix
to thicken it up and there could be on top of the whisker vocal and then a gated saturated
distorted vocal buried away down as well for metal oh do you go for just one pure track
in general what's your philosophy on that thank you in advance oh I layer vocals like
crazy I've got them all over the place I mean for all you black metal fans the first Woods
V prey record are those big booming clean vocals we had that was like eight layers of
vocals going on like meeting place in time that chorus you know was just layer upon layer
upon Lair upon Lair because I want this huge Volvo sound and then it would you know collapse
down to the screaming bit which might be one or two one layered underneath you can get
some really cool effects the trick is you know try a few different ideas and see what
you like what works for me might not work for you but then again it might don't fence
yourself off from different ideas try a few things the great thing about doing layered
vocals is you can do a bunch of players and then take them out if you don't think they're
working we've got mute buttons try that I swear I've been looking for this video for
over a decade thanks [ __ ] I have a question when panning left right for Double Dragon
what do you recommend for a two guitars set up assuming they both have different gear
and a slightly different sound each is it better to pan one track for each guitarist
on both sides or pan both tracks from one guitarist to the left two tracks the other
could turn to the right great question man that was clear as mud uh generally when I'm
doing stuff if uh the band has two rhythm guitar players I'll actually have one guitar
player play rhythms on like half the songs and the other guitar player player rhythms
on half the songs it's usually a lot tighter I mean like Metallica for years and years
and years just had James playing Rhythm on all the tracks because he's such a hyper type
Rhythm play you got to serve the song So and not necessarily the guitar player's ego so
if one guy is considerably better on rhythm guitar than the other have that guy do all
the tracks that being said there's nothing wrong with getting two different guitar sounds
one left one right you know depending on the different Rigs and how they're miked and all
that uh would definitely add a little bit more Dimension to your music and would make
it stand out a little bit more than the carbon copy stuff we're getting these days that's
for sure where all the guitar tones are exactly the same left right from song to song to song
to song yeah don't be afraid to mix it up and once again I recommend experimenting and
find out what works for your sensibilities not mine but yours you've got to make that
choice hey Glenn I've been trying to find some advice on speaker comments in the cab
that would work great for him no I have a 4x12 and singing about connected two by twelve
instead but they are [ __ ] expensive around here so I thought maybe try a speaker combo
in one of my four bunches but it seems the only thing I can find is about [ __ ] about
pickups and amp heads so many of you have some advice for what to go for that's not
the v30 rub for the most part me and my friends play Metallica conferences of Sabaton but
we play some Maiden priests and that sort of Music sometimes as well thanks for saving
a [ __ ] ton of money I wish I'd found your channel and keep up the great work dude yeah
you want to get some of those old school priests and Maiden tones you want to go with a celestian
Greenback or uh the brand new selection evh speakers those are great I'm not saying that
the speakers in the evh cabinets that uh that come with the iconic no no those aren't good
we're gonna have more on that in a second heavy on the [ __ ] part but seriously this
lesson aviations are fantastic speakers the other candidates would be Eminence dv77s hey
Zoo demons and my personal new favorite which have to be the Mojo tone bv25m just absolutely
great stuff wgs makes a whole crapload of amazing speakers as well you've got options
uh the one thing I really like about the motor tones though they're only like 110 US dollars
so you can literally go get a set of bb25ms or 220 bucks that's it definitely worth taking
a look at that's for sure yeah they're only 25 watts but you know hey put two in there's
50 and if you do like an x pattern that should go pretty well uh what what is it now if you're
talking old-school Metallica you might want to try digging up a couple of those celestion
g65s those are pretty wild I just picked a vintage one up from like 1980 and whatnot
it's kind of getting me into the spectrum of the old Ride the Lightning sounds that's
uh that's pretty neat I can't say anything about the new speakers that's for sure oh
yeah and speaking of new speakers the newer vintage 30s are absolutely spectacular as
well uh it's a great time to be a guitar player all you got to do is be willing to pry the
back off your guitar cap swapping things out and experiment a little I guarantee you're
gonna like the results good luck dude quick question I have a new AVH 5150 iconic 40 watt
combo I've seen a lot of stuff online [ __ ] on the selection speaker used for those apps
what recommended speaker would you put in I have seen some speaker swaps some people
have done and just wanted your opinion to put in keep it up yeah I haven't heard many
good things about those iconic cabinets that's for sure it sounds like you have the combo
so I don't know if that's a one by twelve or two by twelve or what's in there but once
again Mojo tone bv25m absolutely Stellar speaker be careful it's only 25 watts so if you're
pouring 80 into it you just want to be kind of careful maybe a little bit more power handling
might do the trick I'd really recommend checking out the Jesus demon that might be a great
choice for the 5150 iconic I think you're really gonna like the results especially if
you're going for a metal tone those speakers are just freaking magnificent made in Poland
by the way respect for putting a whole awesome tutorial online for free this is the kind
of stuff most people get the first two minutes for free then hide the rest behind a payloc
this is the best tutorial I've ever watched on well dude I really appreciate that thanks
so much of course you're referencing last week's 13 mistakes to avoid when working with
absence if you haven't checked that out please do we're like a weekend and we're already
like just about ready to crack a hundred thousand views on them in other words there's some
really good information in here that a lot of people are finding very useful and I'm
more than happy to share what I know so I just ask in return please if you haven't already
hit the Subscribe button it would be a massive help to me and would encourage me to make
more tutorials like that I've got a few in the pipe and if you want to see more up like
that kind of stuff leave a comment below and leave me a suggestion because I love hearing
from you guys what percentage of people dropped out of school actually went up with the music
career I'd be willing to bet it's less than 0.01 and I'd be willing to bet you didn't
actually do your homework my question to you would be what percentage of kids coming out
of schools these days actually can afford somewhere to live go ahead answer that one
I'll wait I was just talking to my part about this last night I'm kind of upset of a lot
of things mainly the horrendous amount of time I spent at the factory I work at instead
of with the band playing music I love my house and a couple of cars I've been able to acquire
but as I told them I've had to sacrifice a lot over the last 10 years to get those things
I had to be responsible and go to work all day every day and save money and pay my bills
on time so I can build credit buying a house in America is next impossible today and I
would not give up my dream card that is sitting in my driving but every day I spend in that
factory welding truck frames instead of playing music kills me a little bit more on the inside
Nathaniel you know you have my sympathies I mean like I know exactly what you mean I
would work six and seven day weeks a lot of times to be able to afford a lot of the Studio
Gear I had to be able to chase drown down my dreams at least I had the opportunity to
work at a job where I was able to perform and that's why I'm such an advocate for kids
coming out of schools these days who basically have been you know shortchanged out of any
kind of meaningful future all they've got to look forward to is work and debt and make
me up not being able to actually own anything at any point in their lives I think they really
got a raw [ __ ] deal and uh I think something seriously needs to change her but yeah for
everybody out there who's like working a job they hate so they can have a little bit of
joy in their life doing music you know all I can say been there done that stay strong
it does get better don't give up
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from the cab section destroyed my back oh yes the 6505 plus combo the 325 dollar tube
head that's 60 watts and sounds absolutely amazing now a belt out of inability to separate
the cabinet uh you mean this right here would be if I'm lifting with one hand yeah I've
got a video coming up on how to do that I think you guys are really gonna like it once
again this stamp is an absolute monster cost me a whopping 325 bucks and yeah we even cut
the cabinet off and it is super portable now so uh it's definitely worth uh checking out
we'll have that video coming out in a week or two hope to see you there hope you check
it out because I think you're gonna like what you see anyway thanks so much for watching
thanks for subscribing and don't forget to check out the singularity base if you're sitting
at home composing and even if you're doing nine minute gen topics and you need a bass
player and you know you're tired of the guy coming in wasting your time who doesn't know
the song Singularity bass is the virtual bass instrument for you links are in the description
below check it out I know you're gonna like it anyway hope to see you guys again next
week until then get out there and make and make I'll try doing the same