Nathan Larsen Music by far my biggest mistake was layering too many things for the sake of, rather than making them count and have a purpose

I used to do all of these. Still too lazy to edit things to perfection. =/ But I try to do it better and better. Thanks. ;)

Really got excited about the concept of leaving room for vocals in a certain frequency and intensionality in your choices. Thanks!

The very first time I got professional opinion on my mixes, #5 was the problem. I never knew it was called 'editing' though. I call it pre-production, including comping, lining-up tracks and do some tuning. Took me some time to figure out what you were talking about in #5 tip section. And yeah, that's what makes all the difference.

Made *all* of them. Biggest lightbulb is actually something you confirmed - I do a lot of editing. Thought maybe too much. No, you can’t do too much. The biggest problem I have producing and performing my own music has to do with what you said about getting it right at the source. For me, it is unbelievably difficult to both focus on getting my best performance and being concerned with all the technical details behind it. Ideally, you have someone else in the room who critiquing the performance, and telling you “that take works” - “your diction in that line is off” - The only way I have to compensate is to do several takes, review each one, and splice together the best. A lot of editing

This. Also though editing doesn’t always mean quantizing

You're not entirely wrong, however pitch correction did exist before auto tune. It was just a lot more difficult. There was a piece of gear called a harmonizer, and the trick was to run the vocal from tape through the harmonizer, change the pitch by however many cents it needed, then only print the effect back into tape. This was frustratingly time consuming cuz it involved more tape being needed (expensive), so when labels were looking for artists or bands to sign, if it turned out the label would be shelling out more money for the producers to go through that process, the label likely wouldn't take that risk. Editing also existed, and was also just as frustrating. Actually it was more so, because in order to actually edit the timing of say drums, when they were recorded they were often summed into one stereo channel that would then be printed to tape. That tape would have to be physically cut, tapped back together (scotch), and reprinted onto more tape (machine). Again, this happened, but wasn't too common due to labels not finding it worth the money/effort. Even today though, like he kind of mentioned, editing is still just as time consuming desire it technically being easier to do. Even pitch correction. Producers and engineers often have assistants or interns at studios who they put off those tasks to. I've been there myself. Pitch correcting and editing is something that IS done on almost every song in every genre by almost every artist since the mid to late 80s. They're just done at varying degrees. People like to complain about pop music being filled with too much of it, but Heavy Metal has just as much, if not more of it.

@@OrryMaineAgree. I remember Rick Beati talking about his concerns with Auto Tune, but then he, as an aside, said he was NOT talking about pitch correction, and that has been used for a Lon time- so like I did, I think many misunderstand that.

🙏🙏 love hearing that! Thanks!

@@NathanJamesLarsen do you not flex time for drums, you prefer Pro Tools or simply dragging stuff around for drums in Logic?

Love this so much- thanks for sharing that!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

@@NathanJamesLarsen my pleasure man, thank YOU

Awesome! Super happy to hear that! Welcome to the channel fam!

Go Big Red! Absolutely! Love doing it!

That is hilarious!! I love it. 🔥🔥🔥🙏🙏

That's awesome! Me too!

You got this!

Thanks!

Thanks Rafa! Super appreciative of that!

Glad to hear this helped you! 😎🙏

For sure! Yeah, unedited material just doesn't work.

I’m just starting as well, how is the journey thus far? Still going at it? Anything stood out that has helped you? Thx.

best producer video ever

🙏🙏🙏🔥🔥🔥 thanks so much! Really appreciate this and super happy to hear you're finding ways to implement this into your music!

Indeed! Thanks a bunch! 😎🙌🏻

Definitely subscribed as well!

Awesome! Thanks a bunch and yeah being surrounded by good voices is so helpeful

Absolutely! 😎😎🔥🔥

Absolutely! Fortunately most are pretty easy solutions.

This is literally THE best comment I've ever seen. THANK YOU. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 you, sir, just made my day!

Thanks a bunch! Editing will literally change your life

you mean pretty much all of jazz, blues, gospel, soul, (old) R&B etc? :D basically any genre except for techno and modern pop/rock/hip hop :D

Hey hey hey! I'll make sure to add ya to the group! Super glad to hear these videos are helping you!

That's awesome!! Happy to hear that the video game some aid to ya! What kind of music are you writing?

​ @Nathan Larsen Music I write (also over time) as a writer, rock (when it was great), pop, new country post 2018 and EDM (Trance ideas to DJS). How is the last 2 for a "combo"! LOL !! Logic ProX 10.5.1, Slate Dig, Eventide "New Fangled" stuff and an embarrassing number of other toys! Yep, got a problem! I can tell you are the real deal - musician + ! Keep up the great work in everything !

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100% Thanks! Yeah, the whole editing thing has gotten me into some conversations that didn't make some people happy... but... I'm not gonna lie and tell people they don't need to do it.

Haha we are all guilty of many of these!!

Atleast we learn from them🤣😝

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If it sounds better, listen to the edit and learn to sing it that way.

Hey hey Craig! First off - thanks for sticking around! That's awesome. Second - I can definitely do a video on EQ -- I think rather than doing just a video on "Mids" though it'd be better to really show things in more context overall. I'll put some thought into how Id like to package that so it's most valuable!

Doesn't sound like this is going to be your thing