Meek Mill's Engineer Cruz Exposes Recording Secrets

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9 ай бұрын

During this live recording workshop, Anthony Cruz aka Cruz, took us into the studio with him to explore how he works with an artist during a recording session. He breaks down how he uses his template and shows us the workflow for bringing the best performance out of the artist.
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@vglanty 8 ай бұрын

This is pure gold! keep doing content like this! Plz🔥

@kuttymayn123 8 ай бұрын

Boy if you dont get up from behind that computer and place that mic right for that young man i know sumthing 😂😂😂😂😂

@dezzybeats2215 8 ай бұрын

🤣that was messing with me real bad

@DigitalCrates 8 ай бұрын

THIS IS GOLD!

@jaymusik1235 8 ай бұрын

Thanks wavy such a crucial part of the music

@Dollababyy 8 ай бұрын

Dude seems so humble i remember meek first finding him to see where he is and still is learning tricks is dope

@jmia-topic 8 ай бұрын

I really love this wavy

@sayyyad_ 8 ай бұрын

Great video. Keep ‘em coming

@affi-rizzemusic8014 8 ай бұрын

Blessings fam 🙏 🙌🏾

@Afrado31 8 ай бұрын

Turn me up cruz

@hundon88 8 ай бұрын

🥶

@danithepen 8 ай бұрын

You're the waviest Wayne for this info! 🌊

@Afrado31 8 ай бұрын

I always want to listen to the song. Right after recording it in the studio. So i can listen to it on the way home, and see what adjustments need to be made etc.

@dashradio1 7 ай бұрын

This was very informative. 💯

@swishavsop2279 8 ай бұрын

one of the best tutorials i've seen

@Broadwaynoir 8 ай бұрын

Yhh this is hard! Love watching others do what they do. Shouts to wavy! 👏🏼💯

@djurban_876 8 ай бұрын

I watched Cruz working and I'm saying to myself... That's me in the future, very near future.... Slowly but surely getting there

@pjlee4540 7 ай бұрын

Excellent content foreal

@SMEL 8 ай бұрын

Wow... I like this!

@IRCarter 8 ай бұрын

Maaaaaaaan he could have found a better artist to do this video with.... This was a hard listen.... Homie was traaaaaaash smh

@marcthompson4661 8 ай бұрын

Facts! I couldn’t even finish the video

@ROIYALTY_MEDIA 8 ай бұрын

Fw me😤

@Rubberninja11 8 ай бұрын

So a “cut track” is basically just for delay compensation! Great to finally put a name to it. I always called it a dry vocal recording track.

@ssserotonin1373 8 ай бұрын

Uhhhh please expand it went over my head

@jujuisdead 8 ай бұрын

@@ssserotonin1373just a recording track separate from the mix bus, but still has the same processing

@rikodesinko 8 ай бұрын

Instead of recording while sending through a bus that has his processing like eq, compression, autotune, he's using it right on the track he's recording.

@Octxvius 8 ай бұрын

@@rikodesinkowhy ?

@rikodesinko 8 ай бұрын

@@Octxvius He's got a great computer so dont know why he's doing it but it saves CPU. If you know the sound you want 100% you setup an AUX with input as your mic and output as a new audio track. You put plugins on the AUX, get the sounds you want, and then print to the audio track. Now you can make that AUX inactive with the plugins because that sound is recorded to audio track. Versus keeping all those plugins running on a dry audio track. Make sense?

@marcthompson4661 8 ай бұрын

Lol punch me in after 1/2 a bar

@kamenbiz 25 күн бұрын

😂 Rite

@oxamic9953 8 ай бұрын

Bro this is such a W vid

@oddsaad 8 ай бұрын

Love this man!! Tryna get better at engineering myself! Thanks!!

@MixingAlien 8 ай бұрын

THIS IS EXACTLY HOW I RECORD MY CLIENTS AND THE SUPRISING PART IS THAT AM USING FL STUDIO THEY EVEN DROP THEIR DEMOS 🤣🤣🤣

@stacystacksbeats999 8 ай бұрын

Yea he gave all the good stuff. I still say the engineer is the real artist. Star Quality all day long. The engineer all day baby!

@vullmetal 8 ай бұрын

Sir wayne, thank you for this!! I can’t wait till the engineer community posts more live recording sessions like this., it’s truly nothing like a tutorial video. You should consider doing a series for the channel. Thank you again! Have a spooky October 🤙

@waynewav 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for that suggestion. We are working to keep this consistent.

@LA_marr 7 ай бұрын

Where’s the artist info at !!!??? Bro is dope I want to hear some of his music

@ericb-amuur9897 8 ай бұрын

I'm solo, performing, recording, mixing, etc. I never really know if my voice is sounding correct because it's my voice. I suspect I lot of records I deleted may have been bangers if I had someone else mixing or just more heads in the session.

@Trovonmcmillan 8 ай бұрын

💯💯💯 ctr drop to cut track is the ultimate hack

@realcasper81 8 ай бұрын

Hate it when they come unprepared or to improvise.. but.. that's how they do now days.

@DelmarJones 8 ай бұрын

Exactly! This is why most rappers can’t perform without a backing track these days. It’s lame. Just take the time to actually write the damn verse.

@frgramz027 8 ай бұрын

@@DelmarJones Everyone has a different creative process bro, that's why they pay the studio time they need...

@DelmarJones 8 ай бұрын

@@frgramz027 guess I struck a nerve huh?

@Triillmiixx 8 ай бұрын

@@DelmarJonesthose rappers stuck your nerve tho

@DelmarJones 8 ай бұрын

@@Triillmiixx Learn to properly form a sentence before you decide to jump on my dik.

@kickgang9283 8 ай бұрын

❤❤

@davidbutler5101 8 ай бұрын

VSX kru 💪🏽

@ZAY________ 8 ай бұрын

yeah I definitely use Cut tracks. I didn't even know there was a term for that. I just got the Apollo x6, have no idea how to use it yet so we'll see how that changes my work flow in the upcoming months. I still like the idea of cut tracks regardless though. For sure latency compensation with cut tracks

@pjlee4540 7 ай бұрын

Particularly what is a cut track What does it compensate Is this referring two 2 track recording

@ZAY________ 7 ай бұрын

well, I used to call my "Cut track" simply "Headphone 1" and that's simply where you record everything on. In my case Its actually technically a Headphone mix. After recording a take, you gotta drop down to your regular track "Verse 1, 2 / Hook" tracks, in which those all have EQ, Compression, Autotune all separately and then all your lead vocal tracks get sent out to a Lead vocal BUS where they are processed even more. The idea is to RECORD on a track with very little processing so you don't get system overloads or latency. The Cut track has very little processing on it. All I have on my Cut Track/Headphone Mix is "Stock EQ, CLA 3A and a logic stock 1/4th + 1/2 left/right Delay. It is JUST to simply allow the artist to FEEL in the mix during recording. AFTER recording the take, you gotta drop down to the actual processed track. The tracks I drop down are MUCH louder, with EQ Compression saturation etc @@pjlee4540

@aviswilliams3034 8 ай бұрын

Hey man! Cool idea for your channel.

@jaybyrd1374 8 ай бұрын

Well first of all is the beat selection 😌 then I just record with my preset without reverb or delay (Add that later) make sure my delivery is solid before i even start the song (this helps for mixing and reduce the chance to punch in after half a bar) so ill scat around using the highest pitch for the song within that key of the song to expand my vocals that helps me hit all notes within that key so i wont be struggling to say certain words. After ill make the hook See what sounds are catchy for the song and then ill start writing from that hook

@Chrisjenkinstvg 8 ай бұрын

naw thats crazy cruz trackin in the VSX cans!

@lovephantxm 8 ай бұрын

anyone else wondering why the mic is so low?

@Bagheera_Smoov 8 ай бұрын

Definitely weird to me. Only thing I can rationalize is maybe he purposely records off axis to capture or avoid some sort of articulations? Maybe plosives. Or maybe he gets some kyna desired proximity effect out of it lol idk. Weird to me

@DreTheEngineer 8 ай бұрын

Artist are assholes and think they know more than an experience engineer about mic placement. In my studio when they ask to lower it i say NO

@ZAY________ 7 ай бұрын

@@Bagheera_Smoov Cruz address's the mic placement this on the recent HelpMeDevvon > "My Audio Nerds Podcast" at 48.08

@Bagheera_Smoov 7 ай бұрын

@@ZAY________ ayeeee dope shit! I’m boutta check that out now bro🤞🏽🤞🏽

@TurnMeUpCruz 8 ай бұрын

Loving the comments! 😂 Grammy noms, platinum records and I couldn’t even help my man with proper mic placement

@ZAY________ 7 ай бұрын

He read this and responded to this on a podcast.

@Lilswitch_1.0 8 ай бұрын

🎉🎉🎉🎉

@SavageNotez 8 ай бұрын

Y'all should record allnthese😢

@LARGERTHANLIFE21 8 ай бұрын

Punch me in??? Yeah I can record punch in rappers they always get mad when I make them preform the verse . But always love the results

@konjstip6156 8 ай бұрын

To me this approach is killing young and unexperienced guys... They never get to hear how the raw signal sounds, and they never get to learn how to properly creatively mic the artist or an instrument... Most of the guys do exactly this, cut the lows up to 500hz, kill all the balls in the signal, throw some arbitrary level of compressions and turn the vocals up too much, and when it comes to mixing stage, boom, demoitis, everything has to stay too thin and shrill because that's how it was being listened for hundreds or thousands of times prior mixing... This is the exact reason why most of the music nowadays sounds wack and thin, with the exception from the very top of the line artists which also get the screw their sound from time to time...

@hthhth7993 8 ай бұрын

Very true

@marcthompson4661 8 ай бұрын

Facts.

@ryuzaki1380 8 ай бұрын

THANKS !

@notezmusik 8 ай бұрын

Spot on

@longchank0 8 ай бұрын

and that makes your vocal clean+crispy but souless

@LoveMeBack 8 ай бұрын

What’s with the satellite connection from outer space?

@chriswalshtv 8 ай бұрын

Hey what’s up bro how are you much love

@yanniskissinger678 8 ай бұрын

Bro did u shoot this in 10fps?

@tdhilfiger 8 ай бұрын

Hi I have a Apollo and I try to record my vocals thru the neve but wav file no near how those look

@tdhilfiger 8 ай бұрын

I’m trying figure out how to get a proper recording setting for it bc it’s either to low where I can’t here or my wav files to small

@GSCTHADON 8 ай бұрын

lol guys like this need more vocal coaching. all those punch ins crazy

@AlesanaKraz3 5 ай бұрын

Here because he is now my professor 😅😅

@yoophill6377 8 ай бұрын

64 sample bit rate records your thoughts before you actually lay it out🤣😭😭. My PC and recording interface cannot handle that

@kickgang9283 8 ай бұрын

I use virtual Dj to find my key and bpm

@AriJordan 8 ай бұрын

Autokey is good as well plus if you have autotune it will follow the key switches and automatically send it to AT

@Rubberninja11 8 ай бұрын

Fax about Auto-Key! Plus I just found out about that Auto-Key shows you how much to detune in the top right. Massive game changer! Smooths out the vocals so much!

@TavienSG 8 ай бұрын

@@Rubberninja11how you do that ?

@slickonthebeat22 8 ай бұрын

Facts me too

@oddsaad 8 ай бұрын

Did Cruz give out a discount code??

@yoophill6377 8 ай бұрын

Mic discipline is important

@acharding5549 8 ай бұрын

What is that vocal stack ?

@watchmykicksllc 8 ай бұрын

yo i had protools but its too confusing for beginners, luna is so much more easier and straight forward

@slickonthebeat22 8 ай бұрын

gotta put that time in if you want to learn

@pjlee4540 7 ай бұрын

I use luna Teo and a beginner, so in luna we can set the same thing up and monitor in console and pre mix as we go they will sound excellent out the gate the copy and paste plugin chain with matching setting two start the in the box mix What I'm tryna understand in protools is the cut track , Plus is they running there mix chain through a bus two monitor, is that's one reason they using aux bus

@876Plug 8 ай бұрын

Umm going crazy 😂😂

@mimmyhomes109 8 ай бұрын

What vocal chain did he use on the Apollo before going in ???

@A_Class216 8 ай бұрын

Cruz actually has his recording template for sale on his website.

@mimmyhomes109 8 ай бұрын

@@A_Class216okay

@J77199 8 ай бұрын

Who cares sounds awful

@pjlee4540 7 ай бұрын

He use outboard gear neve and a compressor ,so I'm thinking he monitor on a aux bus ,I'm not sure I didn't even see a apollo ,if he had a apollo he could have set the chain up in console and did the same thing in a better easier way and then just copy and paste, I remember one producer telling him about console and I have a apollo x so yea

@DanyPino-dw2by 8 ай бұрын

Wtf music is just been in the rigth situation this Info so basic 😢 I been recording like from day one

@bignose3639 8 ай бұрын

Thank you. Do you do mastering? I have about 50 songs. Check the page out when u have some time.

@KPTheProducer 8 ай бұрын

Punch me in 😤👊🏽

@DanyPino-dw2by 8 ай бұрын

Also his mike technique is no bad as a recording engineer you need to school the artist on that

@konjstip6156 8 ай бұрын

Mike technique is a lost art, nobody doing that anymore, nobody listens to the raw signal any more, unexperienced guys think they can make up everything with plugins, and honestly internet doesn't help them learning that... Nobody listens and judge a raw recording nowhere in the production stage, everybody listens ballless shrill thin recordings with the lows completely cut off... Real recording and mixing engineers quit from trying to educate people, they don't want confrontation, they just want their money on the table and that's it... That's why mixing engineer most of the time nowadays ask for straight up processed tracks, so they can just polish what was done in the recording/production stage and move on, it's sad. Listen to mr Fabian Marasciullo at Pensado's place 356 from 5 years ago, it is worse now.

@ssserotonin1373 8 ай бұрын

Mic technique had me sell a tlm103 for a beta sm58a.... that with a twin x and a unison 1084 with no compressor... how its meant to be baby (matched my vocal) (new people: everyones voice has different frequencies and matches mics different, but dang do I love dynamic handhelds in studio recording professionally....... personally. @@konjstip6156

@JayyReezy 8 ай бұрын

How do you turn on the quick punch mode??

@waynewav 8 ай бұрын

Go to the options menu

@waynewav 8 ай бұрын

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@JayyReezy 8 ай бұрын

@waynewav dope thanks bro for always responding and coming through with help. I appreciate you!

@lucalomusicpage 8 ай бұрын

Hold up but where the song at that dude recorded at 3mins on

@selfmadeentertainmentt 8 ай бұрын

What program is he using?

@Godisgood137 Ай бұрын

Protools

@yoophill6377 8 ай бұрын

What's up with your fps

@david_gare 6 ай бұрын

whats the software hes using?

@Godisgood137 Ай бұрын

Protools

@jacksp8de 8 ай бұрын

Wonder what interface he uses

@gassmaskwoodrow 8 ай бұрын

APOLLO

@jacksp8de 8 ай бұрын

@@gassmaskwoodrow he not using console so thought it was something else. The latency gotta be crazy good cuz ol boy was singing on point with a 1024 buffer. My shit gotta be at least 128

@prodbydramatic 8 ай бұрын

@@jacksp8de curious on how you got yours setup if you use apollo

@DreTheEngineer 8 ай бұрын

cut track does nothing for latency thats baloney. Send your Record track or "cut track" into the vocal bus. So no plugins on the cut track and just send the cut "out" into the vocal bus. Set buffer to 64 or 128 and youre good. If using autotune pro turn on low latency in autotune plugin settings

@pjlee4540 7 ай бұрын

Question bro I create a aux bus mono after I record the take So what's the benefit of recording a track and routing two bus in real time ,if I'm asking this right ,if not forgive me

@playboydior 8 ай бұрын

first of all why his mic all the way down there lmao

@whocallinsimon5946 8 ай бұрын

The frames are off on this video

@KolossalStreamingGroup 8 ай бұрын

This is why I use reaper. Cut/effect tracks?! Committing!?? Printing????!!! Helll nawwww reaper users don’t have to deal with those problems. You save SOOOOO Much time in reaper

@robinsonmuita9482 8 ай бұрын

The best DAW

@Rocketz4dayz 8 ай бұрын

can you do a video on a cut track wavy

@nukykam 8 ай бұрын

So easy

@landenmanuel3729 8 ай бұрын

Who’s the artist?

@Squcecreatorz 8 ай бұрын

Bro in the studio with gunna

@SuperHonkyPodcast 8 ай бұрын

My man's talking about polishing a turd and yet he recorded this video at only 15 fps. 😂

@KennyLauderdale 8 ай бұрын

Why do folks say "expose" as if there's something being hidden

@waynewav 8 ай бұрын

Makes more people click. lol. Humans are attracted to things like this. Sorry if it misled you. But the video is worth watching.

@KennyLauderdale 8 ай бұрын

@@waynewav Ahhhh ok. Understood.

@Come2planet10 7 ай бұрын

Who is the artist rapping ??

@batmanreturns7655 8 ай бұрын

I wonder how many verbs he uses

@DisGussTinEnt 7 ай бұрын

he gotta still be learning how to engineer...

@geeva99 8 ай бұрын

This is so basic, we be doing a whole spiritual major event in the studio opening major portals etc, ain’t no game this is absolute basic, no cutting one take from start to end fasting on Korean tea holding crystals etc

@Rubberninja11 8 ай бұрын

64 sample rate is so hard on my cpu 😂

@VersatileLifestyle1 8 ай бұрын

I use 64 all the time with 64 GB RAM And it did work great. Now I have upgraded to 128 GB Ram. I love it more

@Rubberninja11 8 ай бұрын

Thats Whatsup Dawg, good for you! I would’ve done that a while ago if not for MacBooks lack of ability to be customized.

@Allious131 8 ай бұрын

Welp grab you a 2700x 32 gb ram b450 motherboard and any gpu that's cheap and you can run 64 samples easy. And it's cheap

@perlementfan 8 ай бұрын

Nice fps bro

@foreverthestudent 8 ай бұрын

So he's like two inches from the mic? Sounds like cats in mating season under the house

@tdhilfiger 8 ай бұрын

Wat hardware or software he used?

@fdat94 8 ай бұрын

Nobody gonna asked about the song? What’s the song called?

@LoRdeShellz-ff4vi 8 ай бұрын

garbo

@ParadiseRecordingStudio 8 ай бұрын

im mad my pro tools doesnt have auto pan anymore

@DreTheEngineer 8 ай бұрын

def does lol

@ParadiseRecordingStudio 8 ай бұрын

it def doesnt, idk whats wrong but doesn't matter what width the track is or anything its no where to be found not in anything@@DreTheEngineer

@Genolexis 8 ай бұрын

He right though, you can't turn 💩 into sugar.

@javeiongresham4049 8 ай бұрын

i don’t wanna hear it i’ve seen artist record hit songs in their kitchen,

@4brotroydavis 8 ай бұрын

Man. These youngboys smh. What is he saying

@ryuzaki1380 8 ай бұрын

🤣

@emptytombprod 8 ай бұрын

NO idea

@Youtubekert 8 ай бұрын

Hot 🗑️

@langstonlouis1895 8 ай бұрын

TF IS HE SAYIN BRO🙄

@KolossalStreamingGroup 8 ай бұрын

Lipstick on a pig…

@DALYrap 8 ай бұрын

Free palastine

@gassmaskwoodrow 8 ай бұрын

👎

@ViciousAudioTX 8 ай бұрын

Mf can’t even spell Palestine

@KennyLauderdale 8 ай бұрын

I need the words cause I'm not sure what he's saying

@prodbymodxz 8 ай бұрын

Bro cant even rap/sing into the mic the right way.. If anything the rapper need some lessons on how to properly record himself and posture himself near a mic. Urks me as an engineer when artist's do this because than later on their like " oh why my shit sound like that". well sir, you made it sound like that, i just clicked record.

@DreTheEngineer 8 ай бұрын

Hate when you set the mic up and they ask to lower it, like NO dumb ass, i set it here for a reason lol

@dezzybeats2215 8 ай бұрын

@@DreTheEngineer😂😂😂

@NoahJonesNews 8 ай бұрын

Is this meek mill or lil durk? There’s no originality these days. 🤦🏽‍♂️

@yeshua3374 8 ай бұрын

That's not meek on the mic

@NoahJonesNews 8 ай бұрын

@@yeshua3374 I know I was saying the person recording is copying. Ur reading comprehension needs a lil work

@yeshua3374 8 ай бұрын

@@NoahJonesNews does it ? Your question mark imposes a question so I think my comprehension is pretty good. The correct way to say it would have been I don't know if this is Meek Mill or Lil Durk sounds more like sarcasm and not a question all love though.

@NoahJonesNews 8 ай бұрын

@@yeshua3374 it was sarcasm which is why I said there is no originality and used the facepalm emoji. As I said your comprehension needs work.

@yeshua3374 8 ай бұрын

@@NoahJonesNews most, if not all languages, lacked punctuation to signify sarcasm. These days, people tend to express sarcasm by using an exclamation mark between brackets “(!)”. Look up Sarcmark I'm not the one that needs help adios.

@J.Scurry 8 ай бұрын

Secrets?? 😂😂😂😂😂😂 y’all gotta stop.

@langstonlouis1895 8 ай бұрын

He not even singing into the mic frl🙄

@lc8global441 8 ай бұрын

Gosh thats an annoying aritst to record.

@hazinsava 8 ай бұрын

Waft mic is that

@LBeeLilStoner 8 ай бұрын

🤦🏾‍♂️ So this is how to record 16's, cut & paste. I've been trying to spit whole 16 verses. Shit drives me nuts. My production will sky rocket 🚀 soon😂 Rap is wrapped literally 🤦🏾‍♂️🚭💀⚠️

@emmanuel.n8458 7 ай бұрын

This is how he does his own. It all depends on the artist.