- [Woman] For the room sound on the TrueVerb, do you normally keep it
it around the same size?
- [Jay] Yeah.
So, if you look at it, it's all early reflections
with a decay time at 0.5.
So, it's super, super, super super, super fast.
And it's only early reflections.
It's completely, like...
So let me show you what it's doing.
Let me take the direct out.
So, this is what you're hearing.
And it just sits it behind the snare now,
instead of being in front of the mix.
Now, I want to make this hat a little bit thicker.
Pause.
So, I'm going to put the lo-fi on, take the sample rate...
See how that just kind of takes that harsh off the top?
Add a little bit of saturation.
Then you go to the anti-alias.
So, if you want to bring the high end back in, just take it down.
I usually take it down to 80.
So, before, real... no weight to it.
Now...
...you got a little character to it.
So now, super simple, you put in this sample that they did.
So now we got to treat this sample like a 2-track.
So, you got to listen to it.
That's the first thing they need to buy in here is a scope.
A scope.
So, this is amazing.
So, I already know right off the bat, I'm going to come here,
I'm going to go to my EQ section, I'll bring out the Brainworx shredspread.
Whenever you have guitars, even vocals,
and you love how they're sitting outside,
and then you want to put another, slightly modulated, version of it
outside of it as well to make it thicker, this is a great,
not only plug-in, but it is a great preset that I made.
And it's up here, and it'll say "doubled metal guitar widener J."
So, I put that in.
And all my presets are basically gain staged as well.
So, when you put them in...
I try to reduce the output or the input so it's exactly the same as...
So, whenever you hit my preset, you don't ever have to say to yourself,
"Oh, it's just because it's louder, that's why it sounds better."
I always try to gain-match it because I don't want to be fooled either.
So, with.
Right?
Without.
So, it just opens it up.
I love the mono maker, but we're going to take it up to 80.
So, it's a little bit more round at the bottom.
It's going in the middle. Pause.
So now I have that, I say to myself, I'm hearing some things
that I don't want to hear.
So obviously, we go to our boy.
We try to identify the frequency that's killing us.
So, we right-click so it stays all blue.
I'm guessing it's here.
So once your ear hears it, then you let it go, then your ear can hear it
even better when it's playing all together.
I hear another part.
So, once you have all of them, you just highlight them all,
make dynamic, pull down.
There we go.
So, now, I'm going to take my Spectre or "Spectrah,"
whatever you want to call it.
I'm going to clear it so there's no bands going.
Because as soon as you put it on, such a powerful plug-in,
it's already revving right now.
As soon as you put it on, it changes its tone.
It puts everything up at attention.
I gave it lift and gave it life.
But I only want to give it lift and life in one area,
and it's going to be a surprising area for you guys.
So, I put it on clear.
I engage, and I come over here to the magical frequency area,
and I put it... it won't let me get to it, but I don't care.
I'm close enough, 444.
I'm realizing that that's not going to work.
And what's missing in this guitar is the 400 and 500 that I'm...
that I'm needing down here on a consistent basis.
So, what I'm going to do is I am going to copy the track,
use my MV2, take Spectre off.
Here is it super, super squashed.
But what I'm going to do is I'm going to isolate...
Now, I have it controlled.
It's not going to pop up when some 300 or some 400 pop up.
I'm only going to allow that low mid at a consistent, constant level.
And when I want to raise it up, I'm going to raise it up.
And when I want to raise down, I'm going to raise down.
You're like, "Why would you raise it up? Why would you raise it down?"
Because the vocal has the same resonant frequency as what I'm adding
in right here, so I don't want them stepping on each other.
But right now, we're only doing the instrumental,
so we'll concentrate on this.
And we'll see how it sounds in with this.
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See how it's got warmer and thicker, and bigger?
So, we come over here.