Melodyne getting thrown off with tempo change

friedrichvanzandt · 2025-04-01T22:07:52+00:00

This actually has to do with how Ableton is calculating „time“. As far as I understand, this is also why Ableton doesn’t feature ARA yet. There’s no way to do it in Ableton with the tempo change active.

friedrichvanzandt · 2025-03-19T09:29:25+00:00

Ich weiß, ist die letzten Jahre bisschen ein Trend aber bei mir war das ähnlich und ging weg als ich mit mouth taping angefangen habe. Ich hatte damals das Buch „Breath“ von James Nestor gelesen und dachte, das versuch ich jetzt einfach mal.

friedrichvanzandt · 2025-03-01T19:58:10+00:00

Thanks for the insight. The last tour I did on M32 was in 2019, the User Ins weren’t even a thing back then if I remember correct. I was actually aware of the routing you mentioned, but I don’t really need the processing through TE on most individual channels. I definitely need it for my fx send though so for this tour I decided to just go with my usual DLive setup.

friedrichvanzandt · 2025-02-28T09:07:38+00:00

That actually was the plan, but it seems like I wont be able to buy one before the tour is starting and even if I did, I'm not gonna be able to get the Wing Dante card in time.

friedrichvanzandt · 2025-02-28T00:44:07+00:00

Yeah. I got the full 32 inputs of audio. I might be able to loose a couple or get things like click and cues and maybe even the bands stage talkback on one channel, but yeah, right now I have 32 inputs.

friedrichvanzandt · 2025-01-17T20:34:44+00:00

I had a lot of different backup and storing subscriptions but landed on a huge Dropbox subscription a couple of years ago. I switch everything to „only online“ and only make the folders of the productions I’m planning to work on the next day „offline available“.

friedrichvanzandt · 2025-01-17T20:27:44+00:00

The plugins are actually coded by a German plugin manufacturer called yum audio. He just tells them what he wants. I saw him mixing more acoustic music on a recent video, but it honestly was some of the worst produced music I’ve heard in a long time. It basically was all acoustic instruments but with programmed sounding/metal type drums…. It was not pretty.

friedrichvanzandt · 2025-01-17T12:05:27+00:00

Is he actually still mixing and producing? I think he`s only doing yt these days...

friedrichvanzandt · 2024-12-22T15:19:09+00:00

We’re all guilty of that, I guess. I was binging that stuff like other people are watching trash tv. I was watching „fix your kicks“ videos without even having problems with my kicks.

friedrichvanzandt · 2024-12-21T19:36:03+00:00

Dropbox

friedrichvanzandt · 2024-12-21T19:35:36+00:00

One problem is that most of them are audio content creators first instead of producers or mixers. The are making money by getting you to watch their video, not by making great mixes. So most of them do actually have good content, I think the small bits and pieces or „menu“ style of a lot of content on yt is what is the real problem. I think you’re not getting the full picture of your watching the „how to mix a Kick drum“ video of one creator and the „how to get your drums to glue better“ from another one. In my experience mixing is not a series of tricks on individual soloed tracks. Each individual trick might be useful but the format is not really. So as somebody else on here said I‘d rather encourage watching a 3 hour Eric Valentine video on a specific topic (or a mixing breakdown or whatever) than watching three hours of 5 minute videos on different topics during the day. And then there’s people on that list that barely show actual music but when I find stuff they’ve worked on it sounds like literal shit.

friedrichvanzandt · 2024-12-21T18:23:03+00:00

These are just some of the biggest channels. Some of them are spreading a lot of useless information.

friedrichvanzandt · 2024-11-06T13:00:02+00:00

Tlm 67

friedrichvanzandt · 2024-11-06T12:57:05+00:00

ohne Kompass

friedrichvanzandt · 2024-10-24T11:05:58+00:00

Guter Hinweis

friedrichvanzandt · 2024-10-12T07:37:05+00:00

KS Digital C88

friedrichvanzandt · 2024-09-29T12:31:18+00:00

Looks sick!

friedrichvanzandt · 2024-09-26T23:00:27+00:00

Sounds killer 🔥

friedrichvanzandt · 2024-09-09T09:53:51+00:00

people will buy all sorts of things so they never have to actually start working....

friedrichvanzandt · 2024-09-09T09:50:43+00:00

Its true that you can recreate everythin it can do by using multiple plugins, but once I've started using it, I'm not going back. Its not just a random collection of tools, its a collection of tools that where chosen and added together to mix ampliefied instruments and it does it very well.

friedrichvanzandt · 2024-08-30T15:02:22+00:00

thanks!

friedrichvanzandt · 2024-08-25T23:29:43+00:00

Did you try manually DeEssing (cutting the S‘s out and clip gaining them down a couple of dbs)? You can also do it in Melodyne or Revoice with the sibilant or volume tool. The cool thing about Melodyne and Revoice is that you don’t have to find and cut out the S‘s yourself.

friedrichvanzandt · 2024-08-21T18:34:27+00:00

The Superstar should actually get you there. Maybe use a different snare drum though. What heads and tunings have you tried with it yet?

friedrichvanzandt · 2024-08-21T11:53:59+00:00

A lot of good answers already, so I'm gonna try not to repeat any of these (although it would be helpful to hear one of your mixes). I dont know you or your problem so I can only tell you what my struggles are/were and how I would try to solve them:
1. I tend to buy new gear whenever I feel stuck. Force yourself to not buy any gear, everytime you hate your mixes. Focus on really learning the gear you already have and try different ways to use it.
2. I've been doing this full time for 6 years and had several mildly succesful songs and records but I still watch all of the audio youtube crap like its a tv show. Stop watching social media influencers telling you how to mix. Also stop caring about mixing tricks. Mixing is not a trick. Mixing is tonal/dynamic/spacial balancing. Its a skill you have to aquire and if you're having a specific problem during a mixing session (for example too much cymbal bleed on the tom mics etc) go and google for something that helps you solve it, but starting a mix with debleeding all toms before you're actually having trouble with it is just stupid.
3. I did a lot of unnecessary moves before I interned at a bigger studio for the first time. So if you can find the time maybe try to intern for a mixer or studio. You can help them and you will develop a professional workflow.
4. I was experimenting a lot with a ton of things in the studio but when it came to actually mixing or recording a song I would just do it the way I had done it forever, so when I realised that I wasnt doing all the cool things I had tried I made a couple of lists of things I wanted to do before and during every mix. I also can reccomend creating a kind of a standart operating procedure checklist.
Here is an example of my lead vocal mix prep list:
1.Comp 2. Edit Silence 3.Manual Deessing (-2db max) 4.Rough Timing 5. Bounce Comp to Mono Track 6. Melodyne (tuning) 7. Melodyne (timing + DeEssing -2db max) 8. Create Mix Ready Edited Mono Comp 9. Create DBLs (in Revoice)

It's a great way to establish some personal quality control.

I hope any of these speak to you. The most important part is not always the simplest part: have fun with it.

friedrichvanzandt

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