Home Production

For guitarists who want to finish their own songs at home.

75 lessons · 8.5 hrs · 12 modules

Your setup

Module 01 · 7 lessons · 41m

Computer, DAW, a 2-channel interface, monitors and headphones, microphones and cables.

Module 02 · 5 lessons · 19m

How sound behaves, the listening position, monitor placement, and treatment from duvets and rugs.

Module 03 · 7 lessons · 52m

Sample rate, buffer and latency, recording levels, the 4 signal levels and phase.

Module 04 · 6 lessons · 16m

Agreeing the sound, demos and scratch tracks, reference tracks and a tracking plan.

Module 05 · 8 lessons · 1h 15m

Heads and tuning, the room, drum samples, 2 overheads in the Recorderman position, tracking and comping.

Module 06 · 6 lessons · 28m

The player and the strings, a DI with an amp or pedal blend, the tone, tracking and comping.

Module 07 · 7 lessons · 53m

Pickups and amp, a DI plus one mic, doubled rhythms and a solo, then acoustic in XY and mid-side.

Module 08 · 4 lessons · 20m

Plosives and sibilance, a vocal booth from a packing blanket, choosing a mic, tracking the vocal.

Module 09 · 3 lessons · 19m

Keyboard parts played in or drawn, quantising, then tambourine and shaker.

Module 10 · 8 lessons · 58m

Flatten and merge, colour coding, top and tailing, editing that keeps the feel, buses and drum replacement.

Module 11 · 10 lessons · 1h 12m

Compression, EQ, gate, envelopes, reverb, delay, modulation, panning and automation, one lesson each.

Module 12 · 4 lessons · 54m

The finished mix channel by channel, bouncing with headroom, and mastering with EQ, compression and a limiter.