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@Finfire76 it's a template in the photo editing software I use, and the thought of seriously using it cracked me up. All hail the Beast

@@HollowHeart-Studio true 🥹

@jonl.b7168 czcams.com/video/v8I5UJmnPJM/video.htmlsi=vKxpK-kV8uz6RUkQ I recommend following this video. It's easier than me trying to explain

@@HollowHeart-Studio Thanks! The issue was a really weird bug. I only had to change the default keyswitch to something else, and then it magically works.

@jonl.b7168 yeah tbh I have to fiddle with it a lot to get it to work correctly. I have to adjust the timing of the first note and 2nd note separately until I get what I want. I always record the output once I have it how I want because sometimes it will glitch and not play the slide. So, recording the output aliviates that if you can get at least 2 take of it sounding how you want. I always dread slides when I come back to writing guitar parts haha

@@HollowHeart-Studio Good idea! The guitar sounds great though so I'm really happy with it. Just infuriating to mess around for so long and have no idea what's wrong! 😆

For this one I used toneforge Misha

I don't have the stratus, but it's the same instrument samples and sounds without a lot of features. You don't have access to notes above the 12th fret, and I believe you don't get all the articulations, but I can't recall which ones. I'm sure the site says exactly. I can confirm it's the same samples, though.

Thank you! GGD Matt Halpern signature with external processing.

Thank you for watching!

czcams.com/video/c8ikmbaUzQ8/video.htmlsi=KcRnHhQDkrECGZ26 this is my go to guitar tone currently. A lot of the sound comes from mixing the guitar with the other instruments. It doesn't sound too great by itself :)

No need to pay me, brother. My most recent video is walking through my guitar tone. This video shows you how to setup hydra like I do. czcams.com/video/DTU-CCAfKII/video.htmlsi=CVjs93LB2MzrsAkq You'd need to compose and program similar to get the exact sound but that comes with practice. Most of my guitar tone actually comes from everything else in the mix. I am fully booked on ghost writing and mixing at the moment.

Thank you! I just make sure it's not clipping coming out of kontakt and most of the velocities are at 90 max.

I'd love to take a look and give some thoughts. I'm running a really underpowered machine so I'm not sure how much help I'd be haha. Shoot me an email and I'll take a look sometime soon. I'm pretty busy these next few weeks but I'd love to take a look at what you have. Hollowheartstudio@gmail.com

Thank you! Getgood drums with Matt's signature kit. I think it was one of the first kits they put out. I use a cheap ekit to trigger the samples and it works great

In the first page of shreddage there's little guitar icons that light up when you click them. If you click 2 of them, it will be double tracked with 1 midi track. I normally pick guitar 1 and 4. If you've done that but something is up with the routing or your midi track, unfortunately I don't know anything about Cubase. So I couldn't say for sure.

Nooooo hahahaha don't quit. The videos I make just have throwaway riffs tbh. You can absolutely do better than this!

@@HollowHeart-Studio Damn, straight up told him he got destroyed by throwaway riffs ... That's strike 3 LMAO! ... ( but seriously, you better not give up Jason... If I can't quit neither can you, us 'metalhead + computer nerd hybrids' are in this together as a dying breed <3 )

@SadTown99 LMAO unintentionally killing with kindness. For real though, we are always our own worst critics ❤️. Even people we consider to be masters of their craft still feel insignificant to others. Do what you do to the best of your ability, release it, and continue to grow. Don't be like me lol..I have a folder full of tracks I don't consider good enough, but when I was 18-20 I would have only dreamed of writing those tracks. In 5 years, I'll probably think the things I've wrote recently aren't that good. Hell, even the stuff I started a year or two ago and am wrapping up now don't feel like they're up to par for me. We can keep it to ourselves and feel like we're insignificant, or we can do our best in the moment. Always do it for yourself :)

I'm guessing you're using shreddage 3.5 rather than 3.0. I know 3.5 looks different but I don't know anything about it. I instantly disliked the update, so I only use the prior version

Thank you! This is a real song I'm currently working on. I am a criminal, so the bass is just low guitar for the tone but I will track drums on my Ekit like I normally do once I have the whole thing done :) This is the last one in my little collection of tracks I've been writing. I'm hoping to finish recording vocals for the others while I get this one written. A year since my last song is way too long!

Thank you! This is the last instrumental I'm working on for a collection of singles I want to put out.

Of course! I tried doing a more in depth video with a voice over. Unfortunately, mental health is a bit rough right now. I just couldn't get myself through the script. So I compromised and made this. Always better to do our best even if it's not what we planned :) maybe once I understand tone a bit more I can do a more tutorial type video haha

Are you talking about the midi map I made for hydra? The thing that lists out all the articulations for me?

@@HollowHeart-Studio yea that. When it comes to using shreddage , I always forget what switches does what, especially when it comes to programming the midi.

@NathanDarkson984 yes, I can absolutely share it. Normally I don't because people who don't use reaper won't be able to use it and I'm not sure if everyone's settings are the same as mine. If it works, great! If it doesn't work, my brain is too smooth to help anyone figure out why it doesn't haha. Essentially all I did was open the manual, my midi map and kontakt. I'd press a note on my midi chart that the manual said should be an articulation and looked at the keyboard in kontakt to see if it was showing the correct key being pressed. If it was correct, I just labeled that note. If it's not correct, it's probably up or down an octave. If you're not familiar with how to make a custom midi chart, I know there's tons of reaper tutorials that could probably explain it much quicker and with visual aid haha. I'd upload my midi chart now but I won't have access to my pc for a bit unfortunately

I don't use presets for anything. I'm pretty sure the amp sim on this one was the otto audio 11 11 amp though.

Thank you so much!

I bought reaper about 11 years ago but I believe it was called personal/small business at the time. I've only updated it maybe 2 times since I bought it lol

No preset. I use the shreddage di and process it with external plugins like I would a real guitar.

oh thanks :0 what is the shreddage di? Sorry i just download the plugin and the INIT S3 hydra sound way differnt and chipper that what i see on youtube @@HollowHeart-Studio

@prodGABAI just raw guitar sound brother. I think it default but I bought shreddage 3 hydra the week it came out. So, it might be a little different for you.

Once the song is released, I'll provide the midi for it.

With shreddage, no. The way it's performed does match up with real guitarists where the peak of the wav hits a little after the beat. So I just leave it as is. With real guitar, I normally pull back to get the peak directly on the bar. I humanize the bass performance so it's sometimes a little late or early. For drums, I normally just play them on my eKit and quantize 90-95%. When I program drums for these videos, I don't waste the time making them sound more realistic. I only care about the bass and drums sounding more human in actual tracks I'm releasing. For shreddage leads, I do sometimes edit the midi to start a little early or release a little early. That way I can get a little more out of it. With my music, my rhythm playing and editing has always been very robotic.

@@HollowHeart-StudioI'll try to explain with real guitar. It might be obvious... On waveform. You need put very-very- very low begining of the your peak. That's tiny - is your pick atack. Pick atack must lay in beat - not peak. When you put peak in beat - you move your guitar after the click. Play simple linear riff with fifths intervals and 8 notes groupings. Then compare your 'piCk' atack on beat with 'peAk' on beat... Then >pick< atack before the beat. I hope you'll chose to play as third.

@user-gd4bd5ir7u I get what you're saying. That's how shreddage works by default, and I just let it be. With live guitar, I personally like the pick attack coming before the beat. You mentioned other styles of music having the timing be a bit ahead or behind. I personally don't have a preference or do anything one specific way. It's just to taste, honestly. There's not exactly a right or wrong way if you know what you're doing and it's intentional. I'm not sure if you're asking me my preference or telling me I need to do things differently haha. If you're asking me if I do anything to the midi to humanize timing, the answer is that I do very little to adjust the timing. When I edit real guitars, they sound like shreddage does by default. So, I only make minor adjustments to timing based on personal preference. I'm more concerned with velocities :)

@@HollowHeart-Studio I glad that that's there no misunderstanding. The worst thing might can be - letting someone give advice to ourselves. So I never tell anybody to do with only way.

I haven't recorded with a 6 string in ages, brother. I'd probably use the same tone I use for everything else but give the bass a little more mid lows if the guitar is tuned higher than drop B

The track at the start is the result but I get what you're saying. I've finished the full instrumental at this point after almost a year. I just didn't film the process of it entirely. I ended up making the midi metal with me series for this reason specificly. I'll eventually try to do a whole song like that. My writing process has a lot of back tracking, deleting or replacing. So, a lot of video editing over the course of weeks and months.

Thank you for the kind words! I'm glad the video was helpful too. I try to make content that I know I would have found helpful at one point.

Yeah 8 strings tend to be a bit muddy in my opinion haha. I like low tuned progressive stuff but I'm not the biggest on super heavy content. I'm mainly a singer, so making stuff that's just low and sludgey all the time doesn't work out for me. I do still like to have some absolutely slamming riffs though. Hydra is so much better for leads just because it has more samples and articulations but I prefer the Jupiter tone.

Thank you! Actually, what you see in here is all I had for kontakt libraries. I have since removed charisma and abyss. I picked up 2 new bass libraries and a drum library. I don't kno that you can sort them but you can hide them. I hide one of my drum libraries because I rarely use it but don't want to delete it.

@@HollowHeart-Studio Much obliged for the reply! ❤

It has it's own articulations from keyswitches, so it won't translate from guitar pro; you need to edit it yourself. On the plus side I found this one quite easy to work with, so I can still recommend it. (It's "Shreddage 3 - Hydra", btw - that's the name of the VSTi)

No, never, haha. Buying a midi guitar is so expensive and I'm not sure it would do me any better than just using one of my real guitars

Lmao! Thank you

Of course! I contribute a little every paycheck so that if I don't die before retirement age, I can enjoy retirement knowing I wasted my youth working for it. America is fuckin rad! Lol

I bought it on sale quite some time ago. I think the $150 price tag isn't too bad for what you get. Unfortunately, full virtual instruments are going to be around 100-200 normally. Not nearly as bad as what I paid for my real instruments, haha.

@@HollowHeart-Studio aww... my broke ass thought that i finally found something that may or may not be more affordable. oh well, good to know; your composition sounds great man

@anormalperson2679 haha understandable. I worked with mostly free and super cheap gear for a while actually. I'd say 6 of 10 years into production was all free or under $50 plugins. When I finally got a good job, I decided to upgrade quite a bit. I highly reccomend shreddafe. Cheaper than buying an 8 string or paying someone to write multiple songs for you at a high quality. Thank you so much!

@@HollowHeart-Studio I was thinking about buying a drop tune pedal but then realised that I don’t have a 700$ mic to record all of it lol… thanks, I’ll see to check out your recommendation

@anormalperson2679 I always use a stock DAW pitch shifter to automate my pitch changes. I highly reccomend the website zzounds for any music gear that you can't afford up front. I bought my mic from them years ago when I didn't have hundreds at once, but I had like 50 a month. For plugins, a lot of times there are really good free alternatives to mix. I invested all of my funds into virtual and real instruments to start with :) then worry about mixing down the road haha.

I could see it. That song reminds me of something from After The Burial. We're all just connected to the Astral polygons.

Brother, I humbly ask you..what the fuck is a HLB? Lmao

@@HollowHeart-Studio humanitys last breath

@Pooky_x thank you lol! I'm not big on listening to music. Especially heavy music, so I'm pretty ignorant. Cyberbully makes good joke and I'm there thinking I'm getting cyber bullied lmao

Glad somebody cleared it up.

@@HollowHeart-Studio lmao no problem (:

The settings in kontkat are pretty default but tone wise. Absolutely, I could run through my current setup. A lot more goes into it mix wise and it all blends together but I can show it. Don't know what I'm doing but I like how it sounds

I absolutely Love this track. Thank you!

What kind of guide are you looking for?

​@@HollowHeart-Studiohow to get this guitar tone and drum sound

@secondrox Oh, I see. Never considered myself to be much of a producer. Just doing it because I can't afford someone that gives a better mix haha. The past year I've been trying to learn how to actually mix music so maybe at some point I can walk through it. I'm definitely not qualified to explain the reason behind anything I do or how to get good sounds. I honestly don't know what I'm doing. I've consumed many of the tutorial videos from bigger channels to get an understanding of what's going on.

​@@HollowHeart-Studioeven if you don’t know what you’re doing, you did it cool

​@@HollowHeart-Studiois there any way u could just show what settings in hydra you tweaked and what plugins you used

Thank you so much! I'm glad you liked the video. I've been mixing for almost 10 years now but only recently started taking it seriously. Even this was a new work in progress for me but I've been learning for some upcoming releases haha. Very far from being able to explain mixing to people. Honestly, I don't even know what half of the settings on my plugins do beyond the fundamentals

@@HollowHeart-Studio Hah, this is something I hear a lot of people say - I assume as an amateur that the professionals know what all those buttons and pulleys do, but when I ask them they always say “no, I’ve no idea either, I just use the presets” :) What kind of plugins do you use for the mixing phase?

@DavidXNewton lmao. Actually, yeah when I've talked to some pros about why they do something they will say things like "I know it's redundant but it sounds good to me" or "it just give it this vibe, ya know?" I have a long list but all of my eq and compression is stock reaper plugins. I think the main things that stand out are getgood drums just sounding great out of the box and only needing a little EQ. I hit those with jst clip. Guitar uses some Neural DSP amps, stock eq, stero widner and soothe. Soothe is really a big deal for me. Bass is just using the built in amp sim that submission audio midi bass has. It sounds like the tone I'd make anyways and is just less plugins so I'll take it haha. Side chain compression with the kick. I use a really old version of ozone for mastering that I got probably 8-10 years ago. For the master limiting, I use Flatline and that plugin is God tier. I do a few specific things that give me my sounds of course but I don't have a massive suite of plugins or the most expensive ones