Remaking Spirits Away by ERRA with Axure II - Ep2

Added: 2026-05-22

[00:00:21][music] [music and bell] [music] [music] [music] Heat. Heat.

[00:01:42][music] [music] >> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> What is up people?

[00:03:35]Thanks for being here. We are almost done with the augment songs.

[00:03:43]Uh, we are on the last one, Spirits Away.

[00:03:48]Um, I've got pretty much most of it done, but there's some still a couple of little lead things I need to fix. Uh, some bends, some of the lead stuff, and some of the four string stuff, too. But, I mean, I have pretty much all of it done.

[00:04:07]But, yeah, thank you guys for being here. I appreciate you.

[00:04:11]Sorry I wasn't on stream um earlier this week. I had some family stuff pop up. Had to go uh rescue a family member from Florida [laughter] and uh yeah. So now I'm back and uh back on the grind, back on the streams.

[00:04:31]Glad to be here. Yeah, glad you're here, Ranquil. Man, dude, when Hey, when are you coming back, brother? When are you coming back to YouTube? I know you I know you are living the dad life right now. You got a kid taking care of a new new baby. But uh yeah, dude, I'm stoked for you your return on YouTube. Got a lot up some more ideas after augment is finished.

[00:04:51]Oh, yeah. I have um Impulse. So, after we get done with the Augment songs, we're going to move on to the Impulse songs and then we're going to move on to the um Andromeda songs and EP. Well, not the EP because the only thing I wrote on the EP was the solo for Separating Coales, which I wouldn't really count that, you know, as a full song I wrote.

[00:05:17]So, we're not going to do the the first era EP, but we will do Andromeda because I did have a big part in that as well.

[00:05:24]So, uh yeah, we'll do Impulse and then, uh Andromeda and then we'll be done with the series, but uh I plan on doing some more videos and stuff for that as well.

[00:05:37]like playthroughs and whatnot.

[00:05:40]Yeah, glad to be back. Um, I'm going to show you guys what I uh finished. So, I finished the clean where we left off last time was the clean section like in the middle of the song. So, I had to kind of dial in some clean tones and uh figure all that out. So, we got the clean part and then we got the very ending section of the song finished pretty much. And I'll go ahead and let you guys hear that. So, here we go. This is the middle section all the way to the end.

[00:06:14][music] [music] [music] >> [music] [music] [music] >> Heat.

[00:06:46][music] Heat.

[00:06:52][music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat up [music] here.

[00:07:15][music] Heat >> [music] [music] >> up here. [music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat.

[00:08:03][music] >> [music] [music] [music] >> Okay.

[00:08:26]So, I do have to tab out the very ending guitar as well because that wasn't in the original tabs when I submitted the song to ERA years ago. The uh clean part was written in the studio. So that clean part at the very end of this song was all improv. Like I had no clue what I was going to track. I literally they just said we need an ending to the song.

[00:08:47]So I just took some of the chords from the song and kind of came up with something on the spot. I to this day I don't even remember what I played. So and I figured it out last night. So I'm going to uh program it with Axer actually. But yeah, that was completely improv at the very end of that song.

[00:09:08]Fun little uh fact.

[00:09:11]Hey, you stream really well. I'd love to become your dedicated fan and support you. Mind adding me on Discord. Short double. Thank you. Yeah, dude. Come come on over to the Discord, brother.

[00:09:24]What's up, Kaiwan? Words can't explain how much I love this ending. Thank you, man. Thank you. Appreciate you. Ranquil, I have a question that I've been holding for a long time. What took you so long to capitalize on the attention you would get off of remaking and covering your own songs from Augment? Um, honestly, man, like I kind of explained this a little bit in another video, but like I don't know, man. Like for the longest time after like I parted ways with the band, like I was just really bitter about how everything ended and you know, like they didn't even announce that like I left the band. So, like nobody It's like almost like nobody knew I was in the band. Uh like the new the new people that are fans of ERA like just they'll have to go back and do some research to find out that ERA had other members, you know. So, I don't know. I thought that was kind of sucky that I didn't even get a a farewell post or nothing, [laughter] you know. I think metal metal some some um big website metal injection or something like that posted about like I posted on my own personal Facebook about it a while ago and um I think they just like clipped that my my Facebook post and posted that on like one of the big uh metal news sites or whatever. But that was it. That was the extent of my departure. Uh and it just sucked, man. I was really bitter about all that stuff at the end. And and not only that, man, just like I wanted to like kind of start new. So, you know, I picked up on the artificials and started doing music for that. And like I didn't want to I didn't want to mess with the era stuff anymore, you know. Uh but then as years went by, I just I I healed, you know? I'm in a better spot with it.

[00:11:08]Uh I'm cool with all the guys and uh yeah. So, and now I have the time to kind of put towards it, you know, like before I really didn't have time to really, you know, put a lot of work into this era stuff, but now I have time, so why not?

[00:11:25]Thanks for sharing. I didn't know you posted about this already. Oh, yeah. I mean, well, I I kind of like grazed over it in other video, like one of these other streams about how, you know, it just took me a long time to capitalize on this. And it's not even like I'm trying to like make money or or anything off of this. It's literally just like like because there's no money to be had making any of these videos. It's literally just for fun. Like I'm doing this because I want to I want to hear what these songs sound like with my MIDI guitar plugin. And it's just cool to kind of revisit it and see like how I wrote the songs back in the day.

[00:12:00][snorts] Um you know, and just showcasing Axer, man. So that's really what it's all about to be honest with you. just showcasing Axer and just uh you know giving the fans what they want at the same time.

[00:12:13]But yeah, um that ending man goes hard.

[00:12:16]I really like the way it turned out. Uh some of it you'll notice that it wasn't four string because I didn't I didn't do four strings on like some of the little transition parts which I may go back and do right now. Let me see.

[00:12:38]Like that part right there.

[00:12:52]I think that was I'm pretty sure that was the top string.

[00:12:57]I believe.

[00:13:06]I don't know the rest of it though. I just know.

[00:13:11]I'll have to look at the tabs in just a second.

[00:13:25]We'll do this one. uh 84 and then we'll do we'll actually come over here and do a key switch for this one.

[00:13:43]We'll do a tap which is going to be a hammer on and then we'll come back to do a sustain right here. sustain all pick to tie it back in.

[00:14:04]Perfect.

[00:14:13]All right.

[00:14:22]Okay. Okay, so I need to come back on this one actually for the sustain all pick.

[00:14:34]Okay, cool.

[00:14:37]I got look at the tabs for the rest of it. It's fun for you but a blessing for us.

[00:14:41]Yeah, man. It's fun. It's It's fun. Like I like doing this stuff, man. It's not tedious to me. I know a lot of people would probably look at it and, you know, not want to spend the time programming every single note and all this other stuff, but to me, it's I don't know. It's therapeutic. It's fun.

[00:14:57]I love it.

[00:15:02]All right, I'm going to look at the tabs really quick and figure out what I was doing here. I'm not going to show you guys the tabs, though. I can't do that yet because we're working on the tab books for for you guys.

[00:15:15]You're probably going to hear it though.

[00:15:17]It's going to sound like like cheesy computer music.

[00:15:22]Oh no, that's that's too far back.

[00:15:27]Yeah, here it is. I think this is it.

[00:15:34]All right. So, that goes.

[00:15:49]All right. That's what it is.

[00:15:52]Got it.

[00:16:04]I think I got my camera too high, guys.

[00:16:06]Me pull it down a little bit.

[00:16:14][music] All right. So that first note it's going to be it's going to be string five four three that's going to be the last string.

[00:16:47]Three.

[00:16:49]Four.

[00:16:52]Five.

[00:17:05]I'm going to change the velocities on these.

[00:17:12][music] Pretty sure. Let me see.

[00:17:17]Let me see if that shows up on four strings.

[00:17:24][music] Okay. So, let me look at the tabs again.

[00:17:34]Okay. Okay.

[00:17:46]It's going to be five and four.

[00:17:54]These two are going to be five.

[00:17:57]All right.

[00:17:59][music] All right.

[00:18:10]We'll make that one 110.

[00:18:13]We'll make these 84.

[00:18:23]I have yet to set up again. And I've yet to set up my macros for um for my easy quick buttons, but I don't know if I should anymore because I actually actually I accidentally or actually um just kind of started messing around in Ableton uh thanks to Chris Bedan. So um yeah, and I like it, dude. Ableton is kind of cool. Uh it's a little different than Reaper and I still love Reaper.

[00:18:54]probably still going to use Reaper, but I might use Ableton as well. I might use Ableton for like these MIDI things and then I'll use uh Reaper for like actual productions for like my music and my, you know, projects and things like that.

[00:19:09]But for the MIDI stuff, I feel like dude, Ableton's awesome. What's up, Fron? The Fron that I thought I knew you who you were. [laughter] Um, but yeah, Ableton is sick, dude. I accidentally undid what I was going to do here.

[00:19:35]Um, so if you haven't tried Ableton, you should. It's pretty sick.

[00:19:42]I like it.

[00:19:46]I don't know if I force stringed those yet. Nope, I didn't.

[00:19:52][music] Okay, now I got to look at the tabs to see what that was.

[00:20:06][music] I love that.

[00:20:17]I don't even remember writing that, but I [laughter] love it.

[00:20:32]>> [music] [music] >> Such a weird little transition.

[00:20:51]But it it worked out, man.

[00:21:03]All right. So, for that, need to put some four strings on that.

[00:21:10]I [snorts] appreciate you going in detail on that. You're in a partial celebrity status, so I imagine you get questions or adjacent to that all the time. That's why I avoided asking that.

[00:21:18]Oh, dude. I'm nobody, man. I'm just a dude that loves music. But I appreciate that, man. Um, yeah, I get questions all the time, dude. All the time about the era stuff. And that's that's another reason, too, why, you know, I started doing this is because like so many people are asking like over the years, like all the time. Uh, almost like every other day, I get a message from somebody uh talking about ERA or the music and or how they appreciated like what I contributed to the band or whatever. And I dude, I appreciate that so much.

[00:21:52]So that's another reason why I'm doing this is cuz, you know, just uh giving the fans what they want, man. Why not?

[00:22:02]So that's going to be that's going to be the third three.

[00:22:12]And that's going to be four.

[00:22:16]That's going to be the six string.

[00:22:21]It's going to be five, four, and five.

[00:22:30]All right. Now, I got to figure out what note overlaps Actually, I think it's it's already set up, right?

[00:22:55]Yeah, that's it.

[00:23:03]Let's see if I can go down the velocity layer and it make it still sound cool.

[00:23:12]Yeah.

[00:23:25]>> [music] >> Heat. Heat.

[00:23:31][music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] [music] >> [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Sweet. [snorts] We will have live play through today. Um, I don't know. I don't know cuz I don't really know some of the little transitions yet. Like I just learned that one. So I mean it's not hard. I can remember it.

[00:24:48][music] I did make a clean tone though.

[00:25:01]You guys might recognize it.

[00:25:09][music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> I don't I don't know the rest of the song.

[00:25:33]Yeah, I got a clean tone dialed in. So, that's going to be nice.

[00:25:39]Um, all right. So, I think there's another transition that I need to force string as well. I think.

[00:25:46]Hold on. Let me let me go back and listen.

[00:25:51][music] [music] [music] >> [music] [music] [music] >> I think it might have been before that Maybe [music] [music] [music] heat. [music] >> [music] >> Dude, I love the ending of this song so much.

[00:27:13]I love it. Crimson. No, man. I already forgot how to play. [laughter] I just did that stream. If you want to watch the Crimson playthrough, man, it's all on my YouTube. Uh or at least like the little sections of it are on my reels. uh and also the uh playback for the live stream if you want to go watch the Crimson episode. Um now I'm going to I'm going to do some legit playthroughs, man, for those songs like highquality video and everything.

[00:27:41]Um after I complete all of the discoraphy that I was a part of. Who is that Aikita guy in the Discord that runs everything? I'm guessing you know him personally. Uh he is my basically my Discord mod. He uh he helps out a lot in the Discord. Um, he's like kind of like maintenance and like support. So, if anybody has any questions in the in the Discord, Aikita will probably probably be the first guy to help you. He's on top of it, man. Really good guy.

[00:28:13]Love has either lost or proves me.

[00:28:16]That's so funny, dude. That comment was like posted so many times on the on the reel the other day.

[00:28:23]The lyrics to the song were posted so much on that on that reel.

[00:28:27]Okay, so I think yeah, the leads is what I have to do now. So I got to four string this thing right here.

[00:28:52]>> [music] >> I think that's what it is.

[00:29:12][music] >> [music] >> Okay. Yep.

[00:29:45]So let's for string that as well.

[00:29:52]All right.

[00:29:57]So this is the octave chords.

[00:30:05]So six and four is what it'll be.

[00:30:15]>> [music] [music] >> Actually, I should probably have this one as the emphasizing note instead of the top one because I don't know. I think I think it would sound better. Let's see.

[00:30:41]>> [music] >> Maybe. We'll see. We'll see.

[00:30:57]Six and four.

[00:31:03]Four. Channel four.

[00:31:19]Okay, for some reason that's not sounding right. I'm going to just keep them on omni mode, which is channel one.

[00:31:39]>> [music] >> We'll still use the different velocity layers though.

[00:32:06]All >> [music] [music] >> right, now we're going to work on the lead.

[00:32:18]I was learning Crimson two hours ago and I love it. It's a pure masterpiece. Keep it keep it us keep it up. Spirit Away have also a special place with the vocals and everything. Thanks, man.

[00:32:32]Thank you. Appreciate it.

[00:32:35]And by the way, whenever I do uh finish all of these covers, I will have the MIDI and stems and all that stuff free for all of you guys on the Discord. Um whenever I'm completely done with everything, that way you guys can like just see how I programmed everything.

[00:32:52]Maybe mix it yourself. I don't know. Uh just, you know, something cool for you guys to have after we're done with all this.

[00:33:08]Okay. So, [music] [music] okay. So, I didn't actually do that.

[00:33:23]That's a bend. So, it goes.

[00:33:28]So, it's just supposed to be like that.

[00:33:36]>> [music] >> Let's go ahead and do a bend here. We're going to do pitch.

[00:33:44]Make some selections.

[00:33:49]Let's go 16. [screaming] Yo, Young Kabori, thank you for the follow. Appreciate you.

[00:34:01]So, right here is where it should go up.

[00:34:04]So, we're going to go up here and go back down, I think.

[00:34:16][music] >> [music] >> Heat. Heat.

[00:34:54]There we go. [music] [music] I'm going copy and paste that right here.

[00:35:13]>> [music] >> That maybe right here too.

[00:35:28][music] There we go.

[00:35:45]>> [music] >> I got to figure out what I'm playing right there. Hold on a second. Let me look at the tabs.

[00:36:13]Nope, that's not it. I think it's right here.

[00:36:22]Yeah.

[00:36:32]>> [music] >> Heat. Heat.

[00:36:45][music] >> [music] [music] >> Okay. Something like that. [music] >> [music] [music] >> I think that's it. Hold on. Let me see what this next part is.

[00:37:50]>> [music] >> Okay, cool.

[00:37:55]All right. Yo, what's up, Kaubris?

[00:37:59]It's going good, man. Just working on uh finishing up uh programming the remake of Spirits Away by Era.

[00:38:09]I'm a simple editor, man. I see key frames in any type of software I see.

[00:38:14]Any type of software I like. I was just listening to this song at work. Nice, dude. Nice. Thanks for jamming it.

[00:38:26]All right, now we got to do key switches for it. So, we're going to do sustain downstroke and then tap for hammer on and then sustain downstroke and then tap again.

[00:39:00]>> [music] >> It's pretty easy. Just alternates between sustain downstroke and tap.

[00:39:12][music] Get rid of that.

[00:39:35][music] It's going to be alt pick that last part.

[00:40:12]All >> [music] >> right. Now, we're going to do four strings.

[00:40:45]>> [music] [music] >> It's addicting, man. I just got to I got to get that. It's OCD. I got to get that out of my brain. Rocket science professor. Come on, guys. It's not guitar MIDI engineering. [laughter] Yeah, I know, right? It's not It's not guitar MIDI engineering, dude. Guitar MIDI is a lot easier than people think.

[00:41:09]It really is. It's just it's just like drum midi. Like when drum midi came about, I remember people freaking out and be like, "Oh, why don't you just use real drums?"

[00:41:20]You know, and then now it's like it's the same thing with guitar. It's like people were like, "Why don't you just play guitar?" Like, okay, dude. Like this is a production tool. This is for like, you know, uh songwriting and production stuff. It's not necessarily to replace guitar players. So, I don't get why people argue about that.

[00:41:43]But yeah, same thing, man. It's very easy. Just like drums. Just plug in the notes and then you tell the notes what you want it to be. If you want it to be a sustain or a palm mute or you got some other options here, you know, all kinds of different guitar techniques and stuff.

[00:42:01]Very straightforward.

[00:42:07]So that's going to be on the four.

[00:42:10]So we're going to go four and that's going to be five.

[00:42:19]That's going to be four. That's going to be five.

[00:42:24]Five. Okay.

[00:42:32]And that's going to be five as well.

[00:42:50]I like to change up the uh velocity layers on those second uh taps.

[00:43:00]>> [music] [music] >> All right.

[00:43:20]So, those are going to be on four and these are all going to be on five.

[00:43:27]And then take the second note.

[00:43:34]Change the velocity.

[00:43:46][music] I could just copy and paste this because it's the same thing pretty much.

[00:44:12][music] >> [music] >> Heat.

[00:44:29][music] Heat.

[00:44:51]Okay. So, that's going to be the three.

[00:45:07]That's going to be four.

[00:45:19]It's going to be five. Okay.

[00:45:22][music] >> [music] [music] [music] [music] >> I'm actually pretty surprised at how close I got my drums to sound to Brian Hoods. Like they're not exact. Like I I think my drums sound a little more punchier than his. His sound more like blended in the mix, like more like professional, I guess. [laughter] I don't know. But like I definitely could tell my drums sound very similar to his.

[00:46:16]Mine are just more like punchy. You guys, also Allan, the AX Effects is going to come back to you. I hope so.

[00:46:22]The Brazilian Postal Service didn't help me in any way. Yeah, I saw that, man. Uh Sarah usually checks our packages like to see what's coming in the mail and uh she's like, "Hey, what's what's this uh package coming in?" And I was like, "Ah, that's the axe effects." I'm sorry, man.

[00:46:39]I don't know. Uh if you want to try again, we can, but I don't know if you want to do that because you would have to pay for the shipping and I don't want it to like ship out to you again and then that money just be wasted if they try to send it back to me because I don't know what I did wrong, man. I I entered all the information you gave me and for some reason it I don't know. I don't know if I like didn't put like list all the items that were in the box accurately or something. I don't know if that was the issue or I mean I don't know why they wouldn't approve it. I didn't put anything crazy in there. Just a couple of t-shirts and and uh CDs and stuff. Um but yeah, man. I'm sorry about that. Just let me know what you want to do, man.

[00:47:27]>> [music] [music] [music] >> Okay, I got to turn this up actually.

[00:47:50][music] The like delay effect is already in there. That's funny.

[00:48:10]Okay, I got to figure out how to play that now.

[00:48:17]Heat.

[00:48:29]Heat.

[00:48:35][music] >> [music] [music] >> Okay. So, it goes [music] >> [music] >> Is that 79?

[00:49:23][music] Yeah.

[00:49:37]>> [music] [music] >> Okay.

[00:49:54]And then it goes [music] >> [music] [music] >> Every note counts, man. It's so cool how every note counts in this 8bit warrior over here.

[00:50:27]>> [laughter] >> Yeah, we will discuss this better in DM, buddy. But I'm down to try again. Okay, that's cool, man. Whatever you want to do.

[00:50:38][music] All right, let's four string this.

[00:50:49][music] And that's going to be that's going to be the third [music] four two four Three.

[00:51:25][music] It's going to be five.

[00:51:36][music] That's going to be four. Trying to work quickly here with all these four strings.

[00:51:43]And then [music] I think all of this is going to be fourth string.

[00:51:59][music] Sustain downstroke tap and back to sustain downstroke, I think. Oh, nope. Wrong wrong placement.

[00:52:40]Wrong placement. There we go.

[00:52:46][music] [music] That's a different uh That's a different timing. Okay, there we go. I think that's right.

[00:53:41]Back to 16th notes.

[00:53:58]>> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Heat up Heat [music] [music] up [music] [music] here.

[00:55:06]That's my favorite part right here.

[00:55:17]>> I love the way Garrison was like love it. Every note counts. It does, man.

[00:55:27]Okay, so that part is sorted it out.

[00:55:30]Let's see what else we got. Um, I have a lot of automation going on here. So, some of this stuff is using like the neck pickup. Like this part right here wasn't in the tabs for some reason.

[00:55:54]So, that's on the neck pickup. It should be >> [music] [music] [music] >> I'm going to turn this part up.

[00:56:37]Actually, [music] and that's axer as well. But >> [music] [music] >> I forgot what harmonic I hit.

[00:57:14][music] >> [music] >> Hey, [music] might have been that. I don't know. This lead melody is so beautiful. Thank you, man.

[00:58:00][music] [music] [music] >> [music] >> That's all you get. [music] [music] [music] >> [music] >> Heat. Heat.

[00:58:54][music] >> [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Ah, okay. And now I remember I got to do the clean part at the very end of that.

[00:59:31]So the clean part is [music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> something like that.

[01:00:12]>> [music] >> Yo, Preacher Pip has gifted one sub. Thank you for the sub, man. Or for gifting that sub. That's awesome.

[01:00:25][music] [music] I don't know what I'm doing.

[01:00:39]Okay. Uh, I just got carried away.

[01:00:40]Sorry, guys. Sometimes I just ADHD noodle around. Um, I just made this clean tone today, so I'm just I'm I'm having fun with it. Um, let's see. Okay, we're going to do, by the way, this is not the same clean tone that's on XR here. I'm I'm going to convert it over to this clean tone eventually.

[01:01:05]So, we're going to do the chords, which should be right here.

[01:01:25]All right, we're just going to do sustain downstroke and then we'll go.

[01:01:33][music] [music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> I'm going to fix this in a minute.

[01:02:27]What's up of Malice? What's up? What's up?

[01:02:33][music] All right, next note.

[01:02:58]This is how I tab out, by the way.

[01:03:02]All right. This is how I uh convert guitar over to MIDI.

[01:03:11][music] [music] >> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Uh oh, we got two notes that are the same. So, in order This is good that I ran ran into this. I'm going to show you guys something cool about Axer. So, Axer can do unison notes. So, if you have two notes, if you're in Reaper actually, and you're you're um you're not doing you're not parting out your four strings in different tracks, you could still do unison notes within one MIDI piano roll here. So, what that means is two notes that sound exactly the same. So, we have and then open string.

[01:04:38]So, it goes both of those notes sound exactly the same. It's going to be the fifth fret on the B string and then on the E string open. Anyways, you can do that in Axer. So, what we're going to do is duplicate the note and it'll be there for now, but we're going to put the note channel to two.

[01:05:09]And then we're going to put this note channel to three.

[01:05:14]>> [music] >> And then we put it on top of each other.

[01:05:18]So both notes are still there.

[01:05:21]As you can see, I just pulled it.

[01:05:24][music] So they'll both still play at the same time. And you will have both notes trigger on the fretboard for axer. And then um [music] that's fifth string four.

[01:05:42]And then you have those two. So, [music] [music] okay. Yeah.

[01:06:00][music] So, I'm going to copy and paste these over.

[01:06:17]>> [music] [music] >> And Then [music] [music] [music] [music] I don't know All >> [music] [music] [music] >> right. So, we could force string these out, which I think I should actually.

[01:07:31]So, Seven.

[01:07:37]Six. Five.

[01:07:45]Four.

[01:07:47]Three. And two.

[01:07:59]And I might I might turn down the uh velocity layer so it'll be a lighter hit too instead of sounding like because it kind of sounds like that. It needs to sound more soft, more gentle like [music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> Yep. How's it going, brother of malice?

[01:08:51]It's going good, dude. This tone brought me to my knees and a Walmart. [laughter] That's so awesome, dude. What you doing at Walmart?

[01:09:02][music] You're watching the stream at Walmart.

[01:09:05]That's awesome. [music] Close enough. Clean. Welcome back, Tess.

[01:09:13][laughter] It's going good of Malice, man. Just making it, dude. try my best to slog through this stupid content creator economy. I I can't stand it to be honest with you. It's like I don't know. It's a grind really. And I'm not even doing a lot really, but like the amount of grind it takes is is uh daunting and I just hate thinking about it. But uh I'm trying my best, man. I'm trying my best to keep uh consistent and uh you know bringing these uh streams and these videos to you guys and uh also just like dealing with a lot of like personal stuff not not bad personal stuff but you know just um my business you know study sound audio just trying to stay um on top of stuff with that as well and being a dad and a father and there's a lot man it's a lot going on whenever you're doing content as Well, I don't know if you guys saw my Instagram story, but I'm getting gray beard hairs, man. I don't even feel old.

[01:10:19]I still feel 20 years old, but I have like so many gray beard hairs. And it's just so weird to see like that. I'm just getting old.

[01:10:30]I don't feel old, though.

[01:10:37]You guys got any gray beard hairs? Beard beard hairs?

[01:10:44]>> [music] >> All right, I'm going to do a little bit of uh finagling here with this MIDI.

[01:10:50]Okay, so what I like to do is make it more realistic to a strum.

[01:11:03][music] There we go. Now it sounds like a strum.

[01:11:25]And what I'm doing is I'm just ever so slightly moving the MIDI note over um a 128th note, which is the smallest note you can make in Reaper and it gives it that sort of strum feel.

[01:11:48]Oh no. What did I do that for? Okay, I need to I need to go I need to rewind.

[01:11:53]Accidentally got rid of the wrong thing back here.

[01:11:57]I'm supposed to keep that note that's right here that I accidentally deleted.

[01:12:03]We'll keep it right there.

[01:12:06]But yeah, you just move the note over a 128th note and you're good to go.

[01:12:20]And then it sounds like a real strum.

[01:12:25][music] I got to do this for all of them.

[01:12:36]One day I'm going to speed this up and think of a macro that I could program for this so I don't have to do it manually.

[01:12:52][music] I think this is the last one.

[01:13:08]Okay. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. There's more strings here.

[01:13:27]There we go. Heat. Heat. [music] [music] [music] Heat. Heat.

[01:14:14][music] >> [music] >> Okay, I may try to do some some work with the uh velocity layers to get that sound more natural. Not old, wiser. I can't even grow a beard, but I wish.

[01:14:36][laughter] Oh, man. It dude, I grew a beard late. I was think I think I was like 20 late 20s or not late. I was early 20s, maybe like 23, 24 when I started getting like a little more than a mustache.

[01:14:53]And then once I hit like a little over 25, like then it started growing in real real thick and all over the place.

[01:15:04]I guess I was a late beard bloomer.

[01:15:10][music] Okay. So, to make this sound more natural, I might have to do like every other string maybe a lower velocity.

[01:15:29]So, let's see.

[01:15:43]>> [music] >> Let me go lower on that one, too.

[01:15:58]Yeah, it just takes a little bit of finessing. [music] Actually, this one can come down to pretty much come pretty low as well. [music] >> [music] [music] >> 42 is the highest of the lower velocity layer because there's three velocity layers on axer. So it's 1 through 42 42 for 42 42 42 and then 43 through 84 is the medium and then 85 through 127 is the hard strokes.

[01:17:26]That's why you'll probably always see me hitting the numbers um 42 and 83 or 84.

[01:17:36]Okay, so all three of these actually.

[01:17:38]No, 42. And I think this one was 43.

[01:17:48]Yep. 43.

[01:17:55]Ah. Ah, I see. I see you. That's what's creating that.

[01:18:03]It's happening over here, too. I think [music] >> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Trying to get the velocity layers just right.

[01:19:51]Nope.

[01:19:53]All right, that's it.

[01:19:56][music] [music] >> [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Might need to turn up the effects actually on the stomp pedal. Give it more reverb. Actually, yep, that's what I'm going to do.

[01:20:46]I think that's probably the move.

[01:20:53]Kind of even out those transients so they're not so bright. [music] >> [music] [music] [music] [music] >> 2.4.

[01:21:58]>> [music] [music] >> I'm transcending right now.

[01:22:14][music] I don't know. Maybe all of them. I just spent all that work on velocity layers and maybe just the low velocity layer is the best.

[01:22:31][music] >> [music] [music] [music] >> 12.

[01:23:49]All right, I need to do a automation on the control one slot one control one.

[01:23:56]So, we're going to turn that uh delay up a little bit as well.

[01:24:01][music] Heat.

[01:24:27][music] Hey, Heat. [music] >> [music] >> Sorry for uh zoning out, guys. This is the mixing process a little bit. Just trying to get some of the automation dialed in for that clean guitar. Get it to sound like poking through just right, you know, because it still has another lead that needs to go over it. like the the little clean lead, the [music] [music] little small thing.

[01:25:30][music] So the original [bell and music] >> [music] [music] [music] >> Hey. Hey. Hey.

[01:26:38]>> [music] [music] >> Okay.

[01:26:49]Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's what I was playing. Um, like I said earlier, um, in the studio that was completely improvised. I didn't know what I was going to do. I didn't remember what I played after we tracked the album.

[01:27:04]That was the only part that wasn't in the tabs. I had to come up with an ending in the studio.

[01:27:10]So, um, I'm pretty sure that's how I played it.

[01:27:18]>> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Okay, we're just going to tap it out like that. I'm pretty sure that's what it was anyways.

[01:28:01][music] [music] Oh, this guitar sounds weird.

[01:28:17]>> [music] [music] >> Oh, I know what it is. It's got that uh pitch shifter on it to make it sound like tesseract a little bit. Hold on.

[01:28:31]Let me take it off. That's why it sounded a little weird.

[01:28:38][music] >> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Hey.

[01:29:48][music] Hey.

[01:29:55]>> [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Heat.

[01:30:27][music] [music] [music] Hey, Heat.

[01:30:48][music] Okay. So, I got to do something else right here.

[01:31:00][music] [music] >> [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Heat. [music] [music] [music] Heat.

[01:32:10]>> [music] >> There we go.

[01:32:29][music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> No, it doesn't sound like Tes. So, we're going to take that off.

[01:33:04]>> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> I know the guitar sounds a little weird, a little different right now, but I'm going to fix that.

[01:34:14][music] >> [music] [bell] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> I think it's the velocity layer that's really making [music] a sense.

[01:36:45][music] [music] Heat. Heat.

[01:36:58][music] [music] >> [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Sounds pretty cool. For real, I'm hypnotized watching you in the zone.

[01:38:26]That's awesome, man.

[01:38:28]Let me see if I can turn this one up.

[01:38:56]sounds too aggressive on that last one.

[01:39:02]I'll just keep it like that. But I think I got to put the key switches in there.

[01:39:06]So that's what's holding it holding it back, I think.

[01:39:11]So, we'll do the key switches now.

[01:39:16]Okay. I don't know why I just like the key switch to be at a higher velocity for some reason.

[01:39:29][music] >> [music] [music] >> Tap.

[01:39:57]And then the next one.

[01:40:00]Sustain. I'll pick again.

[01:40:09]>> [music] >> that transition to a slide.

[01:40:22]>> [music] [music] [music] >> Trying to select just this one.

[01:41:32]Oh. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Come on. All right, there we go.

[01:41:55]>> [music] [music] >> Okay. So, the notes the notes are sounding more like or not more but less bright on that lead guitar. So, I got to figure out a way to make that that'll be a mixing thing later on. I'll have to probably change guitar tones for this clean guitar to to get that tone to sound less pingy and bright.

[01:43:13]>> [music] [music] >> Okay, that'll do for now. I'll have to mess around with it later. I can live in this section for eternity.

[01:44:14]Yeah, dude. Me, too. All right, let's listen to it from the top. I think that's pretty much it. I think uh I do have to mess around with a couple of things in the beginning, but that that won't take me very long at all to fix any of that. But for the most part, it's about 95% done. So, let's check it out.

[01:44:37]just some mixing things I have to do with like you know the beginning of the song where it's like the highp pass low pass filter kind of thing. So, we'll skip past that. Actually, we'll just do like from where it kicks in.

[01:44:52][music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat.

[01:45:44]Heat. [music] Heat [music] [music] [music] up here.

[01:46:12][music] >> [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Sing along if you know it.

[01:46:42]Heat.

[01:46:49][music] [music] [music] Heat.

[01:47:08]Heat.

[01:47:10][music] [music] Heat.

[01:47:25][music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] [music] Heat.

[01:47:56][music] [music] Heat. [music] [music] Heat [music] up here.

[01:48:34][music] >> [music] >> Sweet.

[01:49:01]Yeah, just a couple of minor little things I got to adjust, but yeah, dude, I definitely want to change the clean tone uh on a few sections. But yeah, overall pretty cool, man. I think it turned out really well. I really love the uh the rhythm tone. Rhythm tone turned out really really good.

[01:49:20]Um yeah, man. That's that's going to be it for today. I know it's kind of a short stream, but I mean that's it, brothers. And we will be back next week with um I don't know. Let's vote. Let's vote.

[01:49:35]What do you guys think should be the first song that I do from uh and I have to give you the choices because you don't know the choices. So, I'm gonna put them in the chat. These are the choices for the um for Impulse. The next song I should do from Impulse. So, we have White Noise Pattern Interrupt.

[01:50:00]If I could spell interrupt. Okay.

[01:50:03]Um, heart invent.

[01:50:09]Uh, I think that's it. All right. So, we have [clears throat] we have between those four songs, White Noise, Pattern Interrupt, Heart, and Invent. Which one do you think I should do first? I don't care. I like all of them. [laughter] Invent. You want to just start with the craziest one first?

[01:50:27]I mean, hey, if we get enough uh if we get enough votes, we'll we'll do we'll do Invent first. It it's all it's all up to you guys. I'll probably do a I'll probably do a Instagram um poll as well, so we can have some more votes on there as well. But White Noise, Pattern Interrupt, Heart or Event, those are the ones that I wrote. [snorts] Um we'll do all of them. We're going to do all of them. I just don't know which one I want to do first.

[01:50:58]So, we have a vote for invent pattern and white noise. I like the event solo.

[01:51:05]I do like an event solo. Event solo is probably my favorite part about that song. That song is nuts, dude. It does not make any sense to me even to this day. Like, I tried to go back and listen to it and I just don't understand what my brain was thinking when I wrote that.

[01:51:18]like because I think that was when I was learning how to like properly put songs together that like made sense cohesively.

[01:51:28]So maybe some of it makes sense, but some of it doesn't. I don't know, dude.

[01:51:32]That song's hard for me to to explain, but I like the song. It's just it's wild. There's a lot of craziness going on, a lot of weird transitions, and uh it almost like I think I was going for like a counterparts type of type of uh vibe with when I wrote that invent solo. I saw it on the Impulse Recording Sessions part two. Nice. Yeah.

[01:51:56]Yeah, that it was uh we did like a little uh studio session video for that on YouTube where we were at Brian Hood Studio in the country somewhere in Alabama. I think it was Daphne Daphne, Alabama. That's where we were. He had a studio in Daphne, Alabama in the middle of the woods. And I remember watching Trailer Park Boys and eating ramen noodles. That's what that's what that's what I remember from uh Impulse being in the studio, living off a ramen and eating or living off of ramen and watching Trailer Park Boys.

[01:52:32]It was fun. It was good times, dude.

[01:52:35]But yeah, uh, so we have event, white noise, we got a couple of votes. Okay, we only got a couple of votes here.

[01:52:42]Yeah, counterparts was hectic back in the day. The song structure is weird, but good. Yeah. Yeah, that's the vibe I was going for. Very, very counterpartsy, but like I was just not like just now getting into like counterparts inspiration. So, that's where that song kind of comes from in my mind really.

[01:52:59]Um, I'm stoked to to have another look at it though. Maybe whenever we redo it here with Mini, maybe I'll like appreciate it more. I don't know. We'll see.

[01:53:10]But yeah, that's going to be it for today, guys. I will be back uh Monday through Wednesday. Any one of those days. I don't have like a set stream schedule. Uh it's usually just going to be either Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday.

[01:53:21]So, just keep an eye out on one of those days. Next week, we're going to uh pick back up and do one of these songs. I'm also going to do a poll on my Instagram to figure out which one of these songs we should do first.

[01:53:33]Um, if you haven't already, go follow me on Instagram, uh, subscribe on YouTube, uh, follow on Twitch, wherever, and we will see you again soon.

[01:53:45]Love you guys.

[01:53:48]See you.