Tanner Mikray

Playlist of the Week: Blood, Tears, Dirt and Strings

2013-08-22T13:07:00.000-07:00

This week's playlist features to rich and earthy sounds of the Folk Revival of the Late '00s. Follow this playlist for beautiful acoustic arrangements, folk inspired indie and some straight bluegrass every once in awhile.

Playlist of the Week: Tanner's Artist's to Watch

2013-08-08T23:46:00.002-07:00

I like to find new music.

Ok.. I LOVE FINDING NEW MUSIC.

So I made a playlist where I add 10 new artists each week that I think are Noteworthy.

Follow it to be in on the best indie, acoustic, rock, post-rock and folk that this Texan has to offer.

Playlist of the Week

2013-08-01T11:42:00.001-07:00

I make a lot of playlists on Spotify.

I mean... CRAP-TON.

Which in Metric is about 3 a week. I'll start posting at least one a week here.

Here's this week's feature: Morning Chill.

2013-04-16T12:44:00.001-07:00

Next year will be a busy one.

Corporate Externship with RealPage, Inc.
Small Business On-Campus Clinic.
Christian Legal Society Officer position.
Sports and Entertainment Law Association President.
Working for Spune Productions.

WOLF BONEZZ

2013-03-02T11:42:00.000-08:00

Recently, a friend of my roommate and I had a birthday. Out of an inside joke, we promised we would create a song for her. This is that song...

Melodyne Tips

2011-04-15T12:18:00.002-07:00

I am very fond of Melodyne for two reasons:

#1 - It gives almost complete control of the pitch/ formant/ vibrato/ modulation of each word/ pitch change.
This can't be understated! Auto-Tune has a graphical pitch correct mode but its so hard to use and sounds so unreal that its useless. That makes melodyne the only pitch correction tool I can trust on a final mix.

#2 - Sounds believable
The pitch correction is hard to hear, even to trained ears.

Here's some tips I have learned working with melodyne:

#1 ALWAYS cross-fade every break in the audio file and get the rhythms right with the track and on all harmonies BEFORE recording into Melodyne.
When you record into Melodyne, you are doing just that, recording. Do you want those little pops and that out of rhythm vocal run to be on print? NOPE! So get your rhythms and pops out of there AND....

#2 Do the EQ and Compression AFTER melodyne.
This may mean: 1) not putting the plug-ins on until after you capture the audio to melodyne or 2) it may mean making Melodyne the FIRST plug in the chain. This will allow to adjust the compression and EQ after the fact and seriously, printing Eq and Compression? Not til the final mixdown, dudes!

#3 Change the audio directory BEFORE capturing into melodyne!
This can cause a real headache. The default location of these captured files are not in the session folder but some other WHACK place that is not going to follow and backup or move from computer to computer. This can be avoided by printing the FINAL pitched correct track to another new audio track inside protools giving you a new raw track in your Audio Files folder in the session folder. Otherwise, go to setting on the melodyne plug and change to a new directory like "session name"/Melo files/ Feel me??

#4 Go ahead and correct the pitch center 100% and the pitch drift 100%, at first.
This should give a good idea where the real trouble spots are.
If you chop up some notes (something you have to do often) and then center those to 100%, it can start to sound wonky. But in general, corrected everything to "100%" at first is a good idea.

Do you have any questions?

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