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festeringheap · Post by **festeringheap** » Sat Nov 25, 2017 12:33 pm

Does anyone care to share their favourite online sites / teachers for audio tutorials?

Who are some of the consistently good teachers on YouTube? I seem to wade around finding decent tuts - some people are just flat out wrong and/or long-winded.

I like the MusicTechHelpGuy series on YT - his Logic Pro stuff is mostly solid.

How is the overall content quality at Groove3 and Ask.Audio?

Advice on where to find great Kontakt tutorials, Logic Pro X, all kinds of audio genre production - really anything music/audio/video related would be greatly appreciated!

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Sat Nov 25, 2017 12:40 pm

It's only in german (so it probably won't help you much...), but, these guys are great: http://audio-workshop.de/ Haven't really come along anything better, TBH.

ATN69 · Post by **ATN69** » Sat Nov 25, 2017 1:20 pm

I decided to become a member at Sonic Academy. They have many good tutorials made by people who know their stuff. Most teachers are renown producers and artists. On Youtube there are some good tutorials how to mix and master but I found that most tutorials use the pop or rock genre as basis for the tutorial. Mixing and mastering a House track, Trance or any other EDM is quite different and with different techniques that can be used, and for that Sonic Academy is a good place. They also have tutorials for DAWs, how to make track from the bottom up, etc, etc.

Apratim · Post by **Apratim** » Sat Nov 25, 2017 1:56 pm

i generally watch nearly all sound design tutorial on youtube, jole's live stream on twitch if he casts his screen ,some game sound designers have their lecture/conference on sound design at gdc(mick gordon for example) and many other free resource

elassi · Post by **elassi** » Sat Nov 25, 2017 1:58 pm

http://www.pensadosplace.tv/

garryknight · Post by **garryknight** » Sat Nov 25, 2017 6:31 pm

Groove3 is excellent, as you'd expect for a pay-for site.

For sound design, sample mangling, mixing, and all other production techniques, I like Shane Robbins, a.k.a. Echo Sound Works. He's still under 30 years old, I believe, but has spent half of his life in music creation and knows what he's talking about. Also, if you're interested in sound creation in Serum or Massive, he's one of the experts. He not only posts as , he also produces videos for .

For advanced mixing, David of is excellent. He's just started vlogging, so he might (or might not) spend less time on the mixing videos, but there are plenty available already.

Zexila · Post by **Zexila** » Sat Nov 25, 2017 6:40 pm

These guys are nice

OzoneJunkie · Post by **OzoneJunkie** » Sat Nov 25, 2017 7:16 pm

I love this guy's stuff. It's humor, but I also tend to actually learn stuff at the same time. The most recent one, the Taylor Swift one, is ok, but some of his other ones are actually really good - he does a good job at making a satirical version of a given artist's style.

Composerily:

3ee · Post by **3ee** » Sat Nov 25, 2017 7:30 pm

Ask.audio and Groove3, everyone should try and least once... there's plenty good stuff in there to subscribe a couple of times..

Puremix and MixWithTheMasters are expensive but they seem to offer great content!

Ken Lewis has some cool tutorial/courses on his website ASO

Dan Worrall has great tutorial/presentations

Don't forget about books!! Plenty good ones to keep you busy

YouTube (in no particular order) :

MixBusTV
Realhomerecording
The Reaper Blog
Reaper Mania
Produce like a Pro
Streaky Mastering
The Pro Audio Files
SonicState
Acoustic Fields
Mangold Project (great piano/theory)
Booth Junkie
Sonic Scoop
Pyramind
AudioSchoolOnline
Musictrackjp
Adam Neely (music theory)

Many others....

There are also A LOT of 'babbling cretins' (sorry, but I just can't stand them) that don't really know what they are talking about or just don't want to share real information, or are annoying in a way that makes them less likable... they do their YT thing only for rating/business/money/fame ... they will slowly fade as people get wiser I hope

AsPeeXXXVIII · Post by **AsPeeXXXVIII** » Sun Nov 26, 2017 11:22 am

Trial and error.

In all seriousness, though, while I don't watch/read a whole lot of tutorials nowadays, the ones by The REAPER Blog did help me quite a bunch with learning to navigate my way around REAPER.

festeringheap · Post by **festeringheap** » Mon Nov 27, 2017 12:04 am

chk071 wrote:It's only in german (so it probably won't help you much...), but, these guys are great: http://audio-workshop.de/ Haven't really come along anything better, TBH.

I either need to bone up on my German, or YT needs to get a better AutoTranslate:

"...always on the track to look for if you all brachial great tempo fluctuation in it, then you might have to false stain smart for example here the chambers then by double remove..."

Be tough sloughing through the vid tuts...

3ee · Post by **3ee** » Mon Nov 27, 2017 1:36 am

yeah, you gotta love the auto-translate.. some weird stuff at some point. once turning it for fun on a musictrackjp video, it felt like it was telling the future

even some synth sounds got translated!

festeringheap · Post by **festeringheap** » Mon Nov 27, 2017 3:39 pm

3ee wrote: even some synth sounds got translated!

Sometimes autotranslate doesn't work that bad, but then when you get industry/software specific words, it can go crazy. We need one of those Babelfish...

Thanks for your list of links. Good stuff there. I always liked Kenny Gioia doing his tuts when I was first trying out Reaper.

As for books, I seem to be moving away from them more and more - it's nice getting visual feedback - as long as it's done right with the minimum of ers and ahhs and tangents and subscribing/music promotion...

Bombadil · Post by **Bombadil** » Mon Nov 27, 2017 7:41 pm

MacProVid is ok, but I'd wait until they have one of their regular sales to bite. They haven't done any TnT for Logic X, and I expect they won't. Those were the best value for my money from them. If you are learning Logic, I would be remiss not to recommend David Nahmani's book, which is what Logic Certification is directly based upon.

festeringheap · Post by **festeringheap** » Tue Nov 28, 2017 7:36 pm

Bombadil wrote:MacProVid is ok, but I'd wait until they have one of their regular sales to bite. They haven't done any TnT for Logic X, and I expect they won't. Those were the best value for my money from them. If you are learning Logic, I would be remiss not to recommend David Nahmani's book, which is what Logic Certification is directly based upon.

Looks like ask.audio has quite a few of the titles of MacProVid and at a cheaper price point as well

re:books - I bought a Reaper book years ago for v4 and then so much got added to v4 making a lot of the book somewhat useless, unless I had the updated PDF - making the book experience futile.
I think David's Logic book on amazon may include the 10.3.1 update ( but not quite sure ), but definitely not the 10.3.2 . Already, it's slightly dated.
That said, I'll keep an eye out for an updated version in the future - it looks pretty good.

Apratim wrote:some game sound designers have their lecture/conference on sound design at gdc(mick gordon for example)

Interesting stuff, there, thanks for sharing

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