Yamaha AW4416 User Manual

PROFESSIONAL AUDIO WORKSTATIONETutorial

Tutorial—Mixdown 10 — Tutorial Mixdown Although the term “mixdown” seems to imply a single action, it is really a pro-cess that can involve

Tutorial—Mixdown — Tutorial 11 1. Make sure that the RECORDER [MONI] MIXING LAYER is selected.2. Recall the scene number 01 “FADERS NOMINAL”

Tutorial—Mixdown 12 — Tutorial Phase 2: Set Up a Rough Mix The rough mix is only the starting point for the final mix, and it doesn’t have to

Tutorial—Mixdown — Tutorial 13 cases where the drums or other instrument seems to occupy the entire stereo field, try panning the left and rig

Tutorial—Mixdown 14 — Tutorial ❒ Add the Lead Vocal Ah-ha! Fooled you! You thought we were going to add the chorus parts on tracks 11, 12, a

Tutorial—Mixdown — Tutorial 15 Phase 3: Assemble the Mix Part by Part Now we’re ready to do some serious work on the sound of the individual

Tutorial—Mixdown16 — Tutorial❒ Track 3: Claves/Electronic DrumsThis track needs a bit of compression to make the electronic drums jump out of

Tutorial—Mixdown— Tutorial 17❒ Track 5: Rhythm GuitarThe rhythm guitar track needs to be a little “chunkier” to achieve the classic R&B typ

Tutorial—Mixdown18 — Tutorial❒ Track 8: PianoWe’ll use some EQ to “thin out” the piano sound a bit, and give it a touch more presence so that

Tutorial—Mixdown— Tutorial 19❍ Female Chorus 2 Compression❒ Track 13: Male ChorusThe quality of this singer’s voice makes EQ unnecessary in thi

Tutorial—AW4416 Professional Audio Workstation — Tutorial 1 AW4416 Professional Audio Workstation Showing a Yamaha AW4416 to a recording engin

Tutorial—Mixdown20 — TutorialPhase 4: Add Ambience“Ambience” effects such as reverb, delay, and echo are generally used to provide a sense of

Tutorial—Mixdown— Tutorial 21❒ Add Ambience to the Tracks as RequiredAll you have to do now is use the faders in the AUX 7 mode to add the requ

Tutorial—Mixdown22 — Tutorial❒ Track 7: OrganInstruments like organ always present a challenge when trying to decide on the right amount of re

Tutorial—Mixdown— Tutorial 23❒ Save the Song!We can’t emphasize enough how important it is to keep saving your work at rela-tively short interv

Tutorial—Mixdown24 — TutorialPhase 5: Finalize the Mix & Set Up Automa-tionWell, the basic mix is pretty much done. Now that all the proce

Tutorial—Mixdown— Tutorial 25❒ The AutomixThe general flow of the automix is described below in reference to absolute counter times. Please note

Tutorial—Mixdown26 — Tutorial❍ 00:01:31The lead guitar on track 6 and the lead vocal on track 14 have been brought back down to their “normal”

Tutorial—Mixdown— Tutorial 27Phase 6: Use the Virtual Tracks to Create an Alternate MixIf you feel that you need a little more practice with th

Tutorial—Mastering28 — TutorialMasteringWhen you think mastering, think “subtle”. But just because it’s subtle doesn’t mean that it can’t have

Tutorial—Mastering— Tutorial 293. Move the cursor down to the scene number in the event list (it should be “05” if you changed it as we suggest

Tutorial—AW4416 Professional Audio Workstation 2 — Tutorial ❒ Contents AW4416 Professional Audio Workstation ...

Tutorial—Practice, Practice …30 — TutorialStep 3: Write the Song to a CD-R DiskThis procedure is described in detail in the AW4416 operation g

Tutorial—Glossary— Tutorial 31Glossary❒ GalileoAn early astronomer who lived in the 16th –17th century, and who most certainly never saw anythi

Tutorial—Glossary32 — Tutorial❒ Directional MicrophoneA microphone which primarily picks up sound from only one general direction is a “direct

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Tutorial—AW4416 Professional Audio Workstation — Tutorial 3 Tracks 9 & 10: Strings ...

Tutorial—Laying Down the Basic Tracks — Tutorial 5 Laying Down the Basic Tracks Although the basic tracks you’ll use to assemble the “So Fine

Tutorial—Laying Down the Basic Tracks 6 — Tutorial ❒ “Scratch” or “Guide” Vocals If you’re working alone this won’t be necessary, but when r

Tutorial—Laying Down the Basic Tracks — Tutorial 7 ❒ Overdubs The actual procedure for recording overdubs is really no different from recordi

Tutorial—Load the Demo Song 8 — Tutorial Load the Demo Song Before you can work on the demo song, you’ll first need to load it onto the AW441

Tutorial—Load the Demo Song — Tutorial 9 Load the Demo Song from the Hard Disk 1. Press the [SONG] key (and the [F1] function key if necessar