Studio One Audio Recording and Editing Basics

in this video we'll be taking a look at audio recording and editing basics in studio 1 hi folks I'm Mike and I hope you will now studio 1 is really powerful when it comes to recording and mixing audio and it's going to be one of the main reasons why most of you have got hold of this awesome D aw now in today's video we're going to cover the absolute basics we're gonna start off with setting up your system and then a song ready for recording audio then we're going to actually record some audio and finish off with some editing and although I'm only going to show you a few editing tools it'll be that which covers 90% of what you do in the studio so please stick around for all of that but before we do get started if you like this kind of content all about home recording do w's gear reviews plugin reviews that kind of thing then please do subscribe and ring the bell on youtube so that you're notified about my future videos now let's get started with recording some audio so let's start at the very beginning we're looking at the studio 1 start page here and the very first thing I want you to make sure of is that you've got an audio device available because we're going to be recording audio now if you look at the center here right down at the bottom you can see I've already got my persona studio 1 9 2 showing as configured and available there and if you've got nothing there or you've got the wrong audio device showing you'll want to click on configure audio device and that brings up this dialog box here and next to where it says audio device there's a drop-down list there of ones available on your system now there's no good if this isn't available on your system before you open up studio on trying to make it work here you'll need to make sure that your operating system can see your audio device at first before you start up studio one the other thing I'd like to mention here is if you're trying to use either the windows audio or if you're on a Mac the internal Mac audio do understand that you're only going to get so far it's going to be quite difficult to record especially multitrack audio using the internal sound on your system you really do need a dedicated audio interface and that's why I have set up here that's the studio 192 so I'll just click okay now the next thing we're going to do is create a new song so go up to the top left here click on create a new song and under the Styles tab I'm just going to make sure I've got empty song selectors so we're gonna start off with a clean slate here and I'm gonna give it a name over here I'll give I'll call it guitar Jam those of you who've watched the channel before know that typing is a bit of an issue for me I'm typing ly challenged is that a way of saying I don't know anyway guitar Jam that's a giveaway about what we're going to do in this tutorial I'll click on okay and that creates a new blank project and I'll just get rid of the Browse panel here by clicking on the Browse button in the bottom right hand corner so we've got a nice clean screen and then I'm going to add an audio track now there's a couple of ways you can do this you could click on the big plus icon here and that's going to bring up this dialog box to add tracks now that gives you a whole bunch of options which actually you can change later so I'm going to use that method I'm going to cancel that I'm gonna right click in the left panel over here just on that blank space I'll right-click and that brings up this little pop-up now that I've got a couple of options here for adding an audio track one to add an audio track mono and the other one stereo now the difference being is that one type of track is just going to use one signal and the other one is going to use two inputs and combine them together to make a stereo signal now we're going to be recording an electric guitar which just uses one audio cable so this is going to be a mono track and I'll click on that but I'll talk a little bit about stereo tracks a little bit later now the next thing I need to do is make sure I have an input selected now it's automatically selected one for me there one called input left if I click on that little drop down there I'll see my choices of inputs available now you may have none there yet if it's not been set up or you may not have all of them available if it's not been set up and let me show you how to set that up if we go to the bottom audio input output set up we'll click on that that brings up this dialog box now this shows me the ones which have already been sup I'm just going to remove the inputs I've got set up so I can show you how to add new ones from scratch gives me a warning there I'll just get rid of that so now I have no audio input set up in Studio One but what I can see here is all of my available inputs numbered across the top on my audio interface now in this audio interface I've got 26 available you may only have one or two or four eight what have you doesn't matter too much now if you've only got one input on your audio device then you've only got one possible choice and that is to add a mono source so we'll click on add mono there and then you can go ahead and select your input now I'm gonna make my first one the input one on my device but I could choose any of the inputs on my device like so but I will select input one because that's where I'm going to plug my electric guitar in okay now if that's all I want to do then I can just click apply and you'll see that changes from gray layout to a sort of a solid in there showing that input I can also rename it if I wish but I won't do that right now now the other option I mentioned earlier was to have stereo inputs now stereo inputs of course are two inputs combined one for the left channel one for the right channel so if I wanted to add a stereo input I'll click on add stereo like so now it's automatically selected inputs three and four for me on my audio interface I don't actually want that so you can see if I click around it'll actually choose pairs for left and right there I'm gonna select a one and two from my stereo input like so actually going to rename it there to stereo in just so that's available if I want it okay now I could go ahead and continue to add inputs if I want to and I've got quite a few available but you don't have to add them all you can just use as many as you want for your particular project so once that's done I can click on apply and you'll see that that stereo input there is now available click on OK so now I will go up to the drop-down box there so I can select an input and I'm going to select input 1 now you can see the stereo input that I created is not there and that's because this is a more tract it would be there if it was a stereo track so I'll select input one that's the only one I've got available and that's where I'm gonna plug my guitar in and start playing it so I'll go ahead and plug my guitar in and I'll see you in a moment okay so I've got my guitar plugged in as you can see and I'm going to start off by setting up my recording level now this is going to be different for each of you because it depends on which audio interface you're using now for most of you you're going to be setting this level using an actual hardware or a physical knob on the front of your audio interface it may be called an input gain or just gain something like that but that's how you're going to be setting it now for some of us there's an option to do it in software as well it's not such a common option but that's what I'm going to be using today simply because I can just show you on the screen how I'm setting up my input level now I must stress this is not a part of studio one this is a part of the software which came with my audio interface so I'm going to bring that up now just to show you and you can see the first channel there that's actually where my guitar is so I'll just play that for a moment and it's very quiet at the moment so I need to push the gain up so I'm just gonna push it up a little around about here is where I think it's going to be and I'll play again [Music] you can see it's peeking around about minus 12 DB I'll show you again and that's what I kind of like to set my levels there's a whole big reason for that which I won't go into now but I will mention that if you're coming from an analogue recording background then this may seem a little bit strange to you don't worry about it you don't need to set up a loud level like you used to have to with analog recording it's a little bit different in the digital realm now I should also stress as well when you do this it's handy to play the loudest part of your song and that's really I mean this is just gonna be a short piece so that's the loudest part that I was playing there so I've now got my level set up so I can just get rid of that interface and go back into studio one and the next thing I want to do is arm my track for recording so I'll just click on the recording arm button there I'll click on that and you'll see that a couple of things got highlighted first of all it's highlighted for recording but also this monitors a little speaker icon got switched on as well and that means we're listening to the audio through Studio One before when you were hearing my guitar it was just from my audio interface now something strange is going to happen there when I play this guitar have a listen and you hear it sounds like it's got a little sort of a delay effect on there that is called latency what you're hearing there is the original audio from my interface and the sound of the audio after it's been processed by Studio One now if it's really really large it's quite distracting to hear that so you're going to need to change some settings on your interface if that's a really long delay now you'll do that by going up to the studio one menu up here and then selecting options or you could just press control common that brings up this interface here now the main thing which is going to affect the length of time between you playing your note and it coming back through to your headphones or your speakers is the device block size here now things get a little tricky it's going to depend on your audio interface how well this performs if you set this very very long see down here 1,024 samples it's going to be a very long delay but it's going to mean your system is very very stable now if you have it set like I do quite small to 128 samples I'm only getting around about 6 milliseconds of delay there which is workable but my system may become unstable now I happen to know with mine of course it isn't 128 samples but it does stop me from going down to 64 or 32 or 16 whether it be virtually no discernible latency but I may find that my system becomes a little bit unstable there's pops and clicks in the recording so you're going to have to experiment with that yourself now there's a whole bunch of other settings in studio unrelated to this I'm not going to go into those today your core setting would be this one the device block size so you need to go ahead and set that up to something which you think is working for you and then you can click on okay now there's another significant thing about this little monitoring icon here I could if I just want to get rid of that that latency sound just switch that off okay and then I'll just be listening to my guitar through my audio interface up side like this and you may say well my why not just go ahead and record like that and I could there's many occasions when I'm recording audio or I just listen to the sound coming through my audio interface I'm not hearing any latency at all and this is it something that may or may not be available on your audio interface you would want to look up but to see if it's got direct monitoring or not that kind of thing but most of them these days have that option available there's one big downside to that especially when you're doing something like recording electric guitar and that is if you choose to put any effects on this now which I'm going to in a moment you won't be able to hear those effects to hear the effects you need to have that monitoring switch on like so so for this particular track what I'm going to do is this I'm actually going to keep that monitoring switch on but so I don't hear that latency I'm going to go back to my audio interface again and I'll just bring the dialogue up for that all the UI up for that and I'm just gonna mute that channel so that it can't be heard okay and now what we will be hearing now is only the process sound through Studio One let's have a listen okay so now in a moment I'm going to show you how to go ahead and just add some basic effects especially for electric guitar now if you're not using electric guitar if you're just using some other audio instrument or a voice or something like that that's okay you can still experiment with using some real time effects but before we do that I just want to set up the tempo and the metronome for the song because that's what we're going to be playing along with so I want to make sure that my click can both be heard and is playing at the correct tempo so here in studio one right at the bottom to the right of the transport buttons there we can see a little section which is about the metronome and the key and the tempo etc so above where it says the word metronome this little triangle icon if you click on that it turns blue and that means the metronome can be heard you can also toggle that using C on your keyboard like so and I want to make sure that I can hear it and I'm gonna press play over here in the transport controls or you can press space on your keyboard as well so that we can hear the metronome okay and that's too slow for me and a little bit quiet as well let's still with the actual tempo first so over where it says tempo you can either click on the numbers there and type in a new tempo if you've got a specific tempo in mind or you can click on the word tempo for a little while and it will automatically determine the tempo for you I'm gonna do that so let's go and you can see it settled on a roundabout 113 I'll play that okay I think that's gonna be fine and I also just want to make it a little bit louder so to do that I'm gonna go right to the right hand side and click on this mix button over here that's going to bring up my console interface or my mixing interface and all the way over to the right-hand side where the master fader is in the middle just above the master fader is this little icon which is to do with the click volume if I hold down my left button on my mouse over that icon I can then adjust the level of the click so I'll put it all the way up to full there and I'll have a listen again and I think that should be fine for now so I'll just get rid of that mix interface by clicking on that button again in the bottom right hand corner and I'm just about ready to start recording this guitar but as I say I want to put some effects on it so I'll show you how to do that next so as I say I'm not going to record the guitar Drive I'm going to put some real-time effects on it before I start recording now I'm going to do that by going up to the eye icon which stands for inspector just above the tracks for you there I'll click on that or you could press f4 on your keyboard as well and if I go down towards the bottom of the inspector there I'm going to click on the plus next to where it says insert so I'll click on the plus icon and that brings up a list of audio effects I've got on my system now you may have way less than this I've got quite a collection here but I'm going to be using one which comes with studio unprofessional and it's called Empire so I'll scroll down to the personas folder here and you'll see it's the first one there because they're in alphabetical order so I'll click on Empire and that does insert that audio effect into the chain there so I'm going to close the inspector by clicking on that eye icon again now I'm going to start off by using a preset I'm in Empire so I'll glue to go to the top here where I can see you less list of presets click on that I'm going to go down to the clean folder and then I'm going to click on Charlie Sheen I quite like this preset here so I'm all ready to go let's just have a listen to that and I think that sounds absolutely fine for now so I'll go ahead and I'll start the recording process now before I actually start recording I just want to name my track it's currently called track 1 which is the default name now if I leave it like that and record then the clips that are created will all also be called track 1 etc and it's hard to tell later which one is which if I name it now then those clips will be appropriately named as well so I'm just going to double click on that and change it to guitar like so now all of my clips will be called guitar 1 etc you can change them later but it's kind of a hassle so I like to do it right now now I'm going to start recording by hitting either on the record button on the interface here which is amongst the transport controls there or my preferred method is to actually hit asterisks on my computer keyboard and that's what I'm gonna do now I'm gonna leave it a bar or so before I actually start playing I like to create a little bit of space at the beginning of my tracks and wish me luck [Music] [Music] so I've recorded my guitar I'm just gonna do a little bit of housekeeping I'm gonna start off by disabling the recording on that track so I'll just click on that record icon there so I don't record over it accidentally and I'm just going to switch my metronome off by clicking C on my keyboard to toggle that off and then I'm just gonna drag out the bottom of the track there so make my way for a bit bigger so we can all see what's happening and I'll just move the plugin out of the way down there now let's have a listen to that I'm just going to move the playhead to just where the guitar starts by clicking on the ruler at the top there that moves the playhead as you can see there and I'm going to click space on my keyboard to play now we can hear the guitar with the effect on that the effect itself was not recorded the actual dry guitar was recorded and the effect is being applied every time we click on place so I'll bypass the effects by clicking to by deactivating it here I'll just click on this little icon and we'll play again and you'll hear just the raw guitar [Music] so it's important to understand that the effects are real-time if I switch it back on here and choose a different preset I'll go down to say I don't know tremolo King let's try that one out and I'll play again so that's the power of real-time effects we can adjust them after we've done the recording so I'm just going to move that back to my Charlie Sheen clean and I'll just close off that interface and next I'm just going to show you how to do some basic audio editing okay so we're going to finish off with some basic editing and I'm only going to use two of the editing tools available here but I can promise you it will make up about 90% of the edits that you do in Studio One now you can see some of the editing tools in the toolbar at the top here and with each of these tools if you hover on them you can see a number in square brackets and that tells you which number you can press on your computer keyboard as a shortcut to select that tool so we'll be using the arrow tool here which will press one on the keyboard to select and we're also going to be using the split tool which we're going to press 3 on the keyboard to select now I'm going to start off with that split tool and I'm going to do some cutting and I'm also making sure before I do this first cut which that I have snapping turned on so you can toggle snapping on and off there by hitting n on the keyboard or by clicking on the icon at the top there so with it switched on I'm going to go to the beginning of the second bar and I'm just going to click there to cut there now because I had snapping turned on it's done exactly at the beginning of that second bar now I want to cut out a four bar section so I'm going to go ahead four bars to the beginning of the six bar there and do another cut there okay that's all well and good now I'm just going to go back to my arrow tool by clicking one on the keyboard and I'm gonna make a space of four bars by looking at its last clip here I'm just gonna drag it over by four bars again with snapping turned on I can make sure I snap exactly to the beginning of the tenth bar there so I have a four bar gap so I'm going to select the for bar section there and I'm going to click ctrl C on my keyboard to copy and then I'm going to move my playhead to the beginning of the six bar there and we're going to press ctrl V to paste that section in there okay so when you go to paste something which you've copied you need to make sure that the track is selected that you want to copy and that your playhead is in the position where you want to copy it okay so now we have that first section repeated once and there's going to be a join there now if you're lucky it'll sound just fine but I bet we won't be lucky so I'm gonna go just before that join their set the playhead there and I'm gonna click play let's have a listen okay and there's a little click or a snap that you can hear there where the guitars are joined up and I don't want that so I need to get rid of it and there's a few different ways I can do that but I'm going to start off by moving my playhead to where that joint is and then I'm going to zoom in now I'm zooming in by hitting E or clicking E on my keyboard okay you can zoom in with E and you can zoom out with W like so and I'm gonna go almost all the way in in fact that's the closest I can go I think and you can see there the waveform I hope you can see that there and you can see it's on its way up and then on its way down and it abruptly ends there on that six bar and the new waveforms abruptly starts there and that's why we're getting that little click sound ideally what we want to do is either have those lines kind of join up or even more ideally do the cut at a point where they're crossing over the zero that will the Center zero part then okay it's not very likely we're going to be lucky with that but let's try so I'm gonna make sure that I've got the arrow tool selected which I have and that I'm moving down towards the bottom half of where these clips are if I go to the top you'll see that the icons are a little bit different moving from left to right it denotes I'm going to be dragging the age of one clip or another but down the bottom I can actually drag the joint okay so I'm going to make sure snapping is off and then drag that Joyner in now it's pretty hard to find a point where they're both at zero so I'm just gonna choose a point here where they kind of join up there now it's more than likely that this is going to sound Oh reasonably okay so I'll zoom back here again set my playhead back here and let's have a listen definitely the clickers gone there I'm not sure it sounds all that natural so there's two questions there's a technical issue of getting rid of the click and then there's kind of getting a more natural sound so let's have a look at a couple of ways I'll try and make that more natural the first thing I like to do is have a little bit of an overlap sometime so I've zoomed in here I'm gonna select the first clip and I'm gonna see this triangle right at the top right hand corner that's for us to drag out a fate I'm just gonna create a little fade there now it may look big enough on the screen but it's really actually half a millisecond or something like that so it's really really small and then I'm going to do the same for the other one okay and then what I'm going to do is just drag this one over so they kind of overlap like so okay can just be roughly like that it's fine okay and that means that they're just slightly overlapping and that there's a fade in and fade out okay so let's zoom back out again and have a listen similar result to last time so that's one way that you can get rid of those sort of clicks is have little fade in and outs and have a little bit of an overlap okay and we can still drag that join around you see that if I've got my cursor there so I can still find a nice place I could even put it back on that bar line if I wish let's have a listen to that yep a little bit more let's just zoom out a bit more so we can hear it just scroll over and that's not too bad now another thing that I would do and I've been holding off on this because it's probably what I would actually do in real life is look for a point now that I've done those little fades is looked for a point where it's a little bit more natural and that would be before that the note actually gets hit so what I'm gonna do is actually drag this it out over here okay this is a point where they're both basically zero and I'm gonna hear the natural beginning of that note there okay so let's zoom out have a listen okay that's absolutely fine no kind of clicks or anything there so that sounds nice and then we'll do the same to the second joint I suspect we've got the same problems have listening not too bad we just about got away with that I think let's just zoom in and take a look yeah that one's pretty good I might just do it anyway because I'm pedantic like that we'll just drag that over so we've got a bit of a crossover I don't mind that at all actually just drag that over there okay we'll have a perfect join there so that is how you get joined without pops and clicks and that's a really important part of editing let's have a listen to that second one again absolutely fine now another really common thing to do is to tidy up the beginnings and the ends and you'll recall at the beginning idea to cut here and it's left this area here at the beginning with basically nothing in there now sometimes you're going to have a little bit of noise in there if it's a singing you might hear them shuffling around on guitars you might hear little pops and clicks what I'm going to do is just select that and we're going to hit delete on the keyboard to get rid of it but that's gonna leave a slightly unnatural beginning to our track let's have a listen yet we've got a click again and it just sounds a little bit unnatural so what I would do in a case like this is zoom in and I'm just going to drag the edge of it out like so yeah just so there is fine maybe do a little fading if I really want to and then let's zoom out again have a listen okay just nice and silent beforehand and then it comes in with that guitar and the other thing we do is the ending now often right at the end of a track will have some could have kind of fade out like this guitar now depending on the situation as it gets towards the end of that fade-out you probably hear some little noises someone's shuffling around or the point where the guitarist takes his fingers off the strings like I do here you can just about hear there now you may want to keep that in but if you don't want to keep it in what you can do I'll just turn snapping on again here is I'm going to drag to say this point here the end of this sixteenth bar and I'm just going to cut it off there so I don't hear that shuffle but I'm gonna have a slightly abrupt ending let's so listen you hear it's sort of sudden the ends there so I'm going to do a fade out again much longer this time I'm just going to drag that triangle there at the top right hand corner and drag it here and you can see the waveform changes as I do and that should leave a nice natural fade-out without any kind of clicks or shuffles or anything like that at the end now you can make changes to the nature of that fade if you wish you can start to drag around points in the middle of it like so and that can make quite a big difference the nature of the fade outs there and also I should lastly mention with any of these clips I'll just zoom out that you can change the clips level by clicking on this Center box here okay so that combined with your fades means you can do quite an awful lot with your clip there okay and that's the basics really of audio editing so if something for you didn't go as planned or you're confused about something I showed you in this video then please do ask in the comments down below and myself or someone else will try to help you out and remember there are absolutely no stupid questions there's many things are not clear when you're just starting out with recording on a DA aw now if you did like this video you can help me out by making sure you hit the like button that tells YouTube that other people should see this video as well if you didn't like this video make sure you hit the dislike button twice and if you do like this kind of content then make sure you subscribe do it now go on good thank you and ring the 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Id: DSEnlkBQ6A0

Length: 30min 42sec (1842 seconds)

Published: Tue May 26 2020

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[u/CreativeSauce2B]

Hi folks! Continuing with my Studio One Basics series, I've made an episode dealing with the very basics of audio recording, and editing!

[u/ilikespoilers]

Good series so far! Thanks