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From Jam to Album: 13 tips and ideas learned making my album

Hi there!

Here's the video I promised I'd make a couple of weeks ago: lessons learned putting together my album, which is basically a collection of jams "souped-up" to full tracks.

I mentioned this in my previous message - the goal of the album was to show that some jams can and should be track-worthy, and the goal of this video is to give you a few ideas that you'll hopefully find helpful :)

All my best,

Ziv (upgrading jams to tracks on youtube as "Loopop"...)

From Jam to Album: 13 tips and ideas learned making my album

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The project is a collection of jams from my reviews/videos. I approach each jam in each video with the purpose of creating a track. It doesn't always work out, but that's the goal. Never aimless noodling, but rather trying to tell a short story (or poem). Regarding having a lot of hardware, if you notice, the setups in 95% of my videos are never large - what I have in my basement is irrelevant for the video and if you saw my studio you'd see almost nothing but what I work on for that weeks' video, and maybe a few "friends" I bring in. Large setups actually confuse me, and I very much prefer as minimal a setup as possible, and do think one is better of focusing on a small setup and mastering it. That said, a do enjoy exploring new gear and the channel (and your support!) is to blame for that :) Hope this helps?

Thanks! I don't think all the steps are necessary - I think it's the 80-20 rule - you can probably get 80% there with 20% the effort. Frankly I thought the original audio sounded pretty decent until I heard the mastered version... and overall, it's better, but not night and day. Just better.

After watching this I began wondering how you chose the instruments and effects for this album. Your posts are usually about hardware, and it's clear that you have a lot of it. Not to disparage this emphasis, but once one acquires a collection of hardware and software, the question becomes how to use them purposefully, as opposed to just noodling/experimenting, although that's fun in itself. What were your considerations as you approached this project?

This was quite informative I had no idea how complex the mastering process could be (and still don't understand why some of the steps were necessary).


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