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I sent all my vocals to one bus, and the drums and music to another bus, so I could balance them against each other just before I hit the stereo bus. In total, there are only 37 audio tracks, and relatively few plug-ins, particularly on Boi-1da's drum tracks because, remarks 40, "I had passed his stuff through the SSL already and had done most of the processing I wanted during that process.” The eagle-eyed will spot the '-1380' markings in the comments box. I'd grown tired of making music and didn't have any reason to make beats. Normally, when you do a punch-in, you'll hear the track, then you hear yourself when you punch in, and then it goes back to the track. I knew from a very early age what being an entertainer or creative person involves having to work every day to make sure you have an income and a career. see more Other songs that sampled Drake's Headlines: Headlines by Audio Push (2011) Headlines Remix by Princeton (2012) I Needed That by Jae Millz (2014) see more. I tend to mix at Metalworks, and when I walk in there I can simply pop the Digilink cables out of their computer, put them into my Magma chassis, which has two HDX cards and one UAD Quad, run that into my computer, plug in the screens and cables and keyboard and mouse from the studio SSL, and I'm patched into the SSL and their full-blown HD rigs.”. The contents of this article are subject to worldwide copyright protection and reproduction in whole or part, whether mechanical or electronic, is expressly forbidden without the prior written consent of the Publishers. Tonight, Drake will perform in Toronto alongside Rick Ross and The Weeknd. The 25-year-old sings and raps about self-doubt, melancholy, angst and the trappings of life, over sparse, ambient, slow-jam-like tracks dominated by brooding synths, minimalist piano or guitar parts, stripped-down, often muffled drums, and cinematic atmospheric treatments. My PC has an RME Babyface audio interface attached to it, while my Mac has the Apogee Duet 2 audio interface. Great care has been taken to ensure accuracy in the preparation of this article but neither Sound On Sound Limited nor the publishers can be held responsible for its contents. This video is unavailable. The official lead single from the album and the main subject of this article, 'Headlines', was released in July 31, also on October's Very Own, and sold in similar quantities to 'Marvin's Room'. Samples give an aesthetic to a record that is difficult to achieve without one, whether you are featuring the sample prominently or have it running in the background. I take the L2 off when I send the track to mastering, though I'll leave the EQ in sometimes. 'Outro40lead' is my keyboard part, which is a synth lead. I recall that we took all the drums out at that point, but then decided this didn't work, so we put the kicks back in. I'll use either a Sony C800G on him or, if he's in the control room, a [Shure] SM57. He had worked with producers from everywhere in the world, and there was nothing that they came up with that he was happy with. Producers: Boi-1da, Noah "40" Shebib. It's the scratch melody of Drake singing before he had written the words. That evolved into just 40. I'll record the keys, usually with a [Neumann] U87, and his scratch vocals. It's an unassuming, and very Canadian, approach. I am a laptop guy, because I always want to have the ability to tweak my mixes when I leave a studio, wherever I am, just with my laptop and a set of headphones. One night at 3am, I'd already been working non-stop for two or three days, Gadget walked into the control room and said: 'Listen.' But I love the fact that the vocal is really loud and in your face. I left to do an internship with Noel 'Gadget' Campbell, a well-known mixer in Toronto, who became my mentor and whom I work with to this day. It's a nostalgic moment. "Headlines" rides steady and proud but not puff-chested, like driving around a clean city in a clean car after you've showered. Of the 20 tracks recorded for the most recent album, half are built around samples, taken from the likes of SWV, Gil Scott-Heron, Don McLean, Juvenile, DJ Screw and others — though neither 'Marvin's Room' and 'Headlines' contain any samples. Drake headlines (1) (2) 1. When he says he wants to sing or rap or do an overdub, I just hit Record. Mastering Essentials Part 3 - How loud should I master? All these things pointed me towards a career in recording studios.”, They also pointed towards great things to come, but even someone as precocious as the young Noah Shebib had to pay his dues. "I started out as Drake's engineer, and I wasn't there to produce or give creative input,” explains 40. "At some point while Drake was writing to the stereo MP3, I was calling Boi-1da, begging and demanding all the exported separate files of his session. Boi-1da and T-Minus both use Fruity Loops to do their beats, and until recently it only spat out 16-bit files, so I almost always end up putting these through the 80-input SSL 4000 G+ at Metalworks Studio 2. Coming off the SSL I had probably given it a little bit too much bottom, so when I was mixing I wanted to push its top end a bit, and instead of having a huge, rumbling, low bass, give it a little bit more pop and harshness. We also called in Divine Brown to add some vocals, because there's some male-female call-and-response in the song, so she could give the female perspective and add thickness to the chorus. Jay-Z and Kanye West's Niggas in Paris sample of Reverend W.A. I love SWV, so when I sampled their song 'Anything' for 'Shot For Me', it is because it reminds me of a memorable good time that I miss. The full Pro Tools session for 'Headlines'. But a lot of my instruments are Pro Tools-based, so why would I want to leave the box? When I bought this computer from him it cost me $6500, but you have to remember that it's still far superior to any $4000 Mac you can buy today, despite it being one and a half years old. Drake studies the console at Metalworks Studios, where 'Headlines' was mixed. I treated all the vocals on this song as one, which is a little abnormal: I normally have chorus processing and verse processing and rap processing, and so on. While the majority of the tracks on Take Care were created by Drake and 40, the rapper's albums also feature other big-name producers like Boi-1da, T-Minus, Just Blaze, Swizz Beatz, Needlz, Kanye West and Timbaland. Written by Drake Graham, Matthew Samuels (Boi-1da), Noah '40' Shebib, A Palman. I also have Bryston and Crown amps. These sketches will sometimes make it to the record. I wanted to shape it a bit differently. "I was there to track and mix. Another advantage of using drag and drop is that Drake does not want to hear the playback in the headphones before I punch him in. "In an R&B song there are four sentences per verse, but in a rap song there are four sentences per bar. In general, the records are nearly finished. I really buried my hands in the arrangement. 40 explains, "When growing up in the world of hip-hop, you look at samples as a tool and an instrument. Drake's guitarist Adrian Eccleston features on Take Care. News; Browse; Charts; Submit; 6º Game; GET AD-FREE WHOSAMPLED PREMIUM! Key Help. To celebrate, he's made potential album single "Headlines" available for download on his October's Very Own blog. GO AD-FREE WITH WHOSAMPLED PREMIUM! instrument in Pro Tools, routed through a Waves guitar amp simulator and the inevitable Lo-Fi plug-in. As I said before, our approach is always different, so in some cases I lay everything out over the SSL, in some cases I do everything in the box, and sometimes it's a combination of the two, like in this record. We didn't set out with a deliberate ambition to completely break the rules and have singing and rapping and motion and melody. Boi-1da had a 'Sawbass' track, which I hit with a bunch of stuff. But after that I decided to focus on just engineering and mixing, and that's what I was doing when I first met Drake. At best, I was being reassured of things I already knew. It's very much a makeshift home studio. He had a company called Music XPC, which was for a long time the only PC manufacturer certified for use with Pro Tools. "In hip-hop, you must write your own raps. I also need to place it on a table, as it's a bit chunky. Even 10 years ago, there was not much of a studio industry left, so I was very lucky to get to work with him. On the drum master track, I had a Renaissance Axe compressor, working minimally, with just a -1 setting on the threshold. He probably spent a couple of nights writing. The views expressed are those of the contributors and not necessarily those of the publishers. The mics go through a Neve 1073 or 1081, and I'll have an [Teletronix] LA2A on his voice, not hitting that too hard. He had a CD changer with 300 of his favourite discs, and all kinds of music, and we'd listen to music and talk about it until 1pm the next day. There are so many more words that I experimented with how to frame them, and that developed into something new. "We work slightly differently for each song, but one thing that I always do is drag and drop Drake's vocals. Drake raps in a very melodic way, which is a conscious decision on his part. This turned out to work in our favour. Metalworks have a bunch of great Pultecs, and I love hitting them! I hate the loudness wars and that artists and critics mistake loudness for quality, and I tried to stay away from it for most of Take Care. I used an instrument in Xpand! Vocals: Antares Auto-Tune, Waves Q8, De-esser, Renaissance EQ, Vox Compressor and SSL EQ, Bomb Factory Pultec EQP-1A, Avid Smack! J. Cole's A Lot sample of East of Underground's I Love You. Strings and keyboards: Pultec and SSL desk EQ, Avid Lo-Fi, Sansamp PSA1 and Xpand!, Waves GTR Solo.One of the main keyboard parts in the song was added by 40 using the basic Xpand! I arm one track in Pro Tools to record him, and I then drag the clip down to an empty track. So I did my best to make the song super-loud and more impactful on the radio. @Saint-Marc Exclusive. I worked with a program called Sonic Foundry Acid 3.0, and by age 12 or 13 I was fluent in any computer platform. I understood that you need reference points to be able to hear music properly, and when you go back to your own music, you can hear right away what's right and what's wrong.”, Campbell ran a label with Chris Smith, called Blacksmith, which was licensed to Universal, and for which 40 engineered albums by rapper Jelleestone and R&B singer Divine Brown in 2004. Three of my five additional keyboard parts have the Lo-Fi, with, again, Sample Rate and Distortion being the buttons that I reach for. There are three more plug-ins on that final vocal bus: the RCompressor, SSL EQ and Q8.”. Those keyboards also have the Sansamp on them. Sota is a legendary Canadian company that makes big reference monitors, amongst other things. My PC laptop is a year and a half old, and it has a 3.3GHz, 12-core, i7 processor. Dr. Dre feat. Most of the plug-ins on it were opened during arranging and tracking, and because of the vocal chains we use, Drake's vocals are in pretty good shape by the time the recordings are done. The control room has a pair of Genelec nearfields and a woofer, and a pair of Sota 750 reference monitors. Spotify to offer artists and labels the option to promote their music in your recommendations, Eminem’s “Lose Yourself” soundtracks a new Joe Biden campaign ad, Trump introduced Lil Pump as “Little Pimp” at a MAGA rally.

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