I've been a huge fan of Linkin Park.
I think it was the lyrics that drew me in.
During many tough times,
i would just put on the headset
and listen to their music.
They were so relatable.
It might be because of this same reason that many fans,
including me,
felt so helpless and sad that we couldn't help the one voice
in which we found refuge in.
Chester,
you are still being missed.
Anyway,
As someone trying to get into music production and youtube,
I thought of making something inspired by Linkin Park.
Because I'm pretty comfortable with their style.
Hope I make Chester proud.
Lets get started.
First things first,
Lets address the elephant in the room,
and that is to find the right guitar sound.
After some research I found out that I already had something
for that in my hand.
Its komplete kontrol, which comes with komplete start pack.
There's a rock guitar in here.
Everyone has some personal settings for any instrument 
right?
Here, the sound signal flows from left to right.
So, the sound generator will be placed on the left side,
and the effects that we want
to work on that sound signal being produced
is placed towards the right.
Then I tested out some power chords.
Here it is without the effects.
And now with the effects turned on.
LP's tracks were always densely layered.
So now,
I wanted to add an electric rhythm guitar over this one.
For this, I decided to use the plugin revitar,
which could mimic a good strumming
even if the midi notes were perfectly aligned on the same 
time.
Here, I'm changing the settings in such a way that
it does not mimic the characteristics of an accoustic 
guitar.
It sounds clean without any accoustic rumble.
Now we add effects to this track.
For this, I'm gonna use
Guitar rig 5
which came with komplete start.
Now the preset I'm looking for is called
The Massive Wall of Rock.
Here;, the route of sound is from top to bottom,
and the effects get applied
as it goes down.
We can add components as well.
This is one way of doing it.
And the other wy is to go into the components section
and add whatever we want.
The next crucial part is to add base.
For this I'm using
Ample bass.
I'm just making a simple bass with the root notes of the 
chords.
I think the soul of the genre has been captured now.
In the meantime let me something that I do,
to make the final mixing easier.
and that is to direct the audio output of the two electric 
guitars
towards a single stereo bus.
Lets listen to what we have came up with so far.
Now that, thats out fo the way,
lets deal with the drums.
The drum machine that I'm using is called MTPowerDrumkit.
While bringing it in,
I made sure that this option was selected
so that I could direct each percussion sample to different 
audio channels.
This will come handy in mixing.
These tracks that we added just now
cannot handle any midi data.
For that, we have to add a midi track
whose output will be directed towards the drum machine.
Here is the beat.
As you can see,
the output is only coming through a single channel.
To change this we have to go into the mixer of the MT Power 
Drumkit
and direct these outputs to different audio channels.
Like with the electric guitars,
I directed the audio channels related with this particular 
plugin
towards a single stereo bus so that I could add compression 
on it
as a single drum set.
And now here is the drums for the verse.
For a realistic sound I brought in the Keyzone classic.
LP uses a lot of distorted sounds in their tracks.
This even includes distorted drums.
So, with sitala,
step sequencer and some effetcs
i made this beat pattern.
They also use a repetative melody/riff in their songs.
For this, I'm using the plugin TyrellN6.
Double the same with
Peel guitar in Spitfire Audio Labs.
Again with TyrellN6
added this for creating atmosphere.
And this is a single note being played repeatedly in 
TyrellN6.
using peel guitar, bass guitar and piano
I added this pre-chorus.
Now this is what it looks like
after all the arrangement and mixing has been done.
On top you can see an audio track.
This is actually one of the electric guitars
playing a single power chord,
recorded back to the DAW itself.
I didn't know how to achieve this in cakewalk.
So, I went into the settings of windows.
There I went into system.
There, into sound.
It should be available in the input section.
But first, we have to add the option
in the 'manage sound devices'.
Then I went back to Cakewalk,
played it,
recorded the system output back into the DAW itself.
Then, normalized it, reversed it,
and automated the volume appropriately.
