How to Record Audio in FL Studio 20

While FL Studio is best known for electronic music production, it's also a powerful multitrack audio recorder. Jacob Dupre shows you how to record audio in FL Studio 20.

0:00 - Intro
0:05 - Selecting An Input
1:02 - Setting Up To Record
1:54 - Organizing Takes
2:27 - Audio Playback
3:06 - Audio Editing
4:42 - Consolidating Tracks and Multi Recording
6:00 - Thanks For Watching!

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[sweetwater]

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[MrBossPapi]

I’ve watched many videos but this one sticks out! The way you describe the controls makes it a lot easier for us “beginners” thanks again brother

[fuji]

It was very useful. I realized to needed push the mute button to play recorded sounds. Thanks.

[nataliawoodard]

this was really helpful, you explain and describe everything so clearly. as a beginner in recording, FL studio can seem really intimidating sometimes 😅 but you helped clear it up a lot snd make everything easier. thanks!

[Eventual]

FL is my DAW of choice. But there’s one important feature you might want to touch on, the Panning Law. There’s an option to change panning law, from Circular to Triangular. This will allow you to hard pan various channels without boosting them over zero dB, if you select Triangular. Circular is the default, and will force users to reduce their input level when hard panned because Circular panning law dictates that a hard panned channel is louder.

Another important feature for tracking is the Fruity Limiter which is on the master channel by default. This will allow users to smash audio together. Nice but this destroys mix dynamics. To do a mix in FL it’s best to disable any limiters until the end of the process. This will force the mixer to keep an eye on the mix levels, not exceed zero dB. Fruity Limiter is useful for those occasional spikes that exceed zero.

Channel routing, another powerful tool to sum channels into one or two channels for recording. Multi-tracking is nice at first, but very difficult to manage a high track count session. This is also a useful working method to get recorded audio to default to the correct mix channel and will save time assigning tracks to the mixer.

FL also records fader moves, MIDI, and automations, so if you’re adjusting things while recording, these will all become automations. This can become a hinderance. So it’s becomes prudent to edit your projects automations using the Browser.

You’re doing great. Thank you for the series.

[briankeith]

I think it would be important to note right upfront that you cannot record audio in the Fruity edition - only in Producer and above versions. This is also not stated anywhere the Sweetwater site under the different FL Studio packages.

[repomanband]

I keep coming back to this because I keep forgetting exactly how things go. Thanks!

[joeylapuzza]

wish i saw this video the first 500 videos I've watched. thank u so much, was very frustrated but this video is definalty informal.

[miztahrayeproductions]

Thanks for the video. I only needed the first 17s to fix my problem. Kept playing my beat while recording in Edison and couldn't isolate my vocals without getting the beat. As soon as I saw that you weren't using the Master Channel for your vocals something in my brain clicked and I realized that was my issue.

[michaeldulsky]

Best an easiest FL Studio recording tutorial on YouTube. Thank you very much! You helped me learn this process by simplifying the process. 🙏

[goldengirlitsgolden]

I’m 49 and just beginning to record my own stuff, this tutorial was so easy and simple I’m amazed!! Thanks!! #GoldenGirl💋

[lshowproductions]

all I can say is thank you. every other video has made it more difficult than need be to record in fl

[tapassharma]

That was a pretty good explanation and it was to the point. Thanks for making this video.

[aprilfrantz]

You make it so easy for me after looka at like 50 different YouTubers u went slow detal by detail and I got it thanks so much u got another subscriber

[classictunes]

you make me understand so better .sir your teaching process is so nice, , thank you

[Username-]

Just got a new laptop my old one was so bad lmao I also had to get some different software besides suck ass audacity lol so I tried out fl studio and so far this looks like a pretty good tutorial

[rigel]

Perfect video, this took some time for shure! respect very helpful!

[oooooar]

youre the best youtuber ive ever seen thank you

[joyjonathanfitnessguru]

thank you so much this a was basic and educational

[msandra]

Super easy to understand instructions, thank you!