What's one other mixing tip you wish you knew earlier?

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truly timeless tips - many stock plugins are HIGHLY underrated!

'get up and go touch grass"... Got it... rolls up...🔥🔥

For tip 3, I prefer changing the octave db slope to 12 or 24 on a high pass filter which does the same thing. It just cuts the bass rumble out exactly where you want.

All tips are good, except tip 3. High-passing unneeded lows is predominantly good (unless they're crucial, like sub or a kick, but that's pretty obvious). The reason being that low freq notes are closer to eachother compared to the rest of the spectrum. One thing to keep in mind though is how steep the curve is and how close to the fundamental it is. Less steep and further away from the fundamental, means less audible change. Shelfing on the other hand can lead to mud if there's something still down there, like the low freqs of a cymbal or a piano. Another thing I wanted to add is that sometimes removing the fundamental of a tonal instro is actually genius, since our ears automatically believe it's there, providing you with more headroom and space for a propper bass for example. Don't be too greedy though!

#3 it totally depends on the source and what the purpose of that sound is. A lot of synths benefit from high passing because people use presets and base their own sounds on presets… and presets are often designed to sound full and impressive on their own, without anything you’d have in a mix like bass or drums. Use your ears! Don’t replace dogma “always highpass” with dogma “always low shelf.” Just use your ears, every sound is different every track is different. Don’t “always” do anything. One other thing to think about, can you have less sounds happening which each retain fuller spectra, rather than cut frequencies on a bunch of stuff? The less sounds you have the less overlapping mud you’ll have. Mixing actually starts in arrangement. Also Stock plugins are fine but seriously you can’t beat character EQ & compression in many cases, for getting certain vibes, and stock plugins are almost never character plugins. Character plugins would be for example, EQs or compressors that add harmonic distortion or other more analog-sounding side-effects. Where your goal is reproducing the imperfections which cause analog recording gear to sound wonderful in a characteristically smooth silky or chunky way, rather than to do the most accurate possible job of transparently EQing or compressing/limiting.

I absolutely loved this video!

Sampling that Kiss of life bass

Yo, thank you so much for these!

These are things I NEEDED to hear.

Thanks max. Dope video. And meeting you at the beat makers summit changed the way I make music for the better. Thanks for introducing me to Splice back then!

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Great video! Thank you guys!

Omg this video is so lit!

Dope tip. Fux with this video

Some very helpful tips for an upcoming artist getting into muzak

Gems!

Reason does have some super fkn sick stock plug-ins 🔥

Wicked tips

Nice one

I started as a game developer in audio and didn’t know any of this kind of stuff just starting out. Great advice here! All the stuff in this video can apply to making sound effects too!

Ableton stock plugins 🔥

All wise stuff ❤

For tip no 3 why not just use your ears dammit!!😎

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I want to know where you got those plants on the wall behind you?

Nice vid

Man that 130 hz is a major issue for my room.

best af

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would be nice to see the SoundID Reference room measurements before and after acoustic treatment

put some bass traps in the corners of your room, looks like there's enough space. that should help with the low end build up

My acoustics in my room is SO bad and I have to use that I got. Perfectly square room and a awkward ceiling. I just can’t afford anything. So I’m making due with that I got. Thank good for good headphones.

What gets me about the "every hour" thing... everyone produces differently, to a degree. Personally, when I'm honed into a project... I'm in the "zone". In my perspective... there is nothing else in the world BUT my project. I have no outside interaction, no influences, I am ONE with the project. This definitely does impact my mixes negatively... but I have no control once I've taken that one single step into this audio dimension. Eventually something breaks the focus and I look at the time... try to remember anything I was supposed to be doing.... go outside, smoke, listen to my latest mixes through the cell phone.... seeing what my muse has been up to in my DAW. Once she has taken the wheel though... the muse is in control... not me. Space/Time has no sanctuary in her ether, while I'm just a passer-by. Which can be very exciting once you return to this physical realm. And hear your tracks... quite a few times... I have to second guess myself... try to figure out why, how, what... "surely I didn't make this, right? o_O WOW?!?!?! I wonder what the world would think once this thing touches them... " And because of this phenomenon... I rarely get up... and sit back down to jump back into a previous project. Once up... and I sit back down... there's already a different energy and place in the universe our planetary body has traversed to. Nothing in this world is ever truly a constant. Everything moves continuously... if your art doesn't... how can it be true art? It can't... it's simply a hologram of someone else and you're just a parasite, not a musician. But like I said, everyone produces differently, to a certain extent.

it's nice that a business that sells third-party plugins doesn't encourage their customers to spend money for quality

Can you put the tracks' link? I loved it

Man i really needed this. Im having one HELL of a time trying to get the right vocal mix on the mixtape im recording

For drum bus you process all the beats with a comp or just the low end

From where are these grass panels on the back wall? :)

WHO STUDIO VOCALS IS IT I COULD USE THEM

whats the name of the song hes making

For the first tip, would in-ear headphones or monitors really be affected by room acoustics in your environment? That sounds crazy to me

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What about Grovebox software

Try to see soft design , composing and setuping as three seperate tNice tutorialngs to focus on and it might will make more sense

When showing the example of drum buss use on your bass it doesnt look like you are compensating for the volume gain so the comparison would not be accurate. Volume gain will always sound stronger.

I’m a Live user as well I use Stock Audio Effects 🔥 but Stock Instruments I don’t not because Ableton Live Sounds/Instruments are not good they’re good but they take too much CPU and Memory soo that’s a Red flag for me my system is decent 16GB Ram intel i5 5th generation but is not enough for Ableton Live Stock Instruments 🙃

I would add smoke less weed and microdose shrooms more often ;)

Hello! Thank you for the video. At the same time I started listening to PETER GABRIEL - "Digging In The Dirt" (Instrumental) and watching this video. Put on playback, you will be pleasantly surprised. Have you tried rap? :-)

Very helpful video. One observation and a suggestion. When you are looking at your screen, you seem to be looking way up from your sitting position (almost to the ceiling). That can't be good on your neck and eyes! I would highly recommend dropping your screen but at least 2 feet so that it is more at eye level. I think you will find that is much more comfortable.

12:18 I know what you’re trying to say 😉😅

Hi pass is good as long as you dont set the cut-off freq. Too high as you did ;)

Does every daw has a drum bus

Thank you so much for saying don't hi-pass everything. Toxic producer tips on TikTok are telling everyone to hipass everything and it's idiotic.

There are a lot of products out there both hardware and software called SOLO. Can't you be more specific about which SOLO product you are talking about?

It's funny like a few years ago you would have been cancled for not EQing everything below the fundamental - now everybody's telling you not to do it. I guess the Pros didn't even start doing it in the first place lmao

“Don’t listen in solo, context matters” “High pass in solo, no context” …. Globally saying don’t high pass without nuance is reckless for a big company to put out as official mixing tips. Depending on what the instrument is and the rest of the mix you may indeed need to cut that high. Keyboards, like this example, in modern dense and bassy mixes are notorious for taking up low end. You may not need any of its sub-fundamental “character” and may need to indeed cut that high depending on the role of the part within the context of the arrangement. If that was an rnb song with a slower tempo where the keys were a bigger part then yes that much filtering would more likely damage the sound if it needed to sound warm or needed to be louder. Very reckless to not explain this (same problem with people who say high pass everything lol)

Tip 7 : don't overuse Drum Buss

1. don't listen to youtube producers 2. don't cut the lowend of anything otherwise your song will sound thin, harsh and shit 3. don't care about vu meters

you don't understand filtering well body

First learn youtself before giving tips. Not so useful new trick. They are the same points 100 other youtube producers talk about.