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YEEEEEEESSS! Been wanting a tutorial on how to mix symphonic metal for 3000 years!

So much this. Great video!

I've been working on a track like this for a full year, starting with writing and I thought I was about to start the mastering stage until i heard this. You have a lot of clarity and everything has its place. Im starting to think my drums sound too powerful so I'm mixing everything around them and getting nowhere.

THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR! Thanks for the tips dude!

Great video man! This was really helpful.

This is super helpful! Many thanks!

Nice, very nice! Not much information out there on mixing strings. Thanks so much for bringing this and other videos, Making it simple with an objective technique, showing a way to get great results, if the performance is good or great, of course 😉. In this case, the music is really powerfull, thanks for that too.

Been looking around for solutions to improve my symphonic mixing... Old school solutions bring hope ... At least we know that no arm and leg are needed to pay for some fancy plugins ... But 4 strings are not really the biggest pain in the a** when it comes to symphonic ... Brass, choirs, woodwind and pianos .. together with all the metal elements we r lost again XD

amazing dude! nice approach too! thanks a lot!

Thanks for your video. Thank you for ur efford

Finally, i can get a clue for mixing this genre!

Great idea. Thank you. I struggle with this the most. I’m fine with my death/black metal guitars and bass and drums, vocals…but as soon I add those suspended chord strings or synth pads at the back it’s hell. Just CANT get to hear them all clearly at the same time. One of those components always ends up too quiet.

Excellent video, not too short, not too long, great useful knowledge! Thank you so much! Can these same principles be used for VSTi's?

Not to mention its a nice riff... Reminds me of Unlucky Morpheus style but could totally make some good symphonic death metal as well.

Amazing input man! Truly! I'm doing a lot of similar music right now so this was very helpful! BUT, I would like to request a second version of this tutorial - almost everytime I mix strings within a rock production the strings are sample libraries and that's quite different to work with than of real strings. So, how would you mix sample libraries strings in a rock/metal situation? How would you get the orchestra sound like they are in the same room as the band? etc etc! Thanks a lot for a great video! Keep it up! // Magnus, Gothenburg Sweden

SO USEFUL! Thank you for this! Also, where can the finished song be found? It sounds awesome.

Great video dude, and great style to touch on! What would you suggest on tracks that have orchestration throughout? And not just strings, a brass section/choir/etc? I've always been and still am a video game nerd lol and i love remixing game tracks. My absolute favorite series is Castlevania, and naturally that is made to be metal'd out lol. So how would i approach doing this when the majority of the songs have both the metal side and orchestra going together? Running an EQ to cut some of the low's off and add some attention towards the high shelf?

What about panning? Ive always wondered how to pan orchestral instruments in context with other instruments in metal, I kind of just wing it tbh sometimes it’s good sometimes it’s a bit messy

Dam thanks man , never clicked on a video that fast 🤘

For this automation technique, do you adjust all the faders/mixes as you record the musicians?

Did you also automate the guitars down? My problem is I have a track with a super epic chorus with leads over heavy guitars and strings in the background. I want the strings to be present but not overpower the lead lines.

Do u use Drums as vst instrument? Which u would recomend? I actually use Addictive Drums2 with Drumagog and as .gog File Steven Slates Drum Samples. It kicks ass but do u recomend somthing else?

Thank you and like from Russia.

Do you do the volume automation before or after the eq/compression?

Hope saw my violin tag on Facebook. Could you show what to edit out of guitars?

Question : what's a VCA ? Would it have been different if you had sent all the strings to a bus and automate the volume this bus ? Cheers \m/

The best EQ when all else fails = Automated Volume 🥲

Those strings remind me of Mega Man X haha!

Automation seems like a pretty simple solution, until you're working with a song that's 5-8 minutes long, and has tempo and time signature changes across the whole thing, like I am. Guess I'll die, lmao.

My issue isn't nit hearithe orchestra. It's not hearing the guitars that bothers me. The orchestra is way too loud and I want it to sit back in the mix and support the guitars, which should be upfront. Yet for some reason it goes from being too quiet in parts to just drowning out the guitars so you can only really hear the orchestra clearly and some "noise" that sounds guitar esque under the orchestra, like 98% of symphonic metal bands. I want the riffs to be front and center and the orchestra to sit back and at atmosphere, how do I achieve that without burying the guitars or having the orchestra dissappear in parts of the song, buried by the drums...? I am at the demo stage still, yet the songs are going nowhere as it all just sound like a mess and competes with each other, so I probably will never get it sounding well enough to start any proper mixing.

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