"If ur not redlining ur not headlining" Amazing

Kenny always gives the most accessible and useful production tips. The advice he gives has been said by the pros for years and subtractive eq never been easier to understand than when kenny explains it. Also, fabfilter has a great eq but this advice can be used on any eq effect. Love u fliko

Be careful cutting out too many of the peaks, they make up the actual character of the sound. Quality cuts over quantity of cuts for subtractive EQ.

Recording live bands the kick drum is always hitting at the same time as the bass guitar. Back in the 90s we didn't track everything by itself we would record bass and drums and then track guitars and vocals.

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great explanation for why it's important to handle resonant frequencies and carve spaces within your mix for different instruments. I didn't know about that feature in ProQ where you can click the resonant frequencies and automatically create a bell curve, that's awesome. I would add that it's definitely important to constantly A/B your cuts and make sure that you're not removing too much from your sound as you go. A lot of frequencies are gonna sound bad if you're isolating such a narrow band and listening too long, and if you do too much corrective eq you can really start to suffocate and/or muffle your sound. make sure you're grabbing frequencies that really do seem to stand out and are causing issues and keep double checking with the original sound so that you aren't starting to make the sound worse. This is a critical tool, it's amazing how much more natural and even a sound can become if you handle these resonant frequencies, especially on sounds that have been recorded on a microphone in a room. you're gonna do yourself so many favors as you add effects like compression and limiting later on in the mix.

so nice that he makes these vids cause like, theres a lot of people making production tips vids without any credentials and giving out trash advice.

Please upload more content like this! This was amazing 🙌🏾

Love it ! Thank YOU

God bless Kenny beats and fliko

Dude this great info THANKS I struggled with the sidechain issue and felt like I didnt need it at all good to see I was going in the right direction

Great video thanks for sharing it

Just stumbled on your channel, I’m 7 days late since you dropped this video, funny thing tho I encountered and experienced most of what you covered last night in the lab. Haven’t tackled some of the problems yet. However tryna brainstorm thru it, your video just help me understand the approach a lot better. Still got a way to go. Thanks 🙏🏾

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Thanks bro. Great vid.

great vid! 👀

Super inspirational! Makes me want to get in a session and start eqing

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Chasing down frequencies with EQ that are masking other important sounds really does clean up mixes. Panning tracks more across the stereo field also helps for higher frequencies.

Kenny is a game changer :) he really wanna help other people who struggle with this shit :D

This is actually fire. I've been high passing everything except kick and bass forever but hadn't thought about how other peaks in the mix can be harsh and compete with the drums for presence.

Facts

faxx about the kicks

Kenny I’m checking you for all my production for now on 😎. I love it.

kenny is the best

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my boy kenny dropping gems as usual

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Gemz!!!!!

Someone said “think of how an orchestra is assembled” yes! Great advice.. you’ll nvr see all the musicians sitting in one place .. they’re positioned in different areas to help hear one another better.

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Kenny is the best!

Wow thank u king

This is the best explanation I have seen yet for Eq

soothe2 for resonating frequencies and soothe2 in side chain mode - all problems solved!

love kenny talkin about hard hitting 808s with the cutest xylofone in front of him

Look @ Kenny man dropping gems

Thanks Professor Kenny :)

thank u kenneth !

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I'm not watching another mixing tutorial. This is all we need

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super helpful!!! thank you !!!!

FIRST FLIKOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Kicks with little to no tail can blend well with the 808 without sidechaining provided they are in the same key.

I use EQ on all of my tracks but the one I use is EQUO (stock eq from fl iykyk) and kenny made me realise how useful the fabfilter is lol

I find leveling all of my sounds to about 12-18db on the meter helps before I start using Eq etc.

One thing I do is EQ all the low end I don’t need from every sound very quickly through the little EQ at the bottom of the plugin rack in the FL studio mixer. I also cut out unnecessary highs from my 808s and any frequencies at 30hz or less since it gets muddy when you cut out the highs and our ears can’t hear frequencies that low anyways.

been doing this for years, pro q3 ftw !!!

Clipping your 808 and kick together is also another interesting way to do things. E.g. In Ableton, put your kick and 808 tracks in a group, use glue compressor (or your favorite clipper) on this group with the soft clipping active (also activate the side chain but don't give it an input so that the compressor is inactive but you still get the clipper), and drive the glue compressor till it clips, and adjust the levels of the kick and 808 going into the group with the glue comp to taste. :)

i always eq in all of my sounds so yeah

i genuinely love u -tj

*Instantly open up DAW

I didn't touch sidechain for 10 years and it's been fine. Recently I do sidechain bass bit if you wanna edit notes on the off beat you won't hear it.

Whoever transcripts these videos is 🐐

I've seen so much about eq ing but I feel like I finally get it here

pro q3 is the best eq plugin

I like it when Kenny tells me off

careful highpassing your sounds, you can introduce phase shifts/ringing which can really hurt your sound, not too mention you can "cut the balls off" your sounds, making them sound thin and week. only cut things if you're having issues! never do it by default.

so if i have a low freq piano sample and i want it to hit w my bass is there a way i can blend them or make them both stand out yanno,

Duplicating the same audio and panning them left and right doesn't do much but create phasing issues..The technique works better when both sounds are the same but have slightly different wave forms. For example if you want wide guitars you would record two instances of the same riff etc and then pan them left and right. This also works with vocal layers. This way you have slightly different wave forms and you can clearly hear the separation.

Kenny and others don't have to low cutting with almost brickwall slope. If you don't wanna have resonances on band frequency (and i think you don't) you should use less steeper slopes, 12db/oct or 24

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I stop sidechaining a lot but I feel it has its place. And my EQ ing has become obsessive lmao 🤣 smh

Could post that hard kick

you gotta be careful with panning if your stuff gets played at a club. Found that out the hard way 😂

Literally trying to learn how to mix right but this one video summed up alottttt this shit amazing

early gang

Yall should watch some monte booker stuff he talks about this a lot

It's crazy that people weren't doing this before 💀

Question to the comment section: do i have to cut the 20hz area from the 808? Bc when i do that my 808 turns louder in the meters but it sounds the same volume as before.

What's the name of the midi controller on his desk? Looks like a xylophone

JUST SIDECHAIN IT

was this from yesterdays stream?

Does Kenny substracts his hat sometimes ? or is it sinechained to his head ?

He’s such a damn good teacher

what you mean you don’t need a quic👀

Cus used to say “never sidechain the kick” lmao. Sometimes a ducker is good bruh.

This are some real basics , but ive heard a Lot of These frequency Problems in Beats . Learn the basics Guys !

liek wonda gurl said, just turn em up. its that simple lol.

Oh damn I usually use Para EQ 2 in most cases but freezing frequency in Fab changed the game! Never looking back

soothe would be great on this sample, highly recommend, great plugin

Eq for fixing factz

Anybody know what kick he's using?

Another option! Just use another kick, you should have many to choose from

Does he get paid for production or to mix?

This took me 8 years to figure out lol. 808s used to be the death of me

The problem is home producers all get their info from the EDM scene

one tip ill give you boys tho: go nuts with cleaning up on the EQ, but dont cut the sauce out, sometimes you need to leave some of the dirt in.

deadman talked about it really well, but a kick is not meant to be in the same space as a bass. what makes a kick a kick is the punchiness of it, and the punchiness mainly resides in everything after I would say 90hz, so the key is absolutely not mixing but SOUND SELECTION. you need to pick kicks that are punchier and, sometimes we be greedy and we want the kick to be fat as hell lol but the kick doesn't need all that low-end. It's just sound selection and understanding what place the kick holds in your mix.

It's an issue of headroom. Nothing wrong with sidechaining or not - but if you don't you will have less headroom.

to mortojyne at 1:00. Bro you aint dealing with the producer, the producer is dealing with you💀He wouldn't need to quantize your vocals in the first place if you got your flow right, aint a productive studio session if you keep fuckin it up and retaking when the real bang for your buck is in the post processing of the final track💀

WE DONT WANT THATTTT SHITT

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I feel like people want to be producers but not know anything about "music theory" (idk if you can call this shit even theory, for me it's basic logic) or what the plugins they use & see from tutorials even do

"dont use sidechain as a bandaid" if that ain't the truth

Some good advice, some bad

kick is called Dubai shit. But where can I find it?

that's not how pro-Q3 or other spectrum analyzers or filters work - When he solos the band you see two solid lines and he thinks he is just isolating that. That's just the crossover point. What he is soloing extends far to either side of those vertical lines. he's just hearing the filtered first harmonic that exists beyond the band that he thinks he is completely isolating. There isn't shit down there. you could dump in a pure sine wave at 110 Hz and it will look like there is something down at 80 on the spectrogram. This is because the FFT bins have overlap! additionally - he's phase shifting the harmonics and that guitar with such a steep filter coming up so close to it. Does it matter? Sometimes Yes actually. if you do that to an instrument, especially with reverb printed on it, you make the reverb sound less real and you push it back in the mix. This is because we perceive sound spatially on the z plane based off of how phase consistent its harmonic series is to itself. When A sound is far away it bounces off a bunch of Points which create a phase shift at the time it hits our ears. Is he thinking about that? He doesn't throw out any caveats.

If it sounds good it sounds good. Even after his rant I still don’t understand why Kenny’s turned off by sidechain so much lol