The Complete Guide to GAIN STAGING Like a PRO

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The Complete Guide to GAIN STAGING Like a PRO
If you need help producing professional sounding mixes, it all starts by understanding what Gain Staging is, and how to gain stage your mixing sessions for a better mixing experience… Today is your lucky day!
I’ve compiled some of my most helpful tips into a one-stop resource that you can use to improve all aspects of Gain Staging.
Enjoy and let me know what you think in the comments!
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Intro
0:43 The #1 Gain Staging Mistake
12:00 Gain Staging When Recording
21:05 Gain Staging & Compression Confusion
23:07 Gain Staging VST Instruments
27:30 Cubase Gain Staging Hacks
38:26 Gain Staging with Analog Gear
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Пікірлер: 47

@SuperMax_____0.0_____ 19 күн бұрын

Best Gain Staging video on the internet

@mixdownonline 19 күн бұрын

Wow! Thanks a lot!

@MrMusic-nd5to 19 күн бұрын

Excellent video Chris! Best I've seen on gain staging!!! 🎶🎹🎶🎸

@mixdownonline 19 күн бұрын

Wow, thanks!

@MrMusic-nd5to 18 күн бұрын

@@mixdownonline More like THANK YOU my brother! 🎶🎹🎶🎸

@BridgeFox_Music 19 күн бұрын

The video I needed. Thanks!

@mixdownonline 19 күн бұрын

Glad I could help!

@korkenknopfus 18 күн бұрын

Perfect guide, Chris. And it is good that you show not only the criteria to make the adjustments, but also to warn about the errors. It is a very common thing to be talking with people who have trouble because they get obsessed with the numbers or with trying to re adjust the pre gain after each plug-in adjustment they do, because they NEED the -18, not taking care to the actual mix. In a forum I participate (not MCC) there was a lot of discussion about this.

@DalockDeBaddest 12 күн бұрын

You are a Heaven Sent Pro, Life Saver 🙌🙌🙌

@daniel-5377 7 күн бұрын

Thank you very much, Chris.❤

@mixdownonline 2 күн бұрын

Of course!

@bjdarl24 18 күн бұрын

Really informative video. Thanks Chris.

@mixdownonline 17 күн бұрын

Thank you!

@black_amadeus 18 күн бұрын

good summary. thanks. follow since 2019.

@mixdownonline 17 күн бұрын

That's awesome! Thank you!

@pheldonmajors2999 13 күн бұрын

Thank you so much!

@mixdownonline 9 күн бұрын

Of course!

@jazzdude7014 19 күн бұрын

Like 100! well deserved my friend!

@mixdownonline 19 күн бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

@QuaverloveStudio 16 күн бұрын

Thanks, Chris. I've been guilty of adding plugins after gain staging, then going back and adjusting the pre-gain. Being told not to do that is one thing; explaining why it's not a good idea (as you've done) makes me more focussed on not doing it.

@boudjouraftalal6859 19 күн бұрын

Very interesting thank you 🙏🙏

@mixdownonline 19 күн бұрын

My pleasure

@Wide_as_Life 19 күн бұрын

THANKS!!!!!!❤

@mixdownonline 19 күн бұрын

You're welcome!

@1loveMusic2003 18 күн бұрын

You never know which plugins you will end up using so just gain stage and you don't have any worries. I consider it part of session prep like naming tracks and color coding.

@laserjakk3629 17 күн бұрын

Chris is simply the best, one they I will travel from Brazil to Canada just to meet you and get a Mixdown Online Cap. If you have a small one, cuz even I'm an adult my head looks like a 12 years old boy hehehe!

@VersatileLifestyle1 18 күн бұрын

I do it like this, and plz let me know the right way. Beat -7 to -10 Rec -6 Vocal -6 to -16 Master -7 to -10 Peak I'm watching your video so i can lean more

@DMidNyte 19 күн бұрын

My question is, when a track is in a fader, and running hot, there's the gain stage knobs right there. But if you have 2 or 3 tracks like this, and you pout them in a group, then the group gets hot. We'll you can hit that button again and everything seems fine. But what about putting a compressor on one? Or 2 - 3 other plugs...do you gain stage using the slider? Or the button that inside? And do you have any merch? I would love to have your logo on a hat, or shirt, or even a coffee mug. Mixdown brother!!!!

@DMidNyte 19 күн бұрын

I think you answered my problem with gain staging, . Which just leaves me with "Make your mech happen!!"

@mixdownonline 19 күн бұрын

Glad the video answered your questions :-) Thanks for your support, but I don't have available merch to sell at the moment, but I'm working on making this possible. Hang on!

@jvaddison 19 күн бұрын

Hi Chris, great vid man. Question, so when ive Gain Staged with the pre-gain in mix console, you are definitely saying DO NOT touch pre-gain in mixcon after?

@mixdownonline 19 күн бұрын

You can if you want, but you just need to consider that it will affect some of the plugins you might have on that channel, like compressor, limiters, clippers, saturators that will behave depending on the amount of signal they get.

@ontrackrecstudioavk3881 15 күн бұрын

What to do when some instrument sound is too low after sound checking to reduce the gain staging level and the sound is too low to hear

@geondysiavichay371 19 күн бұрын

Bery good

@mixdownonline 18 күн бұрын

Thanks

@MikeBrayton 17 күн бұрын

I've been doing this for a long time, and the whole concept of gain staging still mystifies me. I work in 32-bit floating point, all my audio files are in 32-bit floating point. Rarely do I experience distortion, even if I'm cranking the levels into and out of plugins, sometimes the faders are completely in the red. Seems like most of the plugins I use have input gain adjustment, so that helps. And if I want to gain up or gain down, I just add a gain plug-in. And if I'm coming in too hot on my 2-bus, or any of my buses, I can just use the gain control on the channel. I'm not certain why there's any need to understand -18 dbfs, unless we're sending the audio outside the box.

@Studio22mix 19 күн бұрын

Very good video about gain staging, I totally can agree upon 😊 Now hope that the comments will be respectful because for some people gain staging can be a very controversial topic. People who think gain staging doesn’t matter can be aggressively opinionated about it. For some people the topic can become a matter of life or death 😂

@mixdownonline 19 күн бұрын

Lol, I know, some topics can get some people crazy LoL! But 99.5% of comments I usually receive are respectful, so that's good :-) Thanks for watching, my friend!

@Studio22mix 19 күн бұрын

@@mixdownonline Ah well, I just came by to check if you did proper gain staging and you passed the test imo 😅😂🤣

@KenshoBeats 19 күн бұрын

How about some uad analoque emulations that are optimized at different levels from lets say -18 to about -12 dbfs?

@mixdownonline 19 күн бұрын

That's exactly the dbfs range I aim. VU metering is an average level, and dbfs a peak level metering. So -18 to about -12 dbfs for gain staging is good to follow.

@MrDeki72 19 күн бұрын

Hi Chris, Is need to gain stage my mix-bus as well?

@mixdownonline 19 күн бұрын

Yes, but no need to gain stage too quiet, so just make sure not to peak your Mis Bus. On my side, I don't go over -3 dbfs on peaks, so I keep some headroom for mastering

@MrDeki72 19 күн бұрын

@@mixdownonline Ok. Thank you so much for your respond. :D

@jvaddison 19 күн бұрын

You said something interesting but confusing to me 😊 about eq NOT been effected by the signal amount but by the signal itself 🤯🔨. What Do you mean by "Signal itself"? Do you mean reverb for instance?

@mixdownonline 18 күн бұрын

I mean that it the amount of signal level going in an EQ won't affect the way the EQ will react, it still gonna EQ the same way whether it gets a quiet or loud signal :-) Hope that helps!

@alanredversangel 18 күн бұрын

Only part I don't get is, why mixdown a virtual instrument at a fairly low level when you can pretty much normalise the waveform. I guess it makes no difference either way?